Slavering Nulls

Creature - Goblin Zombie

Whenever Slavering Nulls deals combat damage to a player, if you control a Swamp, you may have that player discard a card.

Having lost their minds, they now want yours.

Slayer of the Wicked

Creature - Human Soldier

When Slayer of the Wicked enters the battlefield, you may destroy target Vampire, Werewolf, or Zombie.

You don't want to see his trophy room.

Slipstream Eel

Creature - Fish Beast

Slipstream Eel can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

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

"It's a fine way to travel, if you don't mind the smell."

Slitherhead

Creature - Plant Zombie

Scavenge (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

"It makes better use of Uncle Dragi's head than he ever did."
-Pesha, retired blacksmith

Sliver Construct

Artifact Creature - Sliver Construct

Slivers destroy those who come close to the Skep, the central hive. Shards of torn metal litter the ground as a warning to any artificers inquisitive about the hive's inner workings.

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

Sludge Crawler

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of his or her library.)

: Sludge Crawler gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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.

Sluiceway Scorpion

Creature - Scorpion

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

Scavenge (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Slum Reaper

Creature - Horror

When Slum Reaper enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature.

It's sent into unguilded districts by the Orzhov to collect the souls of those no one will miss.

Slumbering Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Slumbering Dragon can't attack or block unless it has five or more +1/+1 counters on it.

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, put a +1/+1 counter on Slumbering Dragon.

Smelt-Ward Gatekeepers

Creature - Human Warrior

When Smelt-Ward Gatekeepers enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Smog Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Flying

Creatures with flying your opponents control get -1/-1.

"The skies used to be my refuge, a place of peace away from the chaos below. Now, with every flight, death seems to follow me like a shadow."
-Writings of Cica, Skyjek scout

Smoke Teller

Creature - Human Shaman

: Look at target face-down creature.

"See your enemies from a thousand sides. Then you will find a thousand ways to kill them."

Smoldering Efreet

Creature - Efreet Monk

When Smoldering Efreet dies, it deals 2 damage to you.

The efreet are drawn to the Kaisham Wanderers, a loosely organized Jeskai school where trickery is employed to challenge the status quo and upend the belief systems of others.

Smothering Abomination

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.

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.

Snapcaster Mage

Creature - Human Wizard

Flash

When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Snapping Creeper

Creature - Plant

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Snapping Creeper gains vigilance until end of turn.

Its vast network of roots and vines keeps it aware of distant dangers.

Snapping Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

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

Snapping Gnarlid

Creature - Beast

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Snapping Gnarlid gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

All of Zendikar's beings sense the upheaval that accompanies the Eldrazi.

Snapsail Glider

Artifact Creature - Construct

Metalcraft - Snapsail Glider has flying as long as you control three or more artifacts.

Built from a reconfigured thresher, it charges with light reflected off the golden plain, ready to take to the air in case of danger.

Snowhorn Rider

Creature - Human Warrior

Trample

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

Sure-footed, strong-willed, and ill-tempered-and so is the ram.

Soldier of the Pantheon

Creature - Human Soldier

Protection from multicolored

Whenever an opponent casts a multicolored spell, you gain 1 life.

"I hear the gods' voices in my dreams each night, and I offer bloody trophies on their altars each day."

Solemn Simulacrum

Artifact Creature - Golem

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Soliton

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Untap Soliton.

The gemini engines had lost connection with each other and wandered apart, developing an independent awareness of their surroundings.

Somberwald Dryad

Creature - Dryad

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

The Somberwald is her domain, and she has yet to hear an acceptable excuse for trespassing.

Somberwald Sage

Creature - Human Druid

: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.

"You can face any danger when all of nature is on your side."

Somberwald Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Morbid - Somberwald Spider enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it if a creature died this turn.

Stensian vampires encourage spiders near their manors so they can rob the webs.

Somberwald Vigilante

Creature - Human Warrior

Whenever Somberwald Vigilante becomes blocked by a creature, Somberwald Vigilante deals 1 damage to that creature.

He has nothing left but his resentment.

Soul of Innistrad

Creature - Avatar

Deathtouch

: Return up to three target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

, Exile Soul of Innistrad from your graveyard: Return up to three target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Soul of New Phyrexia

Artifact Creature - Avatar

Trample

: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

, Exile Soul of New Phyrexia from your graveyard: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Soul of Ravnica

Creature - Avatar

Flying

: Draw a card for each color among permanents you control.

, Exile Soul of Ravnica from your graveyard: Draw a card for each color among permanents you control.

Soul of Shandalar

Creature - Avatar

First strike

: Soul of Shandalar deals 3 damage to target player and 3 damage to up to one target creature that player controls.

