Blademane Baku

Creature - Spirit

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

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

Bladed Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Bladed Sentinel gains vigilance until end of turn.

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

Bladed Pinions

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has flying and first strike.

Equip

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

Bladed Bracers

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

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

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

Forged from the rubble of the Helvault.

Blade-Tribe Berserkers

Creature - Human Berserker

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

Blade Splicer

Creature - Human Artificer

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

Golem creatures you control have first strike.

Blade Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures get +1/+0.

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

Blade of the Sixth Pride

Creature - Cat Rebel

Blade of the Bloodchief

Artifact - Equipment

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

Equip

Blackmail

Sorcery

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

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

Blackcleave Goblin

Creature - Goblin Zombie

Haste

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

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

Blackcleave Cliffs

Land

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

: Add or to your mana pool.

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

Black Ward

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

Black Vise

Artifact

As Black Vise enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

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

Black Sun's Zenith

Sorcery

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

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

Black Scarab

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked by black creatures.

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

Black Poplar Shaman

Creature - Treefolk Shaman

: Regenerate target Treefolk.

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

Black Oak of Odunos

Creature - Zombie Treefolk

Defender

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

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

Black Market

Enchantment

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

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

Black Mana Battery

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on Black Mana Battery.

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

Black Lotus

Artifact

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

Black Knight

Creature - Human Knight

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

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

Black Cat

Creature - Zombie Cat

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

Its last life is spent tormenting your dreams.

Black Carriage

Creature - Horse

Trample

Black Carriage doesn't untap during your untap step.

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

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

Bituminous Blast

Instant

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Bituminous Blast deals 4 damage to target creature.

Bitterheart Witch

Creature - Human Shaman

Deathtouch

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

Bitterblossom

Tribal Enchantment - Faerie

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

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

Bitter Revelation

Sorcery

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

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

Bitter Ordeal

Sorcery

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

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

Bitter Feud

Enchantment

As Bitter Feud enters the battlefield, choose two players.

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

Biting Tether

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

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

A chain of lies as strong as steel.

Bite of the Black Rose

Sorcery

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

Birthing Pod

Artifact

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

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

Birthing Hulk

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

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

{C}: Regenerate Birthing Hulk.

Birds of Paradise

Creature - Bird

Flying

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

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

Bird Maiden

Creature - Human Bird

Flying

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

Birchlore Rangers

Creature - Elf Druid

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

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

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.

Bioshift

Instant

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

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

Biorhythm

Sorcery

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

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

Bioplasm

Creature - Ooze

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

Biomass Mutation

Instant

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

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

Biomantic Mastery

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or .)

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

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

Binding Grasp

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

You control enchanted creature.

Enchanted creature gets +0/+1.

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

Binding Agony

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, Binding Agony deals that much damage to that creature's controller.

A crash of rhinos in my head
-Femeref expression meaning
"a severe head pain"

Bind

Instant

Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Draw a card.

"The battlefield is cluttered enough. Be still."
-Multani, maro-sorcerer

Bile Urchin

Creature - Spirit

Sacrifice Bile Urchin: Target player loses 1 life.

"The two youths argued and tempers flared. One youth opened his mouth to utter a vile curse, but what he spat out instead was a kami of poison and filth."
-Sensei Golden-Tail

Bile Blight

Instant

Target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Not an arrow loosed, javelin thrown, nor sword raised. None were needed.

Big Game Hunter

Creature - Human Rebel Assassin

When Big Game Hunter enters the battlefield, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. It can't be regenerated.

Madness (If you discard this card, you may cast it for its madness cost instead of putting it into your graveyard.)

Bifurcate

Sorcery

Search your library for a permanent card with the same name as target nontoken creature and put that card onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Bident of Thassa

Legendary Enchantment Artifact

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

, : Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

The wills of mortals shift as the tide ebbs and flows.

Bewilder

Instant

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

Draw a card.

