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

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."

Vampiric Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Flying

When Vampiric Spirit enters the battlefield, you lose 4 life.

Vampiric Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have "Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."

They draw upon the strength of their hive and of their victims.

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 Bats

Creature - Bat

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

: Vampire Bats gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability no more than twice each turn.

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 . . ."

Valor

Creature - Incarnation

First strike

As long as Valor is in your graveyard and you control a Plains, creatures you control have first strike.

"The cracks widened, the shell crumbled, and Valor spread throughout the land."
-Scroll of Beginnings

Valleymaker

Creature - Giant Shaman

, Sacrifice a Mountain: Valleymaker deals 3 damage to target creature.

, Sacrifice a Forest: Choose a player. That player adds to his or her mana pool.

Their home uprooted by a giant, the gang of boggarts mourned their old stomping ground.

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 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 Scalper

Creature - Goblin Scout

Flying

Utvara Scalper attacks each turn if able.

He wages war wherever the wind carries him.

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.

Utopia Tree

Creature - Plant

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

The fruit of this fabled tree takes on the flavor of whatever food you love most.

Utopia Mycon

Creature - Fungus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Utopia Mycon.

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

Sacrifice a Saproling: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Uthden Troll

Creature - Troll

: Regenerate Uthden Troll.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere,
Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near,
Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da
hurt'll disappear."
-Traditional

Ursine Fylgja

Creature - Spirit Bear

Ursine Fylgja enters the battlefield with four healing counters on it.

Remove a healing counter from Ursine Fylgja: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Ursine Fylgja this turn.

: Put a healing counter on Ursine Fylgja.

Ursapine

Creature - Beast

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

A friendly ursapine means a constant supply of sharp spears. An unfriendly one means a constant supply of small holes.

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.

Urborg Syphon-Mage

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Each other player loses 2 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

"I have become a gourmet of sorts. Each soul has its own distinctive flavor. The art is in inviting the right company to the feast."

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

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."

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."

Unyaro Bees

Creature - Insect

Flying

: Unyaro Bees gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

, Sacrifice Unyaro Bees: Unyaro Bees deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

With no jungle left to contain it, the "plague of daggers" spread across Dominaria.

Unstoppable Ash

Creature - Treefolk Warrior

Trample

Champion a Treefolk or Warrior (When this enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you exile another Treefolk or Warrior you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.)

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, it gets +0/+5 until end of turn.

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

Unliving Psychopath

Creature - Zombie Assassin

: Unliving Psychopath gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

, : Destroy target creature with power less than Unliving Psychopath's power.

"The victim bears the marks of the ‘Ktozok Impaler'. . . but he was executed years ago!"
-Gorev Hadszak, Wojek investigator

Underworld Cerberus

Creature - Hound

Underworld Cerberus can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.

When Underworld Cerberus dies, exile it and each player returns all creature cards from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.

Undertaker

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The weight of death is heavy but not immovable.

Undergrowth Scavenger

Creature - Fungus Horror

Undergrowth Scavenger enters the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

It sees a rotting carcass as a good wine which has been aged properly.

Undergrowth Champion

Creature - Elemental

If damage would be dealt to Undergrowth Champion while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from Undergrowth Champion.

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Undergrowth Champion.

Undercity Shade

Creature - Shade

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

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

"Officially, there's nothing under that bridge to hunt . . . Unofficially, my torchers are too terrified to go there after nightfall."
-Agrus Kos

Undercity Informer

Creature - Human Rogue

, Sacrifice a creature: Target player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card, then puts those cards into his or her graveyard.

"Scandal and slander are never welcome news. That's why I'm never the messenger."

Undead Warchief

Creature - Zombie

Zombie spells you cast cost less to cast.

Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.

It has the strength of seven men. In fact, it used to be seven men.

Undead Slayer

Creature - Human Cleric

, : Exile target Skeleton, Vampire, or Zombie.

"My motive is not vengeance but mercy. I deliver the soulless back to their severed souls."

