Manic Vandal

Creature - Human Warrior

When Manic Vandal enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact.

It's fun. He doesn't need another reason.

Stormblood Berserker

Creature - Human Berserker

Bloodthirst 2 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.)

Stormblood Berserker can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.

Blood is holy to those whose god is War.

Volcanic Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

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

Sometimes an eruption in Shiv produces something more dangerous than a mere river of molten rock.

Wall of Torches

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

The foolish try to leap through the unlit spaces. The arrogant believe the fires harmless. The wise find a different door.

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.

Birds of Paradise

Creature - Bird

Flying

: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

"The gods used their feathers to paint all the colors of the world."
-Yare-Tiva, warden of Gramur forest

Brindle Boar

Creature - Boar

Sacrifice Brindle Boar: You gain 4 life.

"Tell the cooks to prepare the fires. Tonight we feast!"
-Tolar Wolfbrother, Krosan tracker

Carnage Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Bloodthirst 3 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.)

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.)

Cudgel Troll

Creature - Troll

: Regenerate Cudgel Troll. (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.)

Dungrove Elder

Creature - Treefolk

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

Dungrove Elder's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests you control.

All the trees of the forest are his army, and every leaf his shield.

Garruk's Companion

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.)

Garruk's Horde

Creature - Beast

Trample

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

You may cast the top card of your library if it's a creature card. (Do this only any time you could cast that creature card. You still pay the spell's costs.)

Giant Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"The wild is always changing, but it does have a few constants."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

Gladecover Scout

Creature - Elf Scout

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

"The forest is my cover and I hold it close. In such a tight embrace, there is no room for wickedness."

Greater Basilisk

Creature - Basilisk

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

Bone, stone . . . both taste the same to a hungry basilisk.

Jade Mage

Creature - Human Shaman

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

"We are one with the wild things. Life blooms from our fingertips and nature responds to our summons."
-Jade creed

Llanowar Elves

Creature - Elf Druid

: Add to your mana pool.

One bone broken for every twig snapped underfoot.
-Llanowar penalty for trespassing

Lurking Crocodile

Creature - Crocodile

Bloodthirst 1 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Islandwalk (This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Primeval Titan

Creature - Giant

Trample

Whenever Primeval Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, you may search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

When nature calls, run.

Runeclaw Bear

Creature - Bear

The only honey it wants is the sweet nectar flowing through your veins.

Sacred Wolf

Creature - Wolf

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

"I raised my bow, and the wolf stared at me. Under its gaze, my finger would not release the string."
-Aref the Hunter

Skinshifter

Creature - Human Shaman

: Choose one - Until end of turn, Skinshifter becomes a 4/4 Rhino and gains trample; or until end of turn, Skinshifter becomes a 2/2 Bird and gains flying; or until end of turn, Skinshifter becomes a 0/8 Plant. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Stampeding Rhino

Creature - Rhino

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.)

The quickest way to get through the jungle is to agitate a rhino and run in its wake.

Stingerfling Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

When Stingerfling Spider enters the battlefield, you may destroy target creature with flying.

The juiciest prey is that which grows lazy, thinking itself beyond the reach of danger.

Elgaud Inquisitor

Creature - Human Cleric

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

When Elgaud Inquisitor dies, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"It will take more than steel alone to purge this world of evil."

Gavony Ironwright

Creature - Human Soldier

Fateful hour - As long as you have 5 or less life, other creatures you control get +1/+4.

"I wish my work could shelter everyone, yet I pray we are never so few that it does."

Hollowhenge Spirit

Creature - Spirit

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

Flying

When Hollowhenge Spirit enters the battlefield, remove target attacking or blocking creature from combat.

Some spirits mourn. Others terrorize.

Loyal Cathar

Creature - Human Soldier

Vigilance

When Loyal Cathar dies, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

"I trust myself to do my duty, even unto death. It's what comes after that I'm afraid of."
-Constable Visil, to Thalia

Midnight Guard

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, untap Midnight Guard.

