Consuming Sinkhole

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Choose one -

• Exile target land creature.

• Consuming Sinkhole deals 4 damage to target player.

"What will not yield will be consumed."
-Ayli, high priest of the Eternal Pilgrims

Containment Membrane

Enchantment - Aura

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Contaminated Ground

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is a Swamp.

Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller loses 2 life.

"The Na Plateau is lost. Do not ask what happened, and never return there."
-Nirthu, lone missionary

Coordinated Assault

Instant

Up to two target creatures each get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn.

It's hard to shout "Shields up!" with a javelin in your chest.

Coral Barrier

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

When Coral Barrier enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 blue Squid creature token with islandwalk onto the battlefield. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Coral Merfolk

Creature - Merfolk

Merfolk are best known for their subtle magic. But those who try to fight them in their own territory quickly realize that merfolk are hardly defenseless on the field of battle.

Coralhelm Guide

Creature - Merfolk Scout Ally

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

"She knows every step of this coastline, both above and below the surface, and she has hideouts all along the way. She will get you there."-Jori En, expedition leader

Corpse Blockade

Creature - Zombie

Defender

Sacrifice another creature: Corpse Blockade gains deathtouch until end of turn.

There are laws against it, but the dead have no one to complain to and the living are too frightened to investigate.

Corpse Churn

Instant

Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"The distraction of your life has ended. Now your service begins."
-Kalitas, thrall of Ulamog

Corpse Hauler

Creature - Human Rogue

, Sacrifice Corpse Hauler: Return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"He expects a reward, but the only piece of silver he'll get from me is my blade in his gut."-Shelac, necromancer

Corpsejack Menace

Creature - Fungus

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be placed on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are placed on it instead.

Weakness is not in the nature of the Swarm.

Corrupt

Sorcery

Corrupt deals damage equal to the number of Swamps you control to target creature or player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

The power of the fens sleeps lightly, and always awakens hungry.

Corrupted Crossroads

Land

: Add {C} to your mana pool. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a spell with devoid.

"Look, and see the future."
-Ayli, high priest of the Eternal Pilgrims

Council of the Absolute

Creature - Human Advisor

As Council of the Absolute enters the battlefield, name a card other than a creature or land card.

Your opponents can't cast cards with the chosen name.

Spells with the chosen name you cast cost less to cast.

Counterflux

Instant

Counterflux can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Counter target spell 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.")

Countermand

Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

The physical pain was nothing compared to the agony in his mind.

Courier Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

When Courier Griffin enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.

"Sea Gate has fallen. Survivors are on the move. Will send another griffin when we find refuge. Stay hidden. Stay safe."-Message from Tars Olan, kor world-gift

Courser of Kruphix

Enchantment Creature - Centaur

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

You may play the top card of your library if it's a land card.

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Coursers' Accord

Sorcery

Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Bleak rumors reached Trostani's ears. She decreed that no one should travel alone.

Court Street Denizen

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever another white creature enters the battlefield under your control, tap target creature an opponent controls.

"The Boros fight for justice. The Azorius fight for law. I hold the line between, and make sure the people are given both."

Covenant of Blood

Sorcery

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Covenant of Blood deals 4 damage to target creature or player and you gain 4 life.

Crackling Doom

Instant

Crackling Doom deals 2 damage to each opponent. Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures he or she controls.

Do not fear the lightning. Fear the one it obeys.

Crackling Perimeter

Enchantment

Tap an untapped Gate you control: Crackling Perimeter deals 1 damage to each opponent.

As the path he sought came into focus, Niv-Mizzet took steps to prevent others from approaching it.

Crackling Perimiter

Crackling Triton

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

, Sacrifice Crackling Triton: Crackling Triton deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

He calls upon both the currents in the sea and the current in the clouds.

Cranial Archive

Artifact

, Exile Cranial Archive: Target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library. Draw a card.

The greatest idea the zombie ever had in its head wasn't even its own.

