Vicious Shadows

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, you may have Vicious Shadows deal damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

"Thrashes of the ancient past still linger in spirit and shadow, desperate to sink their claws into our souls."
-Rakka Mar

Victim of Night

Instant

Destroy target non-Vampire, non-Werewolf, non-Zombie creature.

"Do not touch a drop. Not yet. I want to watch this so-called slayer's last crisis of faith."
-Olivia Voldaren

Victimize

Sorcery

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

The priest cast Xantcha to the ground. "It is defective. We must scrap it."

Victorious Destruction

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land. Its controller loses 1 life.

"The refugees look at these structures with hope. We must relieve them of this burden."
-Juex, tormentor exarch

Victory's Herald

Creature - Angel

Flying

Whenever Victory's Herald attacks, attacking creatures gain flying and lifelink until end of turn.

The corruption stirred the heavens above, awaking a shining champion.

View from Above

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. If you control a white permanent, return View from Above to its owner's hand.

"This air feels so heavy and thick. There are no winds to speak of. I fear the knowledge that comes from a place like this."

Vigil for the Lost

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay . If you do, you gain X life.

"As she grew cold in my arms, I swore an oath that her funeral pyre would be dwarfed by a bonfire of our enemies."

Vigilante Justice

Enchantment

Whenever a Human enters the battlefield under your control, Vigilante Justice deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

It begins as a whisper and ends with the red roar of fire.

Vile Aggregate

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Vile Aggregate's power is equal to the number of colorless creatures you control.

Trample

Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of his or her library.)

Vile Rebirth

Instant

Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

"‘Here lies our beloved Gartu, the gentlest of all men.' Ooh, I love irony."
-Jadar, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Vile Redeemer

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flash

When you cast Vile Redeemer, you may pay {C}. If you do, put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield for each nontoken creature that died under your control this turn. Those tokens have "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C} to your mana pool."

Vile Requiem

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Vile Requiem.

, Sacrifice Vile Requiem: Destroy up to X target nonblack creatures, where X is the number of verse counters on Vile Requiem. They can't be regenerated.

Village Bell-Ringer

Creature - Human Scout

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

When Village Bell-Ringer enters the battlefield, untap all creatures you control.

"Priests, hunters, slayers-to arms! The enemy approaches!"

Village Cannibals

Creature - Human

Whenever another Human creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Village Cannibals.

Some have endured the horrors of Innistrad by becoming the worst monsters of all.

Village Ironsmith

Creature - Human Werewolf

First strike

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

Each night, he abandons the trappings of civilization.

Village Survivors

Creature - Human

Vigilance

Fateful hour - As long as you have 5 or less life, other creatures you control have vigilance.

As their villages fell to werewolves, fleeing refugees discovered they too had remarkable survival instincts.

Villagers of Estwald

Creature - Human Werewolf

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

You can spot a werewolf-infested town by its lack of butcher shops.

Villainous Wealth

Sorcery

Target opponent exiles the top X cards of his or her library. You may cast any number of nonland cards with converted mana cost X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.

Gold buys death. Death earns gold.

Vines of the Recluse

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+2 and gains reach until end of turn. Untap it. (A creature with reach can block creatures with flying.)

"The most elegant solutions are found in nature. You just have to know where to look."

Vines of Vastwood

Instant

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

Target creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn. If Vines of Vastwood was kicked, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Vineweft

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

: Return Vineweft from your graveyard to your hand.

Fortified by the wilds.

Violent Outburst

Instant

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Violent Ultimatum

Sorcery

Destroy three target permanents.

"Words are a waste of time. Destruction is a language everyone understands."
-Sarkhan Vol

Viper's Kiss

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

"I could heal a snakebite. Looks like you got bitten by a constellation."
-Aescalos, healer of Pharika

Viral Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

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

: Proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

Viridian Betrayers

Creature - Elf Warrior

Viridian Betrayers has infect as long as an opponent is poisoned. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

To secure a place in Phyrexia's ranks, they hunted their surviving kin.

Viridian Claw

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike.

Equip

"Phyrexians can't corrupt what they can't get close enough to touch."

Viridian Corrupter

Creature - Elf Shaman

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

When Viridian Corrupter enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact.

Viridian Emissary

Creature - Elf Scout

When Viridian Emissary dies, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Viridian Harvest

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

When enchanted artifact is put into a graveyard, you gain 6 life.

"In the midst of horror beyond imagining, I still see things that lift my heart."
-Ezuri

Viridian Revel

Enchantment

Whenever an artifact is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, you may draw a card.

"Let them have their revel. Soon those who won't submit will be turned. Those who won't be turned will die."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Virulent Plague

Enchantment

Creature tokens get -2/-2.

"This pestilence robs us of glorious death in battle. We starve to death with full bellies and drown trying to slake our unnatural thirst."
-Kerai Hatesinger, Kolaghan warrior

Virulent Swipe

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Virulent Wound

Instant

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. When that creature dies this turn, its controller gets a poison counter.

Sadly, the extent of Gerkk's healing knowledge was "don't pick at it."

Viscera Dragger

Creature - Zombie Ogre Warrior

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

Unearth (: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Viscera Seer

Creature - Vampire Wizard

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

In matters of life and death, he trusts his gut.

Viseling

Artifact Creature - Construct

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

"This may hurt a lot."

Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter

Legendary Creature - Vampire

Flying, lifelink

Sacrifice a creature: Put X +1/+1 counters on Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Remove all +1/+1 counters from Vish Kal: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each +1/+1 counter removed this way.

Vision Skeins

Instant

Each player draws two cards.

"I could see in the other mage's eyes that he'd thought of it too. Then it became a race to exploit the knowledge first."

Visions of Beyond

Instant

Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.

"The past is the foundation for all that exists in the present. We merely reconstruct what our ancestors have already discovered."
-Sachimir, Sage of Memories