Urza's Engine

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Trample

: Urza's Engine gains banding until end of turn. (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.)

: Attacking creatures banded with Urza's Engine gain trample until end of turn.

"Humans and machines working together can be fearsome indeed!" -Arcum Dagsson

Urza's Chalice

Artifact

Whenever a player casts an artifact spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.

When sorely wounded or tired, Urza would often retreat to the workshops of his apprentices. They were greatly amazed at how much better he looked each time he took a sip of water.

Urza's Blueprints

Artifact

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.)

: Draw a card.

From concept to paper to reality.

Urza's Bauble

Artifact

, Sacrifice Urza's Bauble: Look at a card at random in target player's hand. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Urza's Avenger

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

: Urza's Avenger gets -1/-1 and gains your choice of banding, flying, first strike, or trample until end of turn. (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.)

Unable to settle on just one design, Urza decided to create one versatile being.

Urza's Armor

Artifact

If a source would deal damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.

Urza protected his body well, but neglected his soul.

Ursine Fylgja

Creature - Spirit Bear

Ursine Fylgja enters the battlefield with four healing counters on it.

Remove a healing counter from Ursine Fylgja: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Ursine Fylgja this turn.

: Put a healing counter on Ursine Fylgja.

Ursapine

Creature - Beast

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

A friendly ursapine means a constant supply of sharp spears. An unfriendly one means a constant supply of small holes.

Uril, the Miststalker

Legendary Creature - Beast

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

Uril, the Miststalker gets +2/+2 for each Aura attached to it.

It strides through the whitecover, mists in which even gargantuans can hide.

Urgent Exorcism

Instant

Destroy target Spirit or enchantment.

"To show geists pity is to prolong their agonies. Whether they know it or not, they seek the Blessed Sleep, and we are to give it to them."
-Mikaeus, the Lunarch

Urge to Feed

Instant

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You may tap any number of untapped Vampire creatures you control. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each of those Vampires.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Legendary Land

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

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
-Lord Windgrace

Urborg Volcano

Land

Urborg Volcano enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Deep in the heart of Urborg lie massive volcanoes whose thick black smoke covers the land with perpetual darkness.

Urborg Uprising

Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Draw a card.

In Urborg, few things are less permanent than death.

Urborg Syphon-Mage

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Each other player loses 2 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

"I have become a gourmet of sorts. Each soul has its own distinctive flavor. The art is in inviting the right company to the feast."

Urborg Stalker

Creature - Horror

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player controls a nonblack, nonland permanent, Urborg Stalker deals 1 damage to that player.

"May you be a stalker's dream."
-Urborg curse

Urborg Skeleton

Creature - Skeleton

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

: Regenerate Urborg Skeleton.

If Urborg Skeleton was kicked, it enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Urborg Shambler

Creature - Horror

Other black creatures get -1/-1.

A writhing mass of rot, with sharp claws and a vicious spirit.

Urborg Phantom

Creature - Spirit Minion

Urborg Phantom can't block.

: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by Urborg Phantom this turn.

A chilling fog with teeth of ice.

Urborg Panther

Creature - Nightstalker Cat

, Sacrifice Urborg Panther: Destroy target creature blocking Urborg Panther.

Sacrifice a creature named Feral Shadow, a creature named Breathstealer, and Urborg Panther: Search your library for a card named Spirit of the Night and put that card onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Urborg Mindsucker

Creature - Horror

, Sacrifice Urborg Mindsucker: Target opponent discards a card at random. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

"My pet will pick the ripe fruit from your tortured brain as if it were hanging from a vine."
-Kaervek

Urborg Justice

Instant

Target opponent sacrifices a creature for each creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.

"It is a narrow line between justice and vengeance."
-Crovax

Urborg Emissary

Creature - Human Wizard

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

When Urborg Emissary enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Urborg Elf

Creature - Elf Druid

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

The elves of Urborg are as deadly and capricious as the swamp itself.

Urborg Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

Urborg Drake attacks each turn if able.