Crater's Claws

Sorcery

Crater's Claws deals X damage to target creature or player.

Ferocious - Crater's Claws deals X plus 2 damage to that creature or player instead if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Cremate

Instant

Exile target card from a graveyard.

Draw a card.

"Without a body, the soul is helpless to fight the terms of our contracts."
-Somhaur, Orzhov pontiff

Crippling Blight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 and can't block.

"Still alive? No matter. I'll leave you as a warning to others who would oppose me."
-Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter

Crippling Chill

Instant

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Draw a card.

One breath of the geist turns veins to rivers of ice and freezes hearts midbeat.

Crocanura

Creature - Crocodile Frog

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Crosstown Courier

Creature - Vedalken

Whenever Crosstown Courier deals combat damage to a player, that player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Information travels quickly through Ravnica's network of messengers and thought agents.

Crowd's Favor

Instant

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Crowned Ceratok

Creature - Rhino

Trample

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

The best way to calm a rampaging ceratok is to wait until it dies of natural causes.

Crucible of Fire

Enchantment

Dragon creatures you control get +3/+3.

"The dragon is a perfect marriage of power and the will to use it."
-Sarkhan Vol

Cruel Feeding

Instant

Strive - Cruel Feeding costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Any number of target creatures each get +1/+0 and gain lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Cruel Sadist

Creature - Human Assassin

, , Pay 1 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on Cruel Sadist.

, , Remove X +1/+1 counters from Cruel Sadist: Cruel Sadist deals X damage to target creature.

Face of innocence. Hand of death.
Designed by Edmund McMillen

Crumble to Dust

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Exile target nonbasic land. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that land and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Crumbling Vestige

Land

Crumbling Vestige enters the battlefield tapped.

When Crumbling Vestige enters the battlefield, add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

: Add {C} to your mana pool. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Crush of Tentacles

Sorcery

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If Crush of Tentacles's surge cost was paid, put an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token onto the battlefield.

Crypsis

Instant

Target creature you control gains protection from creatures your opponents control until end of turn. Untap it.

Tritons borrow the camouflage of their oceanic prey to become predators on land.

Crypt Ghast

Creature - Spirit

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add to your mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Crypt Incursion

Instant

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

The Golgari maze-runner Varolz hungers to prove his fortitude in battle, and his trail of victims feeds other hungers.

Cryptborn Horror

Creature - Horror

Trample

Cryptborn Horror enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total life lost by your opponents this turn.

Although Cryptwitch Merree vanished after a spat with Rakdos, her playthings lingered.

Cryptic Cruiser

Creature - Eldrazi Processor

Devoid (This card has no color.)

, Put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard: Tap target creature.

"The seas are no less imperiled than the dry lands. This fight is mine as much as it is yours."-Kiora, to Gideon Jura

Crystalline Nautilus

Enchantment Creature - Nautilus

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

When Crystalline Nautilus becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

Enchanted creature gets +4/+4 and has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Culling Drone

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.)

Silence rules Bala Ged, broken only by the skittering of Eldrazi.

Culling Mark

Sorcery

Target creature blocks this turn if able.

Hunt without Nylea's leave and you may find yourself the next quarry.

Cultivator Drone

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

: Add {C} to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a colorless spell, activate an ability of a colorless permanent, or pay a cost that contains {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Curse of the Swine

Sorcery

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller puts a 2/2 green Boar creature token onto the battlefield.

Another imminent battle subsided in busy snuffling and carefree rooting.

Cutthroat Maneuver

Instant

Up to two target creatures each get +1/+1 and gain lifelink until end of turn.

"Our ambition drives us forward. Together we will claim what is ours, no matter who holds it."

Cyclone Sire

Creature - Elemental

Flying

When Cyclone Sire dies, you may put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control. If you do, that land becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste that's still a land.

The rampaging Roil creates life out of the most volatile elements.

Cyclonic Rift

Instant

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.

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

The Izzet specialize in unnatural disaster.

Cyclops of Eternal Fury

Enchantment Creature - Cyclops

Creatures you control have haste.

"The anger that festers inside this one is contagious."
-Anthousa of Setessa

Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass

Creature - Cyclops

The Champion armed herself to face the cyclops, heedless of her companions' despair.
"How will you defeat it with only one spear?" asked young Althemone.
The Champion raised her weapon. "It has but one eye."
-The Theriad

Cyclops Tyrant

Creature - Cyclops

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

Cyclops Tyrant can't block creatures with power 2 or less.

A single eye, blinded by rage.

Daggerdrome Imp

Creature - Imp

Flying

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

One of the many reasons why open-air markets close at dusk.

Dakra Mystic

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

, : Each player reveals the top card of his or her library. You may put the revealed cards into their owners' graveyards. If you don't, each player draws a card.

Choices are rarely as simple as they seem.

Dampening Pulse

Enchantment

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0.

"Quiet now, you dreadful vermin."-Noyan Dar, Tazeem roilmage

Dangerous (Armed/Dangerous)

Sorcery

All creatures able to block target creature this turn do so.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Daring Skyjek

Creature - Human Knight

Battalion - Whenever Daring Skyjek and at least two other creatures attack, Daring Skyjek gains flying until end of turn.

"The hard part isn't landing in the saddle. The hard part is leaping before you see it."

Daring Thief

Creature - Human Rogue

Inspired - Whenever Daring Thief becomes untapped, you may exchange control of target nonland permanent you control and target permanent an opponent controls that shares a card type with it.

Honesty is the first casualty of war.

Dark Betrayal

Instant

Destroy target black creature.

"You're just like me: ruthless, cunning, and ambitious. Obviously you're a threat."
-Basarios the Blade

Dark Favor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Dark Favor enters the battlefield, you lose 1 life.

Enchanted creature gets +3/+1.

When he began to curse what he held holy, his strength grew unrivaled.

Dark Prophecy

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

When the bog ran short on small animals, Ekri turned to the surrounding farmlands.

Dark Revenant

Creature - Spirit

Flying

When Dark Revenant dies, put it on top of its owner's library.

The murderer faced justice in the Azorius courts, but his soul was set free on a technicality.

Darksteel Citadel

Artifact Land

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this land.)

: Add to your mana pool.

Panopticon, forge of the Darksteel Eye, home of Mirrodin's keeper.

Darksteel Forge

Artifact

Artifacts you control have indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them. Artifact creatures with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

"Did it have this shape upon Mirrodin's creation, or did some inconceivable force shape the unshapable?"
-Pontifex, elder researcher

Darksteel Ingot

Artifact

Indestructible

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

Dauntless Onslaught

Instant

Up to two target creatures each get +2/+2 until end of turn.

"The people of Akros must learn from our leonin adversaries. If we match their staunch ferocity with our superior faith, we cannot fail."
-Cymede, queen of Akros

Dauntless River Marshal

Creature - Human Soldier

Dauntless River Marshal gets +1/+1 as long as you control an Island.

: Tap target creature.

"Thieves and squid squirm the same way when you capture them."

Dawn to Dusk

Sorcery

Choose one or both - Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand; and/or destroy target enchantment.

"The numbers of Nyxborn among us have swelled. Is this a sign of the gods' favor, or does it portend something else?"

Dawnbringer Charioteers

Creature - Human Soldier

Flying, lifelink

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Dawnbringer Charioteers, put a +1/+1 counter on Dawnbringer Charioteers.

"Nyx may belong to the gods, but the skies of Theros are ours."

Dawnstrike Paladin

Creature - Human Knight

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

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

She crushes darkness beneath her charger's hooves.

Daxos of Meletis

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

Daxos of Meletis can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.

Whenever Daxos of Meletis deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library. You gain life equal to that card's converted mana cost. Until end of turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Dazzling Ramparts

Creature - Wall

Defender

, : Tap target creature.

