Kabira Vindicator

Creature - Human Knight

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 2-4

3/6

Other creatures you control get +1/+1.

LEVEL 5+

4/8

Other creatures you control get +2/+2.

Linvala, Keeper of Silence

Legendary Creature - Angel

Flying

Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated.

Those who seek to disturb the harmony of life will see their instruments taken from them.

Makindi Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

As the hedrons began to coalesce into colossal Eldrazi superstructures, the griffins were forced to seek new territory lest their aeries be crushed between the massive stone monoliths.

Merfolk Skyscout

Creature - Merfolk Scout

Flying

Whenever Merfolk Skyscout attacks or blocks, untap target permanent.

"Emeria is a pleasant lie, a figment to hide Emrakul's hideous face. I can only hope to uncover a truth that lies deeper still."

Bala Ged Scorpion

Creature - Scorpion

When Bala Ged Scorpion enters the battlefield, you may destroy target creature with power 1 or less.

Fast and lethal, with a penchant for the weak and infirm.

Escaped Null

Creature - Zombie Berserker

Lifelink

Whenever Escaped Null blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +5/+0 until end of turn.

Left masterless by Kozilek, it wandered the wilds, raving in its ceaseless hunger.

Thought Gorger

Creature - Horror

Trample

When Thought Gorger enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each card in your hand. If you do, discard your hand.

When Thought Gorger leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Zof Shade

Creature - Shade

: Zof Shade gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

It haunts the remnants of the Helix of Zof, leeching strength from the vast Eldrazi ruin.

Battle-Rattle Shaman

Creature - Goblin Shaman

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have target creature get +2/+0 until end of turn.

The shaman rattles not to inspire a battle fury but to drown out the shrieks of those fleeing the Eldrazi.

Lagac Lizard

Creature - Lizard

Tracing their ancestry back to Zendikar's earliest forms of life, lagac lizards have seen the comings and goings of planeswalkers and the Eldrazi, and the rise of the vampire clans, none of which has changed them one bit.

Lord of Shatterskull Pass

Creature - Minotaur Shaman

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 1-5

6/6

LEVEL 6+

6/6

Whenever Lord of Shatterskull Pass attacks, it deals 6 damage to each creature defending player controls.

Soulsurge Elemental

Creature - Elemental

First strike

Soulsurge Elemental's power is equal to the number of creatures you control.

It draws its strength from those around it, but the pleasure of destruction is all its own.

Vent Sentinel

Creature - Elemental

Defender

, : Vent Sentinel deals damage to target player equal to the number of creatures with defender you control.

"Zendikar fortifies itself against the Great Threat, making sentries of sky, sea, and stone."
-The War Diaries

Kozilek's Predator

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

When Kozilek's Predator enters the battlefield, put two 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

It's difficult to outwit something that doesn't speak, strategize, or even think.

Ondu Giant

Creature - Giant Druid

When Ondu Giant enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Some druids nurture gardens. Others nurture continents.

Vengevine

Creature - Elemental

Haste

Whenever you cast a spell, if it's the second creature spell you cast this turn, you may return Vengevine from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Leave but a shred of root and it will return, bursting with vigor.

Wildheart Invoker

Creature - Elf Shaman

: Target creature gets +5/+5 and gains trample until end of turn.

"Life as we know it dangles on the brink of extinction. We must show the strength they would steal from us."
-The Invokers' Tales

Talus Paladin

Creature - Human Knight Ally

Whenever Talus Paladin or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Allies you control gain lifelink until end of turn, and you may put a +1/+1 counter on Talus Paladin.

"Why fill pockets with gold when you can fill hearts with conviction?"

Voyager Drake

Creature - Drake

Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)

Flying

When Voyager Drake enters the battlefield, up to X target creatures gain flying until end of turn, where X is the number of times Voyager Drake was kicked.

Abyssal Persecutor

Creature - Demon

Flying, trample

You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game.

His slaves crave death more than they desire freedom. He denies them both.

Jagwasp Swarm

Creature - Insect

Flying

"You know how to tell a sapling explorer from an old hardhead? See which one mistakes a swarm of jagwasps for the setting sun."
-Chadir the Navigator

Shoreline Salvager

Creature - Surrakar

Whenever Shoreline Salvager deals combat damage to a player, if you control an Island, you may draw a card.

"They search for treasures that wash up from the depths. Tracking one could lead you to riches. Or in circles."
-Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Cosi's Ravager

Creature - Elemental

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Cosi's Ravager deal 1 damage to target player.

