Hired Torturer

Creature - Human Rogue

Defender

, : Target opponent loses 2 life, then reveals a card at random from his or her hand.

"Follow your passion, I always say. Might as well get paid to do what you love."

Hissing Iguanar

Creature - Lizard

Whenever another creature dies, you may have Hissing Iguanar deal 1 damage to target player.

Viashino thrashes keep iguanars as hunting companions, giving them wounded captives as playthings.

Hoard-Smelter Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Destroy target artifact. Hoard-Smelter Dragon gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that artifact's converted mana cost.

He collects the precious metals, and then converts the rest to propellant.

Hoarding Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Hoarding Dragon enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card, exile it, then shuffle your library.

When Hoarding Dragon dies, you may put the exiled card into its owner's hand.

Hollowhenge Beast

Creature - Beast

In a world of monsters, it's the stuff of nightmares.

Hollowhenge Scavenger

Creature - Elemental

Morbid - When Hollowhenge Scavenger enters the battlefield, if a creature died this turn, you gain 5 life.

After werewolves slaughtered the citizenry of Hollowhenge, other creatures moved in.

Hollowhenge Spirit

Creature - Spirit

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

Flying

When Hollowhenge Spirit enters the battlefield, remove target attacking or blocking creature from combat.

Some spirits mourn. Others terrorize.

Holy Justiciar

Creature - Human Cleric

, : Tap target creature. If that creature is a Zombie, exile it.

Her eyes see through the rotting flesh and glimpse a soul in agony, begging for the Blessed Sleep.

Hooded Assassin

Creature - Human Assassin

When Hooded Assassin enters the battlefield, choose one -

• Put a +1/+1 counter on Hooded Assassin.

• Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

Hooded Horror

Creature - Horror

Hooded Horror can't be blocked if defending player controls the most creatures or is tied for the most.

Insidious fear can be the undoing of the greatest of armies.

Hooded Hydra

Creature - Snake Hydra

Hooded Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

When Hooded Hydra dies, put a 1/1 green Snake creature token onto the battlefield for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Morph

As Hooded Hydra is turned face up, put five +1/+1 counters on it.

Hooting Mandrills

Creature - Ape

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Trample

Interlopers in Sultai territory usually end up as crocodile chow or baboon bait.

Horde Ambusher

Creature - Human Berserker

Whenever Horde Ambusher blocks, it deals 1 damage to you.

Morph-Reveal a red card in your hand. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

When Horde Ambusher is turned face up, target creature can't block this turn.

Horizon Chimera

Creature - Chimera

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

Flying, trample

Whenever you draw a card, you gain 1 life.

Horizon Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying, protection from lands

Using thermal updrafts and gravity currents, drakes eat and sleep in the air. Some never touch the ground from birth until death.

Horizon Scholar

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Horizon Scholar enters the battlefield, 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.)

Horned Turtle

Creature - Turtle

It's a mistake to say turtles hide in their shells. They merely need time to contemplate how best to bite your head off.

Hornet Nest

Creature - Insect

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Hornet Nest is dealt damage, put that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch onto the battlefield. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Hornet Queen

Creature - Insect

Flying

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

When Hornet Queen enters the battlefield, put four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch onto the battlefield.

Horror of the Dim

Creature - Horror

: Horror of the Dim gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

"Lesser minds can scarcely imagine such a marriage of necromancy and mind magic."
-Strava, Dimir mage

Hound of Griselbrand

Creature - Elemental Hound

Double strike

Undying (When this creature 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.)

Hover Barrier

Creature - Illusion Wall

Defender, flying

As whispers and rumors increased, so did the demand for fail-safe barriers.

Hoverguard Sweepers

Creature - Drone

Flying

When Hoverguard Sweepers enters the battlefield, you may return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands.

They only appear in emergencies, and emergencies never last long.

Hovermyr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Flying, vigilance

Originally created to harvest blinkmoths, the hovermyr are now the silent observers of a dying world.

Howlgeist

Creature - Spirit Wolf

Creatures with power less than Howlgeist's power can't block it.

Undying (When this creature 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.)

Howling Banshee

Creature - Spirit

Flying

When Howling Banshee enters the battlefield, each player loses 3 life.

Villagers cloaked the town in magical silence, but their ears still bled.