Undead Minotaur

Creature - Zombie Minotaur

"The work that went into creating this magnificent specimen. Horrific, deadly, well-balanced. Not all necromancers do elegant work like this."-Lestin, necromancer

Undead Leotau

Creature - Zombie Cat

: Undead Leotau gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Unearth (: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Undead Executioner

Creature - Zombie

When Undead Executioner dies, you may have target creature get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Heartless killer in life, brainless killer in death.

Undead Alchemist

Creature - Zombie

If a Zombie you control would deal combat damage to a player, instead that player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from his or her library, exile that card and put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Uncle Istvan

Creature - Human

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Uncle Istvan by creatures.

Solitude drove the old hermit insane. Now he only keeps company with those he can catch.

Unbreathing Horde

Creature - Zombie

Unbreathing Horde enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie you control and each Zombie card in your graveyard.

If Unbreathing Horde would be dealt damage, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

Unblinking Bleb

Creature - Illusion

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

Whenever Unblinking Bleb or another permanent is turned face up, you may scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Umbra Stalker

Creature - Elemental

Chroma - Umbra Stalker's power and toughness are each equal to the number of black mana symbols in the mana costs of cards in your graveyard.

Don't venture into the darkness, lest it decide not to let you leave.

Umbra Mystic

Creature - Human Wizard

Auras attached to permanents you control have totem armor. (If an enchanted permanent you control would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy an Aura attached to it.)

"I have found the courage to face death-twice, if I must."

Umara Raptor

Creature - Bird Ally

Flying

Whenever Umara Raptor or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Umara Raptor.

Messenger, weapon, friend.

Umara Entangler

Creature - Merfolk Rogue Ally

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

"Sea Gate is gone, the Halimar basin empty. But rebuild the seawall and give these waters time, and they will fill the basin anew."

Ulvenwald Tracker

Creature - Human Shaman

, : Target creature you control fights another target creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"Peace will come to Innistrad, but only after all abominations have been dealt with, one by one."

Ulvenwald Mystics

Creature - Human Shaman Werewolf

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Ulvenwald Mystics.

"With this ritual, we cast aside our fragile humanity . . ."

Ulvenwald Bear

Creature - Bear

Morbid - When Ulvenwald Bear enters the battlefield, if a creature died this turn, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Out chasing bears
-Kessig expression meaning "died in the woods"

Ulasht, the Hate Seed

Legendary Creature - Hellion Hydra

Ulasht, the Hate Seed enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other red creature you control and a +1/+1 counter on it for each other green creature you control.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Ulasht: Choose one - Ulasht deals 1 damage to target creature; or put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Legendary Creature - Eldrazi

When you cast Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, destroy target permanent.

Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents.)

Ulamog is indestructible.

When Ulamog is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.

Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

Legendary Creature - Eldrazi

When you cast Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, exile two target permanents.

Indestructible

Whenever Ulamog attacks, defending player exiles the top twenty cards of his or her library.

A force as voracious as time itself.

Ulamog's Reclaimer

Creature - Eldrazi Processor

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When Ulamog's Reclaimer enters the battlefield, you may put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard. If you do, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Ulamog's Nullifier

Creature - Eldrazi Processor

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flash

Flying

When Ulamog's Nullifier enters the battlefield, you may put two cards your opponents own from exile into their owners' graveyards. If you do, counter target spell.

Ulamog's Despoiler

Creature - Eldrazi Processor

As Ulamog's Despoiler enters the battlefield, you may put two cards your opponents own from exile into their owners' graveyards. If you do, Ulamog's Despoiler enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.

Ulamog's Crusher

Creature - Eldrazi

Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents.)

Ulamog's Crusher attacks each turn if able.

"Whatever the Eldrazi's purpose is, it has nothing to do with something so insignificant as us."
-Nirthu, lone missionary

Ukud Cobra

Creature - Snake

Deathtouch

"The Silumgar hide behind the deadly wildlife of their swamps. They'd rather scheme in their jungle palaces than face us."
-Khibat, Kolaghan warrior

Uktabi Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying, haste

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

Ugin's Construct

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Ugin's Construct enters the battlefield, sacrifice a permanent that's one or more colors.

