Vengevine

Creature - Elemental

Haste

Whenever you cast a spell, if it's the second creature spell you cast this turn, you may return Vengevine from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Leave but a shred of root and it will return, bursting with vigor.

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.

Vengeful Rebirth

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. If you return a nonland card to your hand this way, Vengeful Rebirth deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to target creature or player.

Exile Vengeful Rebirth.

Vengeful Pharaoh

Creature - Zombie

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

Whenever combat damage is dealt to you or a planeswalker you control, if Vengeful Pharaoh is in your graveyard, destroy target attacking creature, then put Vengeful Pharaoh on top of your library.

Vengeful Archon

Creature - Archon

Flying

: Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to you this turn. If damage is prevented this way, Vengeful Archon deals that much damage to target player.

Venerated Teacher

Creature - Human Wizard

When Venerated Teacher enters the battlefield, put two level counters on each creature you control with level up.

"The unfathomable is upon us, students. I have no doubt you will rise to the occasion."

Venerable Lammasu

Creature - Lammasu

Flying

Lammasu are the enigmatic travelers of Tarkir, soaring high above all lands in all seasons. None know their true purpose, but they often arrive on the eve of great conflicts or turning points in history.

Vendilion Clique

Legendary Creature - Faerie Wizard

Flash

Flying

When Vendilion Clique enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of his or her library, then draws a card.

Vendetta

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

"Consider my debt to your kin paid in full."
-Idrol, Guul Draz assassin

Vela the Night-Clad

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Intimidate

Other creatures you control have intimidate.

Whenever Vela the Night-Clad or another creature you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Vela snuffs out every trace of Krond's reign, leaving pure nightfall in her wake.

Veinfire Borderpost

Artifact

You may pay and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay Veinfire Borderpost's mana cost.

Veinfire Borderpost enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Vein Drinker

Creature - Vampire

Flying

, : Vein Drinker deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to Vein Drinker.

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

Veilborn Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

Veilborn Ghoul can't block.

Whenever a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, you may return Veilborn Ghoul from your graveyard to your hand.

Liliana's voice carries far, reaching beyond the cold pall of death.

Vedalken Shackles

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Vedalken Shackles during your untap step.

, : Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of Islands you control for as long as Vedalken Shackles remains tapped.

Vedalken Plotter

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

When Vedalken Plotter enters the battlefield, exchange control of target land you control and target land an opponent controls.

"Fair? At what point in our negotiations did you convince yourself my goal was to be fair?"

Vedalken Outlander

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Scout

Protection from red

The Seekers of Carmot searched across the unknown lands for the mystical red stone that could reforge Esper in ethereal perfection.

Vedalken Orrery

Artifact

You may cast nonland cards as though they had flash.

The model incorporated the fifth sun effortlessly, as if it had always known.

Vedalken Infuser

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on target artifact.

"All plans begin as dreams. I intend to awaken them."

Vedalken Heretic

Creature - Vedalken Rogue

Whenever Vedalken Heretic deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

"Etherium clouded my eyes, clogged my ears, desensitized my skin. Now that I can feel, I can begin to learn."

Vedalken Ghoul

Creature - Vedalken Zombie

Whenever Vedalken Ghoul becomes blocked, defending player loses 4 life.

For four nights following Ennor's death and the reclaiming of his etherium, its recipients were found slain, the etherium ripped from their bodies.

Vedalken Entrancer

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, : Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Don't get any ideas."

Vedalken Dismisser

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

When Vedalken Dismisser enters the battlefield, put target creature on top of its owner's library.

"I crept up on him, quiet as a guttermouse. And then suddenly I found myself facedown in a latrine pit behind Tin Street Market."
-Sirislav, Dimir spy

Vedalken Certarch

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

Metalcraft - : Tap target artifact, creature, or land. Activate this ability only if you control three or more artifacts.

"An appropriately detailed model is indistinguishable from reality, and much easier to control."

Vedalken Anatomist

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, : Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. You may tap or untap that creature.

