Bushi Tenderfoot

Creature - Human Soldier

When a creature dealt damage by Bushi Tenderfoot this turn dies, flip Bushi Tenderfoot.

Callous Deceiver

Creature - Spirit

: Look at the top card of your library.

: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, Callous Deceiver gets +1/+0 and gains flying until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Cruel Deceiver

Creature - Spirit

: Look at the top card of your library.

: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, Cruel Deceiver gains "Whenever Cruel Deceiver deals damage to a creature, destroy that creature" until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Cursed Ronin

Creature - Human Samurai

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

: Cursed Ronin gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"You are fortunate, my enemy. You have paid the price but once. I never stop paying."

Deathcurse Ogre

Creature - Ogre Warrior

When Deathcurse Ogre dies, each player loses 3 life.

After their worship of oni began, only a few of Kamigawa's ogres remained in the bitter cold of the Tendo Peaks. Most were drawn to the darkness of Takenuma.

Devoted Retainer

Creature - Human Samurai

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

Deep within Eiganjo Castle lay the Palace of Infinite Halls, a seemingly endless network of corridors once guarded by a seemingly endless legion of samurai.

Dosan the Falling Leaf

Legendary Creature - Human Monk

Players can cast spells only during their own turns.

"Each night as Master Dosan prays to the kami, the hate he receives in return withers his body a little more. Though the kami are slowly killing him, still he continues his prayers."
-Meditation journal of a young budoka

Dripping-Tongue Zubera

Creature - Zubera Spirit

When Dripping-Tongue Zubera dies, put a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token onto the battlefield for each Zubera that died this turn.

When the Honden of Life's Web was destroyed, its attendants swarmed Kamigawa to ensure mortal defeat.

Earthshaker

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, Earthshaker deals 2 damage to each creature without flying.

It scaled the Sokenzan Mountains in search of Kumano's secret. The mountain shook for two days, and the kami never returned.

Eight-and-a-Half-Tails

Legendary Creature - Fox Cleric

: Target permanent you control gains protection from white until end of turn.

: Target spell or permanent becomes white until end of turn.

"Virtue is an inner light that can prevail in every soul."

Ember-Fist Zubera

Creature - Zubera Spirit

When Ember-Fist Zubera dies, it deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Zubera that died this turn.

When the Honden of Infinite Rage shattered, its attendants swarmed Kamigawa to sow mortal destruction.

Feral Deceiver

Creature - Spirit

: Look at the top card of your library.

: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, Feral Deceiver gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Floating-Dream Zubera

Creature - Zubera Spirit

When Floating-Dream Zubera dies, draw a card for each Zubera that died this turn.

When the Honden of Seeing Winds was forgotten, its attendants swarmed Kamigawa to uncover mortal secrets.

Frostwielder

Creature - Human Shaman

: Frostwielder deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

If a creature dealt damage by Frostwielder this turn would die, exile it instead.

Gibbering Kami

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Soulshift 3 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Godo, Bandit Warlord

Legendary Creature - Human Barbarian

When Godo, Bandit Warlord enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Equipment card and put it onto the battlefield. If you do, shuffle your library.

Whenever Godo attacks for the first time each turn, untap it and all Samurai you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

Graceful Adept

Creature - Human Wizard

You have no maximum hand size.

"When you have mastered my lessons, it will seem as though the whole of the world has opened up to your mind and nothing is beyond your grasp."
-Lady Azami

Guardian of Solitude

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"It seemed an easy thing, to step into the nothingness, to fall, to die. But then, for an instant, I saw it, eyes filled with endless sorrow, and I turned back to face my pain."
-Snow-Fur, kitsune poet

Gutwrencher Oni

Creature - Demon Spirit

Trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card if you don't control an Ogre.

"Blood drips. Blood sings. Blood devours all and only blood remains."
-Ogre chant

Hana Kami

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice Hana Kami: Return target Arcane card from your graveyard to your hand.

It grew in lands lit by pride and watered by tears.

Harsh Deceiver

Creature - Spirit

: Look at the top card of your library.

: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, untap Harsh Deceiver and it gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

He Who Hungers

Legendary Creature - Spirit

Flying

, Sacrifice a Spirit: Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Soulshift 4 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with converted mana cost 4 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Hearth Kami

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice Hearth Kami: Destroy target artifact with converted mana cost X.

"Every treachery, great or small, begets a spirit that rages at the injustice. Given the opportunity, each will return that treachery to its owner tenfold."
-Sensei Hisoka

Hikari, Twilight Guardian

Legendary Creature - Spirit

Flying

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may exile Hikari, Twilight Guardian. If you do, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Hisoka's Guard

Creature - Human Wizard

You may choose not to untap Hisoka's Guard during your untap step.

