Samurai Enforcers

Creature - Human Samurai

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

From the moment they swore their oaths, they belonged to their lord, sword and soul.

Samurai of the Pale Curtain

Creature - Fox Samurai

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

If a permanent would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Scuttling Death

Creature - Spirit

Sacrifice Scuttling Death: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

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.)

Seizan, Perverter of Truth

Legendary Creature - Demon Spirit

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 2 life and draws two cards.

"If you would taste the wisdom of the oni, be prepared to salt it with your blood."
-Kiku, Night's Flower

Sensei Golden-Tail

Legendary Creature - Fox Samurai

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

, : Put a training counter on target creature. That creature gains bushido 1 and becomes a Samurai in addition to its other creature types. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Seshiro the Anointed

Legendary Creature - Snake Monk

Other Snake creatures you control get +2/+2.

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

His family was the first to reach out to the human monks. He soon knew as many koans as he did blade strikes.

Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked

Legendary Creature - Demon Spirit

As Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked enters the battlefield, sacrifice any number of permanents. Shimatsu enters the battlefield with that many +1/+1 counters on it.

Their dominion over dark and destructive forces twisted the oni into beings of pure malevolence.

Shisato, Whispering Hunter

Legendary Creature - Snake Warrior

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a Snake.

Whenever Shisato, Whispering Hunter deals combat damage to a player, that player skips his or her next untap step.

Silent-Chant Zubera

Creature - Zubera Spirit

When Silent-Chant Zubera dies, you gain 2 life for each Zubera that died this turn.

When the Honden of Cleansing Fire was abandoned, its attendants swarmed Kamigawa to erode mortal will.

Sire of the Storm

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may draw a card.

This storm blows gales through the dreams of men.

Soilshaper

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target land becomes a 3/3 creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

It spoke with the voice of nature, but its words were curses spat upon humankind.

Sokenzan Bruiser

Creature - Ogre Warrior

Mountainwalk

"We camped near the Sokenzan Mountains. Though I know its inhabitants are sparse, I hear cries coming from the highest peaks every night, as if the mountains themselves bellow for vengeance."
-Lost Battalion, message to General Takeno

Soratami Cloudskater

Creature - Moonfolk Rogue

Flying

, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Draw a card, then discard a card.

"You hide your actions from eyes on the ground, but nothing escapes the clouds."

Soratami Mirror-Guard

Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target creature with power 2 or less is unblockable this turn.

Soratami Mirror-Mage

Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return three lands you control to their owner's hand: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

"The clouds obey my whims, and you'll obey theirs."

Soratami Rainshaper

Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target creature you control gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Soratami Savant

Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"To prevent, one must first predict."

Soratami Seer

Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return two lands you control to their owner's hand: Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.

Their mirrors show two worlds: that which is and that which should be.

Sosuke, Son of Seshiro

Legendary Creature - Snake Warrior

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

Whenever a Warrior you control deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Soul of Magma

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, Soul of Magma deals 1 damage to target creature.

"In every other mind, the battle was lost. General Takeno alone was not touched by despair. Drawing his blade, he was attack and rallying cry in one."
-Battle of Akagi River: A Survivor's Tale

Student of Elements

Creature - Human Wizard

When Student of Elements has flying, flip it.

Takeno, Samurai General

Legendary Creature - Human Samurai

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

Each other Samurai creature you control gets +1/+1 for each point of bushido it has.

Teller of Tales

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may tap or untap target creature.

Words never uttered by mortals flowed incessantly from its many mouths.

The Unspeakable

Legendary Creature - Spirit

Flying, trample

Whenever The Unspeakable deals combat damage to a player, you may return target Arcane card from your graveyard to your hand.

It is madness that drives men to seek forbidden knowledge, and madness has given it form.

Thief of Hope

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Soulshift 2 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Thousand-legged Kami

Creature - Spirit

Soulshift 7 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with converted mana cost 7 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

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.

Venerable Kumo

Creature - Spirit

Reach (This creature can block creatures with 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.)

Villainous Ogre

Creature - Ogre Warrior

Villainous Ogre can't block.

As long as you control a Demon, Villainous Ogre has ": Regenerate Villainous Ogre."

"The war saw the ogres emerge from their caves, reeking of blood, with the power of oni in their veins."
-Observations of the Kami War

Vine Kami

Creature - Spirit

Vine Kami can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.

Soulshift 6 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with converted mana cost 6 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Wandering Ones

Creature - Spirit

"I saw them once, when I was a child. They led me to my parents' arms when I was lost. Why have they abandoned me now? Why won't they take me home again?"
-Unnamed beggar

Wicked Akuba

Creature - Spirit

: Target player dealt damage by Wicked Akuba this turn loses 1 life.

The sound of children weeping is a song that fills its heart with joy.

Yosei, the Morning Star

Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit

Flying

When Yosei, the Morning Star dies, target player skips his or her next untap step. Tap up to five target permanents that player controls.