Relentless as the sea, remorseless as death.

Urborg

Legendary Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.

"Resignedly beneath the sky/The melancholy waters lie./So blend the turrets and shadows there/That all seem pendulous in air,/While from a proud tower in town/Death looks gigantically down." -Edgar Allan Poe, "The City in the Sea"

Urbis Protector

Creature - Human Cleric

When Urbis Protector enters the battlefield, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"I hear that Boros is losing its angels to the Gateless Movement. I'm sure this comes as no surprise to you."
-Teysa, to Lazav

Urban Evolution

Sorcery

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

As the Simic released more of their krasis experiments, they required new habitats, always at the expense of the locals.

Urban Burgeoning

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has "Untap this land during each other player's untap step."

The ruins of Old Prahv became a wildspace, although all birdsong was silenced by lingering Azorius magic.

Urabrask the Hidden

Legendary Creature - Praetor

Creatures you control have haste.

Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

When the Mirran resistance arrived, the furnace dwellers looked to Urabrask for guidance. His decree stunned the others: "Let them be."

Ur-Golem's Eye

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

It still stares accusingly at Memnarch, though millennia have passed since he separated the eye from its body.

Ur-Drago

Legendary Creature - Elemental

First strike

Creatures with swampwalk can be blocked as though they didn't have swampwalk.

Upwelling

Enchantment

Mana pools don't empty as steps and phases end.

Freyalise promised a dawn that would never end, a day of limitless life. As many dread her promise as revere it.

Uproot

Sorcery - Arcane

Put target land on top of its owner's library.

"We arrived at the battlefield too late. Again. Another error on your part, and you will have to answer to me personally."
-General Takeno, letter to the imperial mapmaker

Uphill Battle

Enchantment

Creatures played by your opponents enter the battlefield tapped.

Cho-Manno knew he had no choice but to ally with Gerrard. If that's what it took to free his people, he'd pay the price.

Upheaval

Sorcery

Return all permanents to their owners' hands.

The calm comes after the storm.

Updraft Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Flying

"It slips through the smallest cracks in the mountain, emerging whole and unfettered. There is nowhere it cannot go, for what can hold back the air itself?"
-Chanyi, Ojutai monk

Updraft

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

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

"Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I."
-Sir Walter Scott, "The Lady of the Lake"

Unyielding Krumar

Creature - Orc Warrior

: Unyielding Krumar gains first strike until end of turn.

"The man whom I call father killed the orc who sired me, offering his world and his blade in return."

Unyaro Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

Sacrifice Unyaro Griffin: Counter target red instant or sorcery spell.

The griffin's shadow gives courage to the righteous and dread to the idle.

Unyaro Bees

Creature - Insect

Flying

: Unyaro Bees gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

, Sacrifice Unyaro Bees: Unyaro Bees deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

With no jungle left to contain it, the "plague of daggers" spread across Dominaria.

Unyaro Bee Sting

Sorcery

Unyaro Bee Sting deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"Much can be learned from the bees about dying for a cause."
-Asmira, Holy Avenger

Unworthy Dead

Creature - Skeleton

: Regenerate Unworthy Dead.

"Great Yawgmoth moves across the seas of shard and bone and rust. We exalt him in life, in death, and in between."
-Phyrexian Scriptures

Unwinding Clock

Artifact

Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

"The partisans have unearthed a strange artifact. None know its origin, but it gives them hope of a life beyond."
-Elspeth's journal

Unwilling Recruit

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gets +X/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

Frorn didn't want to be kept, but he didn't want to be thrown back either.

Untamed Wilds

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Untamed Might

Instant

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

"Beasts kill for their very survival. If you would have their strength, you must know their desperation."
-Konnos, Sylvok sage

Untamed Hunger

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"Mindlessness is not weakness. When we are lost to hunger we are unstoppable."
-Drana, Kalastria bloodchief

Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper

Legendary Land

Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper enters the battlefield tapped.

, Pay 2 life: Add to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast legendary spells.

