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.

Appetite for Brains

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it with converted mana cost 4 or greater and exile that card.

Just as with a peach, the first bite is always the juiciest.

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.

Apostle's Blessing

Instant

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Target artifact or creature you control gains protection from artifacts or from the color of your choice until end of turn.

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.

Apocalypse Chime

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Apocalypse Chime: Destroy all nontoken permanents from the Homelands expansion. They can't be regenerated.

"One day, or another, perhaps I shall ring my pretty chime . . . loudly, so that all may hear."
-Grandmother Sengir

Apocalypse

Sorcery

Exile all permanents. You discard your hand.

"There is a future in which I can see only mist and a single shadow."
-Oracle en-Vec

Aphotic Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Draw a card.

Merrows skulk the silty bogs around the Wanderbrine, their very thoughts stained with evil.

Aphetto Vulture

Creature - Zombie Bird

Flying

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

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 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 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 Dredging

Sorcery

Return up to three target creature cards of the creature type of your choice from your graveyard to your hand.

Phage became both executioner and savior, helping others to the same rebirth she had found.

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.

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.

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.

Apathy

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may discard a card at random. If he or she does, untap that creature.

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

Anvil of Bogardan

Artifact

Players have no maximum hand size.

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card, then discards a card.

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.

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 Murkdiver

Creature - Zombie Frog Beast

Swampwalk

Aphetto's swamps are alive with the dead.

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 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.

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.

Anticipate

Instant

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"When I have meditated on all outcomes, my opponent has no recourse."

Anti-Magic Aura

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be the target of spells and can't be enchanted. This effect doesn't remove Anti-Magic Aura.

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.

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.

Anthem of Rakdos

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn and Anthem of Rakdos deals 1 damage to you.

Hellbent - As long as you have no cards in hand, if a source you control would deal damage to a creature or player, it deals double that damage to that creature or player instead.

Antagonism

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's end step, Antagonism deals 2 damage to that player unless one of his or her opponents was dealt damage this turn.

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

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."

Anoint

Instant

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

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.

Annul

Instant

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

The most effective way to destroy a spell is to ensure it was never cast in the first place.

Annihilating Fire

Instant

Annihilating Fire deals 3 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

"The most impressive performances can be done only once."
-Mote, Rakdos madcap

Annihilate

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Draw a card.

"Whatever Yawgmoth marks, dies. There is no escape."
-Tsabo Tavoc, Phyrexian general

Annex

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land (Target a land as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that land.)

You control enchanted land.

You should see how small the map is.

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.