"Teferi snapped his fingers, and the viashino started clucking like a chicken. Silly, yes, but exactly the thing we needed to break the stifling tension."
-Jhoira, master artificer

Betrothed of Fire

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Sacrifice an untapped creature: Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Sacrifice enchanted creature: Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

Betrayal of Flesh

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target creature; or return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Entwine-Sacrifice three lands. (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Betrayal

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature an opponent controls

Whenever enchanted creature becomes tapped, you draw a card.

"Sometimes a burden can be borne only on the shoulders of a willing enemy."
-Suq'Ata aphorism

Bestial Menace

Sorcery

Put a 1/1 green Snake creature token, a 2/2 green Wolf creature token, and a 3/3 green Elephant creature token onto the battlefield.

"My battle cry reaches ears far keener than yours."
-Saidah, Joraga hunter

Bestial Fury

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Bestial Fury enters the battlefield, draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Whenever enchanted creature becomes blocked, it gets +4/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Beseech the Queen

Sorcery

( can be paid with any two mana or with . This card's converted mana cost is 6.)

Search your library for a card with converted mana cost less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Those who hear her go mad with inspiration.

Berserkers' Onslaught

Enchantment

Attacking creatures you control have double strike.

"Atarka's people starve while she feasts upon the bounty of their hunts. They must conquer ever more lands just for the sake of their own subsistence."
-Arel, Unseen Whisperer

Berserkers of Blood Ridge

Creature - Human Berserker

Berserkers of Blood Ridge attacks each turn if able.

They take a blood oath to die in battle. So far none have failed to fulfill the promise.

Berserk Murlodont

Creature - Beast

Whenever a Beast becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

"The harder we press forward, the harder Krosa pushes us back."
-Aven scout

Berserk

Instant

Cast Berserk only before the combat damage step.

Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy that creature if it attacked this turn.

Bereavement

Enchantment

Whenever a green creature dies, its controller discards a card.

Grief is a razor that slices the soul.

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

Benthicore

Creature - Elemental

When Benthicore enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Tap two untapped Merfolk you control: Untap Benthicore. It gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Benthic Infiltrator

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of his or her library.)

Benthic Infiltrator can't be blocked.

Benthic Giant

Creature - Giant

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

"Some fates you can see coming for you, plain as day, and there's nothing you can do about them."
-Callaphe the mariner

Benthic Explorers

Creature - Merfolk Scout

, Untap a tapped land an opponent controls: Add one mana of any type that land could produce to your mana pool.

The rising oceans brought new lakes-and new terrors-to Terisiare. The Explorers found their ancient enemies spawning everywhere.

Benthic Djinn

Creature - Djinn

Islandwalk

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life.

"In all my years I've only met one mage who successfully trapped a djinn-and none who tried and failed."
-Talibah, embermage

Benthic Behemoth

Creature - Serpent

Islandwalk

The sea has many secrets, but some are too big to be kept.

Benevolent Unicorn

Creature - Unicorn

If a spell would deal damage to a creature or player, it deals that much damage minus 1 to that creature or player instead.

The best use for a unicorn's horn is to adorn a unicorn.
-Femeref adage

Benevolent Offering

Instant

Choose an opponent. You and that player each put three 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

Choose an opponent. You gain 2 life for each creature you control and that player gains 2 life for each creature he or she controls.

Benevolent Bodyguard

Creature - Human Cleric

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

"My destiny is to save others so their destinies may be achieved."

Benevolent Ancestor

Creature - Spirit

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

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

Although the door is flimsy and the lock pathetically small, Josuri's family never fears the night outside.

Benediction of Moons

Sorcery

You gain 1 life for each player.

Haunt (When this spell card is put into a graveyard after resolving, exile it haunting target creature.)

When the creature Benediction of Moons haunts dies, you gain 1 life for each player.

Bend or Break

Sorcery

Each player separates all nontoken lands he or she controls into two piles. For each player, one of his or her piles is chosen by one of his or her opponents of his or her choice. Destroy all lands in the chosen piles. Tap all lands in the other piles.