When Anafenza holds court under the First Tree, the gates of Mer-Ek are sealed. No safer place exists in all of Tarkir.

Dazzling Reflection

Instant

You gain life equal to target creature's power. The next time that creature would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage.

"The light of a felidar's horns can give even an Eldrazi pause."
-Zarra, lullmage

Dead Drop

Sorcery

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

Target player sacrifices two creatures.

Got a diving lesson
-Sultai expression meaning
"was fed to the crocodiles"

Dead Reveler

Creature - Zombie

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.)

He's the unlife of the party.

Deadbridge Chant

Enchantment

When Deadbridge Chant enters the battlefield, put the top ten cards of your library into your graveyard.

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a card at random in your graveyard. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Deadbridge Goliath

Creature - Insect

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.)

Some Golgari insects live for centuries-and they never stop growing.

Deadly Recluse

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

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

Even dragons fear its silken strands.

Death Frenzy

Sorcery

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, you gain 1 life.

The crocodiles' putrid jaws swallow everything but the screams.

Death's Approach

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -X/-X, where X is the number of creature cards in its controller's graveyard.

"It's cold in the grave, and the dead crave your warmth. Who are you to deny them?"
-Strava, Dimir mage

Death's Presence

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the power of the creature that died.

"We traffic in flesh, not souls. Still, it's a shame to let anything go to waste."
-Cevraya, Golgari shaman

Deathbellow Raider

Creature - Minotaur Berserker

Deathbellow Raider attacks each turn if able.

: Regenerate Deathbellow Raider.

"The temple has been rededicated. It belongs to Mogis now."
-Rastos, disciple of Mogis

Deathcult Rogue

Creature - Human Rogue

Deathcult Rogue can't be blocked except by Rogues.

"The hussars can't catch him, and he evades our traps with ease. I fear he walks unseen even in the halls of New Prahv."
-Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Deathgaze Cockatrice

Creature - Cockatrice

Flying

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

"Sometimes I come across a stone finger or foot and I know I'm in cockatrice territory."-Rulak, bog guide

Deathless Behemoth

Creature - Eldrazi

Vigilance

Sacrifice two Eldrazi Scions: Return Deathless Behemoth from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

"Over and over it rose. Over and over we fell."-Ganda, Goma Fada deserter

Deathpact Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Deathpact Angel dies, put a 1/1 white and black Cleric creature token onto the battlefield. It has ", , Sacrifice this creature: Return a card named Deathpact Angel from your graveyard to the battlefield."

Deathrite Shaman

Creature - Elf Shaman

: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

, : Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life.

, : Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.

Debilitating Injury

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.

"If weakness does not exist within the Temur then we shall force it upon them."
-Sidisi, khan of the Sultai

Debt to the Deathless

Sorcery

Each opponent loses two times X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Some of Orzhov's cruelest collectors remember their debtors by taste alone.

Debtor's Pulpit

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ": Tap target creature."

"You may not be able to pay. But you can still kneel."
-Milana, Orzhov prelate

Deceiver of Form

Creature - Eldrazi

({C} represents colorless mana.)

At the beginning of combat on your turn, reveal the top card of your library. If a creature card is revealed this way, you may have creatures you control other than Deceiver of Form become copies of that card until end of turn. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.

Decorated Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

: Prevent the next 1 combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

The awards and medals of polis-dwellers mean nothing to griffins, but they repay acts of generosity.

Deepfathom Skulker

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

{C}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Deepwater Hypnotist

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Inspired - Whenever Deepwater Hypnotist becomes untapped, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

"Watch the waves too long, and you may never look away."
-Meletian proverb

Defend the Hearth

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to players this turn.

The defenders said not a word. Their shields, spears, and stances were warning enough.

Defiant Bloodlord

Creature - Vampire

Flying

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

"Despite their bravado, mortals are fragile. If Zendikar is to endure, its lords must save it."-Drana, Kalastria bloodchief