Street Wraith

Creature - Wraith

Swampwalk

Cycling-Pay 2 life. (Pay 2 life, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The lamps on Wyndmoor Street snuff themselves at midnight and refuse to relight, afraid to illuminate what lies in the darkness.

Warren Pilferers

Creature - Goblin Rogue

When Warren Pilferers enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If that card is a Goblin card, Warren Pilferers gains haste until end of turn.

"What do they need all this stuff for? They're dead. We're alive. Simple enough."

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

Legendary Creature - Goblin Shaman

Haste

: Put a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control onto the battlefield. That token has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Thundercloud Shaman

Creature - Giant Shaman

When Thundercloud Shaman enters the battlefield, it deals damage equal to the number of Giants you control to each non-Giant creature.

He cares not for the disasters his storm brings as long as his path ahead is clear.

Thundering Giant

Creature - Giant

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

The giant was felt a few seconds before he was seen.

Giant Dustwasp

Creature - Insect

Flying

Suspend 4- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with four 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.)

Sporoloth Ancient

Creature - Fungus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Sporoloth Ancient.

Creatures you control have "Remove two spore counters from this creature: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield."

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

Divinity of Pride

Creature - Spirit Avatar

Flying, lifelink

Divinity of Pride gets +4/+4 as long as you have 25 or more life.

"She spoke of mystery and portent, of such unfathomable things that my mind screamed for pity."
-The Seer's Parables

Skyreach Manta

Artifact Creature - Fish

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

Flying

As the dawns break, the manta soars.

Archangel of Thune

Creature - Angel

Flying

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

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Even the wicked have nightmares.

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.

Messenger Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

When Messenger Drake dies, draw a card.

The more important the message, the larger the messenger.

Shadowborn Demon

Creature - Demon

Flying

When Shadowborn Demon enters the battlefield, destroy target non-Demon creature.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are fewer than six creature cards in your graveyard, sacrifice a creature.

Vampire Warlord

Creature - Vampire Warrior

Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Vampire Warlord. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

"How can you serve me? By dying."

Battle Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control get +2/+0.

"One emitted a strange series of buzzing clicks and guttural commands, then clawed arms emerged from all of them. Is there no limit to their adaptations?"-Hastric, Thunian scout

Scourge of Valkas

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever Scourge of Valkas or another Dragon enters the battlefield under your control, it deals X damage to target creature or player, where X is the number of Dragons you control.

: Scourge of Valkas gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Thorncaster Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have "Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

Every inch of a sliver's body is a potential claw, appendage, or projectile.

Kalonian Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Trample

Kalonian Hydra enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.

Whenever Kalonian Hydra attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Even baloths fear its feeding time.

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

Woodborn Behemoth

Creature - Elemental

As long as you control eight or more lands, Woodborn Behemoth gets +4/+4 and has 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.)

Decorated Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

: Prevent the next 1 combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

The awards and medals of polis-dwellers mean nothing to griffins, but they repay acts of generosity.

Setessan Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

: Setessan Griffin gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Most griffins must be caught and broken into the service of the polis. Not so in Setessa, where they volunteer.

Silent Artisan

Creature - Giant

On the fourth day they passed through a forest of immense stacked stones. Althemone, youngest of the companions, called these pillars the work of a god, but the Champion knew better. She quickened her pace.
-The Theriad

Prescient Chimera

Creature - Chimera

Flying

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Prognostic Sphinx

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Discard a card: Prognostic Sphinx gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it.

Whenever Prognostic Sphinx attacks, scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Sealock Monster

Creature - Octopus

Sealock Monster can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

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

When Sealock Monster becomes monstrous, target land becomes an Island in addition to its other types.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

Creature - Zombie

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Keepsake Gorgon

Creature - Gorgon

Deathtouch

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

When Keepsake Gorgon becomes monstrous, destroy target non-Gorgon creature an opponent controls.

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.

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.

Wild Celebrants

Creature - Satyr

When Wild Celebrants enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact.

"You can tell something's really valuable by the sound it makes when you slam your staff into it."