"Cosi has many followers. Even the volcano finds a way to do his bidding."
-Zakken, Enclave cleric

Tuktuk Scrapper

Creature - Goblin Artificer Ally

Whenever Tuktuk Scrapper or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may destroy target artifact. If that artifact is put into a graveyard this way, Tuktuk Scrapper deals damage to that artifact's controller equal to the number of Allies you control.

Graypelt Hunter

Creature - Human Warrior Ally

Trample

Whenever Graypelt Hunter or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Graypelt Hunter.

He'll cleave wood and bone alike to carve a path for his allies.

Summit Apes

Creature - Ape

As long as you control a Mountain, Summit Apes can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.

"If you climb Skyfang Peak, avoid the pass. Generations of apes made that trail, and they don't tolerate trespassers."
-Sachir, Akoum Expeditionary House

Wolfbriar Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)

When Wolfbriar Elemental enters the battlefield, put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield for each time it was kicked.

Emeria Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

When the earth shudders, the sky overflows.

Kor Cartographer

Creature - Kor Scout

When Kor Cartographer enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Kor have no concept of exploration. They return to homelands forgotten.

Living Tsunami

Creature - Elemental

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Living Tsunami unless you return a land you control to its owner's hand.

At low tide it slumbers. At high tide it devours.

Merfolk Seastalkers

Creature - Merfolk Scout

Islandwalk

: Tap target creature without flying.

"Do they seek knowledge or wealth? Are they bandits or benefactors? It depends on who is chanting the tale."
-Nikou, Joraga bard

Windrider Eel

Creature - Fish

Flying

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

"The best spot to hook one is right behind the gills."
-Rana Cloudwake, kor skyfisher

Bala Ged Thief

Creature - Human Rogue Ally

Whenever Bala Ged Thief or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, target player reveals a number of cards from his or her hand equal to the number of Allies you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.

Crypt Ripper

Creature - Shade

Haste

: Crypt Ripper gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

The tender light of the living quickens the pulse of the dead.

Guul Draz Specter

Creature - Specter

Flying

Guul Draz Specter gets +3/+3 as long as an opponent has no cards in hand.

Whenever Guul Draz Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Hagra Crocodile

Creature - Crocodile

Hagra Crocodile can't block.

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

The creatures of Zendikar are opportunists, eating whatever is available to them. Like goblins. Or boats.

Heartstabber Mosquito

Creature - Insect

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

Flying

When Heartstabber Mosquito enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, destroy target creature.

Nimana Sell-Sword

Creature - Human Warrior Ally

Whenever Nimana Sell-Sword or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Nimana Sell-Sword.

"He asked if I had work for him. No wasn't the right answer."
-Samila, Murasa Expeditionary House

Obsidian Fireheart

Creature - Elemental

: Put a blaze counter on target land without a blaze counter on it. For as long as that land has a blaze counter on it, it has "At the beginning of your upkeep, this land deals 1 damage to you." (The land continues to burn after Obsidian Fireheart has left the battlefield.)

Shatterskull Giant

Creature - Giant Warrior

"Now I know why they call it Shatterskull Pass. Rocks fell all night like hammers smashing an anvil. It's no wonder the giants are angry all the time."
-Mitra, Bala Ged missionary

Joraga Bard

Creature - Elf Rogue Ally

Whenever Joraga Bard or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Ally creatures you control gain vigilance until end of turn.

Adventuring bards recite Chanter's Epics, never-ending tales that keep their comrades' minds alert to danger.

Mold Shambler

Creature - Fungus Beast

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

When Mold Shambler enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, destroy target noncreature permanent.

When civilization encroaches on nature, Zendikar encroaches back.

Oracle of Mul Daya

Creature - Elf Shaman

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

You may play the top card of your library if it's a land card.

Timbermaw Larva

Creature - Beast

Whenever Timbermaw Larva attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each Forest you control.

"You can't trust your eyes. A tree might look healthy, but its insides tell a different tale."
-Zahr Gada, Halimar expedition leader

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.

Kathari Remnant

Creature - Bird Skeleton

Flying

: Regenerate Kathari Remnant.

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.)

Singe-Mind Ogre

Creature - Ogre Mutant

When Singe-Mind Ogre enters the battlefield, target player reveals a card at random from his or her hand, then loses life equal to that card's converted mana cost.

Even the balmgivers of Bant couldn't heal the incurables, but sharing their torment helped.

Bloodbraid Elf

Creature - Elf Berserker

Haste

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.)

Rhox Brute

Creature - Rhino Warrior

"In this new world, I have seen the once-devout rhoxes take up arms with the savages of Jund. I would be offended, but I see the wisdom in their choice."
-Gernan, Dawnray archer

Spellbreaker Behemoth

Creature - Beast

Spellbreaker Behemoth can't be countered.

