Spindrift Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Spindrift Drake unless you pay .

Sea brine for blood, washing foam for laughter.

Tidal Warrior

Creature - Merfolk Warrior

: Target land becomes an Island until end of turn.

The tide of battle favors those who can swim.

Burgeoning

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent plays a land, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"The plants said, ‘We will fight the stone with root and stem and seed. We are patient. We will win.'"
-Skyshroud myth of the forest

Crossbow Ambush

Instant

Creatures you control gain reach until end of turn. (They can block creatures with flying.)

There is no drake that flies faster than a crossbow bolt.
-Vec saying

Skyshroud Archer

Creature - Elf Archer

: Target creature with flying gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

In Rath, arrows are guided not by virtue but by necessity.

Flowstone Blade

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

"Remember the fable of the elf who came upon a cave of gold. In trying to free the largest piece, she was crushed by its weight."
-Karn, silver golem

Seething Anger

Sorcery

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

Change of Heart

Instant

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Target creature can't attack this turn.

Nomads en-Kor

Creature - Kor Nomad Soldier

: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to Nomads en-Kor this turn is dealt to target creature you control instead.

The Kor forsake roots for the winding of the path; forsake voices for the silence of the mind; forsake all else for the poverty of isolation.

Samite Blessing

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, prevent that damage."

Knit bone, darn flesh,
Stitch skin, weave breath.
-Samite healing ritual

Scapegoat

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Scapegoat, sacrifice a creature.

Return any number of target creatures you control to their owner's hand.

"Enjoy your deception, Vuel," Gerrard said as Volrath's features melted from the dead shapeshifter. "I'll count this one as practice."

Limited Resources

Enchantment

When Limited Resources enters the battlefield, each player chooses five lands he or she controls and sacrifices the rest.

Players can't play lands as long as ten or more lands are on the battlefield.

Reaping the Rewards

Instant

Buyback-Sacrifice a land. (You may sacrifice a land in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

You gain 2 life.

Reconnaissance

Enchantment

: Remove target attacking creature you control from combat and untap it.

War favors the informed.

Shield Mate

Creature - Human Soldier

Sacrifice Shield Mate: Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.

They bear weightier burdens than the shields they carry.

Æther Tide

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Æther Tide, discard X creature cards.

Return X target creatures to their owners' hands.

The tide of magic brought them here. Now it would take them home.

Rootwater Mystic

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

: Look at the top card of target player's library.

"Read the roots tell the tale
Future forms in waving weeds
Higher than truth is hope."
-Rootwater Saga

Carnophage

Creature - Zombie

At the beginning of your upkeep, tap Carnophage unless you pay 1 life.

Eating is all it knows.

Culling the Weak

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Culling the Weak, sacrifice a creature.

Add to your mana pool.

"The blood of the weak shall be the ink with which we scribe great Yawgmoth's glorious name."
-Stronghold architect, journal

Cursed Flesh

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 and has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

A farewell to arms . . . and feet . . . and legs . . . .

Scare Tactics

Instant

Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Fear rules those weak enough to accept it."
-Greven il-Vec

Dizzying Gaze

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

: Enchanted creature deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.

"When I cut down my angel I only started my fall."
-Crovax

Fighting Chance

Instant

For each blocking creature, flip a coin. If you win the flip, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by that creature this turn.

A stroke of luck can smite an army.

Onslaught

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a creature spell, tap target creature.

The last thing to go through the mogg's mind was its teeth.

Bequeathal

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, you draw two cards.

"On my death, I give you this treasure: the knowledge that life is hard, yet too soon past."
-Dal funeral rite

Elven Palisade

Enchantment

Sacrifice a Forest: Target attacking creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

"Volrath is not the only one who can shape this world to serve him."
-Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Manabond

Enchantment

At the beginning of your end step, you may reveal your hand and put all land cards from it onto the battlefield. If you do, discard your hand.

Predatory Hunger

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature.

Hunger growls, never purrs.

Skyshroud Elite

Creature - Elf

Skyshroud Elite gets +1/+2 as long as an opponent controls a nonbasic land.

"Civilization is a conspiracy to disguise the mutilation of nature."
-Skyshroud elite creed

Defensive Formation

Enchantment

Rather than the attacking player, you assign the combat damage of each creature attacking you. You can divide that creature's combat damage as you choose among any of the creatures blocking it.

"Your enemies will pound upon the door of your defenses, but only you shall have the key, and it is the key of life."
-Song of All, canto 873

Opal Caryatid

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a creature spell, if Opal Caryatid is an enchantment, Opal Caryatid becomes a 2/2 Soldier creature.

Serra Zealot

Creature - Human Soldier

First strike

"The humans are useful in their way, but they must be commanded as the builder commands the stone. Be soft with them, and they will become soft."-Radiant, archangel

Serra's Hymn

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Serra's Hymn.

Sacrifice Serra's Hymn: Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of target creatures and/or players, divided as you choose, where X is the number of verse counters on Serra's Hymn.