Untaidake is the needle that weaves the fabric of creation.

Unsummon

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Not to be. That is the answer.

Unstoppable Ash

Creature - Treefolk Warrior

Trample

Champion a Treefolk or Warrior (When this enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you exile another Treefolk or Warrior you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.)

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, it gets +0/+5 until end of turn.

Unstable Shapeshifter

Creature - Shapeshifter

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, Unstable Shapeshifter becomes a copy of that creature and gains this ability.

"In a world of untruths, the living lie rules."
-Oracle en-Vec

Unstable Obelisk

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Unstable Obelisk: Destroy target permanent.

Its collapse is like the lashing out of a long-dead civilization that resents being forgotten.

Unstable Mutation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Unstable Hulk

Creature - Goblin Mutant

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

When Unstable Hulk is turned face up, it gets +6/+6 and gains trample until end of turn. You skip your next turn.

Unstable Frontier

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Target land you control becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.

The goblins went to sleep in Jund and awoke in Grixis. They'd never seen a zombie before. They would never see one again.

Unstable Footing

Instant

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

Damage can't be prevented this turn. If Unstable Footing was kicked, it deals 5 damage to target player.

A long way down is shorter than you think.

Unspeakable Symbol

Enchantment

Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

The symbols are spread throughout Aphetto, marking sites where minions of the Raven Guild and the Cabal can seek refuge.

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"

Unscythe, Killer of Kings

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has first strike.

Whenever a creature dealt damage by equipped creature this turn dies, you may exile that card. If you do, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Equip

Unruly Mob

Creature - Human

Whenever another creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Unruly Mob.

"Who says werewolves are the only ones who can hunt as a pack?"
-Kolman, elder of Gatstaf

Unravel the Æther

Instant

Choose target artifact or enchantment. Its owner shuffles it into his or her library.

Thaumaturges of Theros have learned to weave their magic into the world around them, but it can be pulled apart strand by strand.

Unquestioned Authority

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Unquestioned Authority enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has protection from creatures.

"Only the Ancestor should be revered."
-Mystic heretic

Unnerving Assault

Instant

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0 until end of turn if was spent to cast Unnerving Assault, and creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn if was spent to cast it. (Do both if was spent.)

The scales of battle rarely balance.

Unnerve

Sorcery

Each opponent discards two cards.

"If fear is the only tool you have left, then you'll never control me."
-Xantcha, to Gix

Unnatural Speed

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

"How can we hope to match the speed of lightning? The fury of storms? The power of mountains? The answer is simple. We cannot. I advise against this war."
-Sensei Hisoka, letter to Lord Konda

Unnatural Selection

Enchantment

: Choose a creature type other than Wall. Target creature becomes that type until end of turn.

What nature makes, magic can modify.

Unnatural Predation

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

"Domination by the strongest-that is all that matters in the Tangle now."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Unnatural Hunger

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Unnatural Hunger deals damage to that player equal to that creature's power unless he or she sacrifices another creature.

Unnatural Endurance

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Regenerate it.

"Eldrazi don't die easy. Sometimes they don't die at all."
-Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist

Unnatural Aggression

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target creature you control fights target creature an opponent controls. If the creature an opponent controls would die this turn, exile it instead.

The battle served as a grim reminder of what a final victory for the Eldrazi would mean.

Unmask

Sorcery

You may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay Unmask's mana cost.

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

Unmake the Graves

Instant

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

"I'm raising an army. Any volunteers?"

Unmake

Instant

Exile target creature.

A gwyllion's favorite trap is the vanity mirror. A bewitched piece of glass traps the looker's soul and does away with the body.

Unliving Psychopath

Creature - Zombie Assassin

: Unliving Psychopath gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

, : Destroy target creature with power less than Unliving Psychopath's power.

"The victim bears the marks of the ‘Ktozok Impaler'. . . but he was executed years ago!"
-Gorev Hadszak, Wojek investigator

Unlikely Alliance

Enchantment

: Target nonattacking, nonblocking creature gets +0/+2 until end of turn.