Zo-Zu the Punisher

Legendary Creature - Goblin Warrior

Whenever a land enters the battlefield, Zo-Zu the Punisher deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

"He can cause a lot of pain and do it with no fuss. That's all good, but I just wish he didn't do it to us"
-Ku-Ku, akki poet

Advanced Hoverguard

Creature - Drone

Flying

: Advanced Hoverguard gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"They are like their vedalken masters: untouchable, aloof, and omnipresent."
-Bruenna, Neurok leader

Anodet Lurker

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Anodet Lurker dies, you gain 3 life.

These machines build fearsome visages out of scrap metal to scare off predators who would otherwise be eager to consume them.

Arachnoid

Artifact Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

It follows the green sun over Mirrodin's surface, spinning massive webs of whispersilk as it goes.

Arcbound Wanderer

Artifact Creature - Golem

Modular-Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Auriok Champion

Creature - Human Cleric

Protection from black and from red

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

"Her will shall banish the shadows. Her might shall punish the lawless. Her beauty shall restore the light."
-Ushanti, leonin seer

Auriok Salvagers

Creature - Human Soldier

: Return target artifact card with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

"Memnarch or the vedalken salvage most of the large machines, leaving us only scraps. Scraps are enough."

Auriok Windwalker

Creature - Human Wizard

Flying

: Attach target Equipment you control to target creature you control.

Each generation, a handful of Auriok girls are allowed to visit the Cave of Light. They return riding the wind and brandishing steel.

Battered Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Battered Golem doesn't untap during your untap step.

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield, you may untap Battered Golem.

A dent marks every year of service, and it has as much rust as glory.

Blind Creeper

Creature - Zombie Beast

Whenever a player casts a spell, Blind Creeper gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

It shuns everything except its next meal.

Bringer of the Black Dawn

Creature - Bringer

You may pay rather than pay Bringer of the Black Dawn's mana cost.

Trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay 2 life. If you do, search your library for a card, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it.

Bringer of the Blue Dawn

Creature - Bringer

You may pay rather than pay Bringer of the Blue Dawn's mana cost.

Trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may draw two cards.

Bringer of the Green Dawn

Creature - Bringer

You may pay rather than pay Bringer of the Green Dawn's mana cost.

Trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.

Bringer of the Red Dawn

Creature - Bringer

You may pay rather than pay Bringer of the Red Dawn's mana cost.

Trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may untap target creature and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn.

Bringer of the White Dawn

Creature - Bringer

You may pay rather than pay Bringer of the White Dawn's mana cost.

Trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Cackling Imp

Creature - Imp

Flying

: Target player loses 1 life.

Its laughter drives needles through your mind.

Cosmic Larva

Creature - Beast

Trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Cosmic Larva unless you sacrifice two lands.

For millennia they wandered from plane to plane, devouring all metal. Finally, their wanderings are over.

Desecration Elemental

Creature - Elemental

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

Whenever a player casts a spell, sacrifice a creature.

Its precious corpses dance like puppets to attract mindless nim prey.

Ebon Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

Whenever a player casts a spell, you lose 1 life.

The deadliest killers serve only those who are not afraid to die.

Etched Oracle

Artifact Creature - Wizard

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

, Remove four +1/+1 counters from Etched Oracle: Target player draws three cards.

Eternal Witness

Creature - Human Shaman

When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Fangren Pathcutter

Creature - Beast

Whenever Fangren Pathcutter attacks, attacking creatures gain trample until end of turn.

"Tracking a fangren pack is easy. Catching up to one is fatal."
-Viridian scout

Ferropede

Artifact Creature - Insect

Ferropede is unblockable.

Whenever Ferropede deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a counter from target permanent.

Fleshgrafter

Creature - Human Warrior

Discard an artifact card: Fleshgrafter gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Necrogen enflames certain emotional centers in the Morioks' brains: hate, aggression, and especially greed.

Goblin Brawler

Creature - Goblin Warrior

First strike

Goblin Brawler can't be equipped.

Perhaps he shuns technology. Perhaps he appreciates nature. Perhaps he doesn't know the difference.

Hoverguard Sweepers

Creature - Drone

Flying

When Hoverguard Sweepers enters the battlefield, you may return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands.

They only appear in emergencies, and emergencies never last long.

Iron-Barb Hellion

Creature - Hellion Beast

Haste

Iron-Barb Hellion can't block.

When you feel a rumble in the ground, hold perfectly still. One sound will bring the hellion.

Krark-Clan Engineers

Creature - Goblin Artificer

, Sacrifice two artifacts: Destroy target artifact.

"Well, I jammed the whatsit into the whackdoodle, but I think I broke the thingamajigger."

Krark-Clan Ogre

Creature - Ogre

, Sacrifice an artifact: Target creature can't block this turn.

The Krark Clan believes it's caught an ogre. The ogre believes he's caught seven goblins.

Leonin Squire

Creature - Cat Soldier

When Leonin Squire enters the battlefield, return target artifact card with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

"I may be kha, but without my soldiers, my people, I am nothing."
-Raksha Golden Cub

Loxodon Anchorite

Creature - Elephant Cleric

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

The loxodon ascribe religious superiority to those born albino, believing them to be spiritually pure.

Loxodon Stalwart

Creature - Elephant Soldier

Vigilance

: Loