Armada Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Trample

When Armada Wurm enters the battlefield, put a 5/5 green Wurm creature token with trample onto the battlefield.

No one in the Conclave acts alone.

Arm with Æther

Sorcery

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, you may return target creature that player controls to its owner's hand."

"Anything we can do to hurt the Phyrexian invaders is worth dying for."

Arid Mesa

Land

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Arid Mesa: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Argentum Armor

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +6/+6.

Whenever equipped creature attacks, destroy target permanent.

Equip

Mirrodin's creator still lives, still shapes metal, and still commands world-shaking power.

Argent Sphinx

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Metalcraft - : Exile Argent Sphinx. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step. Activate this ability only if you control three or more artifacts.

A great mirage, a dream of wings and silver.

Argent Mutation

Instant

Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"My world is corrupted beyond cleansing. I must prevent this from happening to other worlds."
-Karn

Arena Athlete

Creature - Human

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Arena Athlete, target creature an opponent controls can't block this turn.

The Iroan Games award no medals. Athletes vie for a visit from Iroas, god of victory.

Ardent Recruit

Creature - Human Soldier

Metalcraft - Ardent Recruit gets +2/+2 as long as you control three or more artifacts.

"We lost our homes and our kin. We won't let those rotters take our future as well."

Ardent Plea

Enchantment

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

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.)

Arctic Aven

Creature - Bird Wizard

Flying

Arctic Aven gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Plains.

: Arctic Aven gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Archwing Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying, haste

At the beginning of the end step, return Archwing Dragon to its owner's hand.

Swifter than an angel, crueler than a demon, and relentless as a ghoul.

Archweaver

Creature - Spider

Reach, trample

The silk of the archweavers adds structural integrity to otherwise unstable Izzet building sites.

Archon of the Triumvirate

Creature - Archon

Flying

Whenever Archon of the Triumvirate attacks, detain up to two target nonland permanents your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those permanents can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

Archon of Redemption

Creature - Archon

Flying

Whenever Archon of Redemption or another creature with flying enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain life equal to that creature's power.

Until Emeria is freed, he raises his sword in her name.

Archon of Justice

Creature - Archon

Flying

When Archon of Justice dies, exile target permanent.

In dark times, Truth bears a blade.

Archmage Ascension

Enchantment

At the beginning of each end step, if you drew two or more cards this turn, you may put a quest counter on Archmage Ascension.

As long as Archmage Ascension has six or more quest counters on it, if you would draw a card, you may instead search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Archive Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent searched his or her library this turn, you may pay rather than pay Archive Trap's mana cost.

Target opponent puts the top thirteen cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Architects of Will

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

When Architects of Will enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order.

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

This secret society of mages manipulates the beliefs and opinions of others.

Archfiend of Depravity

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures he or she controls, then sacrifices the rest.

"Why would I kill you all? Who then would be left to worship me?"

Archetype of Imagination

Enchantment Creature - Human Wizard

Creatures you control have flying.

Creatures your opponents control lose flying and can't have or gain flying.

"Is it not the embodiment of our aspirations?"
-Prokopios, astronomer of Meletis

Archetype of Finality

Enchantment Creature - Gorgon

Creatures you control have deathtouch.

Creatures your opponents control lose deathtouch and can't have or gain deathtouch.

She sees mortals not as they wish to be, but as what they will become.

Archetype of Endurance

Enchantment Creature - Boar

Creatures you control have hexproof.

Creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and can't have or gain hexproof.

Despite its fearsome stature, it is as elusive as a shadow, circling round to stalk those who presume to hunt it.

Archetype of Courage

Enchantment Creature - Human Soldier

Creatures you control have first strike.

Creatures your opponents control lose first strike and can't have or gain first strike.

"It has been my experience that soldiers most fervently follow generals who lead by example."
-Elspeth

Archetype of Aggression

Enchantment Creature - Human Warrior

Creatures you control have trample.

Creatures your opponents control lose trample and can't have or gain trample.

"Did Purphoros bless Maikal because of his rage? Or did Maikal's rage blossom after he'd been blessed? Only the gods know."
-Eocles, oracle of Purphoros

Archers' Parapet

Creature - Wall

Defender

, : Each opponent loses 1 life.

Every shaft is graven with a name from a kin tree, calling upon the spirits of the ancestors to make it fly true.

Archers of Qarsi

Creature - Naga Archer

Defender

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"We think of the naga as creeping cutthroats, slitherers in the swamps. But they are equally at home in the trees."
-Goton, Qal Sisma shaman

Archdemon of Unx

Creature - Demon

Flying, trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a non-Zombie creature, then put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

The necropolis at Unx was once a living city, its streets untrodden by death.

Archangel's Light

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each card in your graveyard, then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

"This is the light of Avacyn. Even in her absence she offers us hope."
-Radulf, priest of Avacyn

Archangel of Thune

Creature - Angel

Flying

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Even the wicked have nightmares.

Archangel of Strife

Creature - Angel

Flying

As Archangel of Strife enters the battlefield, each player chooses war or peace.

Creatures controlled by players who chose war get +3/+0.

Creatures controlled by players who chose peace get +0/+3.

Archangel

Creature - Angel

Flying, vigilance

The sky rang with the cries of armored seraphs, and the darkness made a tactical retreat.

Archaeomancer

Creature - Human Wizard

When Archaeomancer enters the battlefield, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Words of power never disappear. They sleep, awaiting those with the will to rouse them."

Arcbound Worker

Artifact Creature - Construct

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

The parts are as strong as the whole.

Arcbound Wanderer

Artifact Creature - Golem

Modular-Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Stinger

Artifact Creature - Insect

Flying

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Ravager

Artifact Creature - Beast

Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Ravager.

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbond

Instant

Choose target creature. Whenever that creature is dealt damage this turn, it deals that much damage to each other creature and each player.

"If you must die today, make your death worthy of legend."
-Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

Arcane Sanctum

Land

Arcane Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

"We must rely on our own knowledge, not on the dogma of the seekers or the mutterings of the sphinxes."
-Tullus of Palandius

Arcane Melee

Enchantment

Instant and sorcery spells cost less to cast.

Debates between wizards are never purely academic.

Arcane Lighthouse

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.