Stinging Barrier

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, : Stinging Barrier deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Stingerfling Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

When Stingerfling Spider enters the battlefield, you may destroy target creature with flying.

The juiciest prey is that which grows lazy, thinking itself beyond the reach of danger.

Stillmoon Cavalier

Creature - Zombie Knight

Protection from white and from black

: Stillmoon Cavalier gains flying until end of turn.

: Stillmoon Cavalier gains first strike until end of turn.

: Stillmoon Cavalier gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Stigma Lasher

Creature - Elemental Shaman

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Whenever Stigma Lasher deals damage to a player, that player can't gain life for the rest of the game.

The Extinguisher's curse lasted long after her departure.

Steward of Valeron

Creature - Human Druid Knight

Vigilance

: Add to your mana pool.

Knight-stewards guard the Sun-Dappled Court, a grove of immense, sculptured olive trees that represent Valeron's twelve noble families.

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

Stern Mentor

Creature - Human Wizard

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)

As long as Stern Mentor is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has ": Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard."

Stern Judge

Creature - Human Cleric

: Each player loses 1 life for each Swamp he or she controls.

"How to punish the guilty is up to the Ancestor. Deciding who merits such punishment is up to me."

Steppe Lynx

Creature - Cat

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Steppe Lynx gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Nothing quickens the predator's blood like the unfamiliar scents of new hunting grounds and the mewling cries of new prey.

Steppe Glider

Creature - Elemental

Flying, vigilance

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

It glides over the landscape. It also happens to be one.

Stenchskipper

Creature - Elemental

Flying

At the beginning of the end step, if you control no Goblins, sacrifice Stenchskipper.

"Many believe it to be the manifestation of all that is vile about the boggarts. I believe it should be avoided-from upwind, if possible."
-Cenn Deagan

Steeple Roc

Creature - Bird

Flying, first strike

"Sometimes it forgets to loosen its grip before taking flight. I lost my roof that way."
-Ecaban, Boros scout

Steelshaper Apprentice

Creature - Human Soldier

, , Return Steelshaper Apprentice to its owner's hand: Search your library for an Equipment card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Theirs is a craft brought about by necessity, now raised to the level of art.

Steelform Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control get +0/+1.

"Though the slivers may sometimes resemble us, they are not human. Anyone who fights them must remember this."-Sarlena, paladin of the Northern Verge

Steelclad Serpent

Artifact Creature - Serpent

Steelclad Serpent can't attack unless you control another artifact.

"From the highest towers to the deepest sea, all life must be touched by etherium."
-Lodus of the Ethersworn

Steel Wall

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Steel Overseer

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.

"The world is already run by all manner of machines. One day, they'll remind us of that fact."
-Sargis Haz, artificer

Steel Leaf Paladin

Creature - Elf Knight

First strike

When Steel Leaf Paladin enters the battlefield, return a green or white creature you control to its owner's hand.

Steel Hellkite

Artifact Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Steel Hellkite gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost X whose controller was dealt combat damage by Steel Hellkite this turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Steel Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

You can't cast creature spells.

"Once you create perfection, what else is there to make?"
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi machinist

Steamflogger Boss

Creature - Goblin Rigger

Other Rigger creatures you control get +1/+0 and have haste.

If a Rigger you control would assemble a Contraption, it assembles two Contraptions instead.

"Whip the Xs ! Pinch the Os!
What we're building, no one knows!"

Steamcore Weird

Creature - Weird

When Steamcore Weird enters the battlefield, if was spent to cast Steamcore Weird, it deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Like many Izzet creations, weirds are based on wild contradictions yet somehow manage to work.

Steam Spitter

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

: Steam Spitter gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Its belly produces a boiling-hot fluid it can spit as a weapon or spin slowly enough to freeze into a defensive web.

Stealer of Secrets

Creature - Human Rogue

Whenever Stealer of Secrets deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

The Dimir would hire her, if only they knew where she lived. The Azorius would condemn her, if only they knew her name.

