Soul of New Phyrexia

Artifact Creature - Avatar

Trample

: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

, Exile Soul of New Phyrexia from your graveyard: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Soul of Ravnica

Creature - Avatar

Flying

: Draw a card for each color among permanents you control.

, Exile Soul of Ravnica from your graveyard: Draw a card for each color among permanents you control.

Soul of Shandalar

Creature - Avatar

First strike

: Soul of Shandalar deals 3 damage to target player and 3 damage to up to one target creature that player controls.

, Exile Soul of Shandalar from your graveyard: Soul of Shandalar deals 3 damage to target player and 3 damage to up to one target creature that player controls.

Soul of the Harvest

Creature - Elemental

Trample

Whenever another nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may draw a card.

It's there when a seed sprouts, when gourds ripen on the vines, and when the reapers cut the grains under the Harvest Moon.

Soul of Theros

Creature - Avatar

Vigilance

: Creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain first strike and lifelink until end of turn.

, Exile Soul of Theros from your graveyard: Creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain first strike and lifelink until end of turn.

Soul of Zendikar

Creature - Avatar

Reach

: Put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.

, Exile Soul of Zendikar from your graveyard: Put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.

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.

Soul Snuffers

Creature - Elemental Shaman

When Soul Snuffers enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature.

They once sought to unite with the flame of transcendence. Now they seek only to extinguish the lights of others.

Soul Warden

Creature - Human Cleric

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

"One does not question the size or shape of the grains of sand in an hourglass. Nor do I question the temperament of the souls under my guidance."

Soul's Attendant

Creature - Human Cleric

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may gain 1 life.

In truth, her own faith was gone, trodden in Ulamog's wake. She pantomimed the blessing in the hope that it would inspire others to continue to struggle.

Soulbound Guardians

Creature - Kor Spirit

Defender, flying

The kor's most righteous dead are given the greatest reward: an eternity tied to the land they so cherish.

Soulbright Flamekin

Creature - Elemental Shaman

: Target creature gains trample until end of turn. If this is the third time this ability has resolved this turn, you may add to your mana pool.

When provoked, a flamekin's inner fire burns far hotter than any giant's forge.

Soulcage Fiend

Creature - Demon

When Soulcage Fiend dies, each player loses 3 life.

Vowing to free the souls of her children, Kastinne followed the tormentors into the ghastly network of caves below Stensia.

Soulcatcher

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

Whenever a creature with flying dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Soulcatcher.

"Holy couriers guide aven spirits up to the home of the Ancestor."
-Mystic elder

Soulfire Grand Master

Creature - Human Monk

Lifelink

Instant and sorcery spells you control have lifelink.

: The next time you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand this turn, put that card into your hand instead of into your graveyard as it resolves.

Soulflayer

Creature - Demon

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

If a creature card with flying was exiled with Soulflayer's delve ability, Soulflayer has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, reach, trample, and vigilance.

Soulmender

Creature - Human Cleric

: You gain 1 life.

"Healing is more art than magic. Well, there is still quite a bit of magic."

Souls of the Faultless

Creature - Spirit

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Souls of the Faultless is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life and attacking player loses that much life.

Soulsurge Elemental

Creature - Elemental

First strike

Soulsurge Elemental's power is equal to the number of creatures you control.

It draws its strength from those around it, but the pleasure of destruction is all its own.

Soulsworn Jury

Creature - Spirit

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, Sacrifice Soulsworn Jury: Counter target creature spell.

In death, as in life, they protect the Grand Arbiter from exposure to contrary points of view.

Soulsworn Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Soulsworn Spirit is unblockable.

When Soulsworn Spirit enters the battlefield, detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Soultether Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Vanishing 1 (This permanent enters the battlefield with a time counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a time counter on Soultether Golem.

Sovereigns of Lost Alara

Creature - Spirit

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 search your library for an Aura card that could enchant that creature, put it onto the battlefield attached to that creature, then shuffle your library.

Sower of Temptation

Creature - Faerie Wizard

Flying

When Sower of Temptation enters the battlefield, gain control of target creature for as long as Sower of Temptation remains on the battlefield.

One glamer leads him far from home. The next washes away his memory that home was ever anywhere but at her side.

Spark Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Trample, haste (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. This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Spark Elemental.

Vulshok shamans could never keep them alive for more than a few seconds, yet those few seconds seemed to be enough.

