Agrus Kos, Wojek Veteran

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever Agrus Kos, Wojek Veteran attacks, attacking red creatures get +2/+0 and attacking white creatures get +0/+2 until end of turn.

Lieutenant Kos has never met a group of recruits he could not inspire or a mob he could not quell.

Agoraphobia

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -5/-0.

: Return Agoraphobia to its owner's hand.

"Everyone in this city is choosing sides. I choose inside."

Agony Warp

Instant

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

Target creature gets -0/-3 until end of turn.

Life's circle has become inverted in Grixis. The same energy is endlessly recycled and becomes more stagnant with each pass.

Agonizing Memories

Sorcery

Look at target player's hand and choose two cards from it. Put them on top of that player's library in any order.

In the aftermath of war, when the slaying is long done, the greatest miseries come home to roost.

Agonizing Demise

Instant

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

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. If Agonizing Demise was kicked, it deals damage equal to that creature's power to the creature's controller.

Agility

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flanking. (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

Aggressive Urge

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

The power of the wild, concentrated in a single charge.

Aggressive Mining

Enchantment

You can't play lands.

Sacrifice a land: Draw two cards. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Designed by Markus Persson

Aggression

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant non-Wall creature

Enchanted creature has first strike and trample.

At the beginning of the end step of enchanted creature's controller, destroy that creature if it didn't attack this turn.

The star that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Aggravated Assault

Enchantment

: Untap all creatures you control. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Aggravate

Instant

Aggravate deals 1 damage to each creature target player controls. Each creature dealt damage this way attacks this turn if able.

"Barbarians! They burned my favorite chair! We'll kill them all!"
-Anje Falkenrath

Agent of the Fates

Creature - Human Assassin

Deathtouch

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Agent of the Fates, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

"You are breathing borrowed air."

Agent of Stromgald

Creature - Human Knight

: Add to your mana pool.

"The Order of Stromgald spreads its poisonous lies from within Varchild's troops, and still she sees only visions of conquest."
-Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Agent of Shauku

Creature - Human Mercenary

, Sacrifice a land: Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

"Go ahead. Take it. You'll be so very powerful . . . and what harm can it do?"

Agent of Masks

Creature - Human Advisor

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

"You say that I am two-faced? Enough with the flattery. We have business to conduct."

Agent of Horizons

Creature - Human Rogue

: Agent of Horizons can't be blocked this turn.

The light in the woods just before dawn reveals a glimmering network of branches, roots, and spiderwebs. The acolytes of Kruphix walk this lattice unseen.

Agent of Erebos

Enchantment Creature - Zombie

Constellation - Whenever Agent of Erebos or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, exile all cards from target player's graveyard.

Erebos's minions hunt the Returned and warn those who consider the same folly.

Agent of Acquisitions

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Agent of Acquisitions face up.

Instead of drafting a card from a booster pack, you may draft each card in that booster pack, one at a time. If you do, turn Agent of Acquisitions face down and you can't draft cards for the rest of this draft round. (You may look at booster packs passed to you.)

Ageless Sentinels

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Flying

When Ageless Sentinels blocks, it becomes a Bird Giant, and it loses defender. (It's no longer a Wall. This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Ageless Entity

Creature - Elemental

Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on Ageless Entity.

Tel-Jilad's sworn protectors are the trolls, yet more fearsome protectors were created by the Tangle itself.

Agadeem Occultist

Creature - Human Shaman Ally

: Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control if its converted mana cost is less than or equal to the number of Allies you control.

Aftershock

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact, creature, or land. Aftershock deals 3 damage to you.

"Every act of destruction has a repercussion."
-Karn, silver golem

Afterlife

Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller puts a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Afiya Grove

Enchantment

Afiya Grove enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, move a +1/+1 counter from Afiya Grove onto target creature.

When Afiya Grove has no +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice it.

Afflicted Deserter

Creature - Human Werewolf

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Afflicted Deserter.

The rising of the first full moon eliminated any doubt as to the horrible truth lurking within.

Afflict

Instant

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

When one of the Patriarch's champions displeased him, he would only shake his finger. That was enough.

Affa Protector

Creature - Human Soldier Ally

Vigilance

"Through all the terrors we face, I hold on to the memory of the world before the Eldrazi came. I'd like to see that world again."

Affa Guard Hound

Creature - Hound

Flash

When Affa Guard Hound enters the battlefield, target creature gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

Once a welcoming hub for explorers, Affa became a place of guarded tongues and quick defenses.

Aesthir Glider

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

Aesthir Glider can't block.

"Sacrilege A noble ally in life, made nothing more than a glorified kite in death"
-Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain

Aeronaut Tinkerer

Creature - Human Artificer

Aeronaut Tinkerer has flying as long as you control an artifact. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

"All tinkerers have their heads in the clouds. I don't intend to stop there."

Aerie Worshippers

Creature - Human Cleric

Inspired - Whenever Aerie Worshippers becomes untapped, you may pay . If you do, put a 2/2 blue Bird enchantment creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

They can conjure stars from a clear sky.

Aerie Ouphes

Creature - Ouphe

Sacrifice Aerie Ouphes: Aerie Ouphes deals damage equal to its power to target creature with flying.

Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Aerie Mystics

Creature - Bird Wizard

Flying

: Creatures you control gain shroud until end of turn.

They are cautious with their body language and facial expressions. Any stray movement could betray the positions of the troops they protect and cost many lives.

Aerie Bowmasters

Creature - Hound Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Megamorph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Aerial Predation

Instant

Destroy target creature with flying. You gain 2 life.

In the towering trees of the Samok Stand and the predators that guard them, the might of the Ravnican wild has returned.

Aerial Maneuver

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying and first strike until end of turn.

"When you put all of yourself into an attack, without fear or hesitation, in that instant you may attain greatness."
-Predak, Gateless freemage

Aerial Formation

Instant

Strive - Aerial Formation costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Any number of target creatures each get +1/+1 and gain flying until end of turn.

Aerial Caravan

Creature - Human Soldier

Flying

: Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card. (Reveal the card as you exile it.)

Successful delivery is *not* guaranteed.

Aeon Chronicler

Creature - Avatar

Aeon Chronicler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Suspend X-. X can't be 0. (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with X time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Whenever a time counter is removed from Aeon Chronicler while it's exiled, draw a card.

Aeolipile

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Aeolipile: Aeolipile deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"Although fragile, the Aeolipile could be quite destructive."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. I

Aegis of the Meek

Artifact

, : Target 1/1 creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

"With this marvel, even the weak have a fighting chance!"
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

Aegis of the Gods

Enchantment Creature - Human Soldier

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

Athreos cares little for the other gods' conflict with mortals. He is concerned only with safe passage for the dead.

Aegis of Honor

Enchantment

: The next time an instant or sorcery spell would deal damage to you this turn, that spell deals that damage to its controller instead.

Aegis Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Aegis Angel enters the battlefield, another target permanent is indestructible for as long as you control Aegis Angel. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy that permanent. An indestructible creature can't be destroyed by damage.)

Advocate of the Beast

Creature - Elf Shaman

At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on target Beast creature you control.

"I am neither their drover nor their leader. To these majestic beasts, I am simply their herdmate and nothing more."

Advice from the Fae

Sorcery

( can be paid with any two mana or with . This card's converted mana cost is 6.)

Look at the top five cards of your library. If you control more creatures than each other player, put two of those cards into your hand. Otherwise, put one of them into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Adverse Conditions

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step. Put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Adventuring Gear

Artifact - Equipment

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

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

An explorer's essentials in a wild world.

Adventurers' Guildhouse

Land

Green 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.)

Advent of the Wurm

Instant

Put a 5/5 green Wurm creature token with trample onto the battlefield.

The consciousness of Mat'Selesnya does not always spread in peaceful ways.

Advantageous Proclamation

Conspiracy

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

Your minimum deck size is reduced by five.

"The beneficent council deems you worthy of favor. They hope this doesn't provoke envy from your peers."

Advanced Hoverguard

Creature - Drone

Flying

: Advanced Hoverguard gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"They are like their vedalken masters: untouchable, aloof, and omnipresent."
-Bruenna, Neurok leader

Advance Scout

Creature - Human Soldier Scout

First strike

: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"The soldier's path is worn smooth by the tread of many feet-all in one direction, none returning."
-Oracle en-Vec

Adun Oakenshield

Legendary Creature - Human Knight

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

". . . And at his passing, the bodies of the world's great warriors shall rise from their graves and follow him to battle." -The Anvilonian Grimoire

Admonition Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may exile target nonland permanent other than Admonition Angel.

When Admonition Angel leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Addle

Sorcery

Choose a color. Target player reveals his or her hand and you choose a card of that color from it. That player discards that card.

"I'll wring out your tiny mind like a sponge."
-Urborg witch

Adder-Staff Boggart

Creature - Goblin Warrior

When Adder-Staff Boggart enters the battlefield, clash with an opponent. If you win, put a +1/+1 counter on Adder-Staff Boggart. (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.)

Adarkar Windform

Snow Creature - Illusion

Flying

{S}: Target creature loses flying until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow permanent.)

Terisiare has only two kinds of weather: cold and weird.

Adarkar Wastes

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Add or to your mana pool. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Adarkar Valkyrie

Snow Creature - Angel

Flying, vigilance

: When target creature other than Adarkar Valkyrie dies this turn, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

She doesn't escort the dead to the afterlife, but instead raises them to fight and die again.

Adarkar Unicorn

Creature - Unicorn

: Add or to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to pay cumulative upkeep costs.

"There is no nobler creature in all of Terisiare."
-General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Adarkar Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Soldier

: Adarkar Sentinel gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"We encountered the Sentinels in the wastes, near no living thing. Their purpose was inscrutable."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Adaptive Snapjaw

Creature - Lizard Beast

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

"Eh, needs more toad."
-Gulistan, Simic biomancer

Adaptive Automaton

Artifact Creature - Construct

As Adaptive Automaton enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Adaptive Automaton is the chosen type in addition to its other types.

Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Such loyalty can only be made.

