Soltari Trooper

Creature - Soltari Soldier

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Whenever Soltari Trooper attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Dauthi blood is Soltari wine."
-Soltari Tales of Life

Talon Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have first strike.

"Keep them at sword's length!" Gerrard's order fell flat as each sliver's talon suddenly grew longer. "Hold on-break out the polearms!"

Manakin

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Add to your mana pool.

Hanna regarded Squee sternly. "Because it's not a toy, no matter how much it may look like one," she said, taking the manakin from him.

Dracoplasm

Creature - Shapeshifter

Flying

As Dracoplasm enters the battlefield, sacrifice any number of creatures. Dracoplasm's power becomes the total power of those creatures and its toughness becomes their total toughness.

: Dracoplasm gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Wood Sage

Creature - Human Druid

: Name a creature card. Reveal the top four cards of your library and put all of them with that name into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

Rabid Rats

Creature - Rat

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

Every sentence in Volrath's prisons ends the same way.

Wall of Souls

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Souls is dealt combat damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent.

"It is the nature of evil to turn you against yourself."
-Starke

Hammerhead Shark

Creature - Fish

Hammerhead Shark can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

Cross the eyes of a hammerhead and you'll dot its teeth.

Wall of Tears

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Tears blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.

"Many have been lost to pity."
-Karn, silver golem

Hermit Druid

Creature - Human Druid

, : Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a basic land card. Put that card into your hand and all other cards revealed this way into your graveyard.

Seeking the company of plants ensures that your wits will go to seed.

Wall of Blossoms

Creature - Plant Wall

Defender

When Wall of Blossoms enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Mogg Maniac

Creature - Goblin

Whenever Mogg Maniac is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent.

Stand clear if he gets an itch.

Wall of Razors

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

First strike

"In this blessed structure let the very walls baptize themselves in the blood of intruders."
-Stronghold architect, journal

Shaman en-Kor

Creature - Kor Shaman Cleric

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

: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that damage is dealt to Shaman en-Kor instead.

Wall of Essence

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Essence is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life.

The ceiling and the floor fell in love, but only the wall knew.
-Dal saying

Warrior en-Kor

Creature - Kor Warrior Knight

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

Only a matter as vital as destroying Volrath could bring together the reclusive Kor people.

Acidic Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Slivers have ", Sacrifice this permanent: This permanent deals 2 damage to target creature or player."

The first sliver burst against the cave wall, and others piled in behind to deepen the new tunnel.

Crystalline Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Slivers have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

Bred as living shields, these slivers have proven unruly-they know they cannot be caught.

Hibernation Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Slivers have "Pay 2 life: Return this permanent to its owner's hand."

Mogglings have been known to play ball with hibernating slivers, completely unaware of their true nature.

Spined Sliver

Creature - Sliver

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

"Slivers are evil and slivers are sly;
And if you get eaten, then no one will cry."
-Mogg children's rhyme

Victual Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Slivers have ", Sacrifice this permanent: You gain 4 life."

"We are kinfolk," explained Karn to the sliver queen. "Just as you need your progeny to complete you, so do I need the pieces of the Legacy to make me whole."

Keeper of the Light

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Choose target opponent who had more life than you did as you activated this ability. You gain 3 life.

Welkin Hawk

Creature - Bird

Flying

When Welkin Hawk dies, you may search your library for a card named Welkin Hawk, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Keeper of the Mind

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Choose target opponent who had at least two more cards in hand than you did as you activated this ability. Draw a card.

School of Piranha

Creature - Fish

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice School of Piranha unless you pay .

Some schools aren't worth getting into.

Dauthi Cutthroat

Creature - Dauthi Minion

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

, : Destroy target creature with shadow.

In their twisted logic, to empty the shadow world is to escape it.

Dauthi Warlord

Creature - Dauthi Soldier

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Dauthi Warlord's power is equal to the number of creatures with shadow on the battlefield.

Keeper of the Dead

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Choose target opponent who had at least two fewer creature cards in his or her graveyard than you did as you activated this ability. Destroy target nonblack creature he or she controls.

Plaguebearer

Creature - Zombie

: Destroy target nonblack creature with converted mana cost X.

Its respiration is your expiration.

Cinder Crawler

Creature - Salamander

: Cinder Crawler gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability only if Cinder Crawler is blocked.

The crawler doesn't care what gets in its way. It pushes everything into the boiling muck and waits for the meal to cook.

Keeper of the Flame

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Choose target opponent who had more life than you did as you activated this ability. Keeper of the Flame deals 2 damage to him or her.

Keeper of the Beasts

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Choose target opponent who controlled more creatures than you did as you activated this ability. Put a 2/2 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.

Pygmy Troll

Creature - Troll

Whenever Pygmy Troll becomes blocked by a creature, Pygmy Troll gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

: Regenerate Pygmy Troll.