Steadfast Guard

Creature - Human Rebel

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

"Best leave your tongue in its yap-hole, Mercadian scum, for your silvered words and golden bribes do not sparkle so brightly outside your city."

Staunch-Hearted Warrior

Creature - Human Warrior

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Staunch-Hearted Warrior, put two +1/+1 counters on Staunch-Hearted Warrior.

As soon as she faces a monster, she begins composing its epitaph.

Staunch Defenders

Creature - Human Soldier

When Staunch Defenders enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life.

"Hold your position! Leave doubt for the dying!"
-Tahngarth of the Weatherlight

Starved Rusalka

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

"No more wretched fate is there than to waste away. If you are slain, your ghost may at least avenge itself upon your killer. But what release is there for one slain by Time?"
-Ilromov, traveling storyteller

Starlight Invoker

Creature - Human Cleric Mutant

: You gain 5 life.

"The constellations form a tapestry of light that traces my people's broken history. Day and night, I feel their glittering presence calling me to weave the pattern whole."

Starke of Rath

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

: Destroy target artifact or creature. That permanent's controller gains control of Starke of Rath. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

"I know to whom I owe the most loyalty, and I see him in the mirror every day."
-Starke

Stangg

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

When Stangg enters the battlefield, put a legendary 3/4 red and green Human Warrior creature token named Stangg Twin onto the battlefield. When Stangg leaves the battlefield, exile that token. When that token leaves the battlefield, sacrifice Stangg.

Standing Troops

Creature - Human Soldier

Vigilance

The less you have, the harder you fight for it.

Standard Bearer

Creature - Human Flagbearer

While choosing targets as part of casting a spell or activating an ability, your opponents must choose at least one Flagbearer on the battlefield if able.

The standard was a rallying point for the army and a target for the enemy.

Stampeding Wildebeests

Creature - Antelope Beast

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.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, return a green creature you control to its owner's hand.

The most violent and destructive storms in Femeref occur on cloudless days.

Stampeding Serow

Creature - Antelope Beast

Trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, return a green creature you control to its owner's hand.

Stampeding Rhino

Creature - Rhino

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.)

The quickest way to get through the jungle is to agitate a rhino and run in its wake.

Stampeding Elk Herd

Creature - Elk

Formidable - Whenever Stampeding Elk Herd attacks, if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater, creatures you control gain trample until end of turn.

The Atarka use them not just for food, but also to clear away snow, trees, and enemy forces.

Stampede Driver

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn.

"The thunder of hooves is music to my ears."

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

Creature - Human Soldier

Defender

Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.

"Hold fast the line! Either we stop them here or we wake up in their guts!"
-Tala Vertan, Makindi shieldmate

Stalking Vengeance

Creature - Avatar

Haste

Whenever another creature you control dies, it deals damage equal to its power to target player.

Something roams the killing places, sniffing the guilt of the slayers, stalking them on iron paws.

Stalking Tiger

Creature - Cat

Stalking Tiger can't be blocked by more than one creature.

In the Jamuraan jungles, there is often no separating beauty from danger.

Stalking Drone

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

{C}: Stalking Drone gets +1/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

As the Eldrazi adapted to the jungles of Zendikar, some took on the tactics of more familiar predators.

Stalking Bloodsucker

Creature - Vampire

Flying

, Discard a card: Stalking Bloodsucker gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

The pits feed both its thirst for combat and its thirst for blood.

Stalking Assassin

Creature - Human Assassin

, : Tap target creature.

, : Destroy target tapped creature.

Stalker Hag

Creature - Hag

Swampwalk, forestwalk

Her hunt is silent until a bone snaps or flesh tears. Her victims never know to scream.

Stag Beetle

Creature - Insect

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

Its voice crackles with the hum of a thousand wings beating at once.

Squirrel Wrangler

Creature - Human Druid

, Sacrifice a land: Put two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens onto the battlefield.

, Sacrifice a land: Squirrel creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Gnawed to death. Bad way to go."

Squirrel Mob

Creature - Squirrel

Squirrel Mob gets +1/+1 for each other Squirrel on the battlefield.

An army of squirrels is still an army.

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.

Squire

Creature - Human Soldier

"Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of even lengthe. And wonderly deliver, and greete of strengthe." -Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Squelching Leeches

Creature - Leech

Squelching Leeches's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.

Leeches are sacred to followers of Pharika for drawing poison from a wound, but feared by everyone else for drawing blood from the flesh.

Squee, Goblin Nabob

Legendary Creature - Goblin

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return Squee, Goblin Nabob from your graveyard to your hand.

"Some goblins are expendable. Some are impossible to get rid of. But he's both-at the same time!"
-Starke

Squealing Devil

Creature - Devil

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

When Squealing Devil enters the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

When Squealing Devil enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless was spent to cast it.

Squeaking Pie Sneak

Creature - Goblin Rogue

As an additional cost to cast Squeaking Pie Sneak, reveal a Goblin card from your hand or pay .

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

"Why do our pies squeak? It's all the faeries, mice, and prickly-hogs we stuff inside."
-Borb of the Squeaking Pie warren

Squeaking Pie Grubfellows

Creature - Goblin Shaman

Kinship - At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it shares a creature type with Squeaking Pie Grubfellows, you may reveal it. If you do, each opponent discards a card.

Squallmonger

Creature - Monger

: Squallmonger deals 1 damage to each creature with flying and each player. Any player may activate this ability.

"Squall, gale, hurricane-it's all a matter of size . . . and price."

Squadron Hawk

Creature - Bird

Flying

When Squadron Hawk enters the battlefield, you may search your library for up to three cards named Squadron Hawk, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Spurred Wolverine

Creature - Wolverine Beast

Tap two untapped Beasts you control: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

After a few painful experiences, goblins learned not to pick their noses around the beasts.

Spurnmage Advocate

Creature - Human Nomad

: Return two target cards from an opponent's graveyard to his or her hand. Destroy target attacking creature.

"Our unity humbles our foes."

Spur Grappler

Creature - Beast

Spur Grappler gets +2/+1 as long as you control no untapped lands.

Grapplers hunt in packs, driving their victims over steep mountain cliffs.

Sprouting Thrinax

Creature - Lizard

When Sprouting Thrinax dies, put three 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

The vast network of predation on Jund has actually caused some strange creatures to adapt to being eaten.

Sprouting Phytohydra

Creature - Plant Hydra

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Sprouting Phytohydra is dealt damage, you may put a token that's a copy of Sprouting Phytohydra onto the battlefield.

A hydra tender's problem isn't having enough defenses but enough pots.

Sprite Noble

Creature - Faerie

Flying

Other creatures you control with flying get +0/+1.

: Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+0 until end of turn.

"By thorn and by stone, we will fight to see the day when beauty returns to this world."

Sprinting Warbrute

Creature - Ogre Berserker

Sprinting Warbrute attacks each turn if able.

Dash (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Springjack Shepherd

Creature - Kithkin Wizard

Chroma - When Springjack Shepherd enters the battlefield, put a 0/1 white Goat creature token onto the battlefield for each white mana symbol in the mana costs of permanents you control.

"Better for a doun to lose its cenn than its springjacks."

Springjack Knight

Creature - Kithkin Knight

Whenever Springjack Knight attacks, clash with an opponent. If you win, target creature gains double strike until end of turn. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Springing Tiger

Creature - Cat

Threshold - Springing Tiger gets +2/+2 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

The ground trembled in a violent purr.

Sporoloth Ancient

Creature - Fungus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Sporoloth Ancient.

Creatures you control have "Remove two spore counters from this creature: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield."

Sporesower Thallid

Creature - Fungus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on each Fungus you control.

Remove three spore counters from Sporesower Thallid: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

Sporemound

Creature - Fungus

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

"If you threaten its territory, it produces spores. Actually, no matter what you do, it produces spores."-Hadi Kasten, Calla Dale naturalist

Sporecap Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"They don't move much, but then again, if you get caught in its web, it has all the time in the world to get to you."
-Saidah, Joraga hunter

Sporeback Troll

Creature - Troll 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.)

