Cloud Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Flying

Cloud Elemental can block only creatures with flying.

"The sky teems with just as much life as the forest or the deep seas."
-Hadi Kasten, Calla Dale naturalist

Merfolk Sovereign

Creature - Merfolk

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.

: Target Merfolk creature is unblockable this turn.

"Be like the sea: flow around that which is unmovable; for everything else, crash into it unrelentingly."

Wall of Frost

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Frost blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"I welcome it. The pasture is cleared of weeds and the wolves are frozen solid."
-Lumi, goatherd

Barony Vampire

Creature - Vampire

"Poor little sun-dweller out past curfew. And to think, you might have survived if it wasn't so close to suppertime."

Bog Raiders

Creature - Zombie

Swampwalk (This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

Zombies are the perfect marshland fighters-they don't need to breathe and they don't care what they step in.

Captivating Vampire

Creature - Vampire

Other Vampire creatures you control get +1/+1.

Tap five untapped Vampires you control: Gain control of target creature. It becomes a Vampire in addition to its other types.

Liliana's Specter

Creature - Specter

Flying

When Liliana's Specter enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

"The finest minions know what I need without me ever saying a thing."
-Liliana Vess

Relentless Rats

Creature - Rat

Relentless Rats gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield named Relentless Rats.

A deck can have any number of cards named Relentless Rats.

Arc Runner

Creature - Elemental Ox

Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Arc Runner.

The storms of the wastelands form quickly and hit hard. Few have anything to do with rain.

Chandra's Spitfire

Creature - Elemental

Flying

Whenever an opponent is dealt noncombat damage, Chandra's Spitfire gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

"I've lit most everything on fire-trees, rocks, even the water. Now it's time to burn the clouds."

Prodigal Pyromancer

Creature - Human Wizard

: Prodigal Pyromancer deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

"What am I looking at? Ashes, dead man."

Awakener Druid

Creature - Human Druid

When Awakener Druid enters the battlefield, target Forest becomes a 4/5 green Treefolk creature for as long as Awakener Druid remains on the battlefield. It's still a land.

The druids of Mazar treat each seedcone with respect for the warrior it will become.

Gargoyle Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Until end of turn, Gargoyle Sentinel loses defender and gains flying.

"Do not mistake a quiet rampart for one that is unguarded. Some things stir only when they need to."
-Bonovar, siege commander

Undead Slayer

Creature - Human Cleric

, : Exile target Skeleton, Vampire, or Zombie.

"My motive is not vengeance but mercy. I deliver the soulless back to their severed souls."

Veteran Swordsmith

Creature - Human Soldier

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

"Truth is a straight, keen edge. There are no soft angles or rounded edges. To fight for truth, we must forge in steel."

Horned Turtle

Creature - Turtle

It's a mistake to say turtles hide in their shells. They merely need time to contemplate how best to bite your head off.

Illusionary Servant

Creature - Illusion

Flying

When Illusionary Servant becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

"Illusion is a handy but fragile medium. Use it only in a pinch, or against the dim-witted."
-Jace Beleren

Phantom Warrior

Creature - Illusion Warrior

Phantom Warrior can't be blocked.

"The construction of a defense is not accomplished by adding bricks."
-Jace Beleren

Dread Warlock

Creature - Human Wizard

Dread Warlock can't be blocked except by black creatures.

"I don't know who to pity more: those who flee from my presence or the damned who can withstand it."

Hypnotic Specter

Creature - Specter

Flying

Whenever Hypnotic Specter deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Its victims are known by their eyes: shattered vessels leaking broken dreams.

Kelinore Bat

Creature - Bat

Flying

The nesting bats of Kelinore sleep soundly while the sun passes, nestled among their grisly collections.

Looming Shade

Creature - Shade

: Looming Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Its form never rests, propelled by some undetectable gale from beyond the gloom.

Vampire Aristocrat

Creature - Vampire Rogue

Sacrifice a creature: Vampire Aristocrat gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"I admit, I am a creature of the city. The sights, the nightly excitement, the abundance of fine drink . . ."

Wall of Bone

Creature - Skeleton Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Regenerate Wall of Bone. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

Ball Lightning

Creature - Elemental

Trample (If this creature would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Ball Lightning.

Goblin Artillery

Creature - Goblin Warrior

: Goblin Artillery deals 2 damage to target creature or player and 3 damage to you.

Most goblins get their turn firing the catapult, but few achieve the coveted title of Ammunition Holder.

Viashino Spearhunter

Creature - Viashino Warrior

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

Viashino lack the majesty of their draconic ancestors, but they lash out with equal rage and twice the spite.

Great Sable Stag

Creature - Elk

Great Sable Stag can't be countered.

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

Ineffable and incorruptible.

Aven Trailblazer

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

Domain - Aven Trailblazer's toughness is equal to the number of basic land types among lands you control.

"The bird wore the form of a man, bereft of filigree. Why do the Texts not speak of it?"
-Belator of Esper

Paragon of the Amesha

Creature - Human Knight

First strike

: Until end of turn, Paragon of the Amesha becomes an Angel, gets +3/+3, and gains flying and lifelink.

