Creakwood Ghoul

Creature - Plant Zombie

: Exile target card from a graveyard. You gain 1 life.

Some eat the living. Some eat the dead. It eats the past.

Creakwood Liege

Creature - Horror

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

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

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a 1/1 black and green Worm creature token onto the battlefield.

Creeperhulk

Creature - Plant Elemental

Trample

: Until end of turn, target creature you control has base power and toughness 5/5 and gains trample.

"I saw the devastation when the juggernauts crashed the walls of An Karras. Then I got to thinking."
-Janji, sylvan druid

Creepy Doll

Artifact Creature - Construct

Indestructible

Whenever Creepy Doll deals combat damage to a creature, flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy that creature.

A child's porcelain doll went missing one night, as did a pair of kitchen shears and the town magistrate.

Crenellated Wall

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

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

Mercadian soldiers excel at finding things to stand behind.

Crested Craghorn

Creature - Goat Beast

Haste

Provoke (When this attacks, you may have target creature defending player controls untap and block it if able.)

"Craghorns experience a wide range of emotions: rage, fury, anger . . ."
-Foothill guide

Crimson Acolyte

Creature - Human Cleric

Protection from red

: Target creature gains protection from red until end of turn.

The faithful will walk through streams of fire and emerge unscathed.
-Crimson acolyte creed

Crimson Hellkite

Creature - Dragon

Flying

, : Crimson Hellkite deals X damage to target creature. Spend only red mana this way.

"Dragonfire forged me a warrior."
-Rashida Scalebane

Crimson Kobolds

Creature - Kobold

"Kobolds are harmless."
-Bearand the Bold, epitaph

Crimson Mage

Creature - Human Shaman

: Target creature you control gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

"We wield the fires of rage. War is our blood and destruction our birthright."
-Crimson creed

Crimson Manticore

Creature - Manticore

Flying

, : Crimson Manticore deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Noted neither for their good looks nor their charm, Manticores can be fearsome allies. As dinner companions, however, they are best left alone.

Crimson Muckwader

Creature - Lizard

Crimson Muckwader gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp.

: Regenerate Crimson Muckwader. (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.)

Crimson Roc

Creature - Bird

Flying

Whenever Crimson Roc blocks a creature without flying, Crimson Roc gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

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.)

Cromat

Legendary Creature - Illusion

: Destroy target creature blocking or blocked by Cromat.

: Cromat gains flying until end of turn.

: Regenerate Cromat.

: Cromat gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

: Put Cromat on top of its owner's library.

Crookclaw Elder

Creature - Bird Wizard

Flying

Tap two untapped Birds you control: Draw a card.

Tap two untapped Wizards you control: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Crookclaw Transmuter

Creature - Bird Wizard

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

Flying

When Crookclaw Transmuter enters the battlefield, switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Crookshank Kobolds

Creature - Kobold

The Crookshank military boasts a standing army of nearly twenty-four million, give or take twenty-two million.

Crosis's Attendant

Artifact Creature - Golem

, Sacrifice Crosis's Attendant: Add to your mana pool.

"Crosis is the eye of the ur-dragon, piercing illusion and darkness."

Crosis, the Purger

Legendary Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever Crosis, the Purger deals combat damage to a player, you may pay . If you do, choose a color, then that player reveals his or her hand and discards all cards of that color.

Crossbow Infantry

Creature - Human Soldier Archer

: Crossbow Infantry deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

"He can split a marshfly in two from halfway across the range."
-Onean sergeant

Crosstown Courier

Creature - Vedalken

Whenever Crosstown Courier deals combat damage to a player, that player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Information travels quickly through Ravnica's network of messengers and thought agents.

Crossway Vampire

Creature - Vampire

When Crossway Vampire enters the battlefield, target creature can't block this turn.

"Do not flatter Fate. It did not guide you into my clutches tonight. That was all my doing."

Crovax the Cursed

Legendary Creature - Vampire

Crovax the Cursed enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Crovax. If you don't, remove a +1/+1 counter from Crovax.

: Crovax gains flying until end of turn.

Crovax, Ascendant Hero

Legendary Creature - Human

Other white creatures get +1/+1.

Nonwhite creatures get -1/-1.

Pay 2 life: Return Crovax, Ascendant Hero to its owner's hand.

Crovax was destined for an angel's curse, but one warped timeline saw the noble redeemed.