Spark Trooper

Creature - Elemental Soldier

Trample, lifelink, haste

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Spark Trooper.

Izzet-designed conductors atop Sunhome charge empty sets of armor that give form to the fluctuating elementals.

Sparkmage Apprentice

Creature - Human Wizard

When Sparkmage Apprentice enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Sparkmages are performance artists of sorts, but pain is the price of admission.

Sparkspitter

Creature - Elemental Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Put a 3/1 red Elemental creature token named Spark Elemental onto the battlefield. It has trample, haste, and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Spark Elemental."

Spawn of Rix Maadi

Creature - Horror

Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

"Straight from the blood-drenched imagination of our illustrious parun!"
-Nyoser, Gore-House ringleader

Spawn of Thraxes

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Spawn of Thraxes enters the battlefield, it deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Mountains you control.

Sparks from Purphoros's forge fill the belly of every dragon.

Spawnbinder Mage

Creature - Human Wizard Ally

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Tap target creature.

"Follow me. Step lightly. And resist the urge to kick them."

Spawnbroker

Creature - Human Wizard

When Spawnbroker enters the battlefield, you may exchange control of target creature you control and target creature with power less than or equal to that creature's power an opponent controls.

"The trick isn't setting up the bad trade. It's making each side think it got the better deal."

Spawnsire of Ulamog

Creature - Eldrazi

Annihilator 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent.)

: Put two 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

{20}: Cast any number of Eldrazi cards you own from outside the game without paying their mana costs.

Spawnwrithe

Creature - Elemental

Trample

Whenever Spawnwrithe deals combat damage to a player, put a token that's a copy of Spawnwrithe onto the battlefield.

Its victims feel only an itchy, wriggling feeling just under their skin. By then, it's far too late.

Spearbreaker Behemoth

Creature - Beast

Spearbreaker Behemoth is indestructible.

: Target creature with power 5 or greater is indestructible this turn.

Few Nayans dare hunt the gargantuans. They're regarded not as animals but as forces of nature, like landslides or typhoons.

Species Gorger

Creature - Frog Beast

At the beginning of your upkeep, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

"We raised eelhawks to control the squidflies, then waspcrabs to prey on the eelhawks. Now what do we do with all these waspcrabs?"
-Gulistan, Simic biomancer

Spectral Force

Creature - Elemental Spirit

Trample

Whenever Spectral Force attacks, if defending player controls no black permanents, it doesn't untap during your next untap step.

"The spirits of old have not left us unguarded."
-Uros, Pendelhaven elder

Spectral Gateguards

Creature - Spirit Soldier

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)

As long as Spectral Gateguards is paired with another creature, both creatures have vigilance.

Spectral Rider

Creature - Spirit Knight

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

Never a word. Never a warning. Only the sound of hoofbeats along the crossways, and the screams of the avenged.

Spellbound Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever Spellbound Dragon attacks, draw a card, then discard a card. Spellbound Dragon gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the discarded card's converted mana cost.

A king in Jund, a serf in Esper.

Spellbreaker Behemoth

Creature - Beast

Spellbreaker Behemoth can't be countered.

Creature spells you control with power 5 or greater can't be countered.

"Some think its immunity to countermagic evolved because of the constant mage attacks on Naya. I think it just ate a bunch of wizards."
-Broka, drumhunter

Spellheart Chimera

Creature - Chimera

Flying, trample

Spellheart Chimera's power is equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.

Thaumaturges remain silent around chimeras, lest their words conjure even stranger beasts.

Spellskite

Artifact Creature - Horror

: Change a target of target spell or ability to Spellskite. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"Let's show Vorinclex that progress doesn't always need teeth or claws."
-Malcator, Executor of Synthesis

Spellstutter Sprite

Creature - Faerie Wizard

Flash

Flying

When Spellstutter Sprite enters the battlefield, counter target spell with converted mana cost X or less, where X is the number of Faeries you control.

Spelltithe Enforcer

Creature - Elephant Wizard

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player sacrifices a permanent unless he or she pays .

His assistants calculate the amount of the tribute. He measures out the punishment for delinquency.

Spellwild Ouphe

Creature - Ouphe

Spells that target Spellwild Ouphe cost less to cast.