"When you're on watch, no noise is harmless and no shadow can be ignored."
-Olgard of the Skiltfolk

Niblis of the Mist

Creature - Spirit

Flying

When Niblis of the Mist enters the battlefield, you may tap target creature.

"Not even a roaring fire could thaw the chill it put in my heart."
-Vonn, geist-trapper

Niblis of the Urn

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Whenever Niblis of the Urn attacks, you may tap target creature.

"I never had the nerve to open that bottle. I'll bet you're wishing right now you hadn't been so curious yourself."
-Old Rutstein

Requiem Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

Whenever another non-Spirit creature you control dies, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

When angels despair, what hope can remain for mortals?

Sanctuary Cat

Creature - Cat

Cats prowl the corridors of Avacyn's churches in search of devils or signs of their mischief.

Silverclaw Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying, first strike

It patrols the grafs for miles around Thraben, ensuring that the unhallowed do not wake for long.

Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

First strike

Noncreature spells cost more to cast.

"Thraben is our home and I will not see it fall to this unhallowed horde."

Thraben Doomsayer

Creature - Human Cleric

: Put a 1/1 white Human creature token onto the battlefield.

Fateful hour - As long as you have 5 or less life, other creatures you control get +2/+2.

"Swarms of the unhallowed claw at Thraben's gates! Do you still deny the end approaches?"

Thraben Heretic

Creature - Human Wizard

: Exile target creature card from a graveyard.

"Let them decry me for burning the dead. I'm not giving those ghoulcallers any more fuel for their madness."

Beguiler of Wills

Creature - Human Wizard

: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of creatures you control.

"Come, let me free you of the tyranny of thought."

Dungeon Geists

Creature - Spirit

Flying

When Dungeon Geists enters the battlefield, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control Dungeon Geists.

Geralf's Mindcrusher

Creature - Zombie Horror

When Geralf's Mindcrusher enters the battlefield, target player puts the top five cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Undying (When this creature 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.)

Havengul Runebinder

Creature - Human Wizard

, , Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Zombie creature you control.

"So many corpses, so little time."

Headless Skaab

Creature - Zombie Warrior

As an additional cost to cast Headless Skaab, exile a creature card from your graveyard.

Headless Skaab enters the battlefield tapped.

A head is a needless encumbrance when muscle is all that's required.

Nephalia Seakite

Creature - Bird

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

Flying

"Keep one eye on the cliff road or you may fall to your death. Keep one eye on the sky or your death may fall on you."
-Manfried Ulmach, Elgaud Master-at-Arms

Niblis of the Breath

Creature - Spirit

Flying

, : You may tap or untap target creature.

"Why do the dead remain among us? Where is Flight Alabaster to lead them home? Where is Avacyn?"
-Eruth of Lambholt

Relentless Skaabs

Creature - Zombie

As an additional cost to cast Relentless Skaabs, exile a creature card from your graveyard.

Undying (When this creature 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.)

Screeching Skaab

Creature - Zombie

When Screeching Skaab enters the battlefield, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.

Its screeching is the sound of you losing your mind.

Shriekgeist

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Whenever Shriekgeist deals combat damage to a player, that player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Wounds of the flesh are easy to heal. Wounds of the mind may never be undone.

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.

Stormbound Geist

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Stormbound Geist can block only creatures with flying.

Undying (When this creature 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.)

Tower Geist

Creature - Spirit

Flying

When Tower Geist enters the battlefield, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Jenrik's tower is served by those who once sought to enter it uninvited.

Black Cat

Creature - Zombie Cat

When Black Cat dies, target opponent discards a card at random.

Its last life is spent tormenting your dreams.

Chosen of Markov

Creature - Human

, Tap an untapped Vampire you control: Transform Chosen of Markov.

"I have been found worthy by this great house . . ."

Falkenrath Torturer

Creature - Vampire

Sacrifice a creature: Falkenrath Torturer gains flying until end of turn. If the sacrificed creature was a Human, put a +1/+1 counter on Falkenrath Torturer.

"There was a time when our cages rang with wailing. Now only a handful of these whimpering fools remain."

