Child of Night

Creature - Vampire

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

Sins that would be too gruesome in the light of day are made more pleasing in the dark of night.

Claustrophobia

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Claustrophobia enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Six feet of earth muffled his cries.

Clone

Creature - Shapeshifter

You may have Clone enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

One face, two minds.

Colossal Whale

Creature - Whale

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Whenever Colossal Whale attacks, you may exile target creature defending player controls until Colossal Whale leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

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

Coral Merfolk

Creature - Merfolk

Merfolk are best known for their subtle magic. But those who try to fight them in their own territory quickly realize that merfolk are hardly defenseless on the field of battle.

Corpse Hauler

Creature - Human Rogue

, Sacrifice Corpse Hauler: Return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"He expects a reward, but the only piece of silver he'll get from me is my blade in his gut."-Shelac, necromancer

Corrupt

Sorcery

Corrupt deals damage equal to the number of Swamps you control to target creature or player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

The power of the fens sleeps lightly, and always awakens hungry.

Cyclops Tyrant

Creature - Cyclops

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Cyclops Tyrant can't block creatures with power 2 or less.

A single eye, blinded by rage.

Dark Favor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Dark Favor enters the battlefield, you lose 1 life.

Enchanted creature gets +3/+1.

When he began to curse what he held holy, his strength grew unrivaled.

Dark Prophecy

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

When the bog ran short on small animals, Ekri turned to the surrounding farmlands.

Darksteel Forge

Artifact

Artifacts you control have indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them. Artifact creatures with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

"Did it have this shape upon Mirrodin's creation, or did some inconceivable force shape the unshapable?"
-Pontifex, elder researcher

Darksteel Ingot

Artifact

Indestructible

: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Dawnstrike Paladin

Creature - Human Knight

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

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

She crushes darkness beneath her charger's hooves.

Deadly Recluse

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Even dragons fear its silken strands.

Deathgaze Cockatrice

Creature - Cockatrice

Flying

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

"Sometimes I come across a stone finger or foot and I know I'm in cockatrice territory."-Rulak, bog guide

Demolish

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

"To truly defeat a skaberen, you must destroy not the monster but the lab."
-Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

Devout Invocation

Sorcery

Tap any number of untapped creatures you control. Put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield for each creature tapped this way.

A prayer to bring demons to their knees.

Diabolic Tutor

Sorcery

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

Dismiss into Dream

Enchantment

Each creature your opponents control is an Illusion in addition to its other types and has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

"You trust in the shadows of a breeze."-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Disperse

Instant

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Most casualties of the power struggle between vedalken and Neurok didn't die on the field of battle; they merely disappeared.

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.

Domestication

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

At the beginning of your end step, if enchanted creature's power is 4 or greater, sacrifice Domestication.

Doom Blade

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Door of Destinies

Artifact

As Door of Destinies enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on Door of Destinies.

Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on Door of Destinies.

Dragon Egg

Creature - Dragon

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

When Dragon Egg dies, put a 2/2 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield. It has ": This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Dragon birth lairs are littered with treasure to entice the young from their eggs.

Dragon Hatchling

Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Dragon Hatchling gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Those dragons grow fast. For a while they feed on squirrels and goblins and then suddenly you're missing a mammoth."
-Hurdek, Mazar mammoth trainer

Duress

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one."
-Liliana Vess

Elite Arcanist

Creature - Human Wizard

When Elite Arcanist enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant card from your hand.

, : Copy the exiled card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. X is the converted mana cost of the exiled card.

Elixir of Immortality

Artifact

, : You gain 5 life. Shuffle Elixir of Immortality and your graveyard into their owner's library.

"Bottled life. Not as tasty as I'm used to, rather stale, but it has the same effect."
-Baron Sengir

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

Encroaching Wastes

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Encroaching Wastes: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Every world is a work in progress, constantly reshaped by time, disasters, and even the powerful magic of Planeswalkers.

Enlarge

Sorcery

Target creature gets +7/+7 and gains trample until end of turn. It must be blocked this turn if able. (If a creature with trample 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.)

Essence Scatter

Instant

Counter target creature spell.

"What you attempt to pull from the Æther, I can spread onto the wind."
-Jace Beleren

Festering Newt

Creature - Salamander

When Festering Newt dies, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn. That creature gets -4/-4 instead if you control a creature named Bogbrew Witch.

Its back bubbles like a witch's cauldron, and it smells just as vile.

Fiendslayer Paladin

Creature - Human Knight

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

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

Fiendslayer Paladin can't be the target of black or red spells your opponents control.

Fireshrieker

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Flames of the Firebrand

Sorcery

Flames of the Firebrand deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures and/or players.

"You're in luck. I brought enough to share."
-Chandra Nalaar

Fleshpulper Giant

Creature - Giant

When Fleshpulper Giant enters the battlefield, you may destroy target creature with toughness 2 or less.

He doesn't hate small folk. He just likes the squishing sound they make.