"You'd think that their big glowing eyes would be almost hypnotic to look at. In fact, it's the other way around-they are entranced by nearly everything they see."
-Balecki, Spellwild druid

Sphinx Ambassador

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever Sphinx Ambassador deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for a card, then that player names a card. If you searched for a creature card that isn't the named card, you may put it onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Sphinx of Jwar Isle

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

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

You may look at the top card of your library. (You may do this at any time.)

"Even if the sphinxes do know the location of every relic, getting one to talk is harder than just searching yourself."
-Sachir, Akoum Expeditionary House

Sphinx of Lost Truths

Creature - Sphinx

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

Flying

When Sphinx of Lost Truths enters the battlefield, draw three cards. Then if it wasn't kicked, discard three cards.

Sphinx of Magosi

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

: Draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on Sphinx of Magosi.

"A riddle is nothing more than a trap for small minds, baited with the promise of understanding."

Sphinx of the Chimes

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Discard two nonland cards with the same name: Draw four cards.

"I've dreamt of the future, Isperia. Danger is on the horizon. You must heed my warning."

Sphinx of the Final Word

Creature - Sphinx

Sphinx of the Final Word can't be countered.

Flying, hexproof

Instant and sorcery spells you control can't be countered by spells or abilities.

He answers questions as readily as he asks them, but his answer is always "no."

Sphinx of the Steel Wind

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green

No one has properly answered her favorite riddle: "Why should I spare your life?"

Sphinx of Uthuun

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Sphinx of Uthuun enters the battlefield, reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Sphinx Sovereign

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

At the beginning of your end step, you gain 3 life if Sphinx Sovereign is untapped. Otherwise, each opponent loses 3 life.

"What rises without legs, whispers without a voice, bites without teeth, and dies without having life?"

Sphinx Summoner

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Sphinx Summoner enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.

Sphinx's Disciple

Creature - Human Wizard

Flying

Inspired - Whenever Sphinx's Disciple becomes untapped, draw a card.

Few dare to brave the Dakra Isles. Those who return are forever changed.

Sphinx's Herald

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, , Sacrifice a white creature, a blue creature, and a black creature: Search your library for a card named Sphinx Sovereign and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

He calls a riddle through the gaps of cloven clouds, hoping for an answer.

Spiderwig Boggart

Creature - Goblin Shaman

When Spiderwig Boggart enters the battlefield, target creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Auntie Flint was the first to pioneer the spiderwig, a mass of arachnids intended to be worn rather than eaten.

Spike Feeder

Creature - Spike

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

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spike Feeder: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spike Feeder: You gain 2 life.

Spike Jester

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Haste

For the Rakdos, "suicidal charge" and "good showmanship" are one and the same.

Spike Tiller

Creature - Spike

Spike Tiller enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spike Tiller: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spike Tiller: Target land becomes a 2/2 creature that's still a land. Put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Spiked Baloth

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.)

If a baloth isn't hungry, it's dead.

Spikeshot Elder

Creature - Goblin Shaman

: Spikeshot Elder deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

Now that he knows a thousand ways of hurting people, his next shamanic quest is to discover a thousand more.

Spikeshot Goblin

Creature - Goblin Shaman

, : Spikeshot Goblin deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

Spiketail Drakeling

Creature - Drake

Flying

Sacrifice Spiketail Drakeling: Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

Drakelings fish with their tails, angling to snare succulent thoughts and memories on their psychic hooks.

Spiketail Hatchling

Creature - Drake

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Sacrifice Spiketail Hatchling: Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

It dodges waves of water to prepare for waves of magic.

Spin Engine

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Target creature can't block Spin Engine this turn.

"It will be battle-ready before our strike at Oxid Ridge, and it will guarantee our victory."
-Ketuc of the Helm

Spinal Parasite

Artifact Creature - Insect

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

Remove two +1/+1 counters from Spinal Parasite: Remove a counter from target permanent.

Spincrusher

Artifact Creature - Construct

Whenever Spincrusher blocks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spincrusher: Spincrusher is unblockable this turn.

It rolls with the punches.

Spinebiter

Creature - Beast

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

You may have Spinebiter assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.

