Anarchist

Creature - Human Wizard

When Anarchist enters the battlefield, you may return target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Those who will not follow are doomed to lead.

Anarchy

Sorcery

Destroy all white permanents.

"The Shaman waved the staff, and the land itself went mad."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Anathemancer

Creature - Zombie Wizard

When Anathemancer enters the battlefield, it deals damage to target player equal to the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.

Unearth (: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Anavolver

Creature - Volver

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

If Anavolver was kicked with its kicker, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it and with flying.

If Anavolver was kicked with its kicker, it enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it and with "Pay 3 life: Regenerate Anavolver."

Anax and Cymede

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

First strike, vigilance

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Anax and Cymede, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn.

Akros's greatest heroes are also its royalty.

Ancestor's Chosen

Creature - Human Cleric

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

When Ancestor's Chosen enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life for each card in your graveyard.

"The will of all, by my hand done."

Ancestor's Prophet

Creature - Human Cleric

Tap five untapped Clerics you control: You gain 10 life.

"We have faced horrors of war and terrors beyond imagining. We will overcome the uncertainties of this new life."

Ancestral Knowledge

Enchantment

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 Ancestral Knowledge enters the battlefield, look at the top ten cards of your library, then exile any number of them and put the rest back on top of your library in any order.

When Ancestral Knowledge leaves the battlefield, shuffle your library.

Ancestral Mask

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 for each other enchantment on the battlefield.

The masks, like the ancient trees they're grown from, lend strength to the dryads.

Ancestral Memories

Sorcery

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Ancestral Recall

Instant

Target player draws three cards.

Ancestral Statue

Artifact Creature - Golem

When Ancestral Statue enters the battlefield, return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand.

The mage awakened the statue in hopes of learning the lost lore of her clan, but the statue was interested only in war.

Ancestral Tribute

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each card in your graveyard.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Ancestral Vengeance

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Ancestral Vengeance enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1.

The defenses of the Abzan extend well beyond the walls of their fortresses.

Ancestral Vision

Sorcery

Illus. Mark Poole

Ancient Amphitheater

Land

As Ancient Amphitheater enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Giant card from your hand. If you don't, Ancient Amphitheater enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

The arbiter Galanda Feudkiller judges Lorwyn's squabbles from a lofty perspective.

Ancient Carp

Creature - Fish

"Why eat now what could one day grow into a feast?"
-Ojutai, translated from Draconic

Ancient Crab

Creature - Crab

After the fall of Sea Gate and the draining of the Halimar basin, the crab set off to find a new home.

Ancient Craving

Sorcery

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Knowledge demands sacrifice.

Ancient Den

Artifact Land

(Ancient Den isn't a spell.)

: Add to your mana pool.

Ancient Grudge

Instant

Destroy target artifact.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

If there's anything a werewolf hates, it's a collar-especially Avacyn's Collar, the symbol of her church.

Ancient Hellkite

Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Ancient Hellkite deals 1 damage to target creature defending player controls. Activate this ability only if Ancient Hellkite is attacking.

When a dragon attacks, there are no bystanders.

Ancient Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Fading 5 (This creature enters the battlefield with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

, Remove a fade counter from Ancient Hydra: Ancient Hydra deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Ancient Kavu

Creature - Kavu

: Ancient Kavu becomes colorless until end of turn.

Those with the ability to change their nature survived Phyrexia's biological attacks. Everything else died.

Ancient Ooze

Creature - Ooze

Ancient Ooze's power and toughness are each equal to the total converted mana cost of other creatures you control.

The ooze has always been. The ooze will always be.

Ancient Runes

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Ancient Runes deals damage to that player equal to the number of artifacts he or she controls.

Ertai volunteered to open the portal. He figured he owed it one.

Ancient Silverback

Creature - Ape

: Regenerate Ancient Silverback. (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.)

Ancient Spider

Creature - Spider

First strike; reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

It outlived both king and castle.