Anthousa, Setessan Hero

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Anthousa, Setessan Hero, up to three target lands you control each become 2/2 Warrior creatures until end of turn. They're still lands.

The warriors she leads can rarely keep pace with her, and neither can the tales.

Arbor Colossus

Creature - Giant

Reach

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

When Arbor Colossus becomes monstrous, destroy target creature with flying an opponent controls.

Centaur Battlemaster

Creature - Centaur Warrior

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Centaur Battlemaster, put three +1/+1 counters on Centaur Battlemaster.

"A herd is only as strong as its weakest. Our weakest just killed his third minotaur raider-today."
-Braulios of Pheres Band

Nessian Asp

Creature - Snake

Reach

: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

It's not the two heads you should fear. It's the four fangs.

Pheres-Band Centaurs

Creature - Centaur Warrior

"Poets speak of your unrivaled speed," the Champion said to the assembled centaurs, "but it is plain to see that your true strength lies in your unwavering loyalty to one another."
-The Theriad

Kragma Warcaller

Creature - Minotaur Warrior

Minotaur creatures you control have haste.

Whenever a Minotaur you control attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

A warcaller merely brings the herd together. After that, the meat-hunger is all the encouragement they need.

Pharika's Mender

Creature - Gorgon

When Pharika's Mender enters the battlefield, you may return target creature or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

"The direst venom becomes a panacea under Pharika's guidance. I bring it to the worthy, clinging at the edge of the abyss."

Prophet of Kruphix

Creature - Human Wizard

Untap all creatures and lands you control during each other player's untap step.

You may cast creature cards as though they had flash.

"Time is fluid as a dance, and truth as fleeting."

Sentry of the Underworld

Creature - Griffin Skeleton

Flying, vigilance

, Pay 3 life: Regenerate Sentry of the Underworld.

When Athreos gathers the newly dead to be ferried across the Five Rivers That Ring the World, he sends skeletal griffins to fetch those who stray.

Underworld Cerberus

Creature - Hound

Underworld Cerberus can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.

When Underworld Cerberus dies, exile it and each player returns all creature cards from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.

Karmic Guide

Creature - Angel Spirit

Flying, protection from black

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 Karmic Guide enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Azami, Lady of Scrolls

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Draw a card.

"Choices belong to those with the luxuries of time and distance. We have neither. I recommend we proceed with the plan to destroy all shrines of the kami."
-Lady Azami, letter to Sensei Hisoka

Diviner Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Whenever Diviner Spirit deals combat damage to a player, you and that player each draw that many cards.

Sentience is its natural habitat.

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Whenever you cast a creature spell, put X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.

When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder.

Hooded Horror

Creature - Horror

Hooded Horror can't be blocked if defending player controls the most creatures or is tied for the most.

Insidious fear can be the undoing of the greatest of armies.

Phyrexian Delver

Creature - Zombie

When Phyrexian Delver enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's converted mana cost.

Gahiji, Honored One

Legendary Creature - Beast

Whenever a creature attacks one of your opponents or a planeswalker an opponent controls, that creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

He can stir the gentlest spirit to wild ferocity.

Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Legendary Creature - Zombie Wizard

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.Whenever an opponent draws a card, Nekusar, the Mindrazer deals 1 damage to that player.

His enemies wondered if the lich king's brutal death and unnatural rebirth had been his plan all along.

Roon of the Hidden Realm

Legendary Creature - Rhino Soldier

Vigilance, trample, : Exile another target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"Time and space are just new battlefields to be mastered."

Rubinia Soulsinger

Legendary Creature - Faerie

You may choose not to untap Rubinia Soulsinger during your untap step.

: Gain control of target creature for as long as you control Rubinia and Rubinia remains tapped.

Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper

Legendary Creature - Orc Shaman

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, put a 3/1 black and red Graveborn creature token with haste onto the battlefield.

Karplusan legend told of an orc so cruel that he burned his own followers in rage-yet so revered that they rose from their pyres to serve him.

Murkfiend Liege

Creature - Horror

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

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

Untap all green and/or blue creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

Griffin Dreamfinder

Creature - Griffin

Flying

When Griffin Dreamfinder enters the battlefield, return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Some griffins are able to pluck mystic auras from the Æther that are hidden from other mortals.