Benalish Veteran

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever Benalish Veteran attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"One day I will rest and join my comrades in the afterlife, but not while scum like you still sully this world."

Benalish Trapper

Creature - Human Soldier

, : Tap target creature.

"I'm up here. You're down there. Now who's the lower life form?"

Benalish Missionary

Creature - Human Cleric

, : Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target blocked creature this turn.

"These horn-haters say no gods but theirs exist. I say let him find out for himself-right now!"
-Tahngarth of the Weatherlight

Benalish Lancer

Creature - Human Knight

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

If Benalish Lancer was kicked, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it and with first strike.

Benalish Knight

Creature - Human Knight

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

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

"We called them ‘armored lightning.'"
-Gerrard of the Weatherlight

Benalish Infantry

Creature - Human Soldier

Banding (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.)

"My favorite part of getting into the infantry was getting out again."
-Gerrard of the Weatherlight

Benalish Hero

Creature - Human Soldier

Banding (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.)

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

Benalish Heralds

Creature - Human Soldier

, : Draw a card.

The detailed dispatch could be summarized in four words: "Time is running out."

Benalish Emissary

Creature - Human Wizard

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

When Benalish Emissary enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, destroy target land.

Benalish Commander

Creature - Human Soldier

Benalish Commander's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Soldiers you control.

Suspend X-. X can't be 0. (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with X time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Whenever a time counter is removed from Benalish Commander while it's exiled, put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield.

Benalish Cavalry

Creature - Human Knight

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

"My people swore to protect Benalia to the end. It is battered, but yet stands, as do we."

Ben-Ben, Akki Hermit

Legendary Creature - Goblin Shaman

: Ben-Ben, Akki Hermit deals damage to target attacking creature equal to the number of untapped Mountains you control.

Some akki thought of Ben-Ben as a kami of trickery in disguise. They hunted for him in the maze of warrens, often falling prey to his traps.

Beloved Chaplain

Creature - Human Cleric

Protection from creatures

Nomad and Nantuko, eagle and elephant; all the birds and beasts are charmed by his quiet dignity.

Belltower Sphinx

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever a source deals damage to Belltower Sphinx, that source's controller puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Belltoll Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying, hexproof

Megamorph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

When Belltoll Dragon is turned face up, put a +1/+1 counter on each other Dragon creature you control.

Bellows Lizard

Creature - Lizard

: Bellows Lizard gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

As the price of wood and coal rose, smiths found creative ways to keep their forges burning.

Bellowing Tanglewurm

Creature - Wurm

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

Other green creatures you control have intimidate.

Bellowing Saddlebrute

Creature - Orc Warrior

Raid - When Bellowing Saddlebrute enters the battlefield, you lose 4 life unless you attacked with a creature this turn.

Bellowing Fiend

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Whenever Bellowing Fiend deals damage to a creature, Bellowing Fiend deals 3 damage to that creature's controller and 3 damage to you.

Belligerent Whiptail

Creature - Wurm

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Belligerent Whiptail gains first strike until end of turn.

"Whiptails can sense a traveler's footsteps from a great distance. Measuring that distance has been . . . difficult."-Jalun, Affa sentry

Belligerent Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"The slivers became adept at provoking a fear response in other species."
-Hastric, Thunian scout

Belligerent Hatchling

Creature - Elemental

First strike

Belligerent Hatchling enters the battlefield with four -1/-1 counters on it.

Whenever you cast a red spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from Belligerent Hatchling.

Whenever you cast a white spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from Belligerent Hatchling.

Belfry Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Haunt (When this creature dies, exile it haunting target creature.)

When Belfry Spirit enters the battlefield or the creature it haunts dies, put two 1/1 black Bat creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

Belbe's Portal

Artifact

As Belbe's Portal enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

, : You may put a creature card of the chosen type from your hand onto the battlefield.

The fight will continue on a new battlefield.