Deepwater Hypnotist

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Inspired - Whenever Deepwater Hypnotist becomes untapped, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

"Watch the waves too long, and you may never look away."
-Meletian proverb

Deepwood Drummer

Creature - Human Spellshaper

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

His drums echo Deepwood's heartbeat.

Deepwood Elder

Creature - Dryad Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: X target lands become Forests until end of turn.

They'd guarded the Henge so long that they were as attuned to the powerstones as they were to the trees.

Deepwood Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

Pay 2 life: Regenerate Deepwood Ghoul.

They feed on the living to stay undead.

Deepwood Legate

Creature - Shade

If an opponent controls a Forest and you control a Swamp, you may cast Deepwood Legate without paying its mana cost.

: Deepwood Legate gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Deepwood Tantiv

Creature - Beast

Whenever Deepwood Tantiv becomes blocked, you gain 2 life.

A single tantiv is just as dangerous as a herd.

Deepwood Wolverine

Creature - Wolverine

Whenever Deepwood Wolverine becomes blocked, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

The jhovalls are depleting its food sources, the Mercadians are eroding its home, and you're wondering why it's angry?

Defender en-Vec

Creature - Human Cleric

Fading 4 (This creature enters the battlefield with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Remove a fade counter from Defender en-Vec: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Defender of Chaos

Creature - Human Knight

Flash

Protection from white

Some knights will not follow orders-only disorder.

Defender of Law

Creature - Human Knight

Flash

Protection from red

"It is not my place to question Radiant's rule. I exist to enforce her will."

Defender of the Order

Creature - Human Cleric

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

When Defender of the Order is turned face up, creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

Defiant Bloodlord

Creature - Vampire

Flying

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

"Despite their bravado, mortals are fragile. If Zendikar is to endure, its lords must save it."-Drana, Kalastria bloodchief

Defiant Elf

Creature - Elf

Trample

"I lost one home when Yavimaya was destroyed. I will not lose another."

Defiant Falcon

Creature - Rebel Bird

Flying

, : Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with converted mana cost 3 or less and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Defiant Ogre

Creature - Ogre Warrior

When Defiant Ogre enters the battlefield, choose one -

• Put a +1/+1 counter on Defiant Ogre.

• Destroy target artifact.

"I have no clan, but I still have purpose."

Defiant Vanguard

Creature - Human Rebel

When Defiant Vanguard blocks, at end of combat, destroy it and all creatures it blocked this turn.

, : Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with converted mana cost 4 or less and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Defiler of Souls

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a monocolored creature.

"Stray not into sin, lest you face the doorman of an insatiable tomb."
-Prayer of Asha

Deft Duelist

Creature - Human Rogue

First strike

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

Some Serul Cove rogues traffic in stolen sigils, which fetch a high price from those who would rather pay for honor than earn it.

Deftblade Elite

Creature - Human Soldier

Provoke (When this attacks, you may have target creature defending player controls untap and block it if able.)

: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by Deftblade Elite this turn.

Dega Disciple

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Target creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn.

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

"There is no true equity of power. There is only more and less."

Degavolver

Creature - Volver

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

If Degavolver was kicked with its kicker, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it and with "Pay 3 life: Regenerate Degavolver."

If Degavolver was kicked with its kicker, it enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it and with first strike.

Deity of Scars

Creature - Spirit Avatar

Trample

Deity of Scars enters the battlefield with two -1/-1 counters on it.

, Remove a -1/-1 counter from Deity of Scars: Regenerate Deity of Scars.

"His skin cuts swords."
-The Seer's Parables

Delraich

Creature - Horror

Trample

You may sacrifice three black creatures rather than pay Delraich's mana cost.

It wears the souls of its victims like jewels on a chain.

Delver of Secrets

Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card. If an instant or sorcery card is revealed this way, transform Delver of Secrets.

Dementia Bat

Creature - Bat

Flying

, Sacrifice Dementia Bat: Target player discards two cards.

"When terror outweighs all other thoughts, they will understand that I am the true Father of Machines."
-Azax-Azog, the Demon Thane

Dementia Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Slivers have ": Name a card. Target opponent reveals a card at random from his or her hand. If it's the named card, that player discards it. Activate this ability only during your turn."

Demigod of Revenge

Creature - Spirit Avatar

Flying, haste

When you cast Demigod of Revenge, return all cards named Demigod of Revenge from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"His laugh, a bellowing, deathly din, slices through the heavens, making them bleed."
-The Seer's Parables

Demon of Death's Gate

Creature - Demon

You may pay 6 life and sacrifice three black creatures rather than pay Demon of Death's Gate's mana cost.