Howling Wolf

Creature - Wolf

When Howling Wolf enters the battlefield, you may search your library for up to three cards named Howling Wolf, reveal them, and put them into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.

Hua Tuo, Honored Physician

Legendary Creature - Human

: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. Activate this ability only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Humble Defector

Creature - Human Rogue

: Draw two cards. Target opponent gains control of Humble Defector. Activate this ability only during your turn.

"You were once Mardu, so your body and will are strong. Now we must train your mind."
-Houn, Jeskai elder

Hundred-Handed One

Creature - Giant

Vigilance

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

As long as Hundred-Handed One is monstrous, it has reach and can block an additional ninety-nine creatures each combat.

Hungering Yeti

Creature - Yeti

As long as you control a green or blue permanent, you may cast Hungering Yeti as though it had flash. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)

No clan is as adept at saying "go away" as the Temur.

Hunted Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

Hunted Ghoul can't block Humans.

Even after Hanweir was saved, Gisa's lost ghouls would shamble through, still following the twisted orders of their imprisoned master.

Hunted Troll

Creature - Troll Warrior

When Hunted Troll enters the battlefield, target opponent puts four 1/1 blue Faerie creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

: Regenerate Hunted Troll.

Huntmaster of the Fells

Creature - Human Werewolf

Whenever this creature enters the battlefield or transforms into Huntmaster of the Fells, put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield and you gain 2 life.

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

Hushwing Gryff

Creature - Hippogriff

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

Flying

Creatures entering the battlefield don't cause abilities to trigger.

An overwhelming sense of calm accompanies the gryffs that wheel above the roofs of Gavony.

Hussar Patrol

Creature - Human Knight

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

Vigilance

"You think no one is watching, you think you're smart enough to escape, and most foolish of all, you think no one cares."
-Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Hydra Broodmaster

Creature - Hydra

: Monstrosity X. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put X +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

When Hydra Broodmaster becomes monstrous, put X X/X green Hydra creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Hydra Omnivore

Creature - Hydra

Whenever Hydra Omnivore deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to each other opponent.

"We should learn from the hydra. It never plays favorites; it devours everyone equally."
-Thrass, elder druid

Hypersonic Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying, haste

You may cast sorcery cards as though they had flash. (You may cast them any time you could cast an instant.)

"Even this primitive specimen of my kind is impressive."
-Niv-Mizzet

Hypnotic Specter

Creature - Specter

Flying

Whenever Hypnotic Specter deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Its victims are known by their eyes: shattered vessels leaking broken dreams.

Hythonia the Cruel

Legendary Creature - Gorgon

Deathtouch

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

When Hythonia the Cruel becomes monstrous, destroy all non-Gorgon creatures.

Icefall Regent

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Icefall Regent enters the battlefield, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control Icefall Regent.

Spells your opponents cast that target Icefall Regent cost more to cast.

Icefeather Aven

Creature - Bird Shaman

Flying

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

When Icefeather Aven is turned face up, you may return another target creature to its owner's hand.

Ichor Rats

Creature - Rat

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

When Ichor Rats enters the battlefield, each player gets a poison counter.

Ichorclaw Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

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

Whenever Ichorclaw Myr becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Igneous Pouncer

Creature - Elemental

Haste

Swampcycling , mountaincycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Ignition Team

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Ignition Team enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of tapped lands on the battlefield.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Ignition Team: Target land becomes a 4/4 red Elemental creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

Ikiral Outrider

Creature - Human Soldier

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 1-3

2/6

Vigilance

LEVEL 4+

3/10

Vigilance

Ill-Tempered Cyclops

Creature - Cyclops

Trample

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

A cyclops has two moods: angry and asleep.

Illusionary Servant

Creature - Illusion

Flying

When Illusionary Servant becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

"Illusion is a handy but fragile medium. Use it only in a pinch, or against the dim-witted."
-Jace Beleren

Illusory Angel

Creature - Angel Illusion

Flying

Cast Illusory Angel only if you've cast another spell this turn.

"Yes, she is made of pure belief-but I hardly see why that makes her unique."
-Reith, master illusionist

Illusory Demon

Creature - Demon Illusion

Flying

When you cast a spell, sacrifice Illusory Demon.