"Who you callin' ‘shorty'?"

Skyshroud War Beast

Creature - Beast

Trample

As Skyshroud War Beast enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

Skyshroud War Beast's power and toughness are each equal to the number of nonbasic lands the chosen player controls.

Disciple of Grace

Creature - Human Cleric

Protection from black

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

Beauty is beyond law.

Disciple of Law

Creature - Human Cleric

Protection from red

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

A religious order for religious order.

Faith Healer

Creature - Human Cleric

Sacrifice an enchantment: You gain life equal to the sacrificed enchantment's converted mana cost.

The power of faith is quiet. It is the leaf unmoved by the hurricane.

Shimmering Barrier

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

First strike

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

Gilded Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

When Gilded Drake enters the battlefield, exchange control of Gilded Drake and up to one target creature an opponent controls. If you don't make an exchange, sacrifice Gilded Drake. This ability can't be countered except by spells and abilities. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Buyer beware.

Spire Owl

Creature - Bird

Flying

When Spire Owl enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Stern Proctor

Creature - Human Wizard

When Stern Proctor enters the battlefield, return target artifact or enchantment to its owner's hand.

"I preferred the harsh tutors-they made mischief all the more fun."
-Teferi, third-level student

Flesh Reaver

Creature - Horror

Whenever Flesh Reaver deals damage to a creature or opponent, Flesh Reaver deals that much damage to you.

Though the reaver is horrifyingly effective, its dorsal vents spit a highly corrosive cloud of filth.

Skittering Skirge

Creature - Imp

Flying

When you cast a creature spell, sacrifice Skittering Skirge.

The imps' warbling cries echo through Phyrexia's towers like those of mourning doves in a cathedral.

Unworthy Dead

Creature - Skeleton

: Regenerate Unworthy Dead.

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

Goblin War Buggy

Creature - Goblin

Haste

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.)

Acridian

Creature - Insect

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.)

The elves of Argoth were trained to ride these creatures, even when their mounts traveled upside-down.

Albino Troll

Creature - Troll

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.)

: Regenerate Albino Troll.

Argothian Enchantress

Creature - Human Druid

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

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, draw a card.

Priest of Titania

Creature - Elf Druid

: Add to your mana pool for each Elf on the battlefield.

Titania rewards all those who honor the forest by making them a living part of it.

Copper Gnomes

Artifact Creature - Gnome

, Sacrifice Copper Gnomes: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Start with eleven gnomes and a room of parts, and come morning you'll have ten and a monster the likes of which you've never seen.

Wall of Junk

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Junk blocks, return it to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Urza saw the wall and realized that even if he tore every Phyrexian to pieces, they would still resist him.

Angelic Curator

Creature - Angel Spirit

Flying, protection from artifacts

"Do not treat your people as you treat your artifacts. Let them go, and they will live; seal them here, and they will die."
-Urza, to Radiant

Expendable Troops

Creature - Human Soldier

, Sacrifice Expendable Troops: Expendable Troops deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

No doubt in their minds, no fear in their hearts.

Cloud of Faeries

Creature - Faerie

Flying

When Cloud of Faeries enters the battlefield, untap up to two lands.

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

Walking Sponge

Creature - Sponge

: Target creature loses your choice of flying, first strike, or trample until end of turn.

Not only does it catch fish, it cleans them too.

Fog of Gnats

Creature - Insect

Flying

: Regenerate Fog of Gnats.

You can swat a thousand gnats, but a thousand more will assail you.

Phyrexian Denouncer

Creature - Carrier

, Sacrifice Phyrexian Denouncer: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"The first stage of the illness: rash and nausea."
-Phyrexian progress notes

Molten Hydra

Creature - Hydra

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Molten Hydra.

, Remove all +1/+1 counters from Molten Hydra: Molten Hydra deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of +1/+1 counters removed this way.

Keep off the glass. -Hydra warning sign

Multani's Acolyte

Creature - Elf

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.)

When Multani's Acolyte enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Jhoira's Toolbox

Artifact Creature - Insect

: Regenerate target artifact creature.

It entertained Jhoira to craft a kit that could bring her the tools.

Capashen Knight

Creature - Human Knight

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

: Capashen Knight gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Few warriors dare to challenge a knight of Capashen. Should one do so, there is one fewer.

Field Surgeon

Creature - Human Cleric

Tap an untapped creature you control: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Commanders order soldiers to attack. Field surgeons order them to heal. Both are obeyed without question.

Wall of Glare

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Wall of Glare can block any number of creatures.

The blinding barrier served Benalia better than a hundred shields.

Metathran Soldier

Creature - Metathran Soldier

Metathran Soldier is unblockable.