Farbog Boneflinger

Creature - Zombie

When Farbog Boneflinger enters the battlefield, target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

"Here are some bones for you to choke on, dear brother!"
-Gisa, to Geralf

Fiend of the Shadows

Creature - Vampire Wizard

Flying

Whenever Fiend of the Shadows deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles a card from his or her hand. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.

Sacrifice a Human: Regenerate Fiend of the Shadows.

Geralf's Messenger

Creature - Zombie

Geralf's Messenger enters the battlefield tapped.

When Geralf's Messenger enters the battlefield, target opponent loses 2 life.

Undying (When this creature 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.)

Gravecrawler

Creature - Zombie

Gravecrawler can't block.

You may cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

"Innistrad's ghoulcallers are talented enough, but let me show you what someone with real power can create."
-Liliana Vess

Highborn Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

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

"All the dead sleep lightly here, no matter how refined their beds may be."
-Grafdigger Wulmer

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Legendary Creature - Zombie Cleric

Intimidate

Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it.

Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying 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.)

Ravenous Demon

Creature - Demon

Sacrifice a Human: Transform Ravenous Demon. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

His twisted words entice the weak.

Sightless Ghoul

Creature - Zombie Soldier

Sightless Ghoul can't block.

Undying (When this creature 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.)

It blindly marches on Thraben's gates, guided by its master's direful will.

Skirsdag Flayer

Creature - Human Cleric

, , Sacrifice a Human: Destroy target creature.

Certain initiates into the Skirsdag cult take a vow of blindness, pledging obedience to none but demonkind.

Vengeful Vampire

Creature - Vampire

Flying

Undying (When this creature 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.)

He wields the full power of wrath unfettered by the sympathies of a soul.

Wakedancer

Creature - Human Shaman

Morbid - When Wakedancer enters the battlefield, if a creature died this turn, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Hers is an ancient form of necromancy, steeped in shamanic trance and ritual that few skaberen or ghoulcallers comprehend.

Afflicted Deserter

Creature - Human Werewolf

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Afflicted Deserter.

The rising of the first full moon eliminated any doubt as to the horrible truth lurking within.

Erdwal Ripper

Creature - Vampire

Haste

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

Savage vampires lurk in the Erdwal's network of passageways where prey is plentiful and easy to catch.

Flayer of the Hatebound

Creature - Devil

Undying (When this creature 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.)

Whenever Flayer of the Hatebound or another creature enters the battlefield from your graveyard, that creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

Forge Devil

Creature - Devil

When Forge Devil enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target creature and 1 damage to you.

Devils infiltrated the lower levels of Thraben Cathedral, making cracks in load-bearing pillars and setting fire to precious archives.

Heckling Fiends

Creature - Devil

: Target creature attacks this turn if able.

Their language may be a cacophonous agglomeration of chittering snorts and mad barking, but the message they send is all too clear.

Hellrider

Creature - Devil

Haste

Whenever a creature you control attacks, Hellrider deals 1 damage to defending player.

"Behind every devil's mayhem lurks a demon's scheme."
-Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

Hinterland Hermit

Creature - Human Werewolf

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Hinterland Hermit.

He tried to live far from those he could hurt . . .

Markov Blademaster

Creature - Vampire Warrior

Double strike

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

"Mortals practice swordplay for a few decades at best. How can they ever attain the exquisite mastery that eternity has to offer?"

Markov Warlord

Creature - Vampire Warrior

Haste

When Markov Warlord enters the battlefield, up to two target creatures can't block this turn.

"What use is a stake or holy symbol in the hands of a coward?"

Mondronen Shaman

Creature - Human Werewolf Shaman

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Mondronen Shaman.

"Tovolar, my master. Gather the howlpack, for the Hunter's Moon is nigh and Thraben's walls grow weak."

Moonveil Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Each creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Their hearts beat, their lungs draw breath, and they have one true form. I count them as allies of the living."
-Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Nearheath Stalker

Creature - Vampire Rogue

Undying (When this creature 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.)

"Do not speak of this to the elders. They look unfavorably upon my indulgences."

