Spellheart Chimera

Creature - Chimera

Flying, trample

Spellheart Chimera's power is equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.

Thaumaturges remain silent around chimeras, lest their words conjure even stranger beasts.

Sphere of Safety

Enchantment

Creatures can't attack you or a planeswalker you control unless their controller pays for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

The Rakdos believe that all are eager to join their revels, even when told otherwise.

Sphinx of the Chimes

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Discard two nonland cards with the same name: Draw four cards.

"I've dreamt of the future, Isperia. Danger is on the horizon. You must heed my warning."

Sphinx of the Final Word

Creature - Sphinx

Sphinx of the Final Word can't be countered.

Flying, hexproof

Instant and sorcery spells you control can't be countered by spells or abilities.

He answers questions as readily as he asks them, but his answer is always "no."

Sphinx's Disciple

Creature - Human Wizard

Flying

Inspired - Whenever Sphinx's Disciple becomes untapped, draw a card.

Few dare to brave the Dakra Isles. Those who return are forever changed.

Sphinx's Revelation

Instant

You gain X life and draw X cards.

"Let the knowledge of absolute law inspire you to live a life of absolute order."

Spike Jester

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Haste

For the Rakdos, "suicidal charge" and "good showmanship" are one and the same.

Spire Tracer

Creature - Elf Scout

Spire Tracer can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.

Cartographers on Ravnica chart not just the horizontal, but also the vertical.

Spirespine

Enchantment Creature - Beast

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Spirespine blocks each turn if able.

Enchanted creature gets +4/+1 and blocks each turn if able.

Spirit Bonds

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay . If you do, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

, Sacrifice a Spirit: Target non-Spirit creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Designed by Justin Gary

Spirit of the Labyrinth

Enchantment Creature - Spirit

Each player can't draw more than one card each turn.

Students at the Dekatia Academy learn that being sent to study with her is a lesson in itself.

Spite of Mogis

Sorcery

Spite of Mogis deals damage to target creature equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Spiteful Blow

Sorcery

Destroy target creature and target land.

"Only a fool takes Phenax at his word. What do you expect from a god born of lies and betrayal?"
-Verenes, priest of Iroas

Spiteful Returned

Enchantment Creature - Zombie

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Whenever Spiteful Returned or enchanted creature attacks, defending player loses 2 life.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

Splatter Thug

Creature - Human Warrior

First strike

Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

The mask isn't meant to hide his identity. It's meant to keep the viscera out of his eyes.

Sporemound

Creature - Fungus

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

"If you threaten its territory, it produces spores. Actually, no matter what you do, it produces spores."-Hadi Kasten, Calla Dale naturalist

Springleaf Drum

Artifact

, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

After trying mudskippers for an afternoon, Scratch decided that crickcarp made the best noise.

Squelching Leeches

Creature - Leech

Squelching Leeches's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.

Leeches are sacred to followers of Pharika for drawing poison from a wound, but feared by everyone else for drawing blood from the flesh.

Stab Wound

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player loses 2 life.

Staff of the Death Magus

Artifact

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

A symbol of ambition in ruthless times.

Staff of the Flame Magus

Artifact

Whenever you cast a red spell or a Mountain enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

A symbol of passion in indifferent times.

Staff of the Mind Magus

Artifact

Whenever you cast a blue spell or an Island enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

A symbol of sagacity in bewildering times.

Staff of the Sun Magus

Artifact

Whenever you cast a white spell or a Plains enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

A symbol of conviction in uncertain times.

Staff of the Wild Magus

Artifact

Whenever you cast a green spell or a Forest enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

A symbol of ferocity in oppressive times.

Stain the Mind

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.)

Name a nonland card. Search target player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Stalking Drone

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

{C}: Stalking Drone gets +1/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

As the Eldrazi adapted to the jungles of Zendikar, some took on the tactics of more familiar predators.

Starfall

Instant

Starfall deals 3 damage to target creature. If that creature is an enchantment, Starfall deals 3 damage to that creature's controller.

"The most brilliant stars are not born of Nyx."
-Rhexenor, Akroan flamespeaker

Stasis Snare

Enchantment

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

When Stasis Snare enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until Stasis Snare leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

Statute of Denial

Instant

Counter target spell. If you control a blue creature, draw a card, then discard a card.

"Pyrotechnic activity of any sort is strictly prohibited. It is irrelevant that today is a holiday."

Staunch-Hearted Warrior

Creature - Human Warrior

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Staunch-Hearted Warrior, put two +1/+1 counters on Staunch-Hearted Warrior.

As soon as she faces a monster, she begins composing its epitaph.

Stealer of Secrets

Creature - Human Rogue

Whenever Stealer of Secrets deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

The Dimir would hire her, if only they knew where she lived. The Azorius would condemn her, if only they knew her name.

Steam Augury

Instant

Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Keranos is a fickle god, delivering punishment as readily as prophecy.