Crowd Favorites

Creature - Human Soldier

: Tap target creature.

: Crowd Favorites gets +0/+5 until end of turn.

"The rabble likes them. Make sure they win, then book them for tomorrow."
-Cabal Patriarch

Crowd of Cinders

Creature - Elemental

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

Crowd of Cinders's power and toughness are each equal to the number of black permanents you control.

They envy the life-giving heat so much that they tear it from those who still possess it.

Crowned Ceratok

Creature - Rhino

Trample

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

The best way to calm a rampaging ceratok is to wait until it dies of natural causes.

Crude Rampart

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

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

Success is one part inspiration, nine parts desperation.

Cruel Deceiver

Creature - Spirit

: Look at the top card of your library.

: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, Cruel Deceiver gains "Whenever Cruel Deceiver deals damage to a creature, destroy that creature" until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Cruel Sadist

Creature - Human Assassin

, , Pay 1 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on Cruel Sadist.

, , Remove X +1/+1 counters from Cruel Sadist: Cruel Sadist deals X damage to target creature.

Face of innocence. Hand of death.
Designed by Edmund McMillen

Crumbling Colossus

Artifact Creature - Golem

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.)

When Crumbling Colossus attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.

Crusader of Odric

Creature - Human Soldier

Crusader of Odric's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.

"We are Odric's sword. We strike without fear, for his mind has divined how our foe will be slain."

Crusading Knight

Creature - Human Knight

Protection from black

Crusading Knight gets +1/+1 for each Swamp your opponents control.

"My only dream is to destroy the nightmares of others."

Crypt Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying, protection from white

When Crypt Angel enters the battlefield, return target blue or red creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Once an angel, now an abomination.

Crypt Champion

Creature - Zombie

Double strike

When Crypt Champion enters the battlefield, each player puts a creature card with converted mana cost 3 or less from his or her graveyard onto the battlefield.

When Crypt Champion enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless was spent to cast it.

Crypt Cobra

Creature - Snake

Whenever Crypt Cobra attacks and isn't blocked, defending player gets a poison counter. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Crypt Creeper

Creature - Zombie

Sacrifice Crypt Creeper: Exile target card from a graveyard.

"I guess what they say is true. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Or at least stranger."
-Captain Eberhart

Crypt Ghast

Creature - Spirit

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

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add to your mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Crypt Rats

Creature - Rat

: Crypt Rats deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana this way.

Beware anything born among the dead.
-Tolarian saying

Crypt Ripper

Creature - Shade

Haste

: Crypt Ripper gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

The tender light of the living quickens the pulse of the dead.

Crypt Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Slivers have ": Regenerate target Sliver."

"Death couldn't contain the slivers. What made us think we could?"
-Riptide Project researcher

Cryptborn Horror

Creature - Horror

Trample

Cryptborn Horror enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total life lost by your opponents this turn.

Although Cryptwitch Merree vanished after a spat with Rakdos, her playthings lingered.

Cryptic Annelid

Creature - Worm Beast

When Cryptic Annelid enters the battlefield, scry 1, then scry 2, then scry 3. (To scry X, look at the top X cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Cryptic Cruiser

Creature - Eldrazi Processor

Devoid (This card has no color.)

, Put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard: Tap target creature.

"The seas are no less imperiled than the dry lands. This fight is mine as much as it is yours."-Kiora, to Gideon Jura

Cryptoplasm

Creature - Shapeshifter

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have Cryptoplasm become a copy of another target creature. If you do, Cryptoplasm gains this ability.

"If left in the enemy's shape too long, it might be lost to them."
-Vy Covalt, Neurok agent

Crystal Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

At the beginning of your end step, Crystal Golem phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before you untap during your next untap step.)

"Once, a wealthy king commissioned an artificial creature to be crafted from the royal treasury, thinking it a clever ploy to have the jewels guard themselves."
-Azeworai, "The Golem's Wish"

Crystal Seer

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

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

: Return Crystal Seer to its owner's hand.

"Surprise is a useless, untidy emotion-the plaything of goblins and fools."

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.

Cudgel Troll

Creature - Troll

: Regenerate Cudgel Troll. (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.)

Culling Drone

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.)

Silence rules Bala Ged, broken only by the skittering of Eldrazi.

Cultbrand Cinder

Creature - Elemental Shaman

When Cultbrand Cinder enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"Your seared flesh will be the first step in your journey to dark enlightenment."

