Sky-Eel School

Creature - Fish

Flying

When Sky-Eel School enters the battlefield, draw a card, then discard a card.

They swim on tides few can see, away from a threat few yet understand.

Skyclaw Thrash

Artifact Creature - Viashino Warrior

Whenever Skyclaw Thrash attacks, flip a coin. If you win the flip, Skyclaw Thrash gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn.

Their newfound wings shined elegantly and functioned partially.

Skyfire Kirin

Legendary Creature - Kirin Spirit

Flying

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may gain control of target creature with that spell's converted mana cost until end of turn.

Its fiery visitation burns away the fog of war and dissipates the ties of loyalty.

Skyhunter Cub

Creature - Cat Knight

As long as Skyhunter Cub is equipped, it gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Every young leonin wishes to become a skyhunter, for they soar closest to the suns.

Skyhunter Patrol

Creature - Cat Knight

Flying, first strike (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach, and it deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"We leonin have come to rule the plains by taking to the skies."
-Raksha Golden Cub

Skyhunter Prowler

Creature - Cat Knight

Flying, vigilance (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach, and attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

As tireless as her mount, a skyhunter's vigil is measured in days.

Skyhunter Skirmisher

Creature - Cat Knight

Flying, double strike (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach, and it deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

"Take the deadly grace and strength of the leonin, combined with a pteron mount capable of rending a foe in two and armed with notched steel. That is a skyhunter-and why Taj-Nar has never fallen."
-Raksha Golden Cub

Skyknight Legionnaire

Creature - Human Knight

Flying, haste

"I do not know which gives me more pride: the legions of soldiers marching in thunderous lockstep, or the cry of the skyknights riding their rocs like jagged lightning overhead."
-Razia

Skylasher

Creature - Insect

Flash

Skylasher can't be countered.

Reach, protection from blue

"It preys on those who would spy on our lands, so we never prey on it."
-Kroshkar, Gruul shaman

Skyline Predator

Creature - Drake

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

Flying

"It will dodge your first arrow and flatten you before there's a second."
-Alcarus, Selesnya archer

Skymark Roc

Creature - Bird

Flying

Whenever Skymark Roc attacks, you may return target creature defending player controls with toughness 2 or less to its owner's hand.

"Try not to look guilty. Or delicious."
-Thorpe, street urchin

Skyreach Manta

Artifact Creature - Fish

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

Flying

As the dawns break, the manta soars.

Skyrider Elf

Creature - Elf Warrior Ally

Flying

Converge - Skyrider Elf enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.

"It may be unconventional, but I'll take any steady mount in a storm."

Skyrider Trainee

Creature - Human Soldier

Skyrider Trainee has flying as long as it's enchanted.

"Of course I plan on going up. Kang here is the most trusted 'fin on the squad. Afraid? Me? No, I'm just . . . waiting for the right wind conditions."

Skyshroud Ranger

Creature - Elf

: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Not even the elves truly know the Skyshroud Forest. The rangers are merely the best equipped to handle its uncertainty.

Skyspear Cavalry

Creature - Human Soldier

Flying

Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Pray her spear reaches you first. Her griffin is less kind.

Skyward Eye Prophets

Creature - Human Wizard

Vigilance

: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

They lament the doom that is coming to Bant without realizing the part their own leaders have played in it.

Skywatcher Adept

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 1-2

2/2

Flying

LEVEL 3+

4/2

Flying

Skywinder Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

Skywinder Drake can block only creatures with flying.

It's so light and fragile that it can glide where the air is thinnest.

Slag Fiend

Creature - Construct

Slag Fiend's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifact cards in all graveyards.

"Seal the furnace vents. Admit no others. We'll tend our forges without their tainted ways."
-Decree of Urabrask

Slash Panther

Artifact Creature - Cat

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Haste

It runs an endless circuit along the ruined roads of the soon-to-be-forgotten Mirran civilization.

Slate Street Ruffian

Creature - Human Warrior

Whenever Slate Street Ruffian becomes blocked, defending player discards a card.

"Merciless to the point of psychosis. Let's give him a job."
-Zelinas, Orzhov recruiter

Slaughter Drone

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

{C}: Slaughter Drone gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. {C} represents colorless mana.)

It kills what is, making way for what should not be.

Slaughterhorn

Creature - Beast

Bloodrush - , Discard Slaughterhorn: Target attacking creature gets +3/+2 until end of turn.

The Orzhov clergy would never cross its path, but sending thrull couriers to do so is cheap and entertaining.

Slaughterhouse Bouncer

Creature - Ogre Warrior

Hellbent - When Slaughterhouse Bouncer dies, if you have no cards in hand, target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

A Rakdos party is a flop if anyone lives to talk about it.

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.

Sleeper Agent

Creature - Minion

When Sleeper Agent enters the battlefield, target opponent gains control of it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, Sleeper Agent deals 2 damage to you.

Slinking Giant

Creature - Giant Rogue

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Whenever Slinking Giant blocks or becomes blocked, it gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

"I need a better hiding place."

Slippery Bogle

Creature - Beast

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

Bogles are very tasty if you can get the skin off. It's getting a blade on them that's the problem.

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."

Slipstream Serpent

Creature - Serpent

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

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Slipstream Serpent.

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

Slith Ascendant

Creature - Slith

Flying

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

Instinctively drawn to the light of its "mother-sun," each slith follows that sun's path around Mirrodin.

Slith Bloodletter

Creature - Slith

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

: Regenerate Slith Bloodletter.

Goblins fear the slith, believing they are children banished from the womb of the Steel Mother, deep within Kuldotha.