Pyreheart Wolf

Creature - Wolf

Whenever Pyreheart Wolf attacks, each creature you control can't be blocked this turn except by two or more creatures.

Undying (When this creature 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.)

Russet Wolves

Creature - Wolf

"The wolves of our valley are bred to detest the scent of ghouls. For centuries they have kept our estates clear of such carrion."
-Olivia Voldaren

Briarpack Alpha

Creature - Wolf

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

When Briarpack Alpha enters the battlefield, target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"The wolves turned on us and a chill swept over me. The pack had a new leader."
-Alena, trapper of Kessig

Dawntreader Elk

Creature - Elk

, Sacrifice Dawntreader Elk: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Silent as winter snow, it seeks wild places unspoiled by the walking dead.

Deranged Outcast

Creature - Human Rogue

, Sacrifice a Human: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Cast out by his village, he now takes grim offense at refugees who seek shelter in his forest.

Ghoultree

Creature - Zombie Treefolk

Ghoultree costs less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.

It uproots entire fengrafs to add to its twisted frame.

Gravetiller Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Trample

Morbid - Gravetiller Wurm enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it if a creature died this turn.

As the creatures of the night closed in on humanity, Innistrad's primeval forces stirred, as though waking to watch the slaughter.

Hollowhenge Beast

Creature - Beast

In a world of monsters, it's the stuff of nightmares.

Kessig Recluse

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

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

Its silk is highly prized, but then again, so is your life.

Lambholt Elder

Creature - Human Werewolf

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Lambholt Elder.

"Be wary of the seemingly gentle souls. The weak here were slaughtered long ago."
-Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

Predator Ooze

Creature - Ooze

Predator Ooze is indestructible.

Whenever Predator Ooze attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Predator Ooze this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Predator Ooze.

Scorned Villager

Creature - Human Werewolf

: Add to your mana pool.

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Scorned Villager.

"My village's fear drove me into the wild . . ."

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.

Strangleroot Geist

Creature - Spirit

Haste

Undying (When this creature 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.)

Geists of the hanged often haunt the tree on which they died.

Ulvenwald Bear

Creature - Bear

Morbid - When Ulvenwald Bear enters the battlefield, if a creature died this turn, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Out chasing bears
-Kessig expression meaning "died in the woods"

Village Survivors

Creature - Human

Vigilance

Fateful hour - As long as you have 5 or less life, other creatures you control have vigilance.

As their villages fell to werewolves, fleeing refugees discovered they too had remarkable survival instincts.

Vorapede

Creature - Insect

Vigilance, trample

Undying (When this creature 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.)

"If you think you've killed one, guess again."
-Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Wolfbitten Captive

Creature - Human Werewolf

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

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Wolfbitten Captive.

Young Wolf

Creature - Wolf

Undying (When this creature 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.)

The Ulvenwald makes no allowances for youth. Today's newborn is either tomorrow's hunter or tomorrow's lunch.

Diregraf Captain

Creature - Zombie Soldier

Deathtouch

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

Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.

Though its mind has long since rotted away, it wields a sword with deadly skill.

Drogskol Captain

Creature - Spirit Soldier

Flying

Other Spirit creatures you control get +1/+1 and have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Dead or alive, true leaders can inspire an entire army.

Drogskol Reaver

Creature - Spirit

Flying, double strike, lifelink

Whenever you gain life, draw a card.

Wracked and warped with anguish, it obsessively seeks out other souls to hoard within its eternal prison.

Falkenrath Aristocrat

Creature - Vampire

Flying, haste

Sacrifice a creature: Falkenrath Aristocrat is indestructible this turn. If the sacrificed creature was a Human, put a +1/+1 counter on Falkenrath Aristocrat.

"Your blood is quite pleasing. A pity there's not enough for both of us."

Havengul Lich

Creature - Zombie Wizard

: You may cast target creature card in a graveyard this turn. When you cast that card this turn, Havengul Lich gains all activated abilities of that card until end of turn.

Fusing intelligence with the power of undeath requires inspiration of the darkest kind.