"Let my lance sing with the voices of angels and the heathen cower before my shield, for I will teach this land the meaning of honor."

Brackwater Elemental

Creature - Elemental

When Brackwater Elemental attacks or blocks, sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Unearth (: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Esperzoa

Artifact Creature - Jellyfish

Flying

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

The more metal it digests, the more its jelly will fetch on the alchemists' market.

Frontline Sage

Creature - Human Wizard

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

, : Draw a card, then discard a card.

The battle was won in the commander's head before the first weapon was drawn.

Parasitic Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

When Parasitic Strix enters the battlefield, if you control a black permanent, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

After finding no sustenance on the edges of Grixis, it turned to the skies of Bant.

Fleshformer

Creature - Human Wizard

: Fleshformer gets +2/+2 and gains fear until end of turn. Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only during your turn. (A creature with fear can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Necromancers who discovered the new sources of mana were quick to dream up new nightmares with them.

Nyxathid

Creature - Elemental

As Nyxathid enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

Nyxathid gets -1/-1 for each card in the chosen player's hand.

Born of volcanic forces, it thrives on the absolute panic it inspires.

Pestilent Kathari

Creature - Bird Warrior

Flying

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

: Pestilent Kathari gains first strike until end of turn.

Sedraxis Alchemist

Creature - Zombie Wizard

When Sedraxis Alchemist enters the battlefield, if you control a blue permanent, return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

The problem with a liquid that can dissolve anything is finding something to carry it in.

Dragonsoul Knight

Creature - Human Knight

First strike

: Until end of turn, Dragonsoul Knight becomes a Dragon, gets +5/+3, and gains flying and trample.

The farther he roamed from Jund and its dragons, the more he felt their essence in himself.

Wandering Goblins

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Domain - : Wandering Goblins gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each basic land type among lands you control.

Tired of waiting for a dragon to eat them, some hardy goblins struck out to become meals for the unknown.

Ember Weaver

Creature - Spider

Reach (This can block creatures with flying.)

As long as you control a red permanent, Ember Weaver gets +1/+0 and has first strike.

"Each night, the sun unravels and blows away. Each day, the spiders set a new one in the sky."
-Sunseeder myth

Gluttonous Slime

Creature - Ooze

Flash

Devour 1 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

On Jund, everything eventually ends up in something else's stomach.

Matca Rioters

Creature - Human Warrior

Domain - Matca Rioters's power and toughness are each equal to the number of basic land types among lands you control.

When outsiders interrupted the matca championship, things got ugly.

Sacellum Archers

Creature - Elf Archer

, : Sacellum Archers deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

"Our arrows are aimed not at the sacred behemoths but at those who dare to dream of such a trophy."

Giltspire Avenger

Creature - Human Soldier

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

: Destroy target creature that dealt damage to you this turn.

"To trespass so far from home is to ask for a lonesome grave."

Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

, : Put a bribery counter on target creature you don't control. Its controller draws a card.

Creatures with bribery counters on them can't attack or block.

"Everyone has a price."

Jhessian Balmgiver

Creature - Human Cleric

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

: Target creature is unblockable this turn.

"You have two choices: heed my advice now or need my healing later."

Knight of the Reliquary

Creature - Human Knight

Knight of the Reliquary gets +1/+1 for each land card in your graveyard.

, Sacrifice a Forest or Plains: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

"Knowledge of Bant's landscape and ruins is a weapon that the invaders can't comprehend."
-Elspeth

Knotvine Mystic

Creature - Elf Druid

, : Add to your mana pool.

The elves of Naya were the last to acknowledge the massive shift of mana in their world.

Scarland Thrinax

Creature - Lizard

Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Scarland Thrinax.

"There is only one way of life in Jund: feed on the weak until you are cut down by something stronger."
-Jorshu of Clan Nel Toth

Shambling Remains

Creature - Zombie Horror

Shambling Remains can't block.

Unearth (: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Vedalken Plotter

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

When Vedalken Plotter enters the battlefield, exchange control of target land you control and target land an opponent controls.

"Fair? At what point in our negotiations did you convince yourself my goal was to be fair?"

Nantuko Husk

Creature - Zombie Insect

Sacrifice a creature: Nantuko Husk gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

The soul sheds light, and death is its shadow. When the light dims, life and death embrace.
-Nantuko teaching

Eternal Witness

Creature - Human Shaman

When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Fertilid

Creature - Elemental

Fertilid enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Fertilid: Target player searches his or her library for a basic land card and puts it onto the battlefield tapped. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Fierce Empath

Creature - Elf

When Fierce Empath enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost 6 or greater, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Spawnwrithe

Creature - Elemental

Trample

Whenever Spawnwrithe deals combat damage to a player, put a token that's a copy of Spawnwrithe onto the battlefield.

Its victims feel only an itchy, wriggling feeling just under their skin. By then, it's far too late.

Spike Feeder

Creature - Spike

Spike Feeder enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spike Feeder: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spike Feeder: You gain 2 life.