"Strange alliances are alliances still, and provide the same protection."
-King Darien of Kjeldor

Unknown Shores

Land

: Add {C} to your mana pool. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

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

Philosophers speak of a place where myths wash like tides upon the shores of the real.

Unity of Purpose

Instant

Support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)

Untap each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Faced with the novel problem of inspiring an army, Jace asked himself: "What would Gideon say?"

Unifying Theory

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player may pay . If the player does, he or she draws a card.

Scribbles of a lunatic and formulas of a genius are often indistinguishable.

Unified Will

Instant

Counter target spell if you control more creatures than that spell's controller.

"We're glad to be of service-to be an audience to your failure."
-Maizah Shere, Tazeem lullmage

Unified Strike

Instant

Exile target attacking creature if its power is less than or equal to the number of Soldiers on the battlefield.

The tall, reedy grass of the Daru Plains rustles loudly in the winds, a perfect cover for any ambush.

Unified Front

Sorcery

Converge - Put a 1/1 white Kor Ally creature token onto the battlefield for each color of mana spent to cast Unified Front.

The kor's pride in their independence has given way to a strong sense of community that embraces all of Zendikar.

Unholy Strength

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

"Born under the moon, the second child will stumble on temptation and seek power in the dark places of the heart."
-Codex of the Constellari

Unholy Grotto

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Put target Zombie card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Unholy Citadel

Land

Black legendary creatures you control have "bands with other legendary creatures." (Any legendary creatures can attack in a band as long as at least one has "bands with other legendary creatures." Bands are blocked as a group. If at least two legendary creatures you control, one of which has "bands with other legendary creatures," are blocking or being blocked by the same creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Unhinge

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

Draw a card.

"Don't let your mind wander-it might not come back."
-Braids, dementia summoner

Unhallowed Pact

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Agreements with demons seldom end at the grave.

Unfulfilled Desires

Enchantment

, Pay 1 life: Draw a card, then discard a card.

"Like Day from Night, / I'll live my life apart from you, just glimpsing you across the sky, / because you cannot change, my dear, and nor can I."
-"Love Song of Night and Day"

Unforge

Instant

Destroy target Equipment. If that Equipment was attached to a creature, Unforge deals 2 damage to that creature.

Compared to the fire of the forge, the strength of steel is nothing.

Unflinching Courage

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has trample and lifelink.

As Trostani's influence grew, vitality spread through the Conclave-much to the other guilds' dismay.

Unexpectedly Absent

Instant

Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library just beneath the top X cards of that library.

Once you've been dragged down the currents of time, you'll never quite trust your own permanence again.

Unexpected Results

Sorcery

Shuffle your library, then reveal the top card. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield and return Unexpected Results to its owner's hand.

Unexpected Potential

Conspiracy

Hidden agenda (Start the game with this conspiracy face down in the command zone and secretly name a card. You may turn this conspiracy face up any time and reveal the chosen name.)

You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast spells with the chosen name.

Unerring Sling

Artifact

, , Tap an untapped creature you control: Unerring Sling deals damage equal to the tapped creature's power to target attacking or blocking creature with flying.

Unearthly Blizzard

Sorcery - Arcane

Up to three target creatures can't block this turn.

"We are trapped. The mountains and blinding kami storms have made us hopelessly lost. We are starving. In the name of all things sacred, please, send help . . . ."
-Lost Battalion, final message to General Takeno

Unearth

Sorcery

Return target creature card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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

Undying Rage

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and can't block.

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

Radha was born in Skyshroud, but her temper is undeniably Keldon.

Undying Flames

Sorcery

Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. Undying Flames deals damage to target creature or player equal to that card's converted mana cost.

Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)

Undying Evil

Instant

Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (When it 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.)

"Is it true the evil that people do follows them into death? Let's find out."
-Liliana Vess

Undo

Sorcery

Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.

"Oft have I wished to undo past deeds, but never did I imagine they would be undone for me."
-Naimah, Femeref philosopher