Angelic Skirmisher

Creature - Angel

Flying

At the beginning of each combat, choose first strike, vigilance, or lifelink. Creatures you control gain that ability until end of turn.

"A keen mind wields an army as a deft hand wields a sword."

Angelic Wall

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Flying

"The air stirred as if fanned by angels' wings, and the enemy was turned aside."
-Tales of Ikarov the Voyager

Anger

Creature - Incarnation

Haste

As long as Anger is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

"For its time as a mortal, Anger chose a shell of boiling rock."
-Scroll of Beginnings

Angry Mob

Creature - Human

Trample

As long as it's your turn, Angry Mob's power and toughness are each equal to 2 plus the number of Swamps your opponents control. As long as it's not your turn, Angry Mob's power and toughness are each 2.

Angus Mackenzie

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

, : Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Activate this ability only before the combat damage step.

"Battles no longer served a purpose in Karakas." -Angus Mackenzie, Diary

Animar, Soul of Elements

Legendary Creature - Elemental

Protection from white and from black

Whenever you cast a creature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Animar, Soul of Elements.

Creature spells you cast cost less to cast for each +1/+1 counter on Animar.

Ankle Shanker

Creature - Goblin Berserker

Haste

Whenever Ankle Shanker attacks, creatures you control gain first strike and deathtouch until end of turn.

The stature of the fighter matters less than the depth of the cut.

Anodet Lurker

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Anodet Lurker dies, you gain 3 life.

These machines build fearsome visages out of scrap metal to scare off predators who would otherwise be eager to consume them.

Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Legendary Creature - Vampire Shaman

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player sacrifices a non-Vampire creature.

"So many have died in search of that map. And now it appears in the hands of the arrogant child Chandra Nalaar."

Ant Queen

Creature - Insect

: Put a 1/1 green Insect creature token onto the battlefield.

"Kill the queen first, or we'll be fighting her drones forever. It is not in a queen's nature to have enough servants."
-Borzard, exterminator captain

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.

Anthroplasm

Creature - Shapeshifter

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

, : Remove all +1/+1 counters from Anthroplasm and put X +1/+1 counters on it.

I never metamorphosis I didn't like.

Antler Skulkin

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

: Target white creature gains persist until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Every skull has a tale to tell, and a skulkin is many dire tales cobbled together.

Anurid Barkripper

Creature - Frog Beast

Threshold - Anurid Barkripper gets +2/+2 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

When it croaks, so do you.

Anurid Brushhopper

Creature - Frog Beast

Discard two cards: Exile Anurid Brushhopper. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

It's so tough it can frighten itself into hiding.

Anurid Murkdiver

Creature - Zombie Frog Beast

Swampwalk

Aphetto's swamps are alive with the dead.

Anurid Scavenger

Creature - Frog Beast

Protection from black

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Anurid Scavenger unless you put a card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.

Krosa's topmost bottom feeder.

Anurid Swarmsnapper

Creature - Frog Beast

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

: Anurid Swarmsnapper can block an additional creature this turn.

Anurids have the problem of airborne invaders licked.

Anvilwrought Raptor

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying, first strike

"I know its lightness, for I have seen it fly. I know its weight, for I have seen it strike."
-Brigone, soldier of Meletis

Apes of Rath

Creature - Ape

Whenever Apes of Rath attacks, it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Monkeys three, monkeys through.

Apex Hawks

Creature - Bird

Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)

Flying

Apex Hawks enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each time it was kicked.

Aphetto Alchemist

Creature - Human Wizard

: Untap target artifact or creature.

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

He brews trouble.

Aphetto Exterminator

Creature - Human Wizard

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

When Aphetto Exterminator is turned face up, target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

Aphetto Grifter

Creature - Human Wizard

Tap two untapped Wizards you control: Tap target permanent.

Aphetto con artists started working in pairs to make it less likely they'd be the victims of con artists.

Aphetto Runecaster

Creature - Human Wizard

Whenever a permanent is turned face up, you may draw a card.

"The ignorant fear change; the wise use it as a weapon."

Aphetto Vulture

Creature - Zombie Bird

Flying

When Aphetto Vulture dies, you may put target Zombie card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Apocalypse Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Apocalypse Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, it enters the battlefield with an additional X +1/+1 counters on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Apocalypse Hydra: Apocalypse Hydra deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Apothecary Initiate

Creature - Kithkin Cleric

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.

Kithkin jealously hoard their knowledge of poultices and remedies so that no outside threat can benefit from their wisdom.

Apprentice Necromancer

Creature - Zombie Wizard

, , Sacrifice Apprentice Necromancer: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.

Apprentice Wizard

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Add to your mana pool.

Aquamoeba

Creature - Elemental Beast

Discard a card: Switch Aquamoeba's power and toughness until end of turn.

Some tides need no moon.

Aquamorph Entity

Creature - Shapeshifter

As Aquamorph Entity enters the battlefield or is turned face up, it becomes your choice of 5/1 or 1/5.

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

Aquastrand Spider

Creature - Spider Mutant

Graft 2 (This creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)

: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Aquus Steed

Creature - Beast

, : Target creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn.

