Wirewood Herald

Creature - Elf

When Wirewood Herald dies, you may search your library for an Elf card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

The goblins laughed as the elf ran away, until more came back.

Beacon of Destiny

Creature - Human Cleric

: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, that damage is dealt to Beacon of Destiny instead.

"We all borrowed life from the Ancestor to exist in this world. Today, I repay that debt."

Cloudreach Cavalry

Creature - Human Soldier

As long as you control a Bird, Cloudreach Cavalry gets +2/+2 and has flying.

"It's easy to lose sight of hope until you gaze out from my vantage point."

Stoic Champion

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever a player cycles a card, Stoic Champion gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

His outer calm belies his inner fury.

Sunstrike Legionnaire

Creature - Human Soldier

Sunstrike Legionnaire doesn't untap during your untap step.

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, untap Sunstrike Legionnaire.

: Tap target creature with converted mana cost 3 or less.

Mistform Sliver

Creature - Illusion Sliver

All Slivers have ": This permanent becomes the creature type of your choice in addition to its other types until end of turn."

Taking the form of a junior researcher, the first sliver slipped out of Riptide.

Riptide Mangler

Creature - Beast

: Change Riptide Mangler's power to target creature's power. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

It wants you to be its chum.

Voidmage Apprentice

Creature - Human Wizard

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

When Voidmage Apprentice is turned face up, counter target spell.

Wall of Deceit

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Turn Wall of Deceit face down.

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

Willbender

Creature - Human Wizard

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

When Willbender is turned face up, change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Crypt Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Slivers have ": Regenerate target Sliver."

"Death couldn't contain the slivers. What made us think we could?"
-Riptide Project researcher

Earthblighter

Creature - Human Cleric

, , Sacrifice a Goblin: Destroy target land.

"A single dedicated mind can bring about the greatest destruction. That, or goblins-goblins work too."

Goblin Turncoat

Creature - Goblin Mercenary

Sacrifice a Goblin: Regenerate Goblin Turncoat.

"Goblins won't betray their own kind for any price. They'll do it for a very specific price."
-Phage the Untouchable

Skinthinner

Creature - Zombie

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

When Skinthinner is turned face up, destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Withered Wretch

Creature - Zombie Cleric

: Exile target card from a graveyard.

Once it consecrated the dead. Now it desecrates them.

Goblin Firebug

Creature - Goblin

When Goblin Firebug leaves the battlefield, sacrifice a land.

Most goblins leave behind a wake of destruction. A few goblins take one with them.

Goblin Lookout

Creature - Goblin

, Sacrifice a Goblin: Goblin creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

"Throw rocks at 'em Throw spears at 'em Throw Furt at 'em"

Hunter Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have provoke. (When a Sliver attacks, its controller may have target creature defending player controls untap and block it if able.)

Once they get the scent, there is no escape.

Skirk Alarmist

Creature - Human Wizard

Haste

: Turn target face-down creature you control face up. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.

"I treat each day as your last."

Skirk Drill Sergeant

Creature - Goblin

Whenever Skirk Drill Sergeant or another Goblin dies, you may pay . If you do, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a Goblin permanent card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your graveyard.

"I order you to volunteer."

Skirk Marauder

Creature - Goblin

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

When Skirk Marauder is turned face up, it deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Gempalm Strider

Creature - Elf

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

When you cycle Gempalm Strider, Elf creatures get +2/+2 until end of turn.

Quick Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Flash

Any player may play Sliver cards as though they had flash.

The directors of the Riptide Project wanted instant results on the sliver experiments. They got their wish.

Stonewood Invoker

Creature - Elf Mutant

: Stonewood Invoker gets +5/+5 until end of turn.

The Mirari pulses in his veins.

Tribal Forcemage

Creature - Elf Wizard

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

When Tribal Forcemage is turned face up, creatures of the creature type of your choice get +2/+2 and gain trample until end of turn.

Wirewood Hivemaster

Creature - Elf

Whenever another nontoken Elf enters the battlefield, you may put a 1/1 green Insect creature token onto the battlefield.

"Most insects have been drawn to the Mirari. But all that remain in Wirewood are under my care."

Aven Farseer

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

Whenever a permanent is turned face up, put a +1/+1 counter on Aven Farseer.