Songstitcher

Creature - Human Cleric

: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by target attacking creature with flying.

The true names of birds are songs woven into their souls.

Annul

Instant

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

The most effective way to destroy a spell is to ensure it was never cast in the first place.

Curfew

Instant

Each player returns a creature he or she controls to its owner's hand.

". . . But I'm not tired!"

Sandbar Merfolk

Creature - Merfolk

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

You are not prey until a predator knows of your existence.

Veil of Birds

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a spell, if Veil of Birds is an enchantment, Veil of Birds becomes a 1/1 Bird creature with flying.

When wind marries sky, even the bride's veil sings her praises.

Veiled Sentry

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a spell, if Veiled Sentry is an enchantment, Veiled Sentry becomes an Illusion creature with power and toughness each equal to that spell's converted mana cost.

Carrion Beetles

Creature - Insect

, : Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Planar Void

Enchantment

Whenever another card is put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile that card.

"Planeswalking isn't about walking. It's about falling and screaming."
-Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast

Rain of Filth

Instant

Until end of turn, lands you control gain "Sacrifice this land: Add to your mana pool."

"When I say it rained, it was not small drops, but a thick, greasy drool pouring from the heavens."
-Urza, journal

Sicken

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1.

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

Urza dared to attack Phyrexia. Slowly, it retaliated.

Vebulid

Creature - Horror

Vebulid enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Vebulid.

When Vebulid attacks or blocks, destroy it at end of combat.

Brand

Instant

Gain control of all permanents you own. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

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

"By this glyph I affirm your role."
-Urza, to Karn

Gamble

Sorcery

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle your library.

When you've got nothing, you might as well trade it for something else.

Goblin Cadets

Creature - Goblin

Whenever Goblin Cadets blocks or becomes blocked, target opponent gains control of it. (This removes Goblin Cadets from combat.)

"If you kids don't stop that racket, I'm turning this expedition around right now!"

Goblin Lackey

Creature - Goblin

Whenever Goblin Lackey deals damage to a player, you may put a Goblin permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

All bark, someone else's bite.

Goblin Patrol

Creature - Goblin

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.)

"Take the sharp metal stick and make a lotta holes."
-Jula, goblin raider

Meltdown

Sorcery

Destroy each artifact with converted mana cost X or less.

Catastrophes happened so often at the mana rig that the viashino language had a special word to describe them.

Outmaneuver

Instant

X target blocked creatures assign their combat damage this turn as though they weren't blocked.

"Push one goblin into sight, an' run a lot. That's tactics."
-Jula, goblin raider

Raze

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Raze, sacrifice a land.

Destroy target land.

The viashino believe that the oldest mountains hate everyone equally.

Shower of Sparks

Instant

Shower of Sparks deals 1 damage to target creature and 1 damage to target player.

The viashino had learned how to operate the rig through trial and error-mostly error.

Carpet of Flowers

Enchantment

At the beginning of each of your main phases, if you haven't added mana to your mana pool with this ability this turn, you may add up to X mana of any one color to your mana pool, where X is the number of Islands target opponent controls.

Elvish Herder

Creature - Elf

: Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

Before Urza and Mishra came to Argoth, the herders prevented their creatures from stampeding. During the war, they encouraged it.

Exploration

Enchantment

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

The first explorers found Argoth a storehouse of natural wealth-towering forests grown over rich veins of ore.

Hidden Guerrillas

Enchantment

When an opponent casts an artifact spell, if Hidden Guerrillas is an enchantment, Hidden Guerrillas becomes a 5/3 Soldier creature with trample.

Hidden Herd

Enchantment

When an opponent plays a nonbasic land, if Hidden Herd is an enchantment, Hidden Herd becomes a 3/3 Beast creature.

Hidden Predators

Enchantment

When an opponent controls a creature with power 4 or greater, if Hidden Predators is an enchantment, Hidden Predators becomes a 4/4 Beast creature.

Hidden Spider

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a creature spell with flying, if Hidden Spider is an enchantment, Hidden Spider becomes a 3/5 Spider creature with reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

It wants only to dress you in silk.

Pouncing Jaguar

Creature - Cat

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.)

One pounce, she's hungry-you die quickly. Two, she's teaching her cubs-you're in for a long day.

War Dance

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on War Dance.

Sacrifice War Dance: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of verse counters on War Dance.

Wild Dogs

Creature - Hound

At the beginning of your upkeep, if a player has more life than each other player, the player with the most life gains control of Wild Dogs.

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

Thran Turbine

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may add or to your mana pool. You can't spend this mana to cast spells.

When Urza asked the viashino what it did, they answered: "It hums."

Burst of Energy

Instant

Untap target permanent.

"I stand ready to die for our world. Who will stand with me?"
-Radiant, archangel

Devout Harpist

Creature - Human

: Destroy target Aura attached to a creature.

The notes themselves are irrelevant. The music's effect, however, is worth ten armies.

