Well of Ideas

Enchantment

When Well of Ideas enters the battlefield, draw two cards.

At the beginning of each other player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

At the beginning of your draw step, draw two additional cards.

Well of Knowledge

Artifact

: Draw a card. Any player may activate this ability but only during his or her draw step.

Well of Life

Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no untapped lands, you gain 2 life.

When you have given everything, then you have everything to gain.
-Well inscription

Well of Lost Dreams

Artifact

Whenever you gain life, you may pay , where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Some say the knowledge lost during the Ritual of Rebuking is returned through the well's waters.

Well-Laid Plans

Enchantment

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to a creature by another creature if they share a color.

"I knew this day would come," said Urza. Looking at the destruction, Barrin sighed, "You don't have to revel in it."

Wellgabber Apothecary

Creature - Merfolk Cleric

: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target tapped Merfolk or Kithkin creature this turn.

"You've discovered that boggarts bite, I see. And will the militia be chasing this lot? . . . Ah, you're staying in town to avoid Nath's hunt. Wise. Now this poultice . . ."

Wellspring

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

When Wellspring enters the battlefield, gain control of enchanted land until end of turn.

At the beginning of your upkeep, untap enchanted land. You gain control of that land until end of turn.

Wellwisher

Creature - Elf

: You gain 1 life for each Elf on the battlefield.

"Close your ears to the voice of greed, and you can turn a gift for one into a gift for many."

Werebear

Creature - Human Bear Druid

: Add to your mana pool.

Threshold - Werebear gets +3/+3 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

He exercises his right to bear arms.

Western Paladin

Creature - Zombie Knight

, : Destroy target white creature.

"Expect nothing but scorn, flattery, and lies. And never turn your back on him."
-The Northern Paladin

Wetland Sambar

Creature - Elk

As a test of calm and compassion, a Jeskai monk softly approaches a grazing sambar and offers it a lotus from his or her hand. If the creature eats, the student ascends to the next level of training.

Whalebone Glider

Artifact

, : Target creature with power 3 or less gains flying until end of turn.

"It's no Ornithopter, but then I'm no Urza."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Wheel and Deal

Instant

Any number of target opponents each discards his or her hand and draws seven cards.

Draw a card.

Wheel of Fate

Sorcery

Illus. Kev Walker

Wheel of Fortune

Sorcery

Each player discards his or her hand and draws seven cards.

Wheel of Sun and Moon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant player

If a card would be put into enchanted player's graveyard from anywhere, instead that card is revealed and put on the bottom of that player's library.

Every life ends, but life itself never does.

Wheel of Torture

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Wheel of Torture deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in his or her hand.

"I'd like to buy a bowel."

Whelming Wave

Sorcery

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

"I can see why this appeals to Thassa."
-Kiora

Where Ancients Tread

Enchantment

Whenever a creature with power 5 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Where Ancients Tread deal 5 damage to target creature or player.

"Never subtle nor cryptic is the reckoning of the mighty."
-Mayael the Anima

Whetstone

Artifact

: Each player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

To hone swords and dull minds.
-Whetstone inscription

Whetwheel

Artifact

, : Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

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

Whim of Volrath

Instant

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another until end of turn. (For example, you may change "nonred creature" to "nongreen creature" or "plainswalk" to "swampwalk.")

Whims of the Fates

Sorcery

Starting with you, each player separates all permanents he or she controls into three piles. Then each player chooses one of his or her piles at random and sacrifices those permanents. (Piles can be empty.)

Whimwader

Creature - Elemental

Whimwader can't attack unless defending player controls a blue permanent.

"Thought? Deceit? Progress? Now you're just making it hungry."
-Abral, kithkin alchemist

Whip of Erebos

Legendary Enchantment Artifact

Creatures you control have lifelink.

, : Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Whip Sergeant

Creature - Human Soldier

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

Keldon soldiers learn to move faster than the whip.

Whip Silk

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

: Return Whip Silk to its owner's hand.