His enemies' trickery and deceit only fuel his righteous anger.

Daru Spiritualist

Creature - Human Cleric

Whenever a Cleric creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability, it gets +0/+2 until end of turn.

He lifts the spirits of his people so they may descend in wrath upon their foes.

Exiled Doomsayer

Creature - Human Cleric

All morph costs cost more. (This doesn't affect the cost to cast creature spells face down.)

He's desperate to hold back the future because he has seen it.

Silver Knight

Creature - Human Knight

First strike, protection from red

Otaria's last defense against the wave of chaos threatening to engulf it.

Coast Watcher

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying, protection from green

The aven came to fear the forest's clawing branches, but the watchers quickly renewed their courage.

Cabal Interrogator

Creature - Zombie Wizard

, : Target player reveals X cards from his or her hand and you choose one of them. That player discards that card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Consumptive Goo

Creature - Ooze

: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on Consumptive Goo.

Silent as fog and relentless as plague, it is wet, creeping death.

Auriok Bladewarden

Creature - Human Soldier

: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is Auriok Bladewarden's power.

The Auriok have learned through constant struggle that allies are more precious than water.

Auriok Steelshaper

Creature - Human Soldier

Equip costs you pay cost less.

As long as Auriok Steelshaper is equipped, Soldier and/or Knight creatures you control get +1/+1.

They put their safety in his hands. He puts sharpened steel in theirs.

Leonin Den-Guard

Creature - Cat Soldier

As long as Leonin Den-Guard is equipped, it gets +1/+1 and has vigilance.

No one under the four suns can elude the watchful eye of the den-guard.

Loxodon Peacekeeper

Creature - Elephant Soldier

At the beginning of your upkeep, the player with the lowest life total gains control of Loxodon Peacekeeper. If two or more players are tied for lowest life total, you choose one of them, and that player gains control of Loxodon Peacekeeper.

Neurok Familiar

Creature - Bird

Flying

When Neurok Familiar enters the battlefield, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, put it into your graveyard.

Slith Bloodletter

Creature - Slith

Whenever Slith Bloodletter deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

: Regenerate Slith Bloodletter.

Goblins fear the slith, believing they are children banished from the womb of the Steel Mother, deep within Kuldotha.

Goblin Striker

Creature - Goblin Berserker

First strike, haste

Slith Firewalker

Creature - Slith

Haste

Whenever Slith Firewalker deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Slith Predator

Creature - Slith

Trample

Whenever Slith Predator deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Tel-Jilad Chosen

Creature - Elf Warrior

Protection from artifacts

Alpha Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Myr Retriever

Artifact Creature - Myr

When Myr Retriever dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Omega Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Leonin Shikari

Creature - Cat Soldier

You may activate equip abilities any time you could cast an instant.

Her instinct is as sharp as her blade.

Pteron Ghost

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Sacrifice Pteron Ghost: Regenerate target artifact.

Defending to the death isn't always enough.

Vedalken Engineer

Creature - Vedalken Artificer

: Add two mana of any one color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.

Art is unknown to the vedalken-for them, all creations must serve a purpose.

Grimclaw Bats

Creature - Bat

Flying

, Pay 1 life: Grimclaw Bats gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Even on a world of metal, there are those who thirst for blood.

Drooling Ogre

Creature - Ogre

Whenever a player casts an artifact spell, that player gains control of Drooling Ogre. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

"Is it the stomping kind or the munching kind?"
-Slobad, goblin tinkerer

Goblin Archaeologist

Creature - Goblin Artificer

, : Flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy target artifact and untap Goblin Archaeologist. If you lose the flip, sacrifice Goblin Archaeologist.

Always easily impressed, Durg was about to be blown away.

Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer

Legendary Creature - Goblin Artificer

Sacrifice an artifact: Target artifact is indestructible this turn. ("Destroy" effects and lethal damage don't destroy that artifact.)

"I used to joke that he had been exiled for being too smart. Now I know why he never laughed."
-Glissa Sunseeker

Viridian Zealot

Creature - Elf Warrior

, Sacrifice Viridian Zealot: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I will fight only the way nature intended-and nature intended us to win."

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.)

Arcbound Slith

Artifact Creature - Slith

Whenever Arcbound Slith deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

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 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.)