Flying, trample

The locks on the cages of the damned are opened with keys of marrow, sinew, and blood.

Demon of Wailing Agonies

Creature - Demon

Flying

Lieutenant - As long as you control your commander, Demon of Wailing Agonies gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever Demon of Wailing Agonies deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a creature."

Demon's Herald

Creature - Human Wizard

, , Sacrifice a blue creature, a black creature, and a red creature: Search your library for a card named Prince of Thralls and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

"May these deaths be the first of many."

Demon's Jester

Creature - Imp

Flying

Hellbent - Demon's Jester gets +2/+1 as long as you have no cards in hand.

They knock 'em dead, with or without the punch line.

Demonic Hordes

Creature - Demon

: Destroy target land.

At the beginning of your upkeep, unless you pay , tap Demonic Hordes and sacrifice a land of an opponent's choice.

Created to destroy Dominia, Demons can sometimes be bent to a more focused purpose.

Demonic Taskmaster

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than Demonic Taskmaster.

Subservience to greater power is the only law in the pit.

Demonlord of Ashmouth

Creature - Demon

Flying

When Demonlord of Ashmouth enters the battlefield, exile it unless you sacrifice another creature.

Undying (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.)

Den Protector

Creature - Human Warrior

Creatures with power less than Den Protector's power can't block it.

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 Den Protector is turned face up, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Denizen of the Deep

Creature - Serpent

When Denizen of the Deep enters the battlefield, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand.

According to merfolk legend, a denizen of the deep swallows the horizon at the end of each day, bringing on the cold blanket of night.

Deputy of Acquittals

Creature - Human Wizard

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

When Deputy of Acquittals enters the battlefield, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

"Everyone deserves a day in court."

Deranged Assistant

Creature - Human Wizard

, Put the top card of your library into your graveyard: Add to your mana pool.

"Garl, adjust the slurry dispensers. Garl, fetch more corpses. Garl, quit crying and give me your brain tissue. If he doesn't stop being so rude, I'm quitting."

Deranged Hermit

Creature - Elf

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.)

When Deranged Hermit enters the battlefield, put four 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Squirrel creatures get +1/+1.

Deranged Outcast

Creature - Human Rogue

, Sacrifice a Human: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Cast out by his village, he now takes grim offense at refugees who seek shelter in his forest.

Derelor

Creature - Thrull

Black spells you cast cost more to cast.

"The derelor's greatest contribution to the Ebon Hand was the inspirational effect its creator's execution had upon the other thrull breeders."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. II

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Legendary Creature - Bird Wizard

FlyingWhenever Derevi, Empyrial Tactician enters the battlefield or a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may tap or untap target permanent.: Put Derevi onto the battlefield from the command zone.

Dermoplasm

Creature - Shapeshifter

Flying

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

When Dermoplasm is turned face up, you may put a creature card with morph from your hand onto the battlefield face up. If you do, return Dermoplasm to its owner's hand.

Descendant of Kiyomaro

Creature - Human Soldier

As long as you have more cards in hand than each opponent, Descendant of Kiyomaro gets +1/+2 and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage, you gain 3 life."

"The blood of Kiyomaro flows in my veins. He did not let Eiganjo fall and neither shall I."

Descendant of Masumaro

Creature - Human Monk

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on Descendant of Masumaro for each card in your hand, then remove a +1/+1 counter from Descendant of Masumaro for each card in target opponent's hand.

Descendant of Soramaro

Creature - Human Wizard

: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of cards in your hand, then put them back in any order.

"Soramaro speaks through me. Listen! And I will tell the wisdom of the ancestors."

Desecration Demon

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of each combat, any opponent may sacrifice a creature. If a player does, tap Desecration Demon and put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Desecration Elemental

Creature - Elemental

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

Whenever a player casts a spell, sacrifice a creature.

Its precious corpses dance like puppets to attract mindless nim prey.

Desecrator Hag

Creature - Hag

When Desecrator Hag enters the battlefield, return to your hand the creature card in your graveyard with the greatest power. If two or more cards are tied for greatest power, you choose one of them.

Loose earth is not a burial but an appetizer.

Desert Nomads

Creature - Human Nomad

Desertwalk

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Desert Nomads by Deserts.

Desolation Angel

Creature - Angel

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

Flying

When Desolation Angel enters the battlefield, destroy all lands you control. If it was kicked, destroy all lands instead.