, : Target creature you control other than Hisoka's Guard has shroud for as long as Hisoka's Guard remains tapped. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Hisoka, Minamo Sensei

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

, Discard a card: Counter target spell if it has the same converted mana cost as the discarded card.

"By all rights we should have perished in the Kami War. Our perseverence is a tribute to mortal ingenuity. And perhaps a few forgotten secrets found in the nick of time."

Horizon Seed

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, regenerate target creature.

In peaceful times, these beings escorted the honored kami to their new shrines. In the Kami War, they became the medics of an unstoppable army.

Horobi, Death's Wail

Legendary Creature - Spirit

Flying

Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy that creature.

"From the ashes of Reito rose a new kami. And thereafter at every battle came Horobi, Death's Wail."
-The History of Kamigawa

Humble Budoka

Creature - Human Monk

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

Each time wanderers entered the forest seeking enlightenment, Dosan was there, waiting for them to arrive.

Hundred-Talon Kami

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Soulshift 4 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with converted mana cost 4 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Iname, Death Aspect

Legendary Creature - Spirit

When Iname, Death Aspect enters the battlefield, you may search your library for any number of Spirit cards and put them into your graveyard. If you do, shuffle your library.

Iname revels in sadistic glee at the crushing of souls, but soon mourns the lives so cruelly cut short. So the cycle begins anew.

Iname, Life Aspect

Legendary Creature - Spirit

When Iname, Life Aspect dies, you may exile it. If you do, return any number of target Spirit cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Iname rejoices in the dawn of a new life, but soon becomes jealous of the simple joys denied him by his station. So the cycle begins anew.

Initiate of Blood

Creature - Ogre Shaman

: Initiate of Blood deals 1 damage to target creature that was dealt damage this turn. When that creature dies this turn, flip Initiate of Blood.

Innocence Kami

Creature - Spirit

, : Tap target creature.

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, untap Innocence Kami.

Her voice was light, her substance music.

Isamaru, Hound of Konda

Legendary Creature - Hound

The hound sniffed the air and let slip a low growl. General Takeno looked down at the faithful Isamaru and calmed him with a touch. "Alert the men. The kami are coming."

Jugan, the Rising Star

Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit

Flying

When Jugan, the Rising Star dies, you may distribute five +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures.

Jukai Messenger

Creature - Human Monk

Forestwalk

Dosan's monks, deep in spiritual thought, could walk through the thickest of forests without leaving a mark, even the leaves beneath their feet unaffected by their passing.

Jushi Apprentice

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Draw a card. If you have nine or more cards in hand, flip Jushi Apprentice.

Kabuto Moth

Creature - Spirit

Flying

: Target creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

"Many great warriors died in the first days of the war, as the spirits of their weaponry turned against them with terrifying rage."
-Observations of the Kami War

Kami of Ancient Law

Creature - Spirit

Sacrifice Kami of Ancient Law: Destroy target enchantment.

"Duty and law are the foundation on which civilization stands. They must not fall, for when they do, they take everything with them."
-Lord Konda

Kami of Fire's Roar

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target creature can't block this turn.

"I can hear the shamans chanting in the hills. They say their magic will protect us from the kami, that our gold has bought our safety. But no one sleeps soundly tonight."
-Scroll fragment from the ruins of Reito

Kami of Lunacy

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Soulshift 5 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with converted mana cost 5 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Kami of the Hunt

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, Kami of the Hunt gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Don't worry, Jiro. The kami would never attack us this close to home . . . . Jiro?"
-Hoto, temple guardian, last words

Kami of the Painted Road

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, Kami of the Painted Road gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

In ancient times, precepts of kami law were inscribed onto bridges as a gesture of respect. During the war, humans regarded them as warnings of where not to travel.

Kami of the Palace Fields

Creature - Spirit

Flying, first strike

Soulshift 5 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with converted mana cost 5 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Kami of the Waning Moon

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"For a moment, Reito's defenders regrouped. Then wailing kami reappeared to send them scattering like flocks of frightened birds."
-Great Battles of Kamigawa

Kami of Twisted Reflection

Creature - Spirit

Sacrifice Kami of Twisted Reflection: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Its form reflected humanity as it stood during the Kami War: disjointed, confused, and incomplete.

Kashi-Tribe Reaver

Creature - Snake Warrior

Whenever Kashi-Tribe Reaver deals combat damage to a creature, tap that creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

: Regenerate Kashi-Tribe Reaver.

Kashi-Tribe Warriors

Creature - Snake Warrior

Whenever Kashi-Tribe Warriors deals combat damage to a creature, tap that creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

The orochi and the monks had always had an unspoken agreement: live and let live. But when the kami began raging, some warrior youths began questioning that agreement.

Keiga, the Tide Star

Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit

Flying

When Keiga, the Tide Star dies, gain control of target creature.