Coretapper

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Put a charge counter on target artifact.

Sacrifice Coretapper: Put two charge counters on target artifact.

It converts the faintest surges of power from Mirrodin's core into usable energy, providing endless power for Memnarch's creations on the surface.

Spincrusher

Artifact Creature - Construct

Whenever Spincrusher blocks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spincrusher: Spincrusher is unblockable this turn.

It rolls with the punches.

Auriok Champion

Creature - Human Cleric

Protection from black and from red

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may gain 1 life.

"Her will shall banish the shadows. Her might shall punish the lawless. Her beauty shall restore the light."
-Ushanti, leonin seer

Leonin Squire

Creature - Cat Soldier

When Leonin Squire enters the battlefield, return target artifact card with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

"I may be kha, but without my soldiers, my people, I am nothing."
-Raksha Golden Cub

Blind Creeper

Creature - Zombie Beast

Whenever a player casts a spell, Blind Creeper gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

It shuns everything except its next meal.

Sylvok Explorer

Creature - Human Druid

: Add to your mana pool one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Any creature on a druid's shoulder is his family, any land under his feet his home.

Tangle Asp

Creature - Snake

Whenever Tangle Asp blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

"I have no fangs, yet I constantly bite. I have no scales, yet I slither through you. What am I?"
-Riddle of the viper's venom

Eight-and-a-Half-Tails

Legendary Creature - Fox Cleric

: Target permanent you control gains protection from white until end of turn.

: Target spell or permanent becomes white until end of turn.

"Virtue is an inner light that can prevail in every soul."

Kami of Ancient Law

Creature - Spirit

Sacrifice Kami of Ancient Law: Destroy target enchantment.

"Duty and law are the foundation on which civilization stands. They must not fall, for when they do, they take everything with them."
-Lord Konda

Konda's Hatamoto

Creature - Human Samurai

Bushido 1 (When this blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

As long as you control a legendary Samurai, Konda's Hatamoto gets +1/+2 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Samurai of the Pale Curtain

Creature - Fox Samurai

Bushido 1 (When this blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

If a permanent would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Sensei Golden-Tail

Legendary Creature - Fox Samurai

Bushido 1 (When this blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

, : Put a training counter on target creature. That creature gains bushido 1 and becomes a Samurai in addition to its other creature types. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Silent-Chant Zubera

Creature - Zubera Spirit

When Silent-Chant Zubera dies, you gain 2 life for each Zubera that died this turn.

When the Honden of Cleansing Fire was abandoned, its attendants swarmed Kamigawa to erode mortal will.

Floating-Dream Zubera

Creature - Zubera Spirit

When Floating-Dream Zubera dies, draw a card for each Zubera that died this turn.

When the Honden of Seeing Winds was forgotten, its attendants swarmed Kamigawa to uncover mortal secrets.

Guardian of Solitude

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"It seemed an easy thing, to step into the nothingness, to fall, to die. But then, for an instant, I saw it, eyes filled with endless sorrow, and I turned back to face my pain."
-Snow-Fur, kitsune poet

Hisoka's Guard

Creature - Human Wizard

You may choose not to untap Hisoka's Guard during your untap step.

, : Target creature you control other than Hisoka's Guard has shroud for as long as Hisoka's Guard remains tapped. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Jushi Apprentice

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Draw a card. If you have nine or more cards in hand, flip Jushi Apprentice.

Soratami Cloudskater

Creature - Moonfolk Rogue

Flying

, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Draw a card, then discard a card.

"You hide your actions from eyes on the ground, but nothing escapes the clouds."

Student of Elements

Creature - Human Wizard

When Student of Elements has flying, flip it.

Ashen-Skin Zubera

Creature - Zubera Spirit

When Ashen-Skin Zubera dies, target opponent discards a card for each Zubera that died this turn.

When the Honden of Night's Reach began to crumble, its attendants swarmed Kamigawa to haunt mortal dreams.

Cruel Deceiver

Creature - Spirit

: Look at the top card of your library.

