Balduvian Bears

Creature - Bear

"They're a hardy bunch, but I'd still bet that they just slept through the worst of the cold times."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Balduvian Barbarians

Creature - Human Barbarian

"From the snowy slopes of Kaelor,
To the canyons of Bandu,
We drink and fight and feast and die
As we were born to do."
-Balduvian tavern song

Balancing Act

Sorcery

Each player chooses a number of permanents he or she controls equal to the number of permanents controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Each player discards cards the same way.

Balance of Power

Sorcery

If target opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.

"To empty your mind is to fill your grave."
-Lat-Nam teaching

Balance

Sorcery

Each player chooses a number of lands he or she controls equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players discard cards and sacrifice creatures the same way.

Bala Ged Thief

Creature - Human Rogue Ally

Whenever Bala Ged Thief or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, target player reveals a number of cards from his or her hand equal to the number of Allies you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.

Bala Ged Scorpion

Creature - Scorpion

When Bala Ged Scorpion enters the battlefield, you may destroy target creature with power 1 or less.

Fast and lethal, with a penchant for the weak and infirm.

Baku Altar

Artifact

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

, , Remove a ki counter from Baku Altar: Put a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token onto the battlefield.

Baki's Curse

Sorcery

Baki's Curse deals 2 damage to each creature for each Aura attached to that creature.

"Those who fling spells too quickly should have reason to regret it."
-Baki, Wizard Attendant

Badlands

Land - Swamp Mountain

(: Add or to your mana pool.)

Bad River

Land

Bad River enters the battlefield tapped.

, Sacrifice Bad River: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Bad Moon

Enchantment

Black creatures get +1/+1.

Backup Plan

Conspiracy

(Start the game with this conspiracy face up in the command zone.)

Draw an additional hand of seven cards as the game begins. Before taking mulligans, shuffle all but one of your hands into your library.

"In the market for an alternative, friend?"

Backslide

Instant

Turn target creature with morph face down.

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

Some things are better left unknown.

Backlash

Instant

Tap target untapped creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to its controller.

Darigaaz decided his foe would be more useful as a weapon.

Backfire

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to you, Backfire deals that much damage to that creature's controller.

Backdraft

Instant

Choose a player who cast one or more sorcery spells this turn. Backdraft deals damage to that player equal to half the damage dealt by one of those sorcery spells this turn, rounded down.

Back to Nature

Instant

Destroy all enchantments.

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

Back to Basics

Enchantment

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

"A ruler wears a crown while the rest of us wear hats, but which would you rather have when it's raining?"
-Barrin, Principia

Back from the Brink

Enchantment

Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of that card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

On Innistrad, death is just a career change.

Æthertow

Instant

Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Ætherspouts

Instant

For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on the top or bottom of his or her library.

"Don't worry, there's plenty for everyone."
-Vickon, Eleventh Company battlemage

Æthersnipe

Creature - Elemental

When Æthersnipe enters the battlefield, return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

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

Ætherplasm

Creature - Illusion

Whenever Ætherplasm blocks a creature, you may return Ætherplasm to its owner's hand. If you do, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield blocking that creature.

Its fickle form holds hints of a thousand former identities.

Æthermage's Touch

Instant

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. It has "At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand." Then put the rest of the cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Ætherling

Creature - Shapeshifter

: Exile Ætherling. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

: Ætherling can't be blocked this turn.

: Ætherling gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

: Ætherling gets -1/+1 until end of turn.

Ætherize

Instant

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

"You can come back once you've learned some manners-and figured out how to reconstitute your physical forms."

Ætherflame Wall

Creature - Wall

Defender

Ætherflame Wall can block creatures with shadow as though they didn't have shadow.

: Ætherflame Wall gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Æther Web

Enchantment - Aura

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

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1, has reach, and can block creatures with shadow as though they didn't have shadow. (Creatures with reach can block creatures with flying.)

Æther Vial

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Æther Vial.

: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Æther Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.

Æther Tradewinds

Instant

Return target permanent you control and target permanent you don't control to their owners' hands.

"The wind smells of misfortune. Check your knots."
-Anitan, Ondu cleric

Æther Tide

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Æther Tide, discard X creature cards.

Return X target creatures to their owners' hands.

The tide of magic brought them here. Now it would take them home.

Æther Storm

Enchantment

Creature spells can't be cast.

Pay 4 life: Destroy Æther Storm. It can't be regenerated. Any player may activate this ability.

Thunder in the wind / no rain / peace mourns its passing.

Æther Sting

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, Æther Sting deals 1 damage to that player.

When Gatha fell, he was called to account for each abomination he created.

Æther Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Draw a card.

Æther Snap

Sorcery

Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.

"May you wake to find you were only ever a dream."
-Mephidross curse

Æther Shockwave

Instant

Choose one - Tap all Spirits; or tap all non-Spirit creatures.

"The strain upon the veil between worlds began to show near the end of the Kami War. Strange happenings that neither side could control lashed out across Kamigawa."
-Observations of the Kami War

Æther Searcher

Artifact Creature - Construct

Reveal Æther Searcher as you draft it. Reveal the next card you draft and note its name.