In water, it's as graceful as a dolphin. On land, it darts and jerks so unpredictably that few can ride it for long.

Araba Mothrider

Creature - Human Samurai

Flying

Bushido 1 (When this blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

"My finest creations are fashioned after the moths of Eiganjo. They fly higher, faster, and more gracefully than any of my own designs."
-Noboru, master kitemaker

Arachnoid

Artifact Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

It follows the green sun over Mirrodin's surface, spinning massive webs of whispersilk as it goes.

Arachnus Spinner

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Tap an untapped Spider you control: Search your graveyard and/or library for a card named Arachnus Web and put it onto the battlefield attached to target creature. If you search your library this way, shuffle it.

Arashi, the Sky Asunder

Legendary Creature - Spirit

, : Arashi, the Sky Asunder deals X damage to target creature with flying.

Channel - , Discard Arashi: Arashi deals X damage to each creature with flying.

Arashin Cleric

Creature - Human Cleric

When Arashin Cleric enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

"We'll have time to put out the fires when those trapped within the ruins are safe."

Arashin Foremost

Creature - Human Warrior

Double strike

Whenever Arashin Foremost enters the battlefield or attacks, another target Warrior creature you control gains double strike until end of turn.

"I would gladly give my life if it would inspire my clan to victory."

Arashin Sovereign

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Arashin Sovereign dies, you may put it on the top or bottom of its owner's library.

Dromoka dragons foster trust among their subjects, while the other clans must spend their time quelling rebellion.

Arashin War Beast

Creature - Beast

Whenever Arashin War Beast deals combat damage to one or more blocking creatures, manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Arbalest Elite

Creature - Human Archer

, : Arbalest Elite deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. Arbalest Elite doesn't untap during your next untap step.

There are few things as satisfying as a good, healthy thunk.

Arbiter of Knollridge

Creature - Giant Wizard

Vigilance

When Arbiter of Knollridge enters the battlefield, each player's life total becomes the highest life total among all players.

Though giants are mortal, they live so long and on such a grand scale that many small folk don't believe they ever truly die.

Arbiter of the Ideal

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Inspired - Whenever Arbiter of the Ideal becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact, creature, or land card, you may put it onto the battlefield with a manifestation counter on it. That permanent is an enchantment in addition to its other types.

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.

Arbor Elf

Creature - Elf Druid

: Untap target Forest.

"The forest will surround you with its life if you are still and calm."

Arc Mage

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Arc Mage deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two target creatures and/or players.

Arc Runner

Creature - Elemental Ox

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

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Arc Runner.

The storms of the wastelands form quickly and hit hard. Few have anything to do with rain.

Arc-Slogger

Creature - Beast

, Exile the top ten cards of your library: Arc-Slogger deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

A shuffling sound and the smell of ozone follow the slogger as surely as its electric tail.

Arcades Sabboth

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Arcades Sabboth unless you pay .

Each untapped creature you control gets +0/+2 as long as it's not attacking.

: Arcades Sabboth gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Arcanis the Omnipotent

Legendary Creature - Wizard

: Draw three cards.

: Return Arcanis the Omnipotent to its owner's hand.

"Do not concern yourself with my origin, my race, or my ancestry. Seek my record in the pits, and then make your wager."

Arcbound Bruiser

Artifact Creature - Golem

Modular 3 (This enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Break in case of emergency.

Arcbound Crusher

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Trample

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Crusher.

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Fiend

Artifact Creature - Horror

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto Arcbound Fiend.

Modular 3 (This enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Hybrid

Artifact Creature - Beast

Haste

Modular 2 (This enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Lancer

Artifact Creature - Beast

First strike

Modular 4 (This enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Overseer

Artifact Creature - Golem

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature with modular you control.

Modular 6 (This enters the battlefield with six +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Ravager

Artifact Creature - Beast

Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Ravager.

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Reclaimer

Artifact Creature - Golem

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Arcbound Reclaimer: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Modular 2 (This enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Slith

Artifact Creature - Slith

Whenever Arcbound Slith deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Stinger

Artifact Creature - Insect

Flying

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Wanderer

Artifact Creature - Golem

Modular-Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Worker

Artifact Creature - Construct

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

The parts are as strong as the whole.

Archaeomancer

Creature - Human Wizard

When Archaeomancer enters the battlefield, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Words of power never disappear. They sleep, awaiting those with the will to rouse them."

Archangel

Creature - Angel

Flying, vigilance

The sky rang with the cries of armored seraphs, and the darkness made a tactical retreat.

Archangel of Strife

Creature - Angel

Flying

As Archangel of Strife enters the battlefield, each player chooses war or peace.

Creatures controlled by players who chose war get +3/+0.

Creatures controlled by players who chose peace get +0/+3.

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.

Archdemon of Unx

Creature - Demon

Flying, trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a non-Zombie creature, then put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

The necropolis at Unx was once a living city, its streets untrodden by death.