In the Maelstrom, a trick of the light can feast on human flesh.

Immaculate Magistrate

Creature - Elf Shaman

: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each Elf you control.

Elves of the immaculate class weave flora into living creatures-sometimes to endorse an elite warrior, sometimes to create a breathing work of art.

Immerwolf

Creature - Wolf

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

Other Wolf and Werewolf creatures you control get +1/+1.

Non-Human Werewolves you control can't transform.

Immobilizer Eldrazi

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

{C}: Each creature with toughness greater than its power can't block this turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

It denied the Zendikari the chance to stand and die fighting.

Immolating Souleater

Artifact Creature - Hound

: Immolating Souleater gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"We thank the souleaters for melting the sinful that we may be reminded of our own insignificance."
-Drones' hymn of gratitude

Impaler Shrike

Creature - Bird

Flying

Whenever Impaler Shrike deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. If you do, draw three cards.

"Interrogation is an unnecessary step for acquiring information."
-Politus, Gitaxian morphologist

Imperiosaur

Creature - Lizard

Spend only mana produced by basic lands to cast Imperiosaur.

"An ancient, powerful force has overtaken the valley. I sympathize for its former inhabitants, but I rejoice for the land itself."
-Olanti, Muraganda druid

Imperious Perfect

Creature - Elf Warrior

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

, : Put a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token onto the battlefield.

In a culture of beauty, the most beautiful are worshipped as gods.

Impetuous Sunchaser

Creature - Human Soldier

Flying, haste

Impetuous Sunchaser attacks each turn if able.

"I will soar higher than the walls of Akros! Higher than the clouds! Higher than Heliod himself!"

Imposing Sovereign

Creature - Human

Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Some are born to rule. The rest are born to bow before them.

Incubator Drone

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When Incubator Drone enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

The touch of an Eldrazi brings life and death in turn.

Incurable Ogre

Creature - Ogre Mutant

Each mutation causes the incurables to look vastly different from one another. They are left with only one thing in common: their insatiable lust for the slaughter.

Incursion Specialist

Creature - Human Wizard

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, Incursion Specialist gets +2/+0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

"Work for the Dimir again? That depends. Tell me more about this maze."

Indomitable Archangel

Creature - Angel

Flying

Metalcraft - Artifacts you control have shroud as long as you control three or more artifacts.

"Every sword drawn to defend is an angelic blade, guided to justice by an angelic hand."
-Auriok proverb

Indulgent Tormentor

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature or pays 3 life.

The promise of anguish is payment enough for services rendered.

Infantry Veteran

Creature - Human Soldier

: Target attacking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Any fool can pick up a sword and charge into battle. To emerge alive at the end, that is a gift that comes from leadership and experience."

Infectious Horror

Creature - Zombie Horror

Whenever Infectious Horror attacks, each opponent loses 2 life.

Not once in the history of Grixis has anyone died of old age.

Inferno Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Whenever Inferno Elemental blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, Inferno Elemental deals 3 damage to that creature.

"Those who wish to invade our monastery, please take it up with my servant."
-Chandra Nalaar

Inferno Titan

Creature - Giant

: Inferno Titan gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Whenever Inferno Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, it deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures and/or players.

Ingot Chewer

Creature - Elemental

When Ingot Chewer enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact.

Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Elementals are ideas given form. This one is the idea of "smashitude."

Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni

Legendary Creature - Rat Ninja

Ninjutsu (, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)

Whenever Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni deals combat damage to a player, you may put target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

: Regenerate Ink-Eyes.

Inkwell Leviathan

Artifact Creature - Leviathan

Islandwalk, trample, shroud

"Into its maw went the seventh sea, never to be seen again while the world remains."
-Esper fable

Inquisitor Exarch

Creature - Cleric

When Inquisitor Exarch enters the battlefield, choose one - You gain 2 life; or target opponent loses 2 life.

"Skin is the prison of the blessed and the stronghold of the heretic."
-Argent Etchings, plate 64, passage 17

Insatiable Harpy

Creature - Harpy

Flying, lifelink

Gold coin, battered helmet, broken wrist bone-all have the same value in the eyes of a harpy.

