Sea Kings' Blessing

Instant

Any number of target creatures become blue until end of turn.

Seafarer's Quay

Land

Blue legendary creatures you control have "bands with other legendary creatures." (Any legendary creatures can attack in a band as long as at least one has "bands with other legendary creatures." Bands are blocked as a group. If at least two legendary creatures you control, one of which has "bands with other legendary creatures," are blocking or being blocked by the same creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

: Sentinel's toughness becomes 1 plus the power of target creature blocking or blocked by Sentinel. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Shelkin Brownie

Creature - Ouphe

: Target creature loses all "bands with other" abilities until end of turn.

Leave a bowl of milk on your doorstep each night for the brownies, or they'll cause you no end of mischief.

Shimian Night Stalker

Creature - Nightstalker

, : All damage that would be dealt to you this turn by target attacking creature is dealt to Shimian Night Stalker instead.

"‘Tis now the very witching time of night,/ When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out/ Contagion to this world." -William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Silhouette

Instant

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn by spells or abilities that target it.

Sir Shandlar of Eberyn

Legendary Creature - Human Knight

"Remember Sir Shandlar! Remember and stand firm!" -rallying cry of the Eberyn militia

Sivitri Scarzam

Legendary Creature - Human

Even the brave have cause to tremble at the sight of Sivitri Scarzam. Who else has tamed Scarzam's Dragon?

Sol'kanar the Swamp King

Legendary Creature - Demon

Swampwalk

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you gain 1 life.

Spectral Cloak

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has shroud as long as it's untapped. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Spinal Villain

Creature - Beast

: Destroy target blue creature.

"Striking silent as a dream,/ Cutting short the strangled scream . . ." -Tobrian, "Watchdragon"

Spiritual Sanctuary

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player controls a Plains, he or she gains 1 life.

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.

Storm Seeker

Instant

Storm Seeker deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Storm World

World Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Storm World deals X damage to that player, where X is 4 minus the number of cards in his or her hand.

Subdue

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target creature this turn. That creature gets +0/+X until end of turn, where X is its converted mana cost.

Sunastian Falconer

Legendary Creature - Human Shaman

: Add to your mana pool.

Sunastian has roots in both sorcery and swordplay; he has learned never to depend too heavily on the latter.

Sword of the Ages

Artifact

Sword of the Ages enters the battlefield tapped.

, Sacrifice Sword of the Ages and any number of creatures you control: Sword of the Ages deals X damage to target creature or player, where X is the total power of the creatures sacrificed this way, then exile Sword of the Ages and those creature cards.

Sylvan Paradise

Instant

Any number of target creatures become green until end of turn.

Takklemaggot

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -0/-1 counter on that creature.

When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller chooses a creature that Takklemaggot could enchant. If he or she does, return Takklemaggot to the battlefield under your control attached to that creature. If he or she doesn't, return Takklemaggot to the battlefield under your control as a non-Aura enchantment. It loses "enchant creature" and gains "At the beginning of that player's upkeep, Takklemaggot deals 1 damage to him or her."

Telekinesis

Instant

Tap target creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by that creature this turn. It doesn't untap during its controller's next two untap steps.

Teleport

Instant

Cast Teleport only during the declare attackers step.

Target creature is unblockable this turn.

Tetsuo Umezawa

Legendary Creature - Human Archer

Tetsuo Umezawa can't be the target of Aura spells.

, : Destroy target tapped or blocking creature.

The Abyss

World Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, destroy target nonartifact creature that player controls of his or her choice. It can't be regenerated.

"An immense river of oblivion is sweeping us away into a nameless abyss." -Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'Enfance et de Jeunesse

The Lady of the Mountain

Legendary Creature - Giant

Her given name has been lost in the mists of time. Legend says that her silent vigil will one day be ended by the one who, pure of heart and spirit, calls out that name again.

The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Legendary Land

All creatures have "At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy this creature unless you pay ."