Desolation Giant

Creature - Giant

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

When Desolation Giant enters the battlefield, destroy all other creatures you control. If it was kicked, destroy all other creatures instead.

Desolation Twin

Creature - Eldrazi

When you cast Desolation Twin, put a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token onto the battlefield.

"With precise coordination and enough blood spilled, one can be driven off, even brought down. But two . . . that's a lot of blood."-Munda, ambush leader

Destructor Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Destructor Dragon dies, destroy target noncreature permanent.

After countless attacks on the Salt Road where it passes through the frozen tundra, the Abzan began to refer to the area as Atarka territory rather than Temur lands.

Detritivore

Creature - Lhurgoyf

Detritivore's power and toughness are each equal to the number of nonbasic land cards in your opponents' graveyards.

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 Detritivore while it's exiled, destroy target nonbasic land.

Deus of Calamity

Creature - Spirit Avatar

Trample

Whenever Deus of Calamity deals 6 or more damage to an opponent, destroy target land that player controls.

"He bears the marks of ages upon his skin, memories of dreams long dead and best left buried."
-The Seer's Parables

Devoted Caretaker

Creature - Human Cleric

, : Target permanent you control gains protection from instant spells and from sorcery spells until end of turn.

Her eyes blaze with the strength of twenty shields. Every glance is a salvation.

Devoted Druid

Creature - Elf Druid

: Add to your mana pool.

Put a -1/-1 counter on Devoted Druid: Untap Devoted Druid.

"Mana lurks in all things, even in the depths of one's own heart."

Devoted Retainer

Creature - Human Samurai

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

Deep within Eiganjo Castle lay the Palace of Infinite Halls, a seemingly endless network of corridors once guarded by a seemingly endless legion of samurai.

Devouring Deep

Creature - Fish

Islandwalk

"Full fathom five thy father lies;/ Of his bones are coral made;/ Those are pearls that were his eyes;/ Nothing of him that doth fade,/ But doth suffer a sea-change/ Into something rich and strange." -William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Devouring Strossus

Creature - Horror

Flying, trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate Devouring Strossus.

Devouring Swarm

Creature - Insect

Flying

Sacrifice a creature: Devouring Swarm gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Their arrival is heralded by the deafening hum of ten thousand wings. Their departure is marked by the silence of the dead.

Devout Chaplain

Creature - Human Cleric

, Tap two untapped Humans you control: Exile target artifact or enchantment.

"By Avacyn's decree, we shall cleanse these relics of their demonic past."

Devout Harpist

Creature - Human

: Destroy target Aura attached to a creature.

The notes themselves are irrelevant. The music's effect, however, is worth ten armies.

Devout Lightcaster

Creature - Kor Cleric

Protection from black

When Devout Lightcaster enters the battlefield, exile target black permanent.

"Goddess, grant us light to banish the world's shadows."
-Prayer to Kamsa

Devout Witness

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

The Cho-Arrim fought Mercadia's decadence with more than just swords.

Dewdrop Spy

Creature - Faerie Rogue

Flash

Flying

When Dewdrop Spy enters the battlefield, look at the top card of target player's library.

Only in dew from Oona herself is there clarity enough to see a victim's mind.

Diabolic Machine

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Regenerate Diabolic Machine.

"The bolts of our ballistae smashed into the monstrous thing, but our hopes died in our chests as its gears continued turning."
-Sevti Mukul, The Fall of Alsoor

Diaochan, Artful Beauty

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

: Destroy target creature of your choice, then destroy target creature of an opponent's choice. Activate this ability only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Diffusion Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Whenever a Sliver creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays .

"The hive shimmered, and its walls seemed a living mirror."
-Hastric, Thunian scout

Diligent Farmhand

Creature - Human Druid

, Sacrifice Diligent Farmhand: Search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

If Diligent Farmhand is in a graveyard, effects from spells named Muscle Burst count it as a card named Muscle Burst.

Diluvian Primordial

Creature - Avatar

Flying

When Diluvian Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a card cast this way would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.

Dimensional Infiltrator

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flash

Flying

{C}: Target opponent exiles the top card of his or her library. If it's a land card, you may return Dimensional Infiltrator to its owner's hand. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Dimir Cutpurse

Creature - Spirit

Whenever Dimir Cutpurse deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you draw a card.

Other guilds demand tolls from those who travel their territories, but not House Dimir. It takes its share secretly, one coin purse at a time.