Spined Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Whenever a Sliver becomes blocked, that Sliver gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

"Slivers are evil and slivers are sly;
And if you get eaten, then no one will cry."
-Mogg children's rhyme

Spined Thopter

Artifact Creature - Thopter

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Flying

"I appreciate the depravity of noble designs turned to devious ends."
-Tezzeret

Spined Wurm

Creature - Wurm

"They're as much like plants as animals. Leave them unchecked, and they'll choke out all other forms of life."
-Hadi Kasten, Calla Dale naturalist

Spineless Thug

Creature - Zombie Mercenary

Spineless Thug can't block.

What it lacks in backbone, it makes up for in cruelty.

Spinneret Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have reach. (They can block creatures with flying.)

Each new generation of slivers evolves to assimilate the strengths of the prey upon which their progenitors fed.

Spiraling Duelist

Creature - Human Berserker

Metalcraft - Spiraling Duelist has double strike as long as you control three or more artifacts.

"I never move the same way twice. Those rotters can't grasp chaos."

Spire Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Affinity for Islands (This spell costs less to cast for each Island you control.)

Flying

The longer it soars above the shimmering swirls of the Quicksilver Sea, the more it adopts their unpredictability.

Spire Monitor

Creature - Drake

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

Flying

Each monitor is given an eye for each spire it is to guard.

Spire Serpent

Creature - Serpent

Defender

Metalcraft - As long as you control three or more artifacts, Spire Serpent gets +2/+2 and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

A mirror to draw its eye, a rod to rouse its rage, and a sword to break its bonds.

Spire Tracer

Creature - Elf Scout

Spire Tracer can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.

Cartographers on Ravnica chart not just the horizontal, but also the vertical.

Spirit en-Dal

Creature - Spirit

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

Forecast - , Reveal Spirit en-Dal from your hand: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Spirit of the Hearth

Creature - Cat Spirit

Flying

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Thieves know that a snarl in the night means, "Rob another house."

Spirit Weaver

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target green or blue creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"Let my hope be your shield."

Spiritmonger

Creature - Beast

Whenever Spiritmonger deals damage to a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Spiritmonger.

: Regenerate Spiritmonger.

: Spiritmonger becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

Spitebellows

Creature - Elemental

When Spitebellows leaves the battlefield, it deals 6 damage to target creature.

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

Disaster stalks with gaping jaws across unready lands.

Spiteflame Witch

Creature - Elemental Shaman

: Each player loses 1 life.

Cinder beliefs revolve around the Path of Sorrow, a spiritual descent into oblivion. They don't mind taking others on their journey down.

Spitemare

Creature - Elemental

Whenever Spitemare is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target creature or player.

"I knew a creature carved from a dream of wild freedom. Any attempt to leash or exploit it failed, and at terrible cost."
-Ashling

Spitting Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have first strike.

"Our lances' reach had been our saving grace in our fight against the hive. Now even that advantage is taken from us."
-Adom Capashen, Benalish knight

Spitting Slug

Creature - Slug

Whenever Spitting Slug blocks or becomes blocked, you may pay . If you do, Spitting Slug gains first strike until end of turn. Otherwise, each creature blocking or blocked by Spitting Slug gains first strike until end of turn.

Spitting Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Sacrifice a land: Spitting Spider deals 1 damage to each creature with flying.

Splatter Thug

Creature - Human Warrior

First strike

Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

The mask isn't meant to hide his identity. It's meant to keep the viscera out of his eyes.

Splinterfright

Creature - Elemental

Trample

Splinterfright's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.

Split-Tail Miko

Creature - Fox Cleric

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

"I wish there were no use for those with my talents. I wish that I could walk Kamigawa forgotten and unneeded, with no war wounds to heal and no broken bones to mend."

Sporeback Troll

Creature - Troll 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.)

: Regenerate target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Sporecap Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"They don't move much, but then again, if you get caught in its web, it has all the time in the world to get to you."
-Saidah, Joraga hunter

Sporemound

Creature - Fungus

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

"If you threaten its territory, it produces spores. Actually, no matter what you do, it produces spores."-Hadi Kasten, Calla Dale naturalist

Sporesower Thallid

Creature - Fungus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on each Fungus you control.

Remove three spore counters from Sporesower Thallid: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

Sporoloth Ancient

Creature - Fungus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Sporoloth Ancient.

Creatures you control have "Remove two spore counters from this creature: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield."

Springjack Knight

Creature - Kithkin Knight

Whenever Springjack Knight attacks, clash with an opponent. If you win, target creature gains double strike until end of turn. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)