Thunder Spirit

Creature - Elemental Spirit

Flying, first strike

"It was full of fire and smoke and light and . . . it drove between us and the Efrafans like a thousand thunderstorms with lightning." -Richard Adams, Watership Down

Tobias Andrion

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

Administrator of the military state of Sheoltun, Tobias is the military right arm of the empire and the figurehead of its freedom.

Tolaria

Legendary Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Target creature loses banding and all "bands with other" abilities until end of turn. Activate this ability only during any upkeep step.

"Fairest Isle, all isles excelling,/ Seat of pleasures, and of loves . . ." -John Dryden

Tor Wauki

Legendary Creature - Human Archer

: Tor Wauki deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Torsten Von Ursus

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

"How can you accuse me of evil? Though these deeds be unsavory, no one will argue: good shall follow from them."

Touch of Darkness

Instant

Any number of target creatures become black until end of turn.

"Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,/ Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may." -Thomas Middleton, The Witch

Transmutation

Instant

Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

"You know what I was,/ You see what I am: change me, change me!"
-Randall

Triassic Egg

Artifact

, : Put a hatchling counter on Triassic Egg.

Sacrifice Triassic Egg: Choose one - You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield; or return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only if two or more hatchling counters are on Triassic Egg.

Tuknir Deathlock

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Flying

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

An explorer of the Æther, Tuknir often discovers himself in the most unusual physical realms.

Typhoon

Sorcery

Typhoon deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of Islands that player controls.

Fierce winds ripped across the tropical landscape. What they did not destroy with their fiery breath was washed away by torrential rain.

Undertow

Enchantment

Creatures with islandwalk can be blocked as though they didn't have islandwalk.

Unholy Citadel

Land

Black legendary creatures you control have "bands with other legendary creatures." (Any legendary creatures can attack in a band as long as at least one has "bands with other legendary creatures." Bands are blocked as a group. If at least two legendary creatures you control, one of which has "bands with other legendary creatures," are blocking or being blocked by the same creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Ur-Drago

Legendary Creature - Elemental

First strike

Creatures with swampwalk can be blocked as though they didn't have swampwalk.

Urborg

Legendary Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.

"Resignedly beneath the sky/The melancholy waters lie./So blend the turrets and shadows there/That all seem pendulous in air,/While from a proud tower in town/Death looks gigantically down." -Edgar Allan Poe, "The City in the Sea"

Vaevictis Asmadi

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Vaevictis Asmadi unless you pay .

: Vaevictis Asmadi gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Vaevictis Asmadi gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Vaevictis Asmadi gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Venarian Gold

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Venarian Gold enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature and put X sleep counters on it.

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step if it has a sleep counter on it.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, remove a sleep counter from that creature.

Voodoo Doll

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a pin counter on Voodoo Doll.

At the beginning of your end step, if Voodoo Doll is untapped, destroy Voodoo Doll and it deals damage to you equal to the number of pin counters on it.

, : Voodoo Doll deals damage equal to the number of pin counters on it to target creature or player. X is the number of pin counters on Voodoo Doll.

Walking Dead

Creature - Zombie

: Regenerate Walking Dead.

The Walking Dead are the remains of freakish experiments by the Necromantic Lords.

Wall of Caltrops

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Caltrops blocks a creature, if at least one other Wall creature is blocking that creature and no non-Wall creatures are blocking that creature, Wall of Caltrops gains banding until end of turn. (If any creatures with banding you control are blocking a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by.)

"Ow! Ow ow ow! Oooh, ow, OW!"

Wall of Earth

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

The ground shuddered violently and the earth seemed to come to life. The elemental force contained in the vast wall of earth was trapped, bent to its controller's will.

Wall of Heat

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

At a distance, we mistook the sound for a waterfall . . .

Wall of Light

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Protection from black

As many attackers were dazzled by the wall's beauty as were halted by its force.

Wall of Opposition

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

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

Like so many obstacles in life, the Wall of Opposition is but an illusion, held fast by the focus and belief of the one who creates it.

Wall of Putrid Flesh

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Protection from white

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Wall of Putrid Flesh by enchanted creatures.

Wall of Shadows

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Wall of Shadows by creatures it's blocking.

Wall of Shadows can't be the target of spells that can target only Walls or of abilities that can target only Walls.

Wall of Tombstones

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, Wall of Tombstones's toughness becomes 1 plus the number of creature cards in your graveyard. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Wall of Vapor

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Wall of Vapor by creatures it's blocking.

"Walls of a castle are made out of stone,/ Walls of a house out of bricks or of wood./ My walls are made out of magic alone,/ Stronger than any that ever have stood." -Chrysoberyl Earthsdaughter, Incantations

Willow Satyr

Creature - Satyr

You may choose not to untap Willow Satyr during your untap step.

: Gain control of target legendary creature for as long as you control Willow Satyr and Willow Satyr remains tapped.

Wood Elemental

Creature - Elemental

As Wood Elemental enters the battlefield, sacrifice any number of untapped Forests.

Wood Elemental's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests sacrificed as it entered the battlefield.

Xira Arien

Legendary Creature - Insect Wizard

Flying

, : Target player draws a card.

A regular guest at the Royal Masquerade, Arien is the envy of the Court. She appears in a new costume every hour.

Aladdin's Lamp

Artifact

, : The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead look at the top X cards of your library, put all but one of them on the bottom of your library in a random order, then draw a card. X can't be 0.

Armageddon Clock

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a doom counter on Armageddon Clock.

At the beginning of your draw step, Armageddon Clock deals damage equal to the number of doom counters on it to each player.

: Remove a doom counter from Armageddon Clock. Any player may activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.

Atog

Creature - Atog

Sacrifice an artifact: Atog gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

The bane of all artificers, the legendary Atogs devoured intricate tools to further their own twisted growth.

Bottle of Suleiman

Artifact

, Sacrifice Bottle of Suleiman: Flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Bottle of Suleiman deals 5 damage to you. If you win the flip, put a 5/5 colorless Djinn artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Brass Man

Artifact Creature - Construct

Brass Man doesn't untap during your untap step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap Brass Man.

Crumble

Instant

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. That artifact's controller gains life equal to its converted mana cost.

The spirits of Argoth grant new life to those who repent the folly of enslaving their labors to devices.

Desert Twister

Sorcery

Destroy target permanent.

Dragon Engine

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Dragon Engine gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines.

Dwarven Weaponsmith

Creature - Dwarf Artificer

, Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

"Work with zeal as hammers peal! Melt, anneal, and pound the steel!"
-Old Dwarvish forge-chant

Ebony Horse

Artifact

, : Untap target attacking creature you control. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

El-Hajjâj

Creature - Human Wizard

Whenever El-Hajjâj deals damage, you gain that much life.

Energy Flux

Enchantment

All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay ."

Erg Raiders

Creature - Human Warrior

At the beginning of your end step, if Erg Raiders didn't attack this turn, Erg Raiders deals 2 damage to you unless it came under your control this turn.

Eye for an Eye

Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, instead that source deals that much damage to you and Eye for an Eye deals that much damage to that source's controller.

Flying Carpet

Artifact

, : Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Island Fish Jasconius

Creature - Fish

Island Fish Jasconius doesn't untap during your untap step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap Island Fish Jasconius.

Island Fish Jasconius can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Island Fish Jasconius.

Ivory Tower

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Valuing scholarship above all else, the inhabitants of the Ivory Tower reward those who sacrifice power for knowledge.

Jandor's Ring

Artifact

, , Discard the last card you drew this turn: Draw a card.

Jandor's Saddlebags

Artifact

, : Untap target creature.

Each day of their journey, Jandor opened the saddlebags and found them full of mutton, quinces, cheese, date rolls, wine, and all manner of delicious and satisfying foods.

Magnetic Mountain

Enchantment

Blue creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may choose any number of tapped blue creatures he or she controls and pay for each creature chosen this way. If the player does, untap those creatures.

