Wargate

Sorcery

Search your library for a permanent card with converted mana cost X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Bant mages still call to the heavens for aid, but angels are not the only ones who answer.

Warleader's Helix

Instant

Warleader's Helix deals 4 damage to target creature or player and you gain 4 life.

"There is no time to remedy our enemies' ignorance. Blast it out of them."
-Aurelia

Warlord's Axe

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+1.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

To split wood with it would be sacrilege. This tool has but one purpose, and that is war.

Warmind Infantry

Creature - Elemental Soldier

Battalion - Whenever Warmind Infantry and at least two other creatures attack, Warmind Infantry gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Before Aurelia denounced Niv-Mizzet, the two guilds had collaborated on the Warmind Initiative in pursuit of the ultimate soldier.

Warmonger

Creature - Minotaur Monger

: Warmonger deals 1 damage to each creature without flying and each player. Any player may activate this ability.

Funny how money and war travel so well together.

Warmonger Hellkite

Creature - Dragon

Flying

All creatures attack each combat if able.

: Attacking creatures get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Its wings beat to the howls of war and fan the fires of rage.

Warmonger's Chariot

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

As long as equipped creature has defender, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

The best defense is a good offense.

Warmth

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a red spell, you gain 2 life.

"Flame grows gentle with but a little distance."
-Orim, Samite healer

Warning

Instant

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

"The folk of the Karplusan Mountains are impossible to ambush."
-Lovisa Coldeyes,
Balduvian Chieftain

Warp Artifact

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted artifact's controller, Warp Artifact deals 1 damage to that player.

Warp World

Sorcery

Each player shuffles all permanents he or she owns into his or her library, then reveals that many cards from the top of his or her library. Each player puts all artifact, creature, and land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then does the same for enchantment cards, then puts all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield on the bottom of his or her library.

Warpath

Instant

Warpath deals 3 damage to each blocking creature and each blocked creature.

Cho-Manno had never seen Mercadia City's forces fight so well. The magistrate must have hired a new hero.

Warpath Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

Ghouls are often found skulking on the fringes of great battles, showing themselves only to snatch the wounded and weak, dragging their victims screaming into the shadows.

Warped Devotion

Enchantment

Whenever a permanent is returned to a player's hand, that player discards a card.

"The spirit of the devout is easily crushed by the loss of hope."
-Fallen angel

Warped Physique

Instant

Target creature gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

The Gruul seek unbounded strength. The Dimir deliver cruel irony.

Warped Researcher

Creature - Human Wizard Mutant

Whenever a player cycles a card, Warped Researcher gains flying and shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

New insights yield new senses.

Warping Wail

Instant

({C} represents colorless mana.)

Choose one -

• Exile target creature with power or toughness 1 or less.

• Counter target sorcery spell.

• Put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C} to your mana pool."

Warping Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, Warping Wurm phases out unless you pay .

When Warping Wurm phases in, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Even wurms start out small.

Warren Instigator

Creature - Goblin Berserker

Double strike

Whenever Warren Instigator deals damage to an opponent, you may put a Goblin creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Danger! Danger! Come out of the safety of your holes!"

Warren Pilferers

Creature - Goblin Rogue

When Warren Pilferers enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If that card is a Goblin card, Warren Pilferers gains haste until end of turn.

"What do they need all this stuff for? They're dead. We're alive. Simple enough."

Warren Weirding

Tribal Sorcery - Goblin

Target player sacrifices a creature. If a Goblin is sacrificed this way, that player puts two 1/1 black Goblin Rogue creature tokens onto the battlefield, and those tokens gain haste until end of turn.

"And that's when it was discovered that boggarts have just half a brain."
-The Book of Other Folk

Warren-Scourge Elf

Creature - Elf Warrior

Protection from Goblins

"If one can associate any virtue with the eyeblights, it is the talent some achieve in disposing of them. I have seen the slaying of boggarts raised nearly to an art form."
-Fiala, Gilt-Leaf winnower

Warrior Angel

Creature - Angel Warrior

Flying

Whenever Warrior Angel deals damage, you gain that much life.

She represents not hope, but hope's desperate fury.

Warrior en-Kor

Creature - Kor Warrior Knight

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

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

Warrior's Honor

Instant

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"The day will come when the righteous warrior faces a battle she cannot win. She will greet that day as she has any other."
-Asmira, holy avenger

Warriors' Lesson

Instant

Until end of turn, up to two target creatures you control each gain "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

"Let each challenge make you a better warrior."
-Anthousa of Setessa

Warstorm Surge

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, it deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

"Listen to the roar! Feel the thunder! The Immersturm shouts its approval with every bolt of lightning!"

Warthog

Creature - Boar

Swampwalk

"Too much work-it takes a long time to break them in, and more than a few recruits."
-Grebog, goblin swine-rider

Wash Out

Sorcery

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

"Rest now. You've neither won nor lost, but this battle is over for you just the same."
-Teferi

Wasp Lancer

Creature - Faerie Soldier

Flying

"I doubt that faeries understand how short their lives are, compared to the rest of us. If they did, would they so readily charge into battle, heedless of the danger before them?"
-Awylla, elvish safewright

Waste Away

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Waste Away, discard a card.