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

Legendary Creature - Goblin Shaman

Haste

: Put a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control onto the battlefield. That token has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Kiku, Night's Flower

Legendary Creature - Human Assassin

, : Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

"A wanderer has told me of an assassin in the Takenuma Swamp who uses her dark arts to animate her enemies' shadows against them. A wild tale, but it explains much."
-Diary of Azusa

Kitsune Blademaster

Creature - Fox Samurai

First strike

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

Those kitsune trained in the blade preferred to fight with a blade-catching jitte in the off hand, buying them just enough time to deliver the first deadly cut.

Kitsune Diviner

Creature - Fox Cleric

: Tap target Spirit.

She who once led prayers honoring the kami adapted to use her influence to stay them.

Kitsune Healer

Creature - Fox Cleric

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target legendary creature this turn.

Kitsune Mystic

Creature - Fox Wizard

At the beginning of the end step, if Kitsune Mystic is enchanted by two or more Auras, flip it.

Kitsune Riftwalker

Creature - Fox Wizard

Protection from Spirits and from Arcane

The wake of his passage shoved aside the influence of the kami.

Kodama of the North Tree

Legendary Creature - Spirit

Trample; shroud (This permanent can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"The monks of the North Tree rarely saw their kodama until the Kami War, when it woke like a slumbering, angry bear."
-"Poem of the Five Trees"

Kodama of the South Tree

Legendary Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, each other creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

"The monks of the South Tree had always reveled beneath their kodama's friendly gaze. During the Kami War, this gaze became fierce and full of hate."
-"Poem of the Five Trees"

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit

Flying

When Kokusho, the Evening Star dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Konda's Hatamoto

Creature - Human Samurai

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

As long as you control a legendary Samurai, Konda's Hatamoto gets +1/+2 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Konda, Lord of Eiganjo

Legendary Creature - Human Samurai

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Bushido 5 (When this blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +5/+5 until end of turn.)

Konda, Lord of Eiganjo is indestructible.

Kumano's Pupils

Creature - Human Shaman

If a creature dealt damage by Kumano's Pupils this turn would die, exile it instead.

"Long before he reluctantly joined the war, stories spread of Kumano's followers winning victories against the kami."
-Observations of the Kami War

Kumano, Master Yamabushi

Legendary Creature - Human Shaman

: Kumano, Master Yamabushi deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

If a creature dealt damage by Kumano this turn would die, exile it instead.

Kuro, Pitlord

Legendary Creature - Demon Spirit

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Kuro, Pitlord unless you pay .

Pay 1 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Lantern Kami

Creature - Spirit

Flying

"Snuffing the light of a lantern without saying a small prayer is bad luck. Though its flame can only singe, its soul can repeatedly visit misery on one's house."
-Teachings of Eight-and-a-Half-Tails

Marrow-Gnawer

Legendary Creature - Rat Rogue

Rat creatures have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

, Sacrifice a Rat: Put X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the number of Rats you control.

Marrow-Gnawer united three nezumi gangs when he slew their leaders in a single night. Now they call him their first lord.

Masako the Humorless

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

Flash

Tapped creatures you control can block as though they were untapped.

Konda's servants dared not neglect their duties for a moment under Masako's icy gaze, knowing that what she saw, Lord Konda would hear.

Matsu-Tribe Decoy

Creature - Snake Warrior

: Target creature blocks Matsu-Tribe Decoy this turn if able.

Whenever Matsu-Tribe Decoy deals combat damage to a creature, tap that creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Meloku the Clouded Mirror

Legendary Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Put a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

He loved his cities in the clouds. When he traveled to the lands below, he brought many reminders of his home.

Moss Kami

Creature - Spirit

Trample

Kami manifest in the form of whatever they embody in the physical plane. Some tower in the shape of moss or bark, while others take forms beyond mortal imagining.

Mothrider Samurai

Creature - Human Samurai

Flying

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

When the night blossoms open, the wings of Eiganjo take flight.

Myojin of Cleansing Fire

Legendary Creature - Spirit

Myojin of Cleansing Fire enters the battlefield with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand.

Myojin of Cleansing Fire is indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it.

Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Cleansing Fire: Destroy all other creatures.

Myojin of Infinite Rage

Legendary Creature - Spirit

Myojin of Infinite Rage enters the battlefield with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand.

Myojin of Infinite Rage is indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it.

Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Infinite Rage: Destroy all lands.

Myojin of Life's Web

Legendary Creature - Spirit

Myojin of Life's Web enters the battlefield with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand.

Myojin of Life's Web is indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it.

Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Life's Web: Put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

Myojin of Night's Reach

Legendary Creature - Spirit

Myojin of Night's Reach enters the battlefield with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand.

Myojin of Night's Reach is indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it.

Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Night's Reach: Each opponent discards his or her hand.