When Æther Searcher enters the battlefield, you may search your hand and/or library for a card with a name noted as you drafted cards named Æther Searcher. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you searched your library this way, shuffle it.

Æther Rift

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card at random. If you discard a creature card this way, return it from your graveyard to the battlefield unless any player pays 5 life.

Æther Mutation

Sorcery

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that creature's converted mana cost.

Æther Membrane

Creature - Wall

Defender; reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

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

Æther Gale

Sorcery

Return six target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

The militia formed up in the central plaza awaiting the onslaught, but the giants never quite made it.

Æther Flash

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, Æther Flash deals 2 damage to it.

"You can't get there from here. Well, you can-it just won't be fun."
-Ertai, wizard adept

Æther Figment

Creature - Illusion

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

Æther Figment is unblockable.

If Æther Figment was kicked, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Æther Charge

Enchantment

Whenever a Beast enters the battlefield under your control, you may have it deal 4 damage to target opponent.

"Is it just me, or does that meteor have teeth?"

Æther Burst

Instant

Return up to X target creatures to their owners' hands, where X is one plus the number of cards named Æther Burst in all graveyards as you cast Æther Burst.

As fleeting as a cephalid's promise.

Æther Barrier

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts a creature spell, that player sacrifices a permanent unless he or she pays .

"Creatures fade in and out of existence. It's an unfortunate side effect. The losses are tolerable."
-Belbe

Æther Adept

Creature - Human Wizard

When Æther Adept enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand.

"The universe is my instrument, and the song I play upon it is one you are forbidden to hear."

Ærathi Berserker

Creature - Human Berserker

Rampage 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +3/+3 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

Ærathi children who show promise are left to survive for a year in the wilderness. Those who return are shown the way of the Berserker

Azusa, Lost but Seeking

Legendary Creature - Human Monk

You may play two additional lands on each of your turns.

"I do not miss Jukai Forest. It is not my home. My home is Kamigawa, its people my family. Wherever I set my pack and rest my head, I am home."

Azure Mage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Draw a card.

"We draw our power from the infinite ocean of the mind, where all manner of things can be conceived."
-Azure creed

Azure Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

More so than "storm" or "pirate," "drake" is the word a sailor least wants to hear.

Azorius Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

The maze-like design embodies the core of Azorius law-strict structure designed to test wills and stall change.

Azorius Ploy

Instant

Prevent all combat damage target creature would deal this turn.

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Azorius military tactics, like their legal tactics, capitalize on delay and nullification.

Azorius Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Azorius Keyrune becomes a 2/2 white and blue Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

"The higher the mind soars, the greater its understanding of the law."
-Isperia

Azorius Justiciar

Creature - Human Wizard

When Azorius Justiciar enters the battlefield, detain up to two target creatures your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those creatures can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

"Your potential to commit a crime warrants further investigation."

Azorius Herald

Creature - Spirit

Azorius Herald can't be blocked.

When Azorius Herald enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life.

When Azorius Herald enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless was spent to cast it.

"As peace should be-gentle yet unstoppable."
-Augustin IV

Azorius Guildmage

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

: Tap target creature.

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

Azorius Guildgate

Land - Gate

Azorius Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Enter the Senate, the seat of justice and the foundation of Ravnican society.

Azorius First-Wing

Creature - Griffin

Flying, protection from enchantments

With a steady diet of lawbreakers, Azorius griffins inevitably develop a resistance to the contraband magic that taints much of their prey.

Azorius Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Azorius Cluestone: Draw a card.

Its three sides represent the Sova, judges and arbitrators; the Jelenn, scribes and elocutors; and the Lyev, lawmages and enforcers.

Azorius Charm

Instant

Choose one - Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn; or draw a card; or put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

"The rules of logic and order have already made the choice for you."
-Isperia

Azorius Chancery

Land

Azorius Chancery enters the battlefield tapped.

When Azorius Chancery enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add to your mana pool.

Azorius Æthermage

Creature - Human Wizard

Whenever a permanent is returned to your hand, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

In her single metasphere are bound the records of every Ætheric transaction since the time of Azor.

Azorius Arrester

Creature - Human Soldier

When Azorius Arrester 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.)

"You have the right to remain silent. Mostly because I tire of your excuses."

Azor's Elocutors

Creature - Human Advisor

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a filibuster counter on Azor's Elocutors. Then if Azor's Elocutors has five or more filibuster counters on it, you win the game.

Whenever a source deals damage to you, remove a filibuster counter from Azor's Elocutors.

Azimaet Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

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

"A vizier's dish, best served drenched in honey and almonds."
-Suq'Ata royal recipe

Azami, Lady of Scrolls

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Draw a card.

"Choices belong to those with the luxuries of time and distance. We have neither. I recommend we proceed with the plan to destroy all shrines of the kami."
-Lady Azami, letter to Sensei Hisoka

Ayumi, the Last Visitor

Legendary Creature - Spirit

Legendary landwalk

Before Shinka's walls were built, before the torii at Okina stood, she was there, tall and proud against the sky, and she will be there long after they have fallen into dust.