Cultivator Drone

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

: Add {C} to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a colorless spell, activate an ability of a colorless permanent, or pay a cost that contains {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Cunning Bandit

Creature - Human Warrior

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on Cunning Bandit.

At the beginning of the end step, if there are two or more ki counters on Cunning Bandit, you may flip it.

Cunning Breezedancer

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Cunning Breezedancer gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"That which is beautiful in form can also be deadly."
-Ishai, Ojutai dragonspeaker

Cunning Lethemancer

Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card.

"Give me your memories, and you will have release from the suffering they bring you."

Cunning Sparkmage

Creature - Human Shaman

Haste

: Cunning Sparkmage deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

"I see the weaknesses you hide even from yourself."

Cuombajj Witches

Creature - Human Wizard

: Cuombajj Witches deals 1 damage to target creature or player and 1 damage to target creature or player of an opponent's choice.

Cursecatcher

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Sacrifice Cursecatcher: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays .

"Of all the things that can be stolen, opportunity is the most valuable."

Cursed Monstrosity

Creature - Horror

Flying

Whenever Cursed Monstrosity becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it unless you discard a land card.

"Run away It's an . . . um . . . run away"
-Nomad sentry

Cursed Ronin

Creature - Human Samurai

Bushido 1 (When this blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

: Cursed Ronin gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"You are fortunate, my enemy. You have paid the price but once. I never stop paying."

Custodi Soulbinders

Creature - Human Cleric

Custodi Soulbinders enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of other creatures on the battlefield.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Custodi Soulbinders: Put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Custodi Squire

Creature - Spirit Cleric

Flying

Will of the council - When Custodi Squire enters the battlefield, starting with you, each player votes for an artifact, creature, or enchantment card in your graveyard. Return each card with the most votes or tied for most votes to your hand.

Custodian of the Trove

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender

Custodian of the Trove enters the battlefield tapped.

Silumgar delights in repurposing the treasures of other clans to serve his own ravenous greed.

Cutthroat il-Dal

Creature - Human Rogue

Hellbent - Cutthroat il-Dal has shadow as long as you have no cards in hand. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Her blades slashed across the noble's shadow. He scoffed, then fell over dead.

Cyclone Sire

Creature - Elemental

Flying

When Cyclone Sire dies, you may put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control. If you do, that land becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste that's still a land.

The rampaging Roil creates life out of the most volatile elements.

Cyclopean Giant

Creature - Zombie Giant

When Cyclopean Giant dies, target land becomes a Swamp. Exile Cyclopean Giant.

A tomb-eye may remain shut for centuries. It opens when it sees a world as twisted and hollow as the wretch beneath its lid.

Cyclopean Mummy

Creature - Zombie

When Cyclopean Mummy dies, exile it.

The ritual of plucking out an eye to gain future sight is but a curse that enables the living to see their own deaths.

Cyclops Gladiator

Creature - Cyclops Warrior

Whenever Cyclops Gladiator attacks, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature defending player controls. If you do, that creature deals damage equal to its power to Cyclops Gladiator.

Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass

Creature - Cyclops

The Champion armed herself to face the cyclops, heedless of her companions' despair.
"How will you defeat it with only one spear?" asked young Althemone.
The Champion raised her weapon. "It has but one eye."
-The Theriad

Cyclops Tyrant

Creature - Cyclops

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

Cyclops Tyrant can't block creatures with power 2 or less.

A single eye, blinded by rage.

Cylian Elf

Creature - Elf Scout

From her sunsail tent high above the forest floor, an elf harkener can hear the footfalls of a single creature through the cacophony of Naya's jungle sounds.

Cylian Sunsinger

Creature - Elf Shaman

: Cylian Sunsinger and each other creature with the same name as it get +3/+3 until end of turn.

"The sun shines bright upon the strong."

Cystbearer

Creature - Beast

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

Phyrexia strives to simulate natural life, but it can't resist improving on the design.

Cytoplast Manipulator

Creature - Human Wizard Mutant

Graft 2 (This creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)

, : Gain control of target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it for as long as Cytoplast Manipulator remains on the battlefield.

Cytoplast Root-Kin

Creature - Elemental Mutant

Graft 4 (This creature enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)

When Cytoplast Root-Kin enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control that has a +1/+1 counter on it.