Ancient Spring

Land

Ancient Spring enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

, Sacrifice Ancient Spring: Add to your mana pool.

Ancient Stirrings

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a colorless card from among them and put it into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. (Cards with no colored mana in their mana costs are colorless. Lands are also colorless.)

Ancient Tomb

Land

: Add to your mana pool. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

There is no glory to be gained in the kingdom of the dead.
-Vec tomb inscription

Ancient Ziggurat

Land

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

Built in honor of Alara's creatures, the ziggurat vanished long ago. When Progenitus awakened, the temple emerged again.

Andradite Leech

Creature - Leech

Black spells you cast cost more to cast.

: Andradite Leech gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Older specimens are completely encrusted with gems, which serve as both armor and weapons."
-Tolarian research notes

Angel of Despair

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Angel of Despair enters the battlefield, destroy target permanent.

"I feel in them a sense of duty and commitment, yet I can feel nothing else. It is as if their duty is to an empty void."
-Razia

Angel of Finality

Creature - Angel

Flying When Angel of Finality enters the battlefield, exile all cards from target player's graveyard.

"Better the dead depart utterly than be enslaved."

Angel of Flight Alabaster

Creature - Angel

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, return target Spirit card from your graveyard to your hand.

She endures without Avacyn but secretly asks each soul she guides if it has seen her.

Angel of Glory's Rise

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Angel of Glory's Rise enters the battlefield, exile all Zombies, then return all Human creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"Justice isn't done until undeath is undone."

Angel of Jubilation

Creature - Angel

Flying

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

Players can't pay life or sacrifice creatures to cast spells or activate abilities.

"Though Innistrad is not cleansed of evil, we finally have cause to rejoice."

Angel of Mercy

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Angel of Mercy enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

Every tear shed is a drop of immortality.

Angel of Renewal

Creature - Angel Ally

Flying

When Angel of Renewal enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life for each creature you control.

"No more fear. No more failure. No more death. No more!"

Angel of Retribution

Creature - Angel

Flying, first strike

Bitter vengeance never glowed so bright nor sang so sweet.

Angel of Salvation

Creature - Angel

Flash; convoke (Each creature you tap while casting this spell reduces its cost by or by one mana of that creature's color.)

Flying

When Angel of Salvation enters the battlefield, prevent the next 5 damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of target creatures and/or players, divided as you choose.

Angel of Serenity

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Angel of Serenity enters the battlefield, you may exile up to three other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards.

When Angel of Serenity leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

Angel of the Dire Hour

Creature - Angel

Flash

Flying

When Angel of the Dire Hour enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, exile all attacking creatures.

She arrived like a meteorite, and the enemy fell in a shock wave of holy vengeance.

Angel's Feather

Artifact

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

The angel represents divine perfection; even the smallest feather is imbued with beauty and benevolence.

Angel's Grace

Instant

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

You can't lose the game this turn and your opponents can't win the game this turn. Until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

Angel's Herald

Creature - Human Cleric

, , Sacrifice a green creature, a white creature, and a blue creature: Search your library for a card named Empyrial Archangel and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Rigorous faith and belief are rewarded on occasion, and richly so.

Angel's Mercy

Instant

You gain 7 life.

"I understand your fears. I pity your doubts. I absolve you of both."

Angel's Tomb

Artifact

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Angel's Tomb become a 3/3 white Angel artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

"Faith can quicken the stones themselves with life."
-Writings of Mikaeus

Angel's Trumpet

Artifact

All creatures have vigilance.

At the beginning of each player's end step, tap all untapped creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Angel's Trumpet deals damage to the player equal to the number of creatures tapped this way.

Angelfire Crusader

Creature - Human Soldier Knight

: Angelfire Crusader gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Nothing burns hotter than the fires of holy rage.

Angelheart Vial

Artifact

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may put that many charge counters on Angelheart Vial.