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Chainer's insanity touched nearly every living thing-including viruses.

Waste Not

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add to your mana pool.

Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Designed by the Magic community

Wasteland

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, Sacrifice Wasteland: Destroy target nonbasic land.

"The land promises nothing and keeps its promise."
-Oracle en-Vec

Wasteland Strangler

Creature - Eldrazi Processor

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When Wasteland Strangler enters the battlefield, you may put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard. If you do, target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

Wasteland Viper

Creature - Snake

Deathtouch

Bloodrush - , Discard Wasteland Viper: Target attacking creature gets +1/+2 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

"The Gruul embrace all things poisonous and living in the cracks of society."
-Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov

Wastes

Basic Land

: Add {C} to your mana pool.

Watchdog

Artifact Creature - Hound

Watchdog blocks each turn if able.

As long as Watchdog is untapped, all creatures attacking you get -1/-0.

Its growl is a long, rumbling grind of gears and clockwork, its bark a blast of hissing steam.

Watcher of the Roost

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

Morph-Reveal a white 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 Watcher of the Roost is turned face up, you gain 2 life.

Watcher Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures get +0/+2.

"I have spied them, wandering and watching-but for what? I fear they watch for us."
-Yonat of Amrou

Watchwing Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Watchwing Scarecrow has vigilance as long as you control a white creature.

Watchwing Scarecrow has flying as long as you control a blue creature.

The wings are held in place by wicker rods. The rods are held in place by pure faith.

Watchwolf

Creature - Wolf

Only in Ravnica do the wolves watch the flock.

Water Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Unpredictable as the sea itself, Water Elementals shift without warning from tranquility to tempest. Capricious and fickle, they flow restlessly from one shape to another, expressing their moods with their physical forms.

Water Servant

Creature - Elemental

: Water Servant gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

: Water Servant gets -1/+1 until end of turn.

"This creature has innate perceptiveness. It knows when to rise and when to vanish into the tides."
-Jestus Dreya, Of Elements and Eternity

Water Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Water Wurm gets +0/+1 as long as an opponent controls an Island.

Watercourser

Creature - Elemental

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

"Beware an eddy where there should be none or a stretch that flows too fast or too slow."
-Old Fishbones, Martyne river guide

Waterfront Bouncer

Creature - Merfolk Spellshaper

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

Closing time comes earlier to some than to others.

Waterspout Djinn

Creature - Djinn

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Waterspout Djinn unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand.

"Fly us higher, out of its storm."
-Sisay, Captain of the Weatherlight

Waterspout Elemental

Creature - Elemental

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

Flying

When Waterspout Elemental enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, return all other creatures to their owners' hands and you skip your next turn.

Waterspout Weavers

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Kinship - At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it shares a creature type with Waterspout Weavers, you may reveal it. If you do, each creature you control gains flying until end of turn.

Waterveil Cavern

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Add or to your mana pool. Waterveil Cavern doesn't untap during your next untap step.

Waterwhirl

Instant

Return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands.

"Be as water: untamed and unheld, yet inexorably flowing toward a greater goal."
-Shensu, Riverwheel mystic

Watery Grave

Land - Island Swamp

(: Add or to your mana pool.)

As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Watery Grave enters the battlefield tapped.

Wave Elemental

Creature - Elemental

, , Sacrifice Wave Elemental: Tap up to three target creatures without flying.

"Consider the wave: how weak the mother yet how strong the child."
-Tywanna, Shaper Guildmage

Wave of Indifference

Sorcery

X target creatures can't block this turn.

"Darius?"
"Yeah?"
"There's a goblin sneaking up on you."
"So?"
"Just sayin'."

Wave of Reckoning

Sorcery

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Inner conflict can defeat a soldier more quickly than any army.

Wave of Terror

Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

At the beginning of your draw step, destroy each creature with converted mana cost equal to the number of age counters on Wave of Terror. They can't be regenerated.

The sea of fear has endless depths.

Wave of Vitriol

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices all artifacts, enchantments, and nonbasic lands he or she controls. For each land sacrificed this way, its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then each player who searched his or her library this way shuffles it.

Wave-Wing Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Flying

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

"Do you see? All of Tazeem strains at its tether."-Noyan Dar, Tazeem roilmage

Wavecrash Triton

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Wavecrash Triton, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Waves of Aggression

Sorcery

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Waveskimmer Aven

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

The greatest gift you can give a sea aven is solitude.

Wax (Wax/Wane)

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Waxmane Baku

Creature - Spirit

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

, Remove X ki counters from Waxmane Baku: Tap X target creatures.

Way of the Thief

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Enchanted creature is unblockable as long as you control a Gate.

A true shortcut isn't a way other people don't know; it's a way other people can't go.

Wayfarer's Bauble

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

It is the forest beyond the horizon, the mountain waiting to be climbed, the new land across the endless sea.