Steam Vents

Land - Island Mountain

(: Add or to your mana pool.)

As Steam Vents enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Steam Vents enters the battlefield tapped.

Crafted with genius, energized with madness.

Steelform Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control get +0/+1.

"Though the slivers may sometimes resemble us, they are not human. Anyone who fights them must remember this."-Sarlena, paladin of the Northern Verge

Steeple Roc

Creature - Bird

Flying, first strike

"Sometimes it forgets to loosen its grip before taking flight. I lost my roof that way."
-Ecaban, Boros scout

Steppe Glider

Creature - Elemental

Flying, vigilance

: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains flying and vigilance until end of turn.

It glides over the landscape. It also happens to be one.

Stoke the Flames

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.)

Stoke the Flames deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Stolen Identity

Sorcery

Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of target artifact or creature.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Stolen Itentity

Stomping Ground

Land - Mountain Forest

(: Add or to your mana pool.)

As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Stomping Ground enters the battlefield tapped.

Stone Haven Medic

Creature - Kor Cleric

, : You gain 1 life.

"These days, soldiers never stick around long enough for a proper healing. They just want me to knit them up so they can hurry back to the fight."

Stone Haven Outfitter

Creature - Kor Artificer Ally

Equipped creatures you control get +1/+1.

Whenever an equipped creature you control dies, draw a card.

The makers and menders are the first called to battle and the last to leave.

Stonefare Crocodile

Creature - Crocodile

: Stonefare Crocodile gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

The Izzet's plans to exploit the undercity ran into a few stubborn obstacles.

Stoneforge Acolyte

Creature - Kor Artificer Ally

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an Equipment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"The stone speaks. We are merely interpreters."

Stoneforge Masterwork

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control that shares a creature type with it.

Equip

The nomadic kor carry only necessities on their long treks. The coming of the Eldrazi redefined "necessities."

Stonefury

Instant

Stonefury deals damage to target creature equal to the number of lands you control.

Akoum can make any intruder look small.

Stonehorn Chanter

Creature - Rhino Cleric

: Stonehorn Chanter gains vigilance and lifelink until end of turn. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap. Damage dealt by it also causes you to gain that much life.)

With the Stonehorn, piety and power are one.

Stoneshock Giant

Creature - Giant

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

When Stoneshock Giant becomes monstrous, creatures without flying your opponents control can't block this turn.

Stonewise Fortifier

Creature - Human Wizard

: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Stonewise Fortifier by target creature this turn.

Ephara taught some mortals to feel every vein in marble as though it flows with their own blood.

Stormbreath Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying, haste, protection from white

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

When Stormbreath Dragon becomes monstrous, it deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Stormcaller of Keranos

Creature - Human Shaman

Haste

: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

A prayer answered by Keranos is clear for all to witness.

Stormchaser Chimera

Creature - Chimera

Flying

: Scry 1, then reveal the top card of your library. Stormchaser Chimera gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that card's converted mana cost. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Stormchaser Mage

Creature - Human Wizard

Flying, haste

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Roilmages' tactics are as chaotic as the energies they channel.

Stormtide Leviathan

Creature - Leviathan

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

All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.

Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.

Stratus Walk

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Stratus Walk enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has flying.

Enchanted creature can block only creatures with flying.

Street Spasm

Instant

Street Spasm deals X damage to target creature without flying you don't control.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Street Sweeper

Artifact Creature - Construct

Whenever Street Sweeper attacks, destroy all Auras attached to target land.

The sweepers roam endlessly, scrubbing away the refuse-and anything else too slow or too clumsy to get out of their way.

Strength from the Fallen

Enchantment

Constellation - Whenever Strength from the Fallen or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Strider Harness

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has haste.

Equip

Each journey begins with a single step-and sometimes ends with that single step as well.

Striking Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have first strike. (They deal combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

You're too busy recoiling in fear to realize that it's already hit you.

Strionic Resonator

Artifact

, : Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Its tines cannot be rung by mere physical force. Only magic of great power can start its eldritch resonance.

Structural Collapse

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices an artifact and a land. Structural Collapse deals 2 damage to that player.

The Gruul holiday of Rauck-Chauv always ends the same way.

Stubborn Denial

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays .

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

The Temur have no patience for subtlety.

Stymied Hopes

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

When a god's will is against you, the day never ends well.

Submerged Boneyard

Land

Submerged Boneyard enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

"Long after the land has given up the last of its secrets, there will still be mysteries in the depths of the sea."
-Kiora

Sudden Storm

Instant

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

No matter how big and strong you are, the sea is bigger and stronger.

Sultai Ascendancy

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top two cards of your library. Put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest back on top of your library in any order.

Sultai Banner

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Sultai Banner: Draw a card.

Power to dominate, cruelty to rule.

Sultai Charm

Instant

Choose one -

• Destroy target monocolored creature.

• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

• Draw two cards, then discard a card.