Creature spells you control with power 5 or greater can't be countered.

"Some think its immunity to countermagic evolved because of the constant mage attacks on Naya. I think it just ate a bunch of wizards."
-Broka, drumhunter

Knight of New Alara

Creature - Human Knight

Each other multicolored creature you control gets +1/+1 for each of its colors.

"I embrace all of Alara, Grixis as much as Bant. Let my former home call me traitor. I do this not for accolades, but because it is right."

Leonin Armorguard

Creature - Cat Soldier

When Leonin Armorguard enters the battlefield, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Well suited are the nacatl to a coat of steel and forge-tempered claws.

Mycoid Shepherd

Creature - Fungus

Whenever Mycoid Shepherd or another creature you control with power 5 or greater dies, you may gain 5 life.

As pure mana flooded across the shards, it brought a sense of unity even to Jund's vicious food chain.

Sigil Captain

Creature - Rhino Soldier

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature is 1/1, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

"One sigil awarded for valor, the other awarded for surviving Hellkite's Pass."

Grixis Sojourners

Creature - Zombie Ogre

When you cycle Grixis Sojourners or it dies, you may exile target card from a graveyard.

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

Madrush Cyclops

Creature - Cyclops Warrior

Creatures you control have haste.

Death comes in the blink of an eye.

Gloryscale Viashino

Creature - Viashino Soldier

Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, Gloryscale Viashino gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

"This is a new world and a new war. We need warriors who know chaos and how to combat it."
-Lisha of the Azure

Retaliator Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, you may put that many +1/+1 counters on Retaliator Griffin.

For every eye, an eye. For every tooth, a tooth. Griffins are nothing if not fair.

Bant Sojourners

Creature - Human Soldier

When you cycle Bant Sojourners or it dies, you may put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield.

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

"We must spread Bant's light before we are shadowed over."

Arsenal Thresher

Artifact Creature - Construct

As Arsenal Thresher enters the battlefield, you may reveal any number of other artifact cards from your hand. Arsenal Thresher enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each card revealed this way.

Sewn-Eye Drake

Creature - Zombie Drake

Flying, haste

"Too wary to charge, too prudent to serve. Not anymore."
-Sedris, the Traitor King

Marisi's Twinclaws

Creature - Cat Warrior

Double strike

"Looks like we're completely outnumbered."
"Lucky for us. I thought we'd be bored."

Messenger Falcons

Creature - Bird

Flying

When Messenger Falcons enters the battlefield, draw a card.

So many aven had died scouting the distant fronts that the knight-captains recruited Nayan falcons as couriers.

Cloud Crusader

Creature - Human Knight

Flying

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Each crusader bonds with a griffin fledgling while still a child, and the two grow up as siblings.

Azure Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

More so than "storm" or "pirate," "drake" is the word a sailor least wants to hear.

Phantom Beast

Creature - Illusion Beast

When Phantom Beast becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

As insubstantial as fear, and as dangerous.

Water Servant

Creature - Elemental

: Water Servant gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

: Water Servant gets -1/+1 until end of turn.

"This creature has innate perceptiveness. It knows when to rise and when to vanish into the tides."
-Jestus Dreya, Of Elements and Eternity

Howling Banshee

Creature - Spirit

Flying

When Howling Banshee enters the battlefield, each player loses 3 life.

Villagers cloaked the town in magical silence, but their ears still bled.

Nether Horror

Creature - Horror

"My dreams darkened and seeped into my waking hours. Spellcraft and nightmare merged to create this monstrosity."
-Sunniva, witch of Holm Hollow

Cyclops Gladiator

Creature - Cyclops Warrior

Whenever Cyclops Gladiator attacks, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature defending player controls. If you do, that creature deals damage equal to its power to Cyclops Gladiator.

Vulshok Berserker

Creature - Human Berserker

Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

He will carve out a legend for himself with his own two hands.

Obstinate Baloth

Creature - Beast

When Obstinate Baloth enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life.

If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Obstinate Baloth, put it onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your graveyard.

Prized Unicorn

Creature - Unicorn

All creatures able to block Prized Unicorn do so.

"The desire for its magic horn inspires such bloodthirsty greed that all who see the unicorn will kill to possess it."
-Dionus, elvish archdruid

Juggernaut

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Juggernaut attacks each turn if able.

Juggernaut can't be blocked by Walls.

The mighty city of An Karras, with its rich history, built over thousands of years, fell in three hours.