Myojin of Seeing Winds

Legendary Creature - Spirit

Myojin of Seeing Winds enters the battlefield with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand.

Myojin of Seeing Winds is indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it.

Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Seeing Winds: Draw a card for each permanent you control.

Nagao, Bound by Honor

Legendary Creature - Human Samurai

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

Whenever Nagao, Bound by Honor attacks, Samurai creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Nezumi Bone-Reader

Creature - Rat Shaman

, Sacrifice a creature: Target player discards a card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Four generations ago, old Split-Tail stole a bundle of scrolls from the Minamo School. Soon after, the first nezumi shamans were born.

Nezumi Cutthroat

Creature - Rat Warrior

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Nezumi Cutthroat can't block.

"These nezumi, they disgust me. The things they will do for money no other thinking creature would consider. This, of course, makes them useful beyond words."
-Meloku the Clouded Mirror

Nezumi Graverobber

Creature - Rat Rogue

: Exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If no cards are in that graveyard, flip Nezumi Graverobber.

Nezumi Ronin

Creature - Rat Samurai

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

"Some nezumi became as skilled in the samurai arts as the humans and kitsune. Yet no lord would have them, so they sold their swords to the highest bidder."
-The History of Kamigawa

Nezumi Shortfang

Creature - Rat Rogue

, : Target opponent discards a card. Then if that player has no cards in hand, flip Nezumi Shortfang.

Numai Outcast

Creature - Human Samurai

Bushido 2 (When this blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.)

, Pay 5 life: Regenerate Numai Outcast.

"Beware the blade of dishonor. It kills more silently than war, more quickly than age."
-Sensei Golden-Tail

Orbweaver Kumo

Creature - Spirit

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, Orbweaver Kumo gains forestwalk until end of turn.

Ore Gorger

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may destroy target nonbasic land.

"We've stumbled upon a network of caves not on our maps. We can only hope it is safe to spend the night."
-Lost Battalion, message to General Takeno

Orochi Eggwatcher

Creature - Snake Shaman

, : Put a 1/1 green Snake creature token onto the battlefield. If you control ten or more creatures, flip Orochi Eggwatcher.

Orochi Leafcaller

Creature - Snake Shaman

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

"Only orochi hatched from eggs ‘touched by the kami' may become shamans. These days, there are fewer and fewer new shamans being born."

Orochi Ranger

Creature - Snake Warrior

Whenever Orochi Ranger deals combat damage to a creature, tap that creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"The young come to me, confused. They have been taught to respect the kami, and now they must fight them? I do not know what to say."
-Sachi, to her father

Orochi Sustainer

Creature - Snake Shaman

: Add to your mana pool.

"Nothing is the same anymore. The forests are not as lush, the waters not as pure, the air not as clear. Without the kami to direct and sustain the forces of nature, it's only a matter of time before we feel their neglect."

Pain Kami

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice Pain Kami: Pain Kami deals X damage to target creature.

"All kami are our enemies now,
A very tough lesson to learn.
But it's one that's taken quickly,
When you feel what it's like to burn"
-Ku-Ku, akki poet

Painwracker Oni

Creature - Demon Spirit

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature if you don't control an Ogre.

"Blood flows. Blood calls. Blood devours all and only blood remains."
-Ogre chant

Pious Kitsune

Creature - Fox Cleric

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a devotion counter on Pious Kitsune. Then if a creature named Eight-and-a-Half-Tails is on the battlefield, you gain 1 life for each devotion counter on Pious Kitsune.

, Remove a devotion counter from Pious Kitsune: You gain 1 life.

Rag Dealer

Creature - Human Rogue

, : Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.

"After General Takeno found the Oathkeeper amidst the bamboo marshes, more scavengers braved the swamp's nezumi, oni, and kami in hopes of glory."
-The History of Kamigawa

River Kaijin

Creature - Spirit

"Since the war began, fishermen don't sing to the kaijin to ask for full nets. They guard the shore with thrice-blessed spears, saving the nets for their wives to pack their belongings and leave."
-Hayato, master sailor

Ronin Houndmaster

Creature - Human Samurai

Haste

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

Some samurai fell so far out of grace that only dogs would keep them company.

Rootrunner

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice Rootrunner: Put target land on top of its owner's library.

Soulshift 3 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Ryusei, the Falling Star

Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit

Flying

When Ryusei, the Falling Star dies, it deals 5 damage to each creature without flying.

Sachi, Daughter of Seshiro

Legendary Creature - Snake Shaman

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

Shamans you control have ": Add to your mana pool."

"The warriors deal in poison and fangs. We shamans remember why our ancestors crawled with their bellies to the earth."

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Creature - Snake Shaman

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

There were no tombstones in orochi territory. Slain warriors were buried with a tree sapling, so they would become a part of the forest after death.