Adamaro, First to Desire

Legendary Creature - Spirit

Adamaro, First to Desire's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in the hand of the opponent with the most cards in hand.

"Beware Adamaro! In him all pain and anger is perfected."
-Isao, Enlightened Bushi

Ad Nauseam

Instant

Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost. You may repeat this process any number of times.

When the task spilled over into undeath, he stopped calling it his life's work.

Active Volcano

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target blue permanent; or return target Island to its owner's hand.

Act on Impulse

Sorcery

Exile the top three cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may play cards exiled this way. (If you cast a spell this way, you still pay its costs. You can play a land this way only if you have an available land play remaining.)

"You don't want to know what happens after I put on the goggles."

Act of Treason

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

"Rage courses in every heart, yearning to betray its rational prison."
-Sarkhan Vol

Act of Authority

Enchantment

When Act of Authority enters the battlefield, you may exile target artifact or enchantment.At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile target artifact or enchantment. If you do, its controller gains control of Act of Authority.

Act of Aggression

Instant

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Acridian

Creature - Insect

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

The elves of Argoth were trained to ride these creatures, even when their mounts traveled upside-down.

Acquire

Sorcery

Search target opponent's library for an artifact card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Sometimes "innovation" means "stealing another's secret before anyone else can."

Acorn Harvest

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Flashback-, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Acorn Catapult

Artifact

, : Acorn Catapult deals 1 damage to target creature or player. That creature's controller or that player puts a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token onto the battlefield.

The Kalonian word for "ammunition" is the same as the word for "bait."

Acolyte's Reward

Instant

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn, where X is your devotion to white. If damage is prevented this way, Acolyte's Reward deals that much damage to target creature or player. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.)

Acolyte of Xathrid

Creature - Human Cleric

, : Target player loses 1 life.

Like all priests, she gives her blessings only to those truly worthy of them.

Acidic Soil

Sorcery

Acidic Soil deals damage to each player equal to the number of lands he or she controls.

Phyrexia had tried to take Urza's soul. He was relieved that Shiv tried to claim only his soles.

Acidic Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Slivers have ", Sacrifice this permanent: This permanent deals 2 damage to target creature or player."

The first sliver burst against the cave wall, and others piled in behind to deepen the new tunnel.

Acidic Slime

Creature - Ooze

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

When Acidic Slime enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Acidic Dagger

Artifact

, : Whenever target creature deals combat damage to a non-Wall creature this turn, destroy that non-Wall creature. When the targeted creature leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice Acidic Dagger. Activate this ability only before blockers are declared.

Acid-Spewer Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying, deathtouch

Megamorph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

When Acid-Spewer Dragon is turned face up, put a +1/+1 counter on each other Dragon creature you control.

Acid Web Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach

When Acid Web Spider enters the battlefield, you may destroy target Equipment.

Its web is an excellent source of found copper for the daring or the stupid.

Acid Rain

Sorcery

Destroy all Forests.

Accursed Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Many have heard the slither of dragging armor and the soft squelch of its voice. But only its victims ever meet its icy gaze.

Accursed Centaur

Creature - Zombie Centaur

When Accursed Centaur enters the battlefield, sacrifice a creature.

"The Cabal mocks the natural order. For its minions, death is just a pause between duties."
-Kamahl, druid acolyte

Accumulated Knowledge

Instant

Draw a card, then draw cards equal to the number of cards named Accumulated Knowledge in all graveyards.

"I have seen and heard much here. There are secrets within secrets. Let me show you."
-Takara, to Eladamri

Accorder's Shield

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)

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

An Auriok shield is polished to a mirror finish even on the inside, enabling its bearer to watch foes ahead and behind.

Accorder Paladin

Creature - Human Knight

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)

"I fight for the suns, the surface, and everything in between."

Acceptable Losses

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Acceptable Losses, discard a card at random.

Acceptable Losses deals 5 damage to target creature.

Accelerated Mutation

Instant

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the highest converted mana cost among permanents you control.

Its food just got a lot smaller and its stomach a lot bigger.

Accelerate

Instant

Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"I've seen lightning move slower."
-Nomad sentry

Academy Ruins

Legendary Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Its secrets once wrought the greatest artifice ever known. Now crabs loot the rubble to decorate their shells.

Academy Researchers

Creature - Human Wizard

When Academy Researchers enters the battlefield, you may put an Aura card from your hand onto the battlefield attached to Academy Researchers.

They brandish their latest theories as warriors would wield weapons.

Academy Rector

Creature - Human Cleric

When Academy Rector dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Academy Raider

Creature - Human Warrior

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Whenever Academy Raider deals combat damage to a player, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Academy Elite

Creature - Human Wizard

Academy Elite enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in all graveyards.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Academy Elite: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Abzan Skycaptain

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

When Abzan Skycaptain dies, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

"A tempest is coming. Turn your faces toward the wind!"

Abzan Runemark

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Enchanted creature has vigilance as long as you control a black or green permanent.

Abzan Kin-Guard

Creature - Human Warrior

Abzan Kin-Guard has lifelink as long as you control a white or black permanent.

"The Mardu rush headlong toward extinction. We ensure the longevity of our clan by protecting our territory, not rampaging through it."