"Strike," the fumes hiss. "Raise an empire with your ambition."

Sultai Flayer

Creature - Naga Shaman

Whenever a creature you control with toughness 4 or greater dies, you gain 4 life.

"You can have the body, necromancer. I just want the skin."

Sultai Scavenger

Creature - Bird Warrior

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Flying

Since they guard armies of walking carrion, Sultai aven are never far from a meal.

Sultai Soothsayer

Creature - Naga Shaman

When Sultai Soothsayer enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

The naga of the Sultai Brood made deals with dark forces to keep their power.

Summit Prowler

Creature - Yeti

"Do you hunt the yetis of the high peaks, stripling? They are as fierce as the bear that fears no foe and as sly as the mink that creeps unseen. You will be as much prey as they."
-Nitula, the Hunt Caller

Sunblade Elf

Creature - Elf Warrior

Sunblade Elf gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Plains.

: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"We patrol the steppes to keep enemies from the forest verge."

Sunbond

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has "Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature."

"I was not chosen for my faith in the gods. Sometimes the gods must put their faith in us."
-Elspeth

Sundering Growth

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"One day every pillar will be a tree and every hall a glade."
-Trostani

Sungrace Pegasus

Creature - Pegasus

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

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

The sacred feathers of the pegasus are said to have healing powers.

Sunhome Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Put a 1/1 red and white Soldier creature token with haste onto the battlefield.

Sunken Hollow

Land - Island Swamp

(: Add or to your mana pool.)

Sunken Hollow enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

On the continent of Tazeem, rushing waters plunge through narrow canyons into mist-cloaked lakes.

Sunspire Gatekeepers

Creature - Human Soldier

When Sunspire Gatekeepers enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, put a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.

"You will pass with respect, or you will not pass at all."

Sunspire Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

"For each griffin wounded by an arrow, there's a corpse with a bow nearby."
-Pel Javya, Wojek investigator

Suntail Hawk

Creature - Bird

Flying

Its eye the glaring sun, its cry the keening wind.

Supply-Line Cranes

Creature - Bird

Flying

When Supply-Line Cranes enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

They are trained from hatching to deliver aid where it is needed most.

Supreme Verdict

Sorcery

Supreme Verdict can't be countered.

Destroy all creatures.

Leonos had no second thoughts about the abolishment edict. He'd left skyrunes warning of the eviction, even though it was cloudy.

Sure Strike

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

To survive imminent doom, it sometimes takes a foolhardy soul who acts first and fears later.

Surrak Dragonclaw

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

Flash

Surrak Dragonclaw can't be countered.

Creature spells you control can't be countered.

Other creatures you control have trample.

Both his rank and his scars were earned in single combat against a cave bear.

Survey the Wreckage

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token onto the battlefield.

Goblins and architects seldom get along.

Suspension Field

Enchantment

When Suspension Field enters the battlefield, you may exile target creature with toughness 3 or greater until Suspension Field leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

Swamp

Basic Land - Swamp

(: Add to your mana pool.)

Swan Song

Instant

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller puts a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"The most enlightened mages create beauty from violence."
-Medomai the Ageless

Swarm of Bloodflies

Creature - Insect

Flying

Swarm of Bloodflies enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Swarm of Bloodflies.

In the Gudul delta, bloodfly bites are indistinguishable from spear wounds.

Swarm Surge

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. Colorless creatures you control also gain first strike until end of turn.

The Eldrazi rampaged across Zendikar in a tide of chittering, heaving flesh.

Swarmborn Giant

Creature - Giant

When you're dealt combat damage, sacrifice Swarmborn Giant.

: Monstrosity 2. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put two +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

As long as Swarmborn Giant is monstrous, it has reach.

Sweep Away

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. If that creature is attacking, you may put it on top of its owner's library instead.

The Roil takes many forms. It also takes many victims.

Swell of Growth

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Nissa is not the only one with a deep connection to Zendikar's primal elements."-Kiora

Swift Justice

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike and lifelink.

"Having conviction is more important than being righteous."
-Aurelia

Swift Kick

Instant

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. It fights target creature you don't control.

Shintan sensed the malice in his opponent, but he did not strike until the orc's muscles tensed in preparation to throw the first punch.

Swiftwater Cliffs

Land

Swiftwater Cliffs enters the battlefield tapped.

When Swiftwater Cliffs enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Swordwise Centaur

Creature - Centaur Warrior

The girl who would become the Champion of the Sun hacked furiously at the practice dummy. At last she stopped, breathing heavily, and looked up at her instructor.
"So much anger," said the centaur. "I will teach you the ways of war, child. But first you must make peace with yourself."
-The Theriad

Sylvan Advocate

Creature - Elf Druid Ally

Vigilance

As long as you control six or more lands, Sylvan Advocate and land creatures you control get +2/+2.

"The land gives of itself. Its abundance provides, even in times of chaos."