Llanowar forges weapons of steel. Yavimaya grows her weapons within.

Whip Vine

Creature - Plant Wall

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

You may choose not to untap Whip Vine during your untap step.

: Tap target creature with flying blocked by Whip Vine. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Whip Vine remains tapped.

Whip-Spine Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

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

"I swear the clouds were created just so the drakes would have a place to lurk."
-Kasharri, skyknight

Whipcorder

Creature - Human Soldier Rebel

, : Tap target creature.

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

His bolas whirl like galaxies, but it's his enemies who see stars.

Whipflare

Sorcery

Whipflare deals 2 damage to each nonartifact creature.

The slag-workers wasted no time in creating their own flare pulses to cleanse the area of the incompleat.

Whipgrass Entangler

Creature - Human Cleric

: Until end of turn, target creature gains "This creature can't attack or block unless its controller pays for each Cleric on the battlefield."

"Now that I have your attention, perhaps I can tell you of the Order."

Whipkeeper

Creature - Dwarf

: Whipkeeper deals damage to target creature equal to the damage already dealt to it this turn.

"If you don't hit your adversaries while they're down, they might get up again."

Whiplash Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent had two or more creatures enter the battlefield under his or her control this turn, you may pay rather than pay Whiplash Trap's mana cost.

Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.

Whippoorwill

Creature - Bird

, : Target creature can't be regenerated this turn. Damage that would be dealt to that creature this turn can't be prevented or dealt instead to another creature or player. When the creature dies this turn, exile the creature.

If the Whippoorwill remains silent, the soul has not reached its reward.

Whipstitched Zombie

Creature - Zombie

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

Pity the tailor.

Whiptail Moloch

Creature - Lizard

When Whiptail Moloch enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to target creature you control.

"It wags its tail when it's happy. It wags its tail when it's angry. Nope, there's no good time to be around a whiptail."
-Rugar, Leaguehall Infirmary patient

Whiptongue Frog

Creature - Frog

: Whiptongue Frog gains flying until end of turn.

Their favorite food? Wind dancers.

Whirling Catapult

Artifact

, Exile the top two cards of your library: Whirling Catapult deals 1 damage to each creature with flying and each player.

"Direct confrontation never was to the Orcs' taste."
-General Varchild

Whirling Dervish

Creature - Human Monk

Protection from black

At the beginning of each end step, if Whirling Dervish dealt damage to an opponent this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Whirlpool Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

When Whirlpool Drake enters the battlefield, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

When Whirlpool Drake dies, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

Whirlpool Rider

Creature - Merfolk

When Whirlpool Rider enters the battlefield, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

Where the wind meets the water, change is inevitable.

Whirlpool Warrior

Creature - Merfolk Warrior

When Whirlpool Warrior enters the battlefield, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

, Sacrifice Whirlpool Warrior: Each player shuffles the cards from his or her hand into his or her library, then draws that many cards.

Whirlpool Whelm

Instant

Clash with an opponent, then return target creature to its owner's hand. If you win, you may put that creature on top of its owner's library instead. (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.)

Whirlwind

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures with flying.

Urza tried to rule the air, but Gaea taught him that she controlled all the elements.

Whirlwind Adept

Creature - Djinn Monk

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

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Whisk Away

Instant

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

The maneuvers of the Abzan formation intrigued Ojutai in both their complexity and their futility.

Whisperer of the Wilds

Creature - Human Shaman

: Add to your mana pool.

Ferocious - : Add to your mana pool. Activate this ability only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

She speaks only in whispers but can be heard over the fiercest storm.

Whispergear Sneak

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Whispergear Sneak face up.

During the draft, you may turn Whispergear Sneak face down. If you do, look at any unopened booster pack in the draft or any booster pack not being looked at by another player.

Spy for today. Plan for tomorrow.

Whispering Madness

Sorcery

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

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Whispering Shade

Creature - Shade

Swampwalk

: Whispering Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

It glides through the shadows until it reaches yours.