Wayfaring Giant

Creature - Giant

Domain - Wayfaring Giant gets +1/+1 for each basic land type among lands you control.

Its stature and stride increase with each step it takes.

Wayfaring Temple

Creature - Elemental

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

Whenever Wayfaring Temple deals combat damage to a player, populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Waylay

Instant

Put three 2/2 white Knight creature tokens onto the battlefield. Exile them at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

"You reek of corruption," spat the knight. "Why are you even here?"

Wayward Angel

Creature - Angel Horror

Flying, vigilance

Threshold - As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Wayward Angel gets +3/+3, is black, has trample, and has "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature."

Wayward Soul

Creature - Spirit

Flying

: Put Wayward Soul on top of its owner's library.

"no home no heart no hope"
-Stronghold graffito

Weakness

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

"For strength to have any meaning, there must also be . . . you."

Weakstone

Artifact

Attacking creatures get -1/-0.

During the brothers' childhood, Tocasia took them to explore the sacred cave of Koilos. There, in the Hall of Tagsin, Mishra discovered the mysterious weakstone.

Weapon Surge

Instant

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Weapons Trainer

Creature - Human Soldier Ally

Other creatures you control get +1/+0 as long as you control an Equipment.

"When I'm done training you, anything will be a deadly weapon."

Wear (Wear/Tear)

Instant

Destroy target artifact.

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

Wear Away

Instant - Arcane

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Weathered Bodyguards

Creature - Human Soldier

As long as Weathered Bodyguards is untapped, all combat damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to Weathered Bodyguards instead.

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

Weathered Wayfarer

Creature - Human Nomad Cleric

, : Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Activate this ability only if an opponent controls more lands than you.

Weatherseed Elf

Creature - Elf

: Target creature gains forestwalk until end of turn.

"My grandmother once told me the future of our world was inside the Weatherseed. When I touched it, I knew she was right."

Weatherseed Faeries

Creature - Faerie

Flying, protection from red

Two days after the forge was completed, the faeries were immune to its flames.

Weatherseed Totem

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

: Weatherseed Totem becomes a 5/3 green Treefolk artifact creature with trample until end of turn.

When Weatherseed Totem is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it was a creature, return this card to its owner's hand.

Weatherseed Treefolk

Creature - Treefolk

Trample

When Weatherseed Treefolk dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Weave Fate

Instant

Draw two cards.

Temur shamans speak of three destinies: the now, the echo of the past, and the unwritten. They find flickering paths among tangled possibilities.

Weaver of Lies

Creature - Beast

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

When Weaver of Lies is turned face up, turn any number of target creatures with morph other than Weaver of Lies face down.

Web

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Web of Inertia

Enchantment

At the beginning of each opponent's combat, that player may exile a card from his or her graveyard. If the player doesn't, creatures he or she controls can't attack you this turn.

Cephalids specialize in lose-lose situations.

Wee Dragonauts

Creature - Faerie Wizard

Flying

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Wee Dragonauts gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Weed Strangle

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Clash with an opponent. If you win, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. (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.)

Weed-Pruner Poplar

Creature - Treefolk Assassin

At the beginning of your upkeep, target creature other than Weed-Pruner Poplar gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"When Byoog reached down to pull up a bit of root for the stew, he didn't expect the root to pull back."
-A tale of Auntie Wort

Weight of Conscience

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack.

Tap two untapped creatures you control that share a creature type: Exile enchanted creature.

Sometimes the weight of the world on your shoulders is a literal one.

Weight of Spires

Instant

Weight of Spires deals damage to target creature equal to the number of nonbasic lands that creature's controller controls.

"Finally, a good use for an Azorius courthouse."
-Ghut Rak, Gruul guildmage

Weight of the Underworld

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -3/-2.

Proud Alkmenos, who would not bow to Erebos in death, is now bowed by his own hubris for all eternity.

Weird Harvest

Sorcery

Each player may search his or her library for up to X creature cards, reveal those cards, and put them into his or her hand. Then each player who searched his or her library this way shuffles it.

Krosa's distorted groves bear strange fruit.

Weirding Shaman

Creature - Goblin Shaman

, Sacrifice a Goblin: Put two 1/1 black Goblin Rogue creature tokens onto the battlefield.

All boggarts have an auntie, but they don't all have a mum.

Welding Jar

Artifact

Sacrifice Welding Jar: Regenerate target artifact.

Welkin Guide

Creature - Bird Cleric

Flying

When Welkin Guide enters the battlefield, target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.

"Those talons really dig into your skin, but it's better than being dropped."
-Rafiq of the Many

Welkin Hawk

Creature - Bird

Flying

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

Welkin Tern

Creature - Bird

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

Welkin Tern can block only creatures with flying.

"It preys on other birds. And drakelings. And drakes. Pretty much anything that crosses its flight path is fair game."
-Amira, skycaptain of Thune

Well (Alive/Well)

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

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

Well of Discovery

Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no untapped lands, draw a card.

When you have given everything, then you are capable of anything.
-Well inscription