: Regenerate target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Spore Frog

Creature - Frog

Sacrifice Spore Frog: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

The end of one life is merely the beginning of thousands more.

Spore Flower

Creature - Fungus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Spore Flower.

Remove three spore counters from Spore Flower: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Split-Tail Miko

Creature - Fox Cleric

, : Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

"I wish there were no use for those with my talents. I wish that I could walk Kamigawa forgotten and unneeded, with no war wounds to heal and no broken bones to mend."

Splinterfright

Creature - Elemental

Trample

Splinterfright's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.

Splatter Thug

Creature - Human Warrior

First strike

Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

The mask isn't meant to hide his identity. It's meant to keep the viscera out of his eyes.

Spitting Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Sacrifice a land: Spitting Spider deals 1 damage to each creature with flying.

Spitting Slug

Creature - Slug

Whenever Spitting Slug blocks or becomes blocked, you may pay . If you do, Spitting Slug gains first strike until end of turn. Otherwise, each creature blocking or blocked by Spitting Slug gains first strike until end of turn.

Spitting Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have first strike.

"Our lances' reach had been our saving grace in our fight against the hive. Now even that advantage is taken from us."
-Adom Capashen, Benalish knight

Spitting Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Spitting Hydra enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spitting Hydra: Spitting Hydra deals 1 damage to target creature.

Spitting Gourna

Creature - Beast

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

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

Spitting Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

: Spitting Drake gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

It prefers its meals cooked.

Spitfire Handler

Creature - Goblin

Spitfire Handler can't block creatures with power greater than Spitfire Handler's power.

: Spitfire Handler gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Wait 'til Toggo sees this"

Spitemare

Creature - Elemental

Whenever Spitemare is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target creature or player.

"I knew a creature carved from a dream of wild freedom. Any attempt to leash or exploit it failed, and at terrible cost."
-Ashling

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.

Spiteflame Witch

Creature - Elemental Shaman

: Each player loses 1 life.

Cinder beliefs revolve around the Path of Sorrow, a spiritual descent into oblivion. They don't mind taking others on their journey down.

Spitebellows

Creature - Elemental

When Spitebellows leaves the battlefield, it deals 6 damage to target creature.

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

Disaster stalks with gaping jaws across unready lands.

Spiritmonger

Creature - Beast

Whenever Spiritmonger deals damage to a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Spiritmonger.

: Regenerate Spiritmonger.

: Spiritmonger becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

Spirit Weaver

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target green or blue creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"Let my hope be your shield."

Spirit of the Night

Legendary Creature - Demon Spirit

Flying, trample, haste, protection from black

Spirit of the Night has first strike as long as it's attacking.

Spirit of the Hearth

Creature - Cat Spirit

Flying

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Thieves know that a snarl in the night means, "Rob another house."

Spirit en-Kor

Creature - Kor Spirit

Flying

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

Death free throat from thirst, mouth from speech, feet from earth.
-Kor requiem

Spirit en-Dal

Creature - Spirit

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

Forecast - , Reveal Spirit en-Dal from your hand: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Spire Tracer

Creature - Elf Scout

Spire Tracer can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.

Cartographers on Ravnica chart not just the horizontal, but also the vertical.

Spire Serpent

Creature - Serpent

Defender

Metalcraft - As long as you control three or more artifacts, Spire Serpent gets +2/+2 and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

A mirror to draw its eye, a rod to rouse its rage, and a sword to break its bonds.

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.

Spire Monitor

Creature - Drake

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

Flying

Each monitor is given an eye for each spire it is to guard.

Spire Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Affinity for Islands (This spell costs less to cast for each Island you control.)

Flying

The longer it soars above the shimmering swirls of the Quicksilver Sea, the more it adopts their unpredictability.

Spiraling Duelist

Creature - Human Berserker

Metalcraft - Spiraling Duelist has double strike as long as you control three or more artifacts.

"I never move the same way twice. Those rotters can't grasp chaos."