Archers of Qarsi

Creature - Naga Archer

Defender

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"We think of the naga as creeping cutthroats, slitherers in the swamps. But they are equally at home in the trees."
-Goton, Qal Sisma shaman

Archers' Parapet

Creature - Wall

Defender

, : Each opponent loses 1 life.

Every shaft is graven with a name from a kin tree, calling upon the spirits of the ancestors to make it fly true.

Archfiend of Depravity

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures he or she controls, then sacrifices the rest.

"Why would I kill you all? Who then would be left to worship me?"

Architects of Will

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

When Architects of Will enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order.

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

This secret society of mages manipulates the beliefs and opinions of others.

Archivist

Creature - Human Wizard

: Draw a card.

"Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts."
-Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

Archon of Justice

Creature - Archon

Flying

When Archon of Justice dies, exile target permanent.

In dark times, Truth bears a blade.

Archon of Redemption

Creature - Archon

Flying

Whenever Archon of Redemption or another creature with flying enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain life equal to that creature's power.

Until Emeria is freed, he raises his sword in her name.

Archon of the Triumvirate

Creature - Archon

Flying

Whenever Archon of the Triumvirate attacks, detain up to two target nonland permanents your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those permanents can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

Archweaver

Creature - Spider

Reach, trample

The silk of the archweavers adds structural integrity to otherwise unstable Izzet building sites.

Archwing Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying, haste

At the beginning of the end step, return Archwing Dragon to its owner's hand.

Swifter than an angel, crueler than a demon, and relentless as a ghoul.

Arctic Aven

Creature - Bird Wizard

Flying

Arctic Aven gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Plains.

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

Arctic Foxes

Creature - Fox

Creatures with power 2 or greater can't block Arctic Foxes as long as defending player controls a snow land.

"Those Foxes are wily, swift, and ferocious. They are the warriors of the snows."
-General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Arctic Merfolk

Creature - Merfolk

Kicker-Return a creature you control to its owner's hand. (You may return a creature you control to its owner's hand in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)

If Arctic Merfolk was kicked, it enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Arctic Nishoba

Creature - Cat Warrior

Trample

Cumulative upkeep or (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

When Arctic Nishoba dies, you gain 2 life for each age counter on it.

Arctic Wolves

Creature - Wolf

Cumulative upkeep (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

When Arctic Wolves enters the battlefield, draw a card.

"No matter where we cat warriors go in the world, those stupid slobberers find us."
-Mirri of the Weatherlight

Arcum Dagsson

Legendary Creature - Human Artificer

: Target artifact creature's controller sacrifices it. That player may search his or her library for a noncreature artifact card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle his or her library.

"Artifice sundered the world. It shall not again wreak such sorrow."

Ardent Militia

Creature - Human Soldier

Vigilance

Some fight for honor and some for gold, but the militia fight for hearth and home.

Ardent Recruit

Creature - Human Soldier

Metalcraft - Ardent Recruit gets +2/+2 as long as you control three or more artifacts.

"We lost our homes and our kin. We won't let those rotters take our future as well."

Ardent Soldier

Creature - Human Soldier

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

Vigilance

If Ardent Soldier was kicked, it enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Arena Athlete

Creature - Human

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Arena Athlete, target creature an opponent controls can't block this turn.

The Iroan Games award no medals. Athletes vie for a visit from Iroas, god of victory.

Argent Sphinx

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Metalcraft - : Exile Argent Sphinx. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step. Activate this ability only if you control three or more artifacts.

A great mirage, a dream of wings and silver.

Argivian Archaeologist

Creature - Human Artificer

, : Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Fascinated by the lore of ancient struggles, the Archaeologist searches incessantly for remnants of an earlier, more powerful era.

Argivian Blacksmith

Creature - Human Artificer

: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target artifact creature this turn.

Through years of study and training, the Blacksmiths of Argive became adept at reassembling the mangled remains of the strange, mechanical creatures abounding in their native land.

Argothian Elder

Creature - Elf Druid

: Untap two target lands.

Sharpen your ears
-Elvish expression meaning "grow wiser"

Argothian Enchantress

Creature - Human Druid

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

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, draw a card.

Argothian Pixies

Creature - Faerie

Argothian Pixies can't be blocked by artifact creatures.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Argothian Pixies by artifact creatures.

After the rape of Argoth Forest during the rule of the artificers, the Pixies of Argoth bent their magic to more practical ends.

Argothian Swine

Creature - Boar

Trample

In Argoth, the shortest path between two points is the one the swine make.

Argothian Treefolk

Creature - Treefolk

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Argothian Treefolk by artifact sources.

Haunting cries we hear in our dreams
As the forest dies, a death from
machines.

Argothian Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Trample

When Argothian Wurm enters the battlefield, any player may sacrifice a land. If a player does, put Argothian Wurm on top of its owner's library.

Armada Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Trample

When Armada Wurm enters the battlefield, put a 5/5 green Wurm creature token with trample onto the battlefield.

No one in the Conclave acts alone.

Armament Corps

Creature - Human Soldier

When Armament Corps enters the battlefield, distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures you control.

The Abzan avoid extended supply lines by incorporating weapons stores into their battle formations.