"Specimen 211 examination report. Observation: graft sublimation incomplete. Result: death. Prepare specimen 212."

Vector Asp

Artifact Creature - Snake

: Vector Asp gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Phyrexia's machines take inspiration from nature. Twisted, disturbing inspiration.

Vectis Silencers

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Silencers gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.)

Even on Esper, there are those who eschew the use of magic in favor of simpler methods.

Vectis Dominator

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

: Tap target creature unless its controller pays 2 life.

"I appreciate the artistry of the telemins, but the creatures of the other worlds provide a much more dramatic performance."
-Ennor, mentalist

Vectis Agents

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Agents gets -2/-0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

With their life energy suppressed under their etherium enhancements, thieves from Esper found it surprisingly easy to explore the ruins of Grixis.

Vaultbreaker

Creature - Orc Rogue

Whenever Vaultbreaker attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Dash (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Vault Skyward

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Untap it.

"The edges of the Quicksilver Sea run dark with the spread of the Mephidross. Two more aerial passes before I can be sure what I'm seeing . . ."
-Lafarius, Neurok sky agent

Vault Skirge

Artifact Creature - Imp

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Flying

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

From the remnants of the dead, Geth forged a swarm to safeguard his throne.

Vault of the Archangel

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

"For centuries my creation kept this world in balance. Now only her shadow remains."
-Sorin Markov

Vastwood Zendikon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is a 6/4 green Elemental creature. It's still a land.

When enchanted land dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

Vastwood Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Vastwood Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

When Vastwood Hydra dies, you may distribute a number of +1/+1 counters equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on Vastwood Hydra among any number of creatures you control.

Vastwood Gorger

Creature - Wurm

"A long and difficult incision revealed that all vital organs are housed in the head, save for a long chain of stomachs, forty in all, leading from its throat to the end of the tail."
-Mulak Ffar, Vastwood Biodiversity

Vastwood Animist

Creature - Elf Shaman Ally

: Target land you control becomes an X/X Elemental creature until end of turn, where X is the number of Allies you control. It's still a land.

He calls on the forests for counsel and summons the earth to his cause.

Vassal Soul

Creature - Spirit

Flying

For the Azorius, the opportunity to serve the law is too great an honor for death to interrupt.

Varolz, the Scar-Striped

Legendary Creature - Troll Warrior

Each creature card in your graveyard has scavenge. The scavenge cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Varolz, the Scar-Striped.

Vaporkin

Creature - Elemental

Flying

Vaporkin can block only creatures with flying.

"Mists are carefree. They drift where they will, unencumbered by rocks and river beds."
-Thrasios, triton hero

Vapor Snare

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Vapor Snare unless you return a land you control to its owner's hand.

Vapor Snag

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 1 life.

"This creature is inadequate. Send it to the splicers for innovation."
-Malcator, Executor of Synthesis

Vanquish the Foul

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Vanishment

Instant

Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library.

Miracle (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Vanguard's Shield

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and can block an additional creature.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Wars are not fought on a single front.

Vanguard of Brimaz

Creature - Cat Soldier

Vigilance

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Vanguard of Brimaz, put a 1/1 white Cat Soldier creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.

"The humans and their gods never blessed me. Only the pride deserves my allegiance."

Vandalize

Sorcery

Choose one or both -

• Destroy target artifact.

• Destroy target land.

"As we have learned from Kolaghan, to ruin is to rule."
-Shensu, Kolaghan rider

Vandalblast

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact you don't control.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Beauty is in the eye of the exploder.

Vampiric Rites

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

For vampires, blood carries more than life. Memories long eroded from the minds of bloodchiefs can be reclaimed from the veins of their sired kin.

Vampiric Fury

Instant

Vampire creatures you control get +2/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn.

Many peasants secretly admire vampires' glamour and elegance-until they witness a moment of pure bloodlust.

Vampire's Bite

Instant

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

Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn. If Vampire's Bite was kicked, that creature gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Vampire Warlord

Creature - Vampire Warrior

Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Vampire Warlord. (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.)