Whispering Specter

Creature - Specter

Flying

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

Whenever Whispering Specter deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. If you do, that player discards a card for each poison counter he or she has.

Whispers of the Muse

Instant

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Draw a card.

"I followed her song only to find it was a dirge."
-Crovax

Whispersilk Cloak

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature is unblockable and has shroud.

Equip

Whisperwood Elemental

Creature - Elemental

At the beginning of your end step, manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Sacrifice Whisperwood Elemental: Until end of turn, face-up nontoken creatures you control gain "When this creature dies, manifest the top card of your library."

White Knight

Creature - Human Knight

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Protection from black (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything black.)

White Mana Battery

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on White Mana Battery.

, Remove any number of charge counters from White Mana Battery: Add to your mana pool, then add an additional to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way.

White Scarab

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked by white creatures.

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 as long as an opponent controls a white permanent.

White Shield Crusader

Creature - Human Knight

Protection from black

: White Shield Crusader gains flying until end of turn.

: White Shield Crusader gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Honor your steed and it will carry you to great deeds-and bring you home to tell of them."

White Sun's Zenith

Instant

Put X 2/2 white Cat creature tokens onto the battlefield. Shuffle White Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

After the Battle of Liet Field, the white sun crested above Taj-Nar, bringing hope to all who survived the carnage.

White Ward

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has protection from white. This effect doesn't remove White Ward.

Whitemane Lion

Creature - Cat

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

When Whitemane Lion enters the battlefield, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

Saltfield nomads call a sudden storm a "whitemane."

Whiteout

Instant

All creatures lose flying until end of turn.

Sacrifice a snow land: Return Whiteout from your graveyard to your hand.

Whitesun's Passage

Instant

You gain 5 life.

All over the Razor Fields, Whitesun is celebrated. Even the followers of the rebel Juryan, far from the Cave of Light, bow their heads in reverence.

Whitewater Naiads

Enchantment Creature - Nymph

Constellation - Whenever Whitewater Naiads or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Stand against the crash of the river's rapids and you will know the power of the naiads.

Wicked Akuba

Creature - Spirit

: Target player dealt damage by Wicked Akuba this turn loses 1 life.

The sound of children weeping is a song that fills its heart with joy.

Wicked Reward

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Wicked Reward, sacrifice a creature.

Target creature gets +4/+2 until end of turn.

"The blood on my hands is merely proof of my ambition."
-Kaervek

Wicker Warcrawler

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Whenever Wicker Warcrawler attacks or blocks, put a -1/-1 counter on it at end of combat.

It's the twisted creation of a kithkin diviner who dreamed of very large crows.

Wickerbough Elder

Creature - Treefolk Shaman

Wickerbough Elder enters the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

, Remove a -1/-1 counter from Wickerbough Elder: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"Living scarecrows make a mockery of the natural order. Dead ones make fine hats."

Widespread Panic

Enchantment

Whenever a spell or ability causes its controller to shuffle his or her library, that player puts a card from his or her hand on top of his or her library.

"How thin is the veneer of civilization! A modest measure of panic will wash it off completely."-Guard Erdrud of An Karras

Wight of Precinct Six

Creature - Zombie

Wight of Precinct Six gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your opponents' graveyards.

Even the lost and undead need a protector.

Wiitigo

Creature - Yeti

Wiitigo enters the battlefield with six +1/+1 counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on Wiitigo if it has blocked or been blocked since your last upkeep. Otherwise, remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

Wild Aesthir

Creature - Bird

Flying, first strike

: Wild Aesthir gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"High in the Karplusans, death is swift and razor-clawed."
-Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain

Wild Beastmaster

Creature - Human Shaman

Whenever Wild Beastmaster attacks, each other creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is Wild Beastmaster's power.

"When they covered the world in city, all they did was give themselves nowhere to run."

Wild Cantor

Creature - Human Druid

( can be paid with either or .)