, Exile Soul of Shandalar from your graveyard: Soul of Shandalar deals 3 damage to target player and 3 damage to up to one target creature that player controls.

Soul of the Harvest

Creature - Elemental

Trample

Whenever another nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may draw a card.

It's there when a seed sprouts, when gourds ripen on the vines, and when the reapers cut the grains under the Harvest Moon.

Soul of Theros

Creature - Avatar

Vigilance

: Creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain first strike and lifelink until end of turn.

, Exile Soul of Theros from your graveyard: Creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain first strike and lifelink until end of turn.

Soul of Zendikar

Creature - Avatar

Reach

: Put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.

, Exile Soul of Zendikar from your graveyard: Put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.

Soul Seizer

Creature - Spirit

Flying

When Soul Seizer deals combat damage to a player, you may transform it. If you do, attach it to target creature that player controls.

Soul Warden

Creature - Human Cleric

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

"One does not question the size or shape of the grains of sand in an hourglass. Nor do I question the temperament of the souls under my guidance."

Soul's Attendant

Creature - Human Cleric

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may gain 1 life.

In truth, her own faith was gone, trodden in Ulamog's wake. She pantomimed the blessing in the hope that it would inspire others to continue to struggle.

Soulbound Guardians

Creature - Kor Spirit

Defender, flying

The kor's most righteous dead are given the greatest reward: an eternity tied to the land they so cherish.

Soulcage Fiend

Creature - Demon

When Soulcage Fiend dies, each player loses 3 life.

Vowing to free the souls of her children, Kastinne followed the tormentors into the ghastly network of caves below Stensia.

Soulcatcher

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

Whenever a creature with flying dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Soulcatcher.

"Holy couriers guide aven spirits up to the home of the Ancestor."
-Mystic elder

Soulfire Grand Master

Creature - Human Monk

Lifelink

Instant and sorcery spells you control have lifelink.

: The next time you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand this turn, put that card into your hand instead of into your graveyard as it resolves.

Soulflayer

Creature - Demon

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

If a creature card with flying was exiled with Soulflayer's delve ability, Soulflayer has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, reach, trample, and vigilance.

Soulmender

Creature - Human Cleric

: You gain 1 life.

"Healing is more art than magic. Well, there is still quite a bit of magic."

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.

Soulsworn Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Soulsworn Spirit is unblockable.

When Soulsworn Spirit enters the battlefield, detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Sovereigns of Lost Alara

Creature - Spirit

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, you may search your library for an Aura card that could enchant that creature, put it onto the battlefield attached to that creature, then shuffle your library.

Spark Trooper

Creature - Elemental Soldier

Trample, lifelink, haste

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Spark Trooper.

Izzet-designed conductors atop Sunhome charge empty sets of armor that give form to the fluctuating elementals.

Sparkmage Apprentice

Creature - Human Wizard

When Sparkmage Apprentice enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Sparkmages are performance artists of sorts, but pain is the price of admission.

Spawn of Rix Maadi

Creature - Horror

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.)

"Straight from the blood-drenched imagination of our illustrious parun!"
-Nyoser, Gore-House ringleader

Spawn of Thraxes

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Spawn of Thraxes enters the battlefield, it deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Mountains you control.

Sparks from Purphoros's forge fill the belly of every dragon.

Spawnbinder Mage

Creature - Human Wizard Ally

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Tap target creature.

"Follow me. Step lightly. And resist the urge to kick them."

Spawnsire of Ulamog

Creature - Eldrazi

Annihilator 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent.)

: Put two 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

{20}: Cast any number of Eldrazi cards you own from outside the game without paying their mana costs.

Spawnwrithe

Creature - Elemental

Trample

Whenever Spawnwrithe deals combat damage to a player, put a token that's a copy of Spawnwrithe onto the battlefield.

Its victims feel only an itchy, wriggling feeling just under their skin. By then, it's far too late.

Spearbreaker Behemoth

Creature - Beast

Spearbreaker Behemoth is indestructible.

: Target creature with power 5 or greater is indestructible this turn.

Few Nayans dare hunt the gargantuans. They're regarded not as animals but as forces of nature, like landslides or typhoons.

Species Gorger

Creature - Frog Beast

At the beginning of your upkeep, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

"We raised eelhawks to control the squidflies, then waspcrabs to prey on the eelhawks. Now what do we do with all these waspcrabs?"
-Gulistan, Simic biomancer

Spectral Gateguards

Creature - Spirit Soldier

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)

As long as Spectral Gateguards is paired with another creature, both creatures have vigilance.

Spectral Rider

Creature - Spirit Knight

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

Never a word. Never a warning. Only the sound of hoofbeats along the crossways, and the screams of the avenged.