Guardian Seraph

Creature - Angel

Flying

If a source an opponent controls would deal damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.

Her gaze prevents the petty sins and her sword punishes the rest.

Razorfoot Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Like a meteor, it strikes from above without warning. Unlike a meteor, it then carries you off and eats you.

Rhox Pikemaster

Creature - Rhino Soldier

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Other Soldier creatures you control have first strike.

When the rhoxes charge, everyone else knows which way to run.

Wall of Faith

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Wall of Faith gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"This is a fine suit, armorsmith. I will be safe from harm. If only you could forge rings to mail the rest of my people . . ."
-Lord Hilneth

Snapping Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

Foul-tempered, poorly trained, and mule-stubborn, the drake is the perfect test of the master's will.

Bog Wraith

Creature - Wraith

Swampwalk (This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

She died in this swamp, and so will you.

Dragon Whelp

Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Dragon Whelp gets +1/+0 until end of turn. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice Dragon Whelp at the beginning of the next end step.

Stone Giant

Creature - Giant

: Target creature you control with toughness less than Stone Giant's power gains flying until end of turn. Destroy that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

A typical day for a giant. A momentous event for a goat.

Elvish Piper

Creature - Elf Shaman

, : You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

From Gaea grew the world, and the world was silent. From Gaea grew the world's elves, and the world was silent no more.
-Elvish teaching

Emerald Oryx

Creature - Antelope

Forestwalk (This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

After the oryx dies, its flesh returns to the earth, but its emerald bones remain as a tribute to the forest.

Master of the Wild Hunt

Creature - Human Shaman

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield.

: Tap all untapped Wolf creatures you control. Each Wolf tapped this way deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power divided as its controller chooses among any number of those Wolves.

Mist Leopard

Creature - Cat

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

"I can't claim to hunt all creatures. There are some things in the jungle that simply can't be hunted."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

Rhox Meditant

Creature - Rhino Monk

When Rhox Meditant enters the battlefield, if you control a green permanent, draw a card.

The weight of her conviction balances on the harmony of her soul.

Wall of Reverence

Creature - Spirit Wall

Defender, flying

At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.

The lives of elves are long, but their memories are longer. Even after death, they do not desert their homes.

Faerie Mechanist

Artifact Creature - Faerie Artificer

Flying

When Faerie Mechanist enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Master Transmuter

Artifact Creature - Human Artificer

, , Return an artifact you control to its owner's hand: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Wasted potential surrounds us. Lend me that bauble, and let me see what it can be made to be."

Scornful Æther-Lich

Artifact Creature - Zombie Wizard

: Scornful Æther-Lich gains fear and vigilance until end of turn. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap, and it can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"With no flesh, there is no pain, no hesitation, no emotion of any kind. He is crafted perfection."
-Tezzeret

Infectious Horror

Creature - Zombie Horror

Whenever Infectious Horror attacks, each opponent loses 2 life.

Not once in the history of Grixis has anyone died of old age.

Goblin Razerunners

Creature - Goblin Warrior

, Sacrifice a land: Put a +1/+1 counter on Goblin Razerunners.

At the beginning of your end step, you may have Goblin Razerunners deal damage equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on it to target player.

Finding themselves in a new and unexplored world, they immediately set it on fire.

Rakka Mar

Legendary Creature - Human Shaman

Haste

, : Put a 3/1 red Elemental creature token with haste onto the battlefield.

"The finest pawns are those with pawns of their own."
-Nicol Bolas

Worldheart Phoenix

Creature - Phoenix

Flying

You may cast Worldheart Phoenix from your graveyard by paying rather than paying its mana cost. If you do, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Cliffrunner Behemoth

Creature - Rhino Beast

Cliffrunner Behemoth has haste as long as you control a red permanent.

Cliffrunner Behemoth has lifelink as long as you control a white permanent.

It's revered for its power, celebrated for its grace, and feared for the avalanches triggered by its thunderous feet.

Wild Leotau

Creature - Cat

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Wild Leotau unless you pay .

"Leotau that were born wild make the best mounts. It's like riding a thunderstorm."
-Rafiq of the Many

Esper Cormorants

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

"The smiths of this land must be mad to reach so far and so high for another creature to decorate."
-Cagen Vargan, Jhessian sea scout

Hellkite Hatchling

Creature - Dragon

Devour 1 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

Hellkite Hatchling has flying and trample if it devoured a creature.

A killing machine from birth.

Sludge Strider

Artifact Creature - Insect

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control or another artifact you control leaves the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Underneath the cities of Esper are cycles of life unseen by those who feed them.