Ulvenwald Bear

Creature - Bear

Morbid - When Ulvenwald Bear enters the battlefield, if a creature died this turn, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Out chasing bears
-Kessig expression meaning "died in the woods"

Ulvenwald Mystics

Creature - Human Shaman Werewolf

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Ulvenwald Mystics.

"With this ritual, we cast aside our fragile humanity . . ."

Ulvenwald Tracker

Creature - Human Shaman

, : Target creature you control fights another target creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"Peace will come to Innistrad, but only after all abominations have been dealt with, one by one."

Umara Entangler

Creature - Merfolk Rogue Ally

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

"Sea Gate is gone, the Halimar basin empty. But rebuild the seawall and give these waters time, and they will fill the basin anew."

Umara Raptor

Creature - Bird Ally

Flying

Whenever Umara Raptor or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Umara Raptor.

Messenger, weapon, friend.

Umbilicus

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player returns a permanent he or she controls to its owner's hand unless he or she pays 2 life.

It was the explorers' only tether to reality.

Umbra Mystic

Creature - Human Wizard

Auras attached to permanents you control have totem armor. (If an enchanted permanent you control would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy an Aura attached to it.)

"I have found the courage to face death-twice, if I must."

Umbra Stalker

Creature - Elemental

Chroma - Umbra Stalker's power and toughness are each equal to the number of black mana symbols in the mana costs of cards in your graveyard.

Don't venture into the darkness, lest it decide not to let you leave.

Umbral Mantle

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", {Q}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn." ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Equip

It harnesses the power of night in a land where daylight fears to show itself.

Umezawa's Jitte

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte.

Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one - Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn; or target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn; or you gain 2 life.

Equip

Unbender Tine

Artifact

: Untap another target permanent.

Creations made in madness may contain great power. The path to that power is as labyrinthine as the creator's mind.

Unblinking Bleb

Creature - Illusion

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

Whenever Unblinking Bleb or another permanent is turned face up, you may scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Unbreathing Horde

Creature - Zombie

Unbreathing Horde enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie you control and each Zombie card in your graveyard.

If Unbreathing Horde would be dealt damage, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

Unburden

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

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

Cabal initiates enter training full of hopes and fears. They graduate with neither.

Unburial Rites

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

All crave the Blessed Sleep. Few receive it.

Uncanny Speed

Instant

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

"To survive, we must embrace the savagery we knew in our race's infancy."
-Edgar Markov

Unchecked Growth

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. If it's a Spirit, it gains trample until end of turn.

"That energy was once granted to growing things. Now the kami keep it for themselves, releasing it in sudden floods that overwhelm flesh and foliage alike."
-Sakiko, Mother of Summer

Uncle Istvan

Creature - Human

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Uncle Istvan by creatures.

Solitude drove the old hermit insane. Now he only keeps company with those he can catch.

Uncontrollable Anger

Enchantment - Aura

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

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

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and attacks each turn if able.

A barbarian's heart pounds with the fury of a prisoner, threatening at any moment to break the bars of its cage.

Uncontrolled Infestation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant nonbasic land

When enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy it.

The grounds of the Riptide Project are now populated only by slivers, broken beakers, and the lonely screeching of gulls.

Uncovered Clues

Sorcery

Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

The Implicit Maze winds through Ravnica, connecting arcane landmarks of all ten guilds.

Undead Alchemist

Creature - Zombie

If a Zombie you control would deal combat damage to a player, instead that player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from his or her library, exile that card and put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Undead Executioner

Creature - Zombie

When Undead Executioner dies, you may have target creature get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Heartless killer in life, brainless killer in death.

Undead Gladiator

Creature - Zombie Barbarian

, Discard a card: Return Undead Gladiator from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

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

Undead Leotau

Creature - Zombie Cat

: Undead Leotau gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

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.)

Undead Minotaur

Creature - Zombie Minotaur

"The work that went into creating this magnificent specimen. Horrific, deadly, well-balanced. Not all necromancers do elegant work like this."-Lestin, necromancer

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."

Undead Warchief

Creature - Zombie

Zombie spells you cast cost less to cast.

Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.

It has the strength of seven men. In fact, it used to be seven men.

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."

Undercity Plague

Sorcery

Target player loses 1 life, discards a card, then sacrifices a permanent.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Undercity Shade

Creature - Shade

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

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

"Officially, there's nothing under that bridge to hunt . . . Unofficially, my torchers are too terrified to go there after nightfall."
-Agrus Kos

Underground River

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Add or to your mana pool. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Underground Sea

Land - Island Swamp

(: Add or to your mana pool.)

Undergrowth

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Undergrowth, you may pay .

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. If its additional cost was paid, Undergrowth doesn't affect combat damage that would be dealt by red creatures.

"It is the work of sorcery. Burn it!" -Taaveti of Kelsinko, Elvish Hunter

Undergrowth Champion

Creature - Elemental

If damage would be dealt to Undergrowth Champion while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from Undergrowth Champion.

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Undergrowth Champion.

Undergrowth Scavenger

Creature - Fungus Horror

Undergrowth Scavenger enters the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

It sees a rotting carcass as a good wine which has been aged properly.

Undermine

Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller loses 3 life.

"Which would you like first, the insult or the injury?"

Undertaker

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The weight of death is heavy but not immovable.

Undertow

Enchantment

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

Underworld Cerberus

Creature - Hound

Underworld Cerberus can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.

When Underworld Cerberus dies, exile it and each player returns all creature cards from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.

Underworld Coinsmith

Enchantment Creature - Human Cleric

Constellation - Whenever Underworld Coinsmith or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

, Pay 1 life: Each opponent loses 1 life.

Coins of the Underworld are shaped from clay funerary masks.

Underworld Connections

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ", Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

If you're looking for it, it's available. The question is how much you're willing to pay.

Underworld Dreams

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Underworld Dreams deals 1 damage to him or her.

"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind, dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan."
-Rabindranath Tagore

Undiscovered Paradise

Land

: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. During your next untap step, as you untap your permanents, return Undiscovered Paradise to its owner's hand.

Jolrael's choice of homes was far better than her choice of allies.

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

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

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 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.

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.)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"

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.

Unhinge

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

Draw a card.

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

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.)

Unholy Grotto

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

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

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

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.

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 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

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.

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?"

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.

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

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

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.

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?"

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.

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.

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 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 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 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 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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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"

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.

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.

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 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 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 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 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

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.

Unsummon

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Not to be. That is the answer.

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.

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

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 Wilds

Sorcery

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

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.