Insatiable Souleater

Artifact Creature - Beast

: Insatiable Souleater gains trample until end of turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"We thank the souleaters for culling our sick so that the strong may earn their triumphs."
-Drones' hymn of gratitude

Instigator Gang

Creature - Human Werewolf

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

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

Intet, the Dreamer

Legendary Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever Intet, the Dreamer deals combat damage to a player, you may pay . If you do, exile the top card of your library face down. You may look at that card for as long as it remains exiled. You may play that card without paying its mana cost for as long as Intet remains on the battlefield.

Intrepid Hero

Creature - Human Soldier

: Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.

A fool knows no fear. A hero shows no fear.

Invader Parasite

Creature - Insect

Imprint - When Invader Parasite enters the battlefield, exile target land.

Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, Invader Parasite deals 2 damage to that player.

Invasive Species

Creature - Insect

When Invasive Species enters the battlefield, return another permanent you control to its owner's hand.

It's easier to relocate a village that lies in their path than to turn the bugs aside.

Inverter of Truth

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flying

When Inverter of Truth enters the battlefield, exile all cards from your library face down, then shuffle all cards from your graveyard into your library.

In its shadow, everything changed.

Invisible Stalker

Creature - Human Rogue

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

Invisible Stalker can't be blocked.

"All that concerns me is the vampires' sense of smell and those freezing Nephalian nights."

Iona, Shield of Emeria

Legendary Creature - Angel

Flying

As Iona, Shield of Emeria enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Your opponents can't cast spells of the chosen color.

No more shall the righteous cower before evil.

Ire Shaman

Creature - Orc Shaman

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

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 Ire Shaman is turned face up, exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

Iron Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like rusted metal: gleaming purpose hidden by a thin disguise of debris.

Isperia's Skywatch

Creature - Vedalken Knight

Flying

When Isperia's Skywatch enters the battlefield, detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Isperia, Supreme Judge

Legendary Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, you may draw a card.

"I serve only justice. But through that duty, I serve all of Ravnica."

It That Betrays

Creature - Eldrazi

Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents.)

Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent, put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

Your pleas for death shall go unheard.

Ivory Giant

Creature - Giant

When Ivory Giant enters the battlefield, tap all nonwhite creatures.

Suspend 5- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with five 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.)

Ivorytusk Fortress

Creature - Elephant

Untap each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it during each other player's untap step.

Abzan soldiers march to war confident that their Houses march with them.

Ivy Lane Denizen

Creature - Elf Warrior

Whenever another green creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

"Skyknight gear? Well, I have drake-skin gauntlets, supple and fireproof. Or a ceratok chestplate that'll stop a crossbow bolt."

Ixidron

Creature - Illusion

As Ixidron enters the battlefield, turn all other nontoken creatures face down. (They're 2/2 creatures.)

Ixidron's power and toughness are each equal to the number of face-down creatures on the battlefield.

Izzet Chronarch

Creature - Human Wizard

When Izzet Chronarch enters the battlefield, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

He ensures not only whether but also when and where the lightning strikes twice.

Izzet Staticaster

Creature - Human Wizard

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

Haste

: Izzet Staticaster deals 1 damage to target creature and each other creature with the same name as that creature.

Jace's Archivist

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, : Each player discards his or her hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

"This is a sacred duty. Master Beleren's trust has bought an eternity of my loyalty."

Jace's Mindseeker

Creature - Fish Illusion

Flying

When Jace's Mindseeker enters the battlefield, target opponent puts the top five cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. You may cast an instant or sorcery card from among them without paying its mana cost.

Jace's Phantasm

Creature - Illusion

Flying

Jace's Phantasm gets +4/+4 as long as an opponent has ten or more cards in his or her graveyard.

In the abstract memories of the Iquati, Jace found interesting ideas to improve upon.

Jackal Familiar

Creature - Hound

Jackal Familiar can't attack or block alone.

"Let the gray-hairs keep their ravens and drakes. My familiar will be a reflection of me: bloodthirsty, with a predator's instinct."
-Taivang, barbarian warlord

Jaddi Lifestrider

Creature - Elemental

When Jaddi Lifestrider enters the battlefield, you may tap any number of untapped creatures you control. You gain 2 life for each creature tapped this way.

Nature's arms encircle all who are willing to draw close.