Aysen Highway

Enchantment

White creatures have plainswalk.

"Tread the roads of righteousness, Murat, lest you lose your way and be consumed."
-Baris, Serra Inquisitor

Aysen Crusader

Creature - Human Knight

Aysen Crusader's power and toughness are each equal to 2 plus the number of Soldiers and Warriors you control.

"A renegade rallying the rabble does not a true Crusader make."
-Irini Sengir

Aysen Bureaucrats

Creature - Human Advisor

: Tap target creature with power 2 or less.

"When one's word is law, one's whim is equally binding."
-Calmont, Aysen bureaucrat

Aysen Abbey

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Add to your mana pool.

, : Add or to your mana pool.

Serra's gift to her people: a symbol of faith and hope.

Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim

Legendary Creature - Kor Cleric

Deathtouch

, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

, Sacrifice another creature: Exile target nonland permanent. Activate this ability only if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total.

Ayesha Tanaka

Legendary Creature - Human Artificer

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.)

: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source unless that ability's controller pays . (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Axelrod Gunnarson

Legendary Creature - Giant

Trample

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Axelrod Gunnarson this turn dies, you gain 1 life and Axelrod deals 1 damage to target player.

Axegrinder Giant

Creature - Giant Warrior

The angriest of giants are often the most skillful weaponsmiths. Their grudges fuel endless sessions at the forge, all the while growling ferociously to themselves.

Axebane Stag

Creature - Elk

"When the spires have burned and the cobblestones are dust, he will take his rightful place as king of the wilds."
-Kirce, Axebane guardian

Axebane Guardian

Creature - Human Druid

Defender

: Add X mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool, where X is the number of creatures with defender you control.

Only a worthy few are permitted within the sentient forest known as Axebane.

Awesome Presence

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked unless defending player pays for each creature he or she controls that's blocking it.

"At the core of all power is raw passion." -Gerda Äagesdotter,
Archmage of the Unseen

Awe Strike

Instant

The next time target creature would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

Stunned by the mere presence of the leonin kha, the nim raider quickly fell to its knees.

Awe for the Guilds

Sorcery

Monocolored creatures can't block this turn.

When the guilds cooperate, the guildless celebrate their peaceful society. When the guilds clash, the guildless just try to keep out of the way.

Away (Far/Away)

Instant

Target player sacrifices a creature.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Awakening Zone

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

The ground erupted in time with the hedron's thrum, a dirge of the last days.

Awakening

Enchantment

At the beginning of each upkeep, untap all creatures and lands.

"There are times when destiny calls forth a people and demands an action. Now is the time. We are the people. This is our action. Charge!"
-Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Awakener Druid

Creature - Human Druid

When Awakener Druid enters the battlefield, target Forest becomes a 4/5 green Treefolk creature for as long as Awakener Druid remains on the battlefield. It's still a land.

The druids of Mazar treat each seedcone with respect for the warrior it will become.

Awaken the Bear

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn.

When Temur warriors enter the battle trance known as "awakening the bear," they lose all sense of enemy or friend, seeing only threats to the wilderness.

Awaken the Ancient

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant Mountain

Enchanted Mountain is a 7/7 red Giant creature with haste. It's still a land.

Some days you stand to greet the horizon. Other days the horizon stands to greet you.

Avoid Fate

Instant

Counter target instant or Aura spell that targets a permanent you control.

Avizoa

Creature - Jellyfish

Flying

: Avizoa gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You skip your next untap step. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"Maybe we can trap them with bait," thought Tahngarth, eyeing Squee.

Avian Changeling

Creature - Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type at all times.)

Flying

Today it flies with the flock. Tomorrow it may wake to find them gone, its body in an unfamiliar form.

Avenging Druid

Creature - Human Druid

Whenever Avenging Druid deals damage to an opponent, you may reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. If you do, put that card onto the battlefield and put all other cards revealed this way into your graveyard.

Avenging Arrow

Instant

Destroy target creature that dealt damage this turn.

"Forgive the theft. Punish the deception."
-Alcarus, Selesnya archer

Avenging Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Avenging Angel dies, you may put it on top of its owner's library.

Avenger of Zendikar

Creature - Elemental

When Avenger of Zendikar enters the battlefield, put a 0/1 green Plant creature token onto the battlefield for each land you control.

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.

Avenger en-Dal

Creature - Human Spellshaper

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

Aven Windreader

Creature - Bird Soldier Wizard

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

: Target player reveals the top card of his or her library.

"The tiniest ripple tells a story ten fathoms deep."

Aven Warhawk

Creature - Bird Soldier

Amplify 1 (As this creature enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each Bird and/or Soldier card you reveal in your hand.)

Flying

Aven Warcraft

Instant

Creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

Threshold - If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, choose a color. Creatures you control also gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

Aven Trooper

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

, Discard a card: Aven Trooper gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

The very skies seethe with the aven's hatred for the Cabal.