: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature you control onto Cytoplast Root-Kin.

Cytospawn Shambler

Creature - Elemental Mutant

Graft 6 (This creature enters the battlefield with six +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)

: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains trample until end of turn.

D'Avenant Archer

Creature - Human Soldier Archer

: D'Avenant Archer deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Avenant's archers are also trained as poets, so that each arrow is guided by a fragment of verse.

D'Avenant Healer

Creature - Human Cleric Archer

: D'Avenant Healer deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

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

"One arrow keenly fired might prevent more battlefield wounds than I could treat."

Dack's Duplicate

Creature - Shapeshifter

You may have Dack's Duplicate enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield except it gains haste and dethrone. (Whenever it attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Daggerback Basilisk

Creature - Basilisk

Deathtouch

"Petrifying gaze, deadly fangs, knifelike dorsal spines, venomous saliva . . . Am I missing anything? . . . Toxic bones? Seriously?"
-Samila, Murasa Expeditionary House

Daggerclaw Imp

Creature - Imp

Flying

Daggerclaw Imp can't block.

The Simic use the claws as scalpels, while the Rakdos use them for tattooing and torture. The Gruul use them to pick their teeth after lunching on the rest of the carcass.

Daggerdrome Imp

Creature - Imp

Flying

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

One of the many reasons why open-air markets close at dusk.

Daghatar the Adamant

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

Vigilance

Daghatar the Adamant enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.

: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto a second target creature.

"Our victories will protect a thousand generations."

Dakkon Blackblade

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

Dakkon Blackblade's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.

"My power is as vast as the plains, my strength is that of mountains. Each wave that crashes upon the shore thunders like blood in my veins." -Memoirs

Dakmor Lancer

Creature - Human Knight

When Dakmor Lancer enters the battlefield, destroy target nonblack creature.

The darkness of his shield reflects the inky blackness of his soul.

Dakra Mystic

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

, : Each player reveals the top card of his or her library. You may put the revealed cards into their owners' graveyards. If you don't, each player draws a card.

Choices are rarely as simple as they seem.

Damia, Sage of Stone

Legendary Creature - Gorgon Wizard

Deathtouch

Skip your draw step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have fewer than seven cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference.

Ask your query and be on your way. Just don't look her in the eye.

Dancing Scimitar

Artifact Creature - Spirit

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

A blade that has never known sheath, a hilt that has never known hand.

Dandân

Creature - Fish

Dandân can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Dandân.

"Catch good today. Start replacing crew tomorrow."
-Faysal al-Mousa, fisher captain, log

Daraja Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

Sacrifice Daraja Griffin: Destroy target black creature.

"And the flamingos said, ‘Get out of our nest-we can't be seen with the likes of you!' So, the griffin ate them."
-Azeworai, "The Ugly Bird"

Darba

Creature - Bird Beast

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

Legend has it the darba gave up its wings in return for an extra stomach.

Darien, King of Kjeldor

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may put that many 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"With his dream of unification fulfilled, Darien became the last king of Kjeldor. Those who followed were known as the kings of New Argive."
-Kjeldor: Ice Civilization

Darigaaz's Attendant

Artifact Creature - Golem

, Sacrifice Darigaaz's Attendant: Add to your mana pool.

"Darigaaz is the breath of the ur-dragon, burning away the burdens of mortality."

Darigaaz, the Igniter

Legendary Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever Darigaaz, the Igniter deals combat damage to a player, you may pay . If you do, choose a color, then that player reveals his or her hand and Darigaaz deals damage to the player equal to the number of cards of that color revealed this way.

Daring Apprentice

Creature - Human Wizard

, Sacrifice Daring Apprentice: Counter target spell.

In front of every great wizard is a doomed apprentice.

Daring Skyjek

Creature - Human Knight

Battalion - Whenever Daring Skyjek and at least two other creatures attack, Daring Skyjek gains flying until end of turn.

"The hard part isn't landing in the saddle. The hard part is leaping before you see it."

Daring Thief

Creature - Human Rogue

Inspired - Whenever Daring Thief becomes untapped, you may exchange control of target nonland permanent you control and target permanent an opponent controls that shares a card type with it.

Honesty is the first casualty of war.

Dark Confidant

Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost.

Greatness, at any cost.

Dark Hatchling

Creature - Horror

Flying

When Dark Hatchling enters the battlefield, destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.