: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, Cruel Deceiver gains "Whenever Cruel Deceiver deals damage to a creature, destroy that creature" until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Kiku, Night's Flower

Legendary Creature - Human Assassin

, : Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

"A wanderer has told me of an assassin in the Takenuma Swamp who uses her dark arts to animate her enemies' shadows against them. A wild tale, but it explains much."
-Diary of Azusa

Nezumi Bone-Reader

Creature - Rat Shaman

, Sacrifice a creature: Target player discards a card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Four generations ago, old Split-Tail stole a bundle of scrolls from the Minamo School. Soon after, the first nezumi shamans were born.

Nezumi Cutthroat

Creature - Rat Warrior

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Nezumi Cutthroat can't block.

"These nezumi, they disgust me. The things they will do for money no other thinking creature would consider. This, of course, makes them useful beyond words."
-Meloku the Clouded Mirror

Nezumi Graverobber

Creature - Rat Rogue

: Exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If no cards are in that graveyard, flip Nezumi Graverobber.

Nezumi Shortfang

Creature - Rat Rogue

, : Target opponent discards a card. Then if that player has no cards in hand, flip Nezumi Shortfang.

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.

Akki Rockspeaker

Creature - Goblin Shaman

When Akki Rockspeaker enters the battlefield, add to your mana pool.

The lava-proof shells of akki evolved over centuries, as akki pranks almost always got seriously out of hand.

Battle-Mad Ronin

Creature - Human Samurai

Bushido 2 (When this blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.)

Battle-Mad Ronin attacks each turn if able.

"I fought fiercely, bravely, and without mercy. Had I not struck down my captain in the heat of battle, I might have become a hero instead of an outcast."

Ember-Fist Zubera

Creature - Zubera Spirit

When Ember-Fist Zubera dies, it deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Zubera that died this turn.

When the Honden of Infinite Rage shattered, its attendants swarmed Kamigawa to sow mortal destruction.

Hearth Kami

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice Hearth Kami: Destroy target artifact with converted mana cost X.

"Every treachery, great or small, begets a spirit that rages at the injustice. Given the opportunity, each will return that treachery to its owner tenfold."
-Sensei Hisoka

Budoka Gardener

Creature - Human Monk

: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you control ten or more lands, flip Budoka Gardener.

Dripping-Tongue Zubera

Creature - Zubera Spirit

When Dripping-Tongue Zubera dies, put a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token onto the battlefield for each Zubera that died this turn.

When the Honden of Life's Web was destroyed, its attendants swarmed Kamigawa to ensure mortal defeat.

Humble Budoka

Creature - Human Monk

Shroud (This permanent can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Each time wanderers entered the forest seeking enlightenment, Dosan was there, waiting for them to arrive.

Orochi Ranger

Creature - Snake Warrior

Whenever Orochi Ranger deals combat damage to a creature, tap that creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"The young come to me, confused. They have been taught to respect the kami, and now they must fight them? I do not know what to say."
-Sachi, to her father

Orochi Sustainer

Creature - Snake Shaman

: Add to your mana pool.

"Nothing is the same anymore. The forests are not as lush, the waters not as pure, the air not as clear. Without the kami to direct and sustain the forces of nature, it's only a matter of time before we feel their neglect."

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Creature - Snake Shaman

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

There were no tombstones in orochi territory. Slain warriors were buried with a tree sapling, so they would become a part of the forest after death.

Soilshaper

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target land becomes a 3/3 creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

It spoke with the voice of nature, but its words were curses spat upon humankind.

Kentaro, the Smiling Cat

Legendary Creature - Human Samurai

Bushido 1 (When this blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

You may pay rather than pay the mana cost for Samurai spells you cast, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.

"The bonds of bushido will draw the dishonored back someday, and I will be there waiting."

Split-Tail Miko

Creature - Fox Cleric

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

"I wish there were no use for those with my talents. I wish that I could walk Kamigawa forgotten and unneeded, with no war wounds to heal and no broken bones to mend."

Tallowisp

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may search your library for an Aura card with enchant creature, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.

Isolated on its little candlewick, the kami never heard of the crime that drove its comrades to war.

Floodbringer

Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Tap target land.

"Such a small thing, a drop of water . . . And yet enough of them together can flood a field, cleanse a mire, or choke a forest."

Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch

Creature - Spirit

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

When it's finished, all that's left of you is a ripple on a still pond.