Troll Ascetic

Creature - Troll Shaman

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

: Regenerate Troll Ascetic.

It's no coincidence that the oldest trolls are also the angriest.

Yavimaya Elder

Creature - Human Druid

When Yavimaya Elder dies, you may search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.

, Sacrifice Yavimaya Elder: Draw a card.

Animar, Soul of Elements

Legendary Creature - Elemental

Protection from white and from black

Whenever you cast a creature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Animar, Soul of Elements.

Creature spells you cast cost less to cast for each +1/+1 counter on Animar.

Duergar Hedge-Mage

Creature - Dwarf Shaman

When Duergar Hedge-Mage enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Mountains, you may destroy target artifact.

When Duergar Hedge-Mage enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Plains, you may destroy target enchantment.

Edric, Spymaster of Trest

Legendary Creature - Elf Rogue

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may draw a card.

"I am not at liberty to reveal my sources, but I can assure you, the price on your head is high."

Gwyllion Hedge-Mage

Creature - Hag Wizard

When Gwyllion Hedge-Mage enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Plains, you may put a 1/1 white Kithkin Soldier creature token onto the battlefield.

When Gwyllion Hedge-Mage enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Swamps, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Plumeveil

Creature - Elemental

Flash

Defender, flying

"It was vast, a great sheet of soaring wings, and equally silent. It caught us unawares and blocked our view of the kithkin stronghold."
-Grensch, merrow cutthroat

Pilgrim's Eye

Artifact Creature - Thopter

Flying

When Pilgrim's Eye enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

The kor send their thopter kites to see if the land is in a welcoming mood.

Sage's Row Denizen

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

Whenever another blue creature enters the battlefield under your control, target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"I offer you wisdom untainted by false loyalty, learning free of any guild's agenda."

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.

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

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.)

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.

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.

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

Slaughterhorn

Creature - Beast

Bloodrush - , Discard Slaughterhorn: Target attacking creature gets +3/+2 until end of turn.

The Orzhov clergy would never cross its path, but sending thrull couriers to do so is cheap and entertaining.

Kingpin's Pet

Creature - Thrull

Flying

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

"Debt and death sound so similar, and thrulls are so hard of hearing. Mistakes are inevitable."
-Milana, Orzhov prelate

Simic Fluxmage

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

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.)

, : Move a +1/+1 counter from Simic Fluxmage onto target creature.

Simic Manipulator

Creature - Mutant Wizard

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.)

, Remove one or more +1/+1 counters from Simic Manipulator: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of +1/+1 counters removed this way.

Mortus Strider

Creature - Skeleton

When Mortus Strider dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Dimir's best agents hide from death itself.

Elusive Krasis

Creature - Fish Mutant

Elusive Krasis is unblockable.

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.)

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

Drakewing Krasis

Creature - Lizard Drake

Flying, trample

Cautious not to repeat Vig's mistakes, the Simic fuse life essences using magic alone. Each result is called a krasis.

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."

Slate Street Ruffian

Creature - Human Warrior

Whenever Slate Street Ruffian becomes blocked, defending player discards a card.

"Merciless to the point of psychosis. Let's give him a job."
-Zelinas, Orzhov recruiter

Warmind Infantry

Creature - Elemental Soldier

Battalion - Whenever Warmind Infantry and at least two other creatures attack, Warmind Infantry gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Before Aurelia denounced Niv-Mizzet, the two guilds had collaborated on the Warmind Initiative in pursuit of the ultimate soldier.

Hellraiser Goblin

Creature - Goblin Berserker

Creatures you control have haste and attack each combat if able.

Don't let him lead the soldiers, but by all means let him lead the way.

Nightveil Specter

Creature - Specter

Flying

Whenever Nightveil Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of his or her library.

You may play cards exiled with Nightveil Specter.

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."

Ember Beast

Creature - Beast

Ember Beast can't attack or block alone.

Spot one ember beast, attack.
Spot a second, best fall back.
-Dwarven saying

Undercity Informer

Creature - Human Rogue

, Sacrifice a creature: 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.

"Scandal and slander are never welcome news. That's why I'm never the messenger."

Gateway Shade

Creature - Shade

: Gateway Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Tap an untapped Gate you control: Gateway Shade gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Tireless and merciless, shades are harnessed as spies by the Dimir.

Frontline Medic

Creature - Human Cleric

Battalion - Whenever Frontline Medic and at least two other creatures attack, creatures you control are indestructible this turn.

Sacrifice Frontline Medic: Counter target spell with in its mana cost unless its controller pays .

Skyknight Legionnaire

Creature - Human Knight

Flying, haste

"I do not know which gives me more pride: the legions of soldiers marching in thunderous lockstep, or the cry of the skyknights riding their rocs like jagged lightning overhead."
-Razia

Loyal Retainers

Creature - Human Advisor

Sacrifice Loyal Retainers: Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

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.

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."

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.

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.

Battering Krasis

Creature - Fish Beast

Trample

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.)

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.

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