Spellbound Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever Spellbound Dragon attacks, draw a card, then discard a card. Spellbound Dragon gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the discarded card's converted mana cost.

A king in Jund, a serf in Esper.

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

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.

Spellskite

Artifact Creature - Horror

: Change a target of target spell or ability to Spellskite. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"Let's show Vorinclex that progress doesn't always need teeth or claws."
-Malcator, Executor of Synthesis

Spellstutter Sprite

Creature - Faerie Wizard

Flash

Flying

When Spellstutter Sprite enters the battlefield, counter target spell with converted mana cost X or less, where X is the number of Faeries you control.

Sphinx Ambassador

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever Sphinx Ambassador deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for a card, then that player names a card. If you searched for a creature card that isn't the named card, you may put it onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Sphinx of Jwar Isle

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

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

You may look at the top card of your library. (You may do this at any time.)

"Even if the sphinxes do know the location of every relic, getting one to talk is harder than just searching yourself."
-Sachir, Akoum Expeditionary House

Sphinx of Lost Truths

Creature - Sphinx

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

Flying

When Sphinx of Lost Truths enters the battlefield, draw three cards. Then if it wasn't kicked, discard three cards.

Sphinx of Magosi

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

: Draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on Sphinx of Magosi.

"A riddle is nothing more than a trap for small minds, baited with the promise of understanding."

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 of the Steel Wind

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green

No one has properly answered her favorite riddle: "Why should I spare your life?"

Sphinx of Uthuun

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Sphinx of Uthuun enters the battlefield, reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Sphinx Sovereign

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

At the beginning of your end step, you gain 3 life if Sphinx Sovereign is untapped. Otherwise, each opponent loses 3 life.

"What rises without legs, whispers without a voice, bites without teeth, and dies without having life?"

Sphinx Summoner

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Sphinx Summoner enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.

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 Herald

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, , Sacrifice a white creature, a blue creature, and a black creature: Search your library for a card named Sphinx Sovereign and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

He calls a riddle through the gaps of cloven clouds, hoping for an answer.

Spike Feeder

Creature - Spike

Spike Feeder enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spike Feeder: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spike Feeder: You gain 2 life.

Spike Jester

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Haste

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

Spiked Baloth

Creature - Beast

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.)

If a baloth isn't hungry, it's dead.

Spikeshot Elder

Creature - Goblin Shaman

: Spikeshot Elder deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

Now that he knows a thousand ways of hurting people, his next shamanic quest is to discover a thousand more.

Spin Engine

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Target creature can't block Spin Engine this turn.

"It will be battle-ready before our strike at Oxid Ridge, and it will guarantee our victory."
-Ketuc of the Helm

Spinebiter

Creature - Beast

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

You may have Spinebiter assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.

Spined Thopter

Artifact Creature - Thopter

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Flying

"I appreciate the depravity of noble designs turned to devious ends."
-Tezzeret

Spined Wurm

Creature - Wurm

"They're as much like plants as animals. Leave them unchecked, and they'll choke out all other forms of life."
-Hadi Kasten, Calla Dale naturalist

Spiraling Duelist

Creature - Human Berserker

Metalcraft - Spiraling Duelist has double strike as long as you control three or more artifacts.

"I never move the same way twice. Those rotters can't grasp chaos."

Spire Monitor

Creature - Drake

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

Flying

Each monitor is given an eye for each spire it is to guard.

Spire Serpent

Creature - Serpent

Defender

Metalcraft - As long as you control three or more artifacts, Spire Serpent gets +2/+2 and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

A mirror to draw its eye, a rod to rouse its rage, and a sword to break its bonds.

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.

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.

Spitebellows

Creature - Elemental

When Spitebellows leaves the battlefield, it deals 6 damage to target creature.

Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Disaster stalks with gaping jaws across unready lands.

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.

Splinterfright

Creature - Elemental

Trample

Splinterfright's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.

Sporecap Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"They don't move much, but then again, if you get caught in its web, it has all the time in the world to get to you."
-Saidah, Joraga hunter

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

Sporesower Thallid

Creature - Fungus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on each Fungus you control.

Remove three spore counters from Sporesower Thallid: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

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."

Sprinting Warbrute

Creature - Ogre Berserker

Sprinting Warbrute attacks each turn if able.

Dash (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Sprouting Thrinax

Creature - Lizard

When Sprouting Thrinax dies, put three 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

The vast network of predation on Jund has actually caused some strange creatures to adapt to being eaten.

Spurnmage Advocate

Creature - Human Nomad

: Return two target cards from an opponent's graveyard to his or her hand. Destroy target attacking creature.

"Our unity humbles our foes."