Dimir Doppelganger

Creature - Shapeshifter

: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Dimir Doppelganger becomes a copy of that card and gains this ability.

"Fear not. Your life will not go unlived."

Dimir Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

( can be paid with either or .)

: Target player draws a card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

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

Dimir House Guard

Creature - Skeleton

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

Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate Dimir House Guard.

Transmute (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same converted mana cost as this card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Dimir Infiltrator

Creature - Spirit

Dimir Infiltrator is unblockable.

Transmute (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same converted mana cost as this card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Dinrova Horror

Creature - Horror

When Dinrova Horror enters the battlefield, return target permanent to its owner's hand, then that player discards a card.

"Welcome to the Dimir Public Offices. Not responsible for death or loss of property. Basement off-limits."
-Sign outside Dinrova Building

Diplomatic Escort

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Counter target spell or ability that targets a creature.

Dire Wolves

Creature - Wolf

Dire Wolves has banding as long as you control a Plains. (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.)

"It's amazing how scared a city kid can get at a dog. Now, of course, I'd cross Terisiare alone, and keep no watch if I had a pack of greys hanging on my flanks as I went."
-Oddveig Ulfsson, caravan scout

Diregraf Captain

Creature - Zombie Soldier

Deathtouch

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.

Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.

Though its mind has long since rotted away, it wields a sword with deadly skill.

Diregraf Escort

Creature - Human Cleric

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)

As long as Diregraf Escort is paired with another creature, both creatures have protection from Zombies.

Diregraf Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

Diregraf Ghoul enters the battlefield tapped.

"At least this one still has arms and legs. Well, most of its legs."
-Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Dirgur Nemesis

Creature - Serpent

Defender

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.)

Dirtcowl Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Whenever an opponent plays a land, put a +1/+1 counter on Dirtcowl Wurm.

Few of Rath's rivers follow a steady course, so many new channels are carved for them.

Dirtwater Wraith

Creature - Wraith

Swampwalk

: Dirtwater Wraith gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"The foul entities of the Uuserk swamp had never before dared to spread their influence to the very heart of Zhalfir."
-Hakim, Loreweaver

Dirty Wererat

Creature - Human Rat Minion

, Discard a card: Regenerate Dirty Wererat.

Threshold - As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Dirty Wererat gets +2/+2 and can't block.

Disciple of Bolas

Creature - Human Wizard

When Disciple of Bolas enters the battlefield, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

"Lord Bolas has shown me how each miserable little life holds untold resources."

Disciple of Deceit

Creature - Human Rogue

Inspired - Whenever Disciple of Deceit becomes untapped, you may discard a nonland card. If you do, search your library for a card with the same converted mana cost as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Disciple of Grace

Creature - Human Cleric

Protection from black

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

Beauty is beyond law.

Disciple of Griselbrand

Creature - Human Cleric

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

The demon Griselbrand dared to stand against Avacyn, earning him the loathing of thousands and the admiration of a few.

Disciple of Kangee

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Target creature gains flying and becomes blue until end of turn.

When no birds are available, Kangee's disciples fill the sky with anything that‘s willing to fight.

Disciple of Law

Creature - Human Cleric

Protection from red

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

A religious order for religious order.

Disciple of Malice

Creature - Human Cleric

Protection from white

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

The lantern he carried did not light his way-it signaled his approach.

Disciple of Phenax

Creature - Human Cleric

When Disciple of Phenax enters the battlefield, target player reveals a number of cards from his or her hand equal to your devotion to black. You choose one of them. That player discards that card. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Disciple of Tevesh Szat

Creature - Human Cleric

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

, , Sacrifice Disciple of Tevesh Szat: Target creature gets -6/-6 until end of turn.

"You pray to Freyalise, but she cannot hear your pleas. It is Tevesh Szat who will claim your soul."

Disciple of the Old Ways

Creature - Human Warrior

: Disciple of the Old Ways gains first strike until end of turn.

"Selesnya thinks nature is a pretty plaything. True nature would rip their faces off and wear their skins as trophies."

Disciple of the Vault

Creature - Human Cleric

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may have target opponent lose 1 life.

He stands in the shadow of his lord, Geth, drinking in the dark energies of the Vault.

Discordant Spirit

Creature - Spirit

At the beginning of each end step, if it's an opponent's turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Discordant Spirit for each 1 damage dealt to you this turn.

At the beginning of your end step, remove all +1/+1 counters from Discordant Spirit.