Iron Will

Instant

Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.

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

Tragic Poet

Creature - Human

, Sacrifice Tragic Poet: Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I would weep, but my tears have been stolen; I would shout, but my voice has been taken. Thus, I write."

Intervene

Instant

Counter target spell that targets a creature.

"At first I simply observed. But I found that without investment in others, life serves no purpose."
-Karn, silver golem

Phyrexian Reclamation

Enchantment

, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Death is no excuse to stop working.

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.)

About Face

Instant

Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

The overconfident are the most vulnerable.

Goblin Welder

Creature - Goblin Artificer

: Choose target artifact a player controls and target artifact card in that player's graveyard. If both targets are still legal as this ability resolves, that player simultaneously sacrifices the artifact and returns the artifact card to the battlefield.

"I wrecked your metal guy, boss. But look! I made you an ashtray."

Last-Ditch Effort

Instant

Sacrifice any number of creatures. Last-Ditch Effort deals that much damage to target creature or player.

"If you're gonna lose, at least make sure they don't win as much."
-Jula, goblin raider

Crop Rotation

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Crop Rotation, sacrifice a land.

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

"Hmm . . . maybe lotuses this year."

Hidden Gibbons

Enchantment

When an opponent casts an instant spell, if Hidden Gibbons is an enchantment, Hidden Gibbons becomes a 4/4 Ape creature.

When these apes want something, it's a matter of gibbon take.

Multani's Presence

Enchantment

Whenever a spell you've cast is countered, draw a card.

When a tree falls in the forest, Multani hears it.

Silk Net

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Sometimes it's possible to pull a meal out of thin air.

Weatherseed Elf

Creature - Elf

: Target creature gains forestwalk until end of turn.

"My grandmother once told me the future of our world was inside the Weatherseed. When I touched it, I knew she was right."

Archery Training

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put an arrow counter on Archery Training.

Enchanted creature has ": This creature deals X damage to target attacking or blocking creature, where X is the number of arrow counters on Archery Training."

Capashen Standard

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

, Sacrifice Capashen Standard: Draw a card.

Benalia has no need for peacocks to serve as symbols of vanity. The Capashens strut more proudly than any bird.

Mask of Law and Grace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has protection from black and from red.

The archangels zealously drove Serra's light into every corner of their new home as if their creator still commanded them.

Scent of Jasmine

Instant

Reveal any number of white cards in your hand. You gain 2 life for each card revealed this way.

Tethered Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

When you control no enchantments, sacrifice Tethered Griffin.

Poorly trained griffins sometimes attack the noble audiences that gather to watch their progress.

Fledgling Osprey

Creature - Bird

Fledgling Osprey has flying as long as it's enchanted.

It isn't truly born until its first flight.

Private Research

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a page counter on Private Research.

When enchanted creature dies, draw a card for each page counter on Private Research.

Rescue

Instant

Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand.

"Urza, I've discovered more promising students than you and my husband have, combined. And I haven't lost a single one."
-Rayne, Academy Chancellor

Sigil of Sleep

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a player, return target creature that player controls to its owner's hand.

Arrows are only one way to remove an enemy.

Bubbling Muck

Sorcery

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

The muck claims a hundred living things for each meager treasure it spews forth.

Encroach

Sorcery

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

"The rate of spread in this region is unacceptable. Start again."
-Davvol, Evincar of Rath

Lurking Jackals

Enchantment

When an opponent has 10 or less life, if Lurking Jackals is an enchantment, it becomes a 3/2 Hound creature.

Often it's not the hunter or the hunted but the opportunist who thrives in Rath.

Incendiary

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fuse counter on Incendiary.

When enchanted creature dies, Incendiary deals X damage to target creature or player, where X is the number of fuse counters on Incendiary.

Landslide

Sorcery

Sacrifice any number of Mountains. Landslide deals that much damage to target player.

Sometimes the mountain takes.
-Keldon saying

Mark of Fury

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has haste.

At the beginning of the end step, return Mark of Fury to its owner's hand.

Many Keldon warriors bear the mark of intentional insanity.

Reckless Abandon

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Reckless Abandon, sacrifice a creature.

Reckless Abandon deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

The climax of a warlord's career is always death.

Elvish Lookout

Creature - Elf

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

Like a masterful quilter, Yavimaya stitches together patches of color to warn its denizens of threats.

Magnify

Instant

All creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

The seed torches' pollen gives off light, but the elves find it heightens their senses as well.

Rofellos's Gift

Sorcery

Reveal any number of green cards in your hand. Return an enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand for each card revealed this way.

"Rise, elf. We are both of Gaea, and thus we are equal."
-Multani, to Rofellos

Scent of Ivy

Instant

Reveal any number of green cards in your hand. Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards revealed this way.

Taunting Elf

Creature - Elf

All creatures able to block Taunting Elf do so.

Much to Multani's chagrin, Rofellos gleefully tutored Yavimaya's elves on the rudest and most vulgar words spoken in Llanowar.