, , Remove four charge counters from Angelheart Vial: You gain 2 life and draw a card.

It holds a whisper from Iona: "Persevere."

Angelic Accord

Enchantment

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 4 or more life this turn, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

As demons are drawn to suffering, angels are drawn to acts of benevolence.

Angelic Arbiter

Creature - Angel

Flying

Each opponent who cast a spell this turn can't attack with creatures.

Each opponent who attacked with a creature this turn can't cast spells.

Angelic Armaments

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has flying, and is a white Angel in addition to its other colors and types.

Equip

Forged in dark hours from the flame that would not die.

Angelic Benediction

Enchantment

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 tap target creature.

"Only the bravest are worthy of our blessing."

Angelic Blessing

Sorcery

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Only the warrior who can admit mortal weakness will be bolstered by immortal strength.

Angelic Captain

Creature - Angel Ally

Flying

Whenever Angelic Captain attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each other attacking Ally.

As the soldiers beneath her raised their voices, the angel spread her wings, their span seeming to cover the sky.

Angelic Chorus

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain life equal to its toughness.

The harmony of the glorious is a dirge to the wicked.

Angelic Curator

Creature - Angel Spirit

Flying, protection from artifacts

"Do not treat your people as you treat your artifacts. Let them go, and they will live; seal them here, and they will die."
-Urza, to Radiant

Angelic Destiny

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +4/+4, has flying and first strike, and is an Angel in addition to its other types.

When enchanted creature dies, return Angelic Destiny to its owner's hand.

Angelic Edict

Sorcery

Exile target creature or enchantment.

The Boros built a prison in the sky where Azorius statutes couldn't restrict their sense of justice.

Angelic Favor

Instant

If you control a Plains, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay Angelic Favor's mana cost.

Cast Angelic Favor only during combat.

Put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Angelic Field Marshal

Creature - Angel

Flying

Lieutenant - As long as you control your commander, Angelic Field Marshal gets +2/+2 and creatures you control have vigilance.

Her presence on the battlefield can transform an unruly mob into a disciplined army.

Angelic Gift

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Angelic Gift enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has flying.

"Zendikar will triumph this day, and our armies will fly with angels."

Angelic Overseer

Creature - Angel

Flying

As long as you control a Human, Angelic Overseer has hexproof and indestructible.

From mortal hope immortal power springs.

Angelic Page

Creature - Angel Spirit

Flying

: Target attacking or blocking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

If only every message were as perfect as its messenger.

Angelic Protector

Creature - Angel

Flying

Whenever Angelic Protector becomes the target of a spell or ability, Angelic Protector gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

"My family sheltered in her light, the dark was content to wait."
-Crovax

Angelic Renewal

Enchantment

Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may sacrifice Angelic Renewal. If you do, return that card to the battlefield.

Angelic Shield

Enchantment

Creatures you control get +0/+1.

Sacrifice Angelic Shield: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

"If only an angel's wings could shelter us all."
-Barrin

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 Voices

Enchantment

Creatures you control get +1/+1 as long as you control no nonartifact, nonwhite creatures.

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

Angelsong

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

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

Clash of sword and cry of beast fall mute when angels sound the call to prayer.

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

Anger of the Gods

Sorcery

Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

There was no reason to pray. This was already an act of the gods.

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

Animal Boneyard

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ", Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to that creature's toughness."

"The animal spirits are the Ancestor's grandchildren. Remember them."
-Mystic elder

Animal Magnetism

Sorcery

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent chooses a creature card from among them. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest into your graveyard.

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.

Animate Artifact

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost.

Animate Dead

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature card in a graveyard

When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Animate Land

Instant

Until end of turn, target land becomes a 3/3 creature that's still a land.

Irony is getting walked on by the earth instead of the other way around.

Animate Wall

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant Wall

Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Ankh of Mishra

Artifact

Whenever a land enters the battlefield, Ankh of Mishra deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.