Ornitharch

Creature - Archon

Flying

Tribute 2 (As this creature enters the battlefield, an opponent of your choice may place two +1/+1 counters on it.)

When Ornitharch enters the battlefield, if tribute wasn't paid, put two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

Floodtide Serpent

Creature - Serpent

Floodtide Serpent can't attack unless you return an enchantment you control to its owner's hand. (This cost is paid as attackers are declared.)

"Pray to Thassa for what? A bigger monster to eat it? A wave that can wash it away? What then?"
-Lindos, merchant of Meletis

Siren of the Fanged Coast

Creature - Siren

Flying

Tribute 3 (As this creature enters the battlefield, an opponent of your choice may place three +1/+1 counters on it.)

When Siren of the Fanged Coast enters the battlefield, if tribute wasn't paid, gain control of target creature.

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.

Shrike Harpy

Creature - Harpy

Flying

Tribute 2 (As this creature enters the battlefield, an opponent of your choice may place two +1/+1 counters on it.)

When Shrike Harpy enters the battlefield, if tribute wasn't paid, target opponent sacrifices a creature.

Warchanter of Mogis

Creature - Minotaur Shaman

Inspired - Whenever Warchanter of Mogis becomes untapped, target creature you control gains intimidate until end of turn. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Akroan Conscriptor

Creature - Human Shaman

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Akroan Conscriptor, gain control of another target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

"The time to serve is now."

Pharagax Giant

Creature - Giant

Tribute 2 (As this creature enters the battlefield, an opponent of your choice may place two +1/+1 counters on it.)

When Pharagax Giant enters the battlefield, if tribute wasn't paid, Pharagax Giant deals 5 damage to each opponent.

Nessian Demolok

Creature - Beast

Tribute 3 (As this creature enters the battlefield, an opponent of your choice may place three +1/+1 counters on it.)

When Nessian Demolok enters the battlefield, if tribute wasn't paid, destroy target noncreature permanent.

Snake of the Golden Grove

Creature - Snake

Tribute 3 (As this creature enters the battlefield, an opponent of your choice may place three +1/+1 counters on it.)

When Snake of the Golden Grove enters the battlefield, if tribute wasn't paid, you gain 4 life.

Some fruits are best left ungathered.

Skyspear Cavalry

Creature - Human Soldier

Flying

Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Pray her spear reaches you first. Her griffin is less kind.

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.

Wildfire Cerberus

Creature - Hound

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

When Wildfire Cerberus becomes monstrous, it deals 2 damage to each opponent and each creature your opponents control.

Heroes' Bane

Creature - Hydra

Heroes' Bane enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.

: Put X +1/+1 counters on Heroes' Bane, where X is its power.

Travelers' tales claim that hydras bite off their own heads to make themselves deadlier.

Nessian Game Warden

Creature - Beast

When Nessian Game Warden enters the battlefield, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of Forests you control. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Pheres-Band Thunderhoof

Creature - Centaur Warrior

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Pheres-Band Thunderhoof, put two +1/+1 counters on Pheres-Band Thunderhoof.

"Flesh and bone or star and shadow. It makes no difference to my club."

Fleetfeather Cockatrice

Creature - Cockatrice

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

Flying, deathtouch

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

Custodi Squire

Creature - Spirit Cleric

Flying

Will of the council - When Custodi Squire enters the battlefield, starting with you, each player votes for an artifact, creature, or enchantment card in your graveyard. Return each card with the most votes or tied for most votes to your hand.

Drakestown Forgotten

Creature - Zombie

Drakestown Forgotten enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Drakestown Forgotten: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Lurking Automaton

Artifact Creature - Construct

Reveal Lurking Automaton as you draft it and note how many cards you've drafted this draft round, including Lurking Automaton.

Lurking Automaton enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the highest number you noted for cards named Lurking Automaton.

Screaming Seahawk

Creature - Bird

Flying

When Screaming Seahawk enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a card named Screaming Seahawk, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.