While trapping the Eldrazi on Zendikar, Ugin learned little from Sorin, but he gleaned the rudiments of lithomancy from Nahiri.

Ubul Sar Gatekeepers

Creature - Zombie Soldier

When Ubul Sar Gatekeepers enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

There are many gates into the undercity, but few ways out.

Tyrranax

Creature - Beast

: Tyrranax gets -1/+1 until end of turn.

It outnumbers you one to many.

Tyrant's Familiar

Creature - Dragon

Flying, haste

Lieutenant - As long as you control your commander, Tyrant's Familiar gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever Tyrant's Familiar attacks, it deals 7 damage to target creature defending player controls."

Nothing escapes its gaze-or its breath.

Tyrant of Valakut

Creature - Dragon

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

Flying

When Tyrant of Valakut enters the battlefield, if its surge cost was paid, it deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Tyrant of Discord

Creature - Elemental

When Tyrant of Discord enters the battlefield, target opponent chooses a permanent he or she controls at random and sacrifices it. If a nonland permanent is sacrificed this way, repeat this process.

Typhoid Rats

Creature - Rat

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

Kidnappers caught in Havengul are given two choices: languish in prison or become rat catchers. The smart ones go to prison.

Tymaret, the Murder King

Legendary Creature - Zombie Warrior

, Sacrifice another creature: Tymaret, the Murder King deals 2 damage to target player.

, Sacrifice a creature: Return Tymaret from your graveyard to your hand.

His memories remained in the Underworld, but his cruelty crossed the Rivers with him.

Two-Headed Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have "This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures."

"That which would be a fatal mutation in any other species is merely a source of new powers. I am intrigued, yet too fearful to examine it more closely."
-Rukarumel, field journal

Two-Headed Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Two-Headed Dragon gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Two-Headed Dragon can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.

Two-Headed Dragon can block an additional creature.

Two-Headed Cerberus

Creature - Hound

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

The left head keeps the right head starved as motivation to track new prey.

Twisted Abomination

Creature - Zombie Mutant

: Regenerate Twisted Abomination.

Swampcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Twinblade Slasher

Creature - Elf Warrior

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

: Twinblade Slasher gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Righteous anger hones a humble soul.

Twilight Shepherd

Creature - Angel

Flying, vigilance

When Twilight Shepherd enters the battlefield, return to your hand all cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Persist (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.)

Twilight Drover

Creature - Spirit

Whenever a creature token leaves the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Twilight Drover.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Twilight Drover: Put two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

Tuskguard Captain

Creature - Human Warrior

Outlast (, : Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)

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

One quiet word sets off the stampede.

Tusked Colossodon

Creature - Beast

A band of Temur hunters, fleeing the Mardu, dug a hideout beneath such a creature as it slept. The horde found them and attacked. For three days the Temur held them at bay, and all the while the great beast slumbered.

Turtleshell Changeling

Creature - Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type at all times.)

: Switch Turtleshell Changeling's power and toughness until end of turn.

A changeling involuntarily mimics the nearest being at hand, sometimes trading a borrowed shell for borrowed claws.

Turntimber Ranger

Creature - Elf Scout Ally

Whenever Turntimber Ranger or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Turntimber Ranger.

The lone wolf dies alone.

Turntimber Basilisk

Creature - Basilisk

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

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target creature block Turntimber Basilisk this turn if able.

Tunneling Geopede

Creature - Insect

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Tunneling Geopede deals 1 damage to each opponent.

As Ulamog's brood reduces the earth to dust, geopedes burst from their tunnels in search of solid ground.

Tunnel Ignus

Creature - Elemental

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, if that player had another land enter the battlefield under his or her control this turn, Tunnel Ignus deals 3 damage to that player.

Fight mischief with mischief.