Congregate

Instant

Target player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield.

"In the gathering there is strength for all who founder, renewal for all who languish, love for all who sing."
-Song of All, canto 642

Constricting Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have "When this creature enters the battlefield, you may exile target creature an opponent controls until this creature leaves the battlefield."

Slivers are often seen toying with enemies they capture, not out of cruelty, but to fully learn their physical capabilities.

Coral Barrier

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

When Coral Barrier enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 blue Squid creature token with islandwalk onto the battlefield. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Covenant of Blood

Sorcery

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Covenant of Blood deals 4 damage to target creature or player and you gain 4 life.

Crippling Blight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 and can't block.

"Still alive? No matter. I'll leave you as a warning to others who would oppose me."
-Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter

Crowd's Favor

Instant

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Crucible of Fire

Enchantment

Dragon creatures you control get +3/+3.

"The dragon is a perfect marriage of power and the will to use it."
-Sarkhan Vol

Cruel Sadist

Creature - Human Assassin

, , Pay 1 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on Cruel Sadist.

, , Remove X +1/+1 counters from Cruel Sadist: Cruel Sadist deals X damage to target creature.

Face of innocence. Hand of death.
Designed by Edmund McMillen

Darksteel Citadel

Artifact Land

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this land.)

: Add to your mana pool.

Panopticon, forge of the Darksteel Eye, home of Mirrodin's keeper.

Dauntless River Marshal

Creature - Human Soldier

Dauntless River Marshal gets +1/+1 as long as you control an Island.

: Tap target creature.

"Thieves and squid squirm the same way when you capture them."

Devouring Light

Instant

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Exile target attacking or blocking creature.

Into the light the good are welcomed, and with the light the evil are banished.

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

Dissipate

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

"This abomination never belonged in our world. I'm merely setting it free."
-Dierk, geistmage

Divination

Sorcery

Draw two cards.

"The key to unlocking this puzzle is within you."
-Doriel, mentor of Mistral Isle

Divine Favor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Divine Favor enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.

With an armory of light, even the squire may champion her people.

Elvish Mystic

Creature - Elf Druid

: Add to your mana pool.

"Life grows everywhere. My kin merely find those places where it grows strongest."-Nissa Revane

Encrust

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact or creature

Enchanted permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step and its activated abilities can't be activated.

"Barnacles are the sea's final defense."
-Garild, merfolk mage

Endless Obedience

Sorcery

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Ensoul Artifact

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

Enchanted artifact is a creature with base power and toughness 5/5 in addition to its other types.

Too often, some self-described genius comes up with a "labor-saving device" that ends up creating far more work.

Ephemeral Shields

Instant

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Eternal Thirst

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has lifelink and "Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Evolving Wilds

Land

, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Feast on the Fallen

Enchantment

At the beginning of each upkeep, if an opponent lost life last turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

"As our numbers dwindle, the ranks of the dead grow ever stronger."
-Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Feral Incarnation

Sorcery

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Put three 3/3 green Beast creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Nature is itself wild-in all its forms.

Festergloom

Sorcery

Nonblack creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

The death of a scout can be as informative as a safe return.

First Response

Enchantment

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you lost life last turn, put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield.

"There's never a good time for a disaster or an attack. That's why we're here."
-Oren, militia captain

Flesh to Dust

Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

"Pain is temporary. So is life."
-Liliana Vess

Forest

Basic Land - Forest

(: Add to your mana pool.)

Forge Devil

Creature - Devil

When Forge Devil enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target creature and 1 damage to you.

Devils infiltrated the lower levels of Thraben Cathedral, making cracks in load-bearing pillars and setting fire to precious archives.

Foundry Street Denizen

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Whenever another red creature enters the battlefield under your control, Foundry Street Denizen gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

After the Foundry Street riot, Arrester Hulbein tried to ban bludgeons. Which, inevitably, resulted in another riot.

Frenzied Goblin

Creature - Goblin Berserker

Whenever Frenzied Goblin attacks, you may pay . If you do, target creature can't block this turn.

The upside to not thinking about the consequences is that you'll always surprise those who do.

Frost Lynx

Creature - Elemental Cat

When Frost Lynx enters the battlefield, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

It readily attacks much larger prey, knowing retaliation is impossible.

Fugitive Wizard

Creature - Human Wizard

"The law has its place-as a footnote in my spellbook."
-Siyani, fugitive mage

Gargoyle Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Until end of turn, Gargoyle Sentinel loses defender and gains flying.

"Do not mistake a quiet rampart for one that is unguarded. Some things stir only when they need to."
-Bonovar, siege commander

Garruk, Apex Predator

Planeswalker - Garruk (Loyalty: 5)

+1: Destroy another target planeswalker.

+1: Put a 3/3 black Beast creature token with deathtouch onto the battlefield.

−3: Destroy target creature. You gain life equal to its toughness.

−8: Target opponent gets an emblem with "Whenever a creature attacks you, it gets +5/+5 and gains trample until end of turn."

Gather Courage

Instant

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Geist of the Moors

Creature - Spirit

Flying

"The battle is won. There's work to be done. / The Blessed Sleep must wait. / A fiend is about. It stalks the devout. / I'll save them from my fate."
-"The Good Geist's Vow"

Generator Servant

Creature - Elemental

, Sacrifice Generator Servant: Add to your mana pool. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (That creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

Genesis Hydra

Creature - Plant Hydra

When you cast Genesis Hydra, reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put a nonland permanent card with converted mana cost X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle the rest into your library.

Genesis Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Glacial Crasher

Creature - Elemental

Trample (If this creature would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

Glacial Crasher can't attack unless there is a Mountain on the battlefield.