Slith Firewalker

Creature - Slith

Haste

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

Slith Predator

Creature - Slith

Trample

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

Slith Strider

Creature - Slith

Whenever Slith Strider becomes blocked, draw a card.

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

A slith's form and function are determined by the color of the sun under which it's born.

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

Slithering Shade

Creature - Shade

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Slithering Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Hellbent - Slithering Shade can attack as though it didn't have defender as long as you have no cards in hand.

Slithermuse

Creature - Elemental

When Slithermuse leaves the battlefield, choose an opponent. If that player has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.

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

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

Sliver Legion

Legendary Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures get +1/+1 for each other Sliver on the battlefield.

Hidden within the clicking, chittering swarm is a unique mind, still young, but growing more aware as time passes.

Sliversmith

Artifact Creature - Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Put a 1/1 colorless Sliver artifact creature token named Metallic Sliver onto the battlefield.

After centuries of labor, its creations outnumber those they were to mimic.

Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer

Legendary Creature - Goblin Artificer

Sacrifice an artifact: Target artifact is indestructible this turn. ("Destroy" effects and lethal damage don't destroy that artifact.)

"I used to joke that he had been exiled for being too smart. Now I know why he never laughed."
-Glissa Sunseeker

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

Smogsteed Rider

Creature - Human Wizard

Whenever Smogsteed Rider attacks, each other attacking creature gains fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"An entire order of mages who draw their power from Ravnica's smog? Yet another indicator of our world's decay."
-Dravash, dowsing shaman

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."

Smokebraider

Creature - Elemental Shaman

: Add two mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast Elemental spells or activate abilities of Elementals.

"Be silent and listen to your inner fire. Only then can you walk the Path of Flame."

Smolder Initiate

Creature - Elemental Shaman

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay . If you do, target player loses 1 life.

"Life is a circle. Death is a vicious circle."

Smoldering Butcher

Creature - Elemental Warrior

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

A cinder's axe bears no marks from parrying a foe's blade.

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.

Sneaky Homunculus

Creature - Homunculus Illusion

Sneaky Homunculus can't block or be blocked by creatures with power 2 or greater.

Keep watch only for the giants and you'll be eaten by the ants.

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.

Soilshaper

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target land becomes a 3/3 creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

It spoke with the voice of nature, but its words were curses spat upon humankind.

Sokenzan Bruiser

Creature - Ogre Warrior

Mountainwalk

"We camped near the Sokenzan Mountains. Though I know its inhabitants are sparse, I hear cries coming from the highest peaks every night, as if the mountains themselves bellow for vengeance."
-Lost Battalion, message to General Takeno

Sokenzan Renegade

Creature - Ogre Samurai Mercenary

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

At the beginning of your upkeep, if a player has more cards in hand than each other player, the player who has the most cards in hand gains control of Sokenzan Renegade.

Sokenzan Spellblade

Creature - Ogre Samurai Shaman

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

: Sokenzan Spellblade gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Sol'kanar the Swamp King

Legendary Creature - Demon

Swampwalk

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you gain 1 life.

Solarion

Artifact Creature - Construct

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

: Double the number of +1/+1 counters on Solarion.

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."

Soldier Replica

Artifact Creature - Soldier

, Sacrifice Soldier Replica: Soldier Replica deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

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.

Soltari Priest

Creature - Soltari Cleric

Protection from red

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

"In Rath," the priest said, "there is even greater need for prayer."

Somber Hoverguard

Creature - Drone

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Flying

The vedalken interrogate all intruders-once the hoverguards are done with them.

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.

Somnomancer

Creature - Kithkin Wizard

When Somnomancer enters the battlefield, you may tap target creature.

"Are you tired? You look tired."

Soot Imp

Creature - Imp

Flying

Whenever a player casts a nonblack spell, that player loses 1 life.

"If one gets in your chimney, you're going to need a long wick and a barrel of bangstuff to get it out."
-Hob Heddil

Sootstoke Kindler

Creature - Elemental Shaman

Haste

: Target black or red creature gains haste until end of turn.

"Nothing warms my heart better than a spirit kindled with rage."

Sootwalkers

Creature - Elemental Rogue

Sootwalkers can't be blocked by white creatures.

"Why allow the fires of others to burn, when ours do not? Why leave them content, while we suffer? If there is to be misery, let it be borne by all."

Sophic Centaur

Creature - Centaur Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: You gain 2 life for each card in your hand.

He endures the pain of remembering Krosa as it once was and hopes that a future generation will have need of his memories.

Soramaro, First to Dream

Legendary Creature - Spirit

Flying

Soramaro, First to Dream's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.

, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Draw a card.

Soratami Cloudskater

Creature - Moonfolk Rogue

Flying

, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Draw a card, then discard a card.

"You hide your actions from eyes on the ground, but nothing escapes the clouds."

Soratami Mindsweeper

Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Soratami Mirror-Guard

Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target creature with power 2 or less is unblockable this turn.

Soratami Mirror-Mage

Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return three lands you control to their owner's hand: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

"The clouds obey my whims, and you'll obey theirs."

Soratami Rainshaper

Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target creature you control gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Soratami Savant

Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"To prevent, one must first predict."

Soratami Seer

Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return two lands you control to their owner's hand: Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.

Their mirrors show two worlds: that which is and that which should be.

Sosuke, Son of Seshiro

Legendary Creature - Snake Warrior

Other Snake creatures you control get +1/+0.

Whenever a Warrior you control deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Soul Collector

Creature - Vampire

Flying

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Soul Collector this turn dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

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

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 Magma

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, Soul of Magma deals 1 damage to target creature.

"In every other mind, the battle was lost. General Takeno alone was not touched by despair. Drawing his blade, he was attack and rallying cry in one."
-Battle of Akagi River: A Survivor's Tale