Mijae Djinn

Creature - Djinn

Whenever Mijae Djinn attacks, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, remove Mijae Djinn from combat and tap it.

Mishra's War Machine

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

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.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, Mishra's War Machine deals 3 damage to you unless you discard a card. If Mishra's War Machine deals damage to you this way, tap it.

Onulet

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Onulet dies, you gain 2 life.

An early inspiration for Urza, Tocasia's Onulets contained magical essences that could be cannibalized after they stopped functioning.

Reconstruction

Sorcery

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Tedious research made the Sages of the College of Lat-Nam adept in repairing broken artifacts.

Reverse Polarity

Instant

You gain X life, where X is twice the damage dealt to you so far this turn by artifacts.

Rocket Launcher

Artifact

: Rocket Launcher deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Destroy Rocket Launcher at the beginning of the next end step. Activate this ability only if you've controlled Rocket Launcher continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.

What these devices lacked in subtlety, they made up in strength.

Serendib Efreet

Creature - Efreet

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, Serendib Efreet deals 1 damage to you.

Sorceress Queen

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target creature other than Sorceress Queen becomes 0/2 until end of turn.

The Rack

Artifact

As The Rack enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, The Rack deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in his or her hand.

Invented in Mishra's earlier days, the Rack was once his most feared creation.

Titania's Song

Enchantment

Each noncreature artifact loses all abilities and becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost. If Titania's Song leaves the battlefield, this effect continues until end of turn.

Unstable Mutation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Argivian Archaeologist

Creature - Human Artificer

, : Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Fascinated by the lore of ancient struggles, the Archaeologist searches incessantly for remnants of an earlier, more powerful era.

Argivian Blacksmith

Creature - Human Artificer

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

Through years of study and training, the Blacksmiths of Argive became adept at reassembling the mangled remains of the strange, mechanical creatures abounding in their native land.

Argothian Pixies

Creature - Faerie

Argothian Pixies can't be blocked by artifact creatures.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Argothian Pixies by artifact creatures.

After the rape of Argoth Forest during the rule of the artificers, the Pixies of Argoth bent their magic to more practical ends.

Argothian Treefolk

Creature - Treefolk

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Argothian Treefolk by artifact sources.

Haunting cries we hear in our dreams
As the forest dies, a death from
machines.

Artifact Blast

Instant

Counter target artifact spell.

The first line of defense against Urza and Mishra, the Artifact Blast achieved widespread fame until an unlucky mage discovered it was useless on the devices the brothers had already created.

Artifact Possession

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

Whenever enchanted artifact becomes tapped or a player activates an ability of enchanted artifact without in its activation cost, Artifact Possession deals 2 damage to that artifact's controller.

Any black mage could coax a Thraxodemon to inhabit a magical device.

Artifact Ward

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked by artifact creatures.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature by artifact sources.

Enchanted creature can't be the target of abilities from artifact sources.

Candelabra of Tawnos

Artifact

, : Untap X target lands.

Tawnos learned quickly from Urza that utter simplicity often led to wondrous, yet subtle utility.

Citanul Druid

Creature - Human Druid

Whenever an opponent casts an artifact spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Citanul Druid.

Driven mad by the fall of Argoth, the Citanul Druids found peace only in battle.

Damping Field

Enchantment

Players can't untap more than one artifact during their untap steps.

Eventually, mages learned to harness the power of natural damping fields and use it for their own ends.

Drafna's Restoration

Sorcery

Return any number of target artifact cards from target player's graveyard to the top of his or her library in any order.

Drafna, founder of the College of Lat-Nam, could create a working model from even the smallest remnants of a newly unearthed artifact.

Gaea's Avenger

Creature - Treefolk

Gaea's Avenger's power and toughness are each equal to 1 plus the number of artifacts your opponents control.

After the destruction of Argoth, Gaea was willing to instill a portion of her own powers into some of her more vengeful followers.

Gate to Phyrexia

Enchantment

Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target artifact. Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.

"The warm rain of grease on my face immediately made it clear I had entered Phyrexia." -Jarsyl, Diary