Heartless Hidetsugu

Legendary Creature - Ogre Shaman

: Heartless Hidetsugu deals damage to each player equal to half that player's life total, rounded down.

Hidetsugu held over a dozen oni in blood oath. At his touch, rocks scorched. At his word, cities burned.

Charging Rhino

Creature - Rhino

Charging Rhino can't be blocked by more than one creature.

"Is it wrong to go straight for what you want? Sneaking is for cats and goblins."
-Tahngarth of the Weatherlight

Spiritmonger

Creature - Beast

Whenever Spiritmonger deals damage to a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Spiritmonger.

: Regenerate Spiritmonger.

: Spiritmonger becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

Avacyn, Guardian Angel

Legendary Creature - Angel

Flying, vigilance

: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to another target creature this turn by sources of the color of your choice.

: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target player this turn by sources of the color of your choice.

Master of Predicaments

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever Master of Predicaments deals combat damage to a player, choose a card in your hand. That player guesses whether the card's converted mana cost is greater than 4. If the player guessed wrong, you may cast the card without paying its mana cost.

Designed by David Sirlin

Mercurial Pretender

Creature - Shapeshifter

You may have Mercurial Pretender enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature you control except it gains ": Return this creature to its owner's hand."

The king went off to find himself. Imagine his terror when he succeeded.

Nimbus of the Isles

Creature - Elemental

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

The people of the Sevick Isles have a unique understanding of the term "ominous clouds."

Blood Host

Creature - Vampire

, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Blood Host and you gain 2 life.

It would be ill-mannered to decline his invitation. It would be ill-advised to accept it.

Indulgent Tormentor

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature or pays 3 life.

The promise of anguish is payment enough for services rendered.

Nightfire Giant

Creature - Zombie Giant

Nightfire Giant gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Mountain.

: Nightfire Giant deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Nightfire turns the greatest weakness of the undead into formidable strength.

Rotfeaster Maggot

Creature - Insect

When Rotfeaster Maggot enters the battlefield, exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain life equal to that card's toughness.

Is it at the top of the food chain or the bottom?

Shadowcloak Vampire

Creature - Vampire

Pay 2 life: Shadowcloak Vampire gains flying until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

"My favorite guilty pleasure? Are there innocent ones?"

Sliver Hivelord

Legendary Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

"This is the source, the line unbroken since the calamity that brought such monsters to our shores."
-Hastric, Thunian scout

Dazzling Ramparts

Creature - Wall

Defender

, : Tap target creature.

When Anafenza holds court under the First Tree, the gates of Mer-Ek are sealed. No safer place exists in all of Tarkir.

Sage-Eye Harrier

Creature - Bird Warrior

Flying

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

These winged warriors meditate in flight, tracing mandalas in the clouds.

Wingmate Roc

Creature - Bird

Flying

Raid - When Wingmate Roc enters the battlefield, if you attacked with a creature this turn, put a 3/4 white Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Whenever Wingmate Roc attacks, you gain 1 life for each attacking creature.

Mystic of the Hidden Way

Creature - Human Monk

Mystic of the Hidden Way can't be blocked.

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

"There are no obstacles, only different paths."

Whirlwind Adept

Creature - Djinn Monk

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

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

Kheru Dreadmaw

Creature - Zombie Crocodile

Defender

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

Its hunting instincts have long since rotted away. Its hunger, however, remains.

Krumar Bond-Kin

Creature - Orc Warrior

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

"The Abzan replaced my savagery with a noble heritage. I would give my life for my House."

Rotting Mastodon

Creature - Zombie Elephant

Mastodons became extinct long ago, but foul forces of the Gurmag Swamp sometimes animate their decaying remains. The Sultai happily exploit such creatures but consider them inferior to their own necromantic creations.

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.

Canyon Lurkers

Creature - Human Rogue

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

The broken Qal Sisma foothills make poor terrain for cavalry, but a perfect setting for ambushes.

Dragon-Style Twins

Creature - Human Monk

Double strike

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

"We are the flicker of the flame and its heat, the two sides of a single blade."