Just as Serra crafted angels of light and faith, Urza constructed an army of sorcery and power to resist the coming invasion.

Apprentice Necromancer

Creature - Zombie Wizard

, , Sacrifice Apprentice Necromancer: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.

Squirming Mass

Creature - Horror

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

Only the coldest hearts and the strongest stomachs can stand against it.

Goblin Masons

Creature - Goblin

When Goblin Masons dies, destroy target Wall.

"Goblins build with true zeal-and anything else within arm's reach."

Heart Warden

Creature - Elf Druid

: Add to your mana pool.

, Sacrifice Heart Warden: Draw a card.

"In Llanowar, we tend the forest's boughs and branches. In Yavimaya, we are a part of them."
-Rofellos of Llanowar

Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary

Legendary Creature - Elf Druid

: Add to your mana pool for each Forest you control.

Fresh Volunteers

Creature - Human Rebel

Every Cho-Arrim villager is a potential warrior; when they are called, they abandon their peaceful way of life and take up arms to defend it.

Ramosian Lieutenant

Creature - Human Rebel

, : Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with converted mana cost 3 or less and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

"Give me your hand and I will give you victory."

Tonic Peddler

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Target player gains 3 life.

"The price is written at the bottom of the cup."

Darting Merfolk

Creature - Merfolk

: Return Darting Merfolk to its owner's hand.

You might as well try to catch water with a net.

Diplomatic Escort

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Counter target spell or ability that targets a creature.

Overtaker

Creature - Merfolk Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Untap target creature and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn.

"It's no challenge to master a Mercadian."

Port Inspector

Creature - Human

Whenever Port Inspector becomes blocked, you may look at defending player's hand.

"There may be a few minor additional fees, levies, duties, surtaxes, tariffs, imposts, tolls . . . ."

Saprazzan Heir

Creature - Merfolk

Whenever Saprazzan Heir becomes blocked, you may draw three cards.

Within the walls of the floating city, Saprazzan wealth is like Saprazzan water: abundant, free-flowing, and accessible to all.

Waterfront Bouncer

Creature - Merfolk Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Closing time comes earlier to some than to others.

Cackling Witch

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

The touch of his madness can drive anyone into a killing frenzy.

Cateran Persuader

Creature - Human Mercenary

, : Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with converted mana cost 1 or less and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Instigator

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Creatures target player controls attack this turn if able.

The desecration of their dead makes even the Saprazzans careless.

Misshapen Fiend

Creature - Horror Mercenary

Flying

You'd scarcely believe they could fly until they drop out of the sky onto you.

Silent Assassin

Creature - Human Mercenary Assassin

: Destroy target blocking creature at end of combat.

She feels no need to disturb her victim's slumber.

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.

Hammer Mage

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Destroy all artifacts with converted mana cost X or less.

When he's holding the hammers, everything looks like a nail.

Kyren Glider

Creature - Goblin

Flying

Kyren Glider can't block.

Mercadia's Kyren goblins are the opposite of Dominarian goblins: they're smart and cowardly.

Kyren Legate

Creature - Goblin

Haste

If an opponent controls a Plains and you control a Mountain, you may cast Kyren Legate without paying its mana cost.

Dawnstrider

Creature - Dryad Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Morning's mists can hide many things.

Deepwood Drummer

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

His drums echo Deepwood's heartbeat.

Deepwood Elder

Creature - Dryad Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: X target lands become Forests until end of turn.

They'd guarded the Henge so long that they were as attuned to the powerstones as they were to the trees.

Silverglade Pathfinder

Creature - Dryad Spellshaper

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

Toymaker

Artifact Creature - Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost until end of turn. (It retains its abilities.)

Avenger en-Dal

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Exile target attacking creature. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.

Defiant Falcon

Creature - Rebel Bird

Flying

, : Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with converted mana cost 3 or less and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Silkenfist Fighter

Creature - Kor Soldier

Whenever Silkenfist Fighter becomes blocked, untap it.

Simple wooden staff
Made from life, protecting life,
Stronger than cold steel.

Cloudskate

Creature - Illusion

Flying

Fading 3 (This creature enters the battlefield with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Rootwater Thief

Creature - Merfolk Rogue

: Rootwater Thief gains flying until end of turn.

Whenever Rootwater Thief deals combat damage to a player, you may pay . If you do, search that player's library for a card and exile it, then the player shuffles his or her library.

Divining Witch

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Name a card. Exile the top six cards of your library. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal the named card, then put that card into your hand. Exile all other cards revealed this way.

Plague Witch

Creature - Elf Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"I can ail what cures you."

Spiteful Bully

Creature - Zombie Mercenary

At the beginning of your upkeep, Spiteful Bully deals 3 damage to target creature you control.

Like most creatures bent on total destruction, they rarely bother to double-check their targets.