Sacrifice Wild Cantor: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Wild Celebrants

Creature - Satyr

When Wild Celebrants enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact.

"You can tell something's really valuable by the sound it makes when you slam your staff into it."

Wild Colos

Creature - Goat Beast

Haste

You'll never get a Keldon's goat.

Wild Defiance

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of an instant or sorcery spell, that creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

"When civilization reaches out its greedy hand, take it off at the wrist."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

Wild Dogs

Creature - Hound

At the beginning of your upkeep, if a player has more life than each other player, the player with the most life gains control of Wild Dogs.

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

Wild Elephant

Creature - Elephant

Trample

"I will tell my father's stories . . . . How the elephants trampled the leopard cub, and its father, though he knew, killed nine goats instead."
-"Love Song of Night and Day"

Wild Evocation

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player reveals a card at random from his or her hand. If it's a land card, the player puts it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, the player casts it without paying its mana cost if able.

Wild Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

Farmers typically keep their flocks at thirteen sheep-one to distract the griffins while they take the other twelve to market.

Wild Growth

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Wild Guess

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Wild Guess, discard a card.

Draw two cards.

No guts, no glory.

Wild Hunger

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Otto the Hunter was filled with many grand ambitions. The snake was filled only with Otto.

Wild Jhovall

Creature - Cat

Jhovalls sharpen their claws on trees-or on Mercadians, if no trees are handy.

Wild Leotau

Creature - Cat

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

"Leotau that were born wild make the best mounts. It's like riding a thunderstorm."
-Rafiq of the Many

Wild Mammoth

Creature - Elephant

At the beginning of your upkeep, if a player controls more creatures than each other player, the player who controls the most creatures gains control of Wild Mammoth.

"Sit. Heel! Down! HELP!"

Wild Might

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. That creature gets an additional +4/+4 until end of turn unless any player pays .

The hunted can become the fiercest hunters.

Wild Mongrel

Creature - Hound

Discard a card: Wild Mongrel gets +1/+1 and becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

It teaches you to play dead.

Wild Nacatl

Creature - Cat Warrior

Wild Nacatl gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Mountain.

Wild Nacatl gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Plains.

"The Cloud Nacatl sit and think, a bunch of soft paws. We are the Claws of Marisi, stalking, pouncing, drawing blood."

Wild Pair

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, you may search your library for a creature card with the same total power and toughness and put it onto the battlefield. If you do, shuffle your library.

Wild Research

Enchantment

: Search your library for an enchantment card and reveal that card. Put it into your hand, then discard a card at random. Then shuffle your library.

: Search your library for an instant card and reveal that card. Put it into your hand, then discard a card at random. Then shuffle your library.

Wild Ricochet

Instant

You may choose new targets for target instant or sorcery spell. Then copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"I knew that trick long before your great-grandmother's great-grandmother was born."

Wild Slash

Instant

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, damage can't be prevented this turn.

Wild Slash deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Never mistake deception for cleverness.

Wild Swing

Sorcery

Choose three target nonenchantment permanents. Destroy one of them at random.

Though the shaman rarely got what she wanted, she was never disappointed in the result.

Wild Wurm

Creature - Wurm

When Wild Wurm enters the battlefield, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, return Wild Wurm to its owner's hand.

Wurm heads appear
Wild wurm near
Wurm tails you see
Wild wurm flee

Wildcall

Sorcery

Manifest the top card of your library, then put X +1/+1 counters on it. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

A howl on the wind hides many dangers.

Wilderness Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Trample

Wilderness Elemental's power is equal to the number of nonbasic lands your opponents control.

"Don't be so quick to reclaim the thawing lands. They might have acquired a taste for freedom."
-Taaveti of Kelsinko, elvish hunter

Wilderness Hypnotist

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

: Target red or green creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn.

"I felt as if I were moving in brackish water, as if I were drowning, even though I knew I stood on dry land."
-Dindun of Kulrath Mine