"How can you serve me? By dying."

Vampire Outcasts

Creature - Vampire

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

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

Vampire Nocturnus

Creature - Vampire

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

As long as the top card of your library is black, Vampire Nocturnus and other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+1 and have flying.

"Your life will set with the sun."

Vampire Nighthawk

Creature - Vampire Shaman

Flying

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

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

Vampire Lacerator

Creature - Vampire Warrior

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life unless an opponent has 10 or less life.

The lacerators cut themselves before each hunt. They must feed before the sun rises or bleed to death.

Vampire Interloper

Creature - Vampire Scout

Flying

Vampire Interloper can't block.

He listens to every heartbeat, deciding which one of hundreds he will stop.

Vampire Hexmage

Creature - Vampire Shaman

First strike

Sacrifice Vampire Hexmage: Remove all counters from target permanent.

When the blood hunt lost its thrill, she looked for less tangible means of domination.

Vampire Envoy

Creature - Vampire Cleric Ally

Flying

Whenever Vampire Envoy becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

"Zendikar will fight until it has bled its last."

Vampire Aristocrat

Creature - Vampire Rogue

Sacrifice a creature: Vampire Aristocrat gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"I admit, I am a creature of the city. The sights, the nightly excitement, the abundance of fine drink . . ."

Valorous Stance

Instant

Choose one -

• Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

• Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater.

"Every choice alters the path of fate."
-Sarkhan Vol

Valor Made Real

Instant

Target creature can block any number of creatures this turn.

"As my father taught, ‘Training will raise your shield to the blow, but courage fills the gaps the shield leaves open.'"

Valley Rannet

Creature - Beast

Mountaincycling , forestcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Valley Dasher

Creature - Human Berserker

Haste

Valley Dasher attacks each turn if able.

Mardu riders' greatest fear is that a battle might end before their weapons draw blood.

Valiant Guard

Creature - Human Soldier

As the outsiders invaded Bant, soldiers who once saw sigils as the highest marks of glory began to see the scars of battle as tokens of equal worth.

Valeron Outlander

Creature - Human Scout

Protection from black

After years of honing her philosophy in debate with stubborn rhoxes, Niella was ready to convert any heathen.

Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Land

Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle enters the battlefield tapped.

Whenever a Mountain enters the battlefield under your control, if you control at least five other Mountains, you may have Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle deal 3 damage to target creature or player.

: Add to your mana pool.

Valakut Predator

Creature - Elemental

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Valakut Predator gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"Whatever volcanoes dream of, it seems like they always wake up grumpy."-Raff Slugeater, goblin shortcutter

Valakut Invoker

Creature - Human Shaman

: Valakut Invoker deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

"As long as we have walked this world, we have known it as a harsh and unforgiving place."-The Invokers' Tales

Valakut Fireboar

Creature - Elemental Boar

Whenever Valakut Fireboar attacks, switch its power and toughness until end of turn.

"Just move very slowly, and for the love of Ula, do not get it mad."
-Chadir the Navigator

Vagrant Plowbeasts

Creature - Beast

: Regenerate target creature with power 5 or greater.

Plowbeasts of Naya escaped their harnesses in droves, content to snack on the conveniently cultivated fields of Eos and Valeron.

Uyo, Silent Prophet

Legendary Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return two lands you control to their owner's hand: Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Utvara Hellkite

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, put a 6/6 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

The fear of dragons is as old and as powerful as the fear of death itself.

Utter End

Instant

Exile target nonland permanent.

"I came seeking a challenge. All I found was you."
-Zurgo, khan of the Mardu

Urza's Factory

Land - Urza's

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Put a 2/2 colorless Assembly-Worker artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

"Though their ideals are leagues apart, Urza's and Mishra's creations have a surprising harmony with one another."
-Tocasia, journal entry

Uril, the Miststalker

Legendary Creature - Beast

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

Uril, the Miststalker gets +2/+2 for each Aura attached to it.

It strides through the whitecover, mists in which even gargantuans can hide.

Urgent Exorcism

Instant

Destroy target Spirit or enchantment.

"To show geists pity is to prolong their agonies. Whether they know it or not, they seek the Blessed Sleep, and we are to give it to them."
-Mikaeus, the Lunarch

Urge to Feed

Instant

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You may tap any number of untapped Vampire creatures you control. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each of those Vampires.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Legendary Land

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
-Lord Windgrace

Urbis Protector

Creature - Human Cleric

When Urbis Protector enters the battlefield, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"I hear that Boros is losing its angels to the Gateless Movement. I'm sure this comes as no surprise to you."
-Teysa, to Lazav

Urban Evolution

Sorcery

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

As the Simic released more of their krasis experiments, they required new habitats, always at the expense of the locals.

Urban Burgeoning

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has "Untap this land during each other player's untap step."

The ruins of Old Prahv became a wildspace, although all birdsong was silenced by lingering Azorius magic.

Urabrask the Hidden

Legendary Creature - Praetor

Creatures you control have haste.

Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

When the Mirran resistance arrived, the furnace dwellers looked to Urabrask for guidance. His decree stunned the others: "Let them be."

Ur-Golem's Eye

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

It still stares accusingly at Memnarch, though millennia have passed since he separated the eye from its body.

Updraft Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Flying

"It slips through the smallest cracks in the mountain, emerging whole and unfettered. There is nowhere it cannot go, for what can hold back the air itself?"
-Chanyi, Ojutai monk

Unyielding Krumar

Creature - Orc Warrior

: Unyielding Krumar gains first strike until end of turn.

"The man whom I call father killed the orc who sired me, offering his world and his blade in return."

Unwinding Clock

Artifact

Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

"The partisans have unearthed a strange artifact. None know its origin, but it gives them hope of a life beyond."
-Elspeth's journal

Untamed Might

Instant

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn.

"Beasts kill for their very survival. If you would have their strength, you must know their desperation."
-Konnos, Sylvok sage

Untamed Hunger

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"Mindlessness is not weakness. When we are lost to hunger we are unstoppable."
-Drana, Kalastria bloodchief

Unsummon

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Not to be. That is the answer.

Unstable Obelisk

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Unstable Obelisk: Destroy target permanent.

Its collapse is like the lashing out of a long-dead civilization that resents being forgotten.

Unstable Frontier

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Target land you control becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.

The goblins went to sleep in Jund and awoke in Grixis. They'd never seen a zombie before. They would never see one again.

Unstable Footing

Instant

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

Damage can't be prevented this turn. If Unstable Footing was kicked, it deals 5 damage to target player.

A long way down is shorter than you think.

Unscythe, Killer of Kings

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has first strike.

Whenever a creature dealt damage by equipped creature this turn dies, you may exile that card. If you do, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Equip

Unruly Mob

Creature - Human

Whenever another creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Unruly Mob.

"Who says werewolves are the only ones who can hunt as a pack?"
-Kolman, elder of Gatstaf

Unravel the Æther

Instant

Choose target artifact or enchantment. Its owner shuffles it into his or her library.

Thaumaturges of Theros have learned to weave their magic into the world around them, but it can be pulled apart strand by strand.

Unquestioned Authority

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Unquestioned Authority enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has protection from creatures.

"Only the Ancestor should be revered."
-Mystic heretic

Unnerve

Sorcery

Each opponent discards two cards.

"If fear is the only tool you have left, then you'll never control me."
-Xantcha, to Gix

Unnatural Predation

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

"Domination by the strongest-that is all that matters in the Tangle now."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Unnatural Endurance

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Regenerate it.

"Eldrazi don't die easy. Sometimes they don't die at all."
-Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist

Unnatural Aggression

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target creature you control fights target creature an opponent controls. If the creature an opponent controls would die this turn, exile it instead.

The battle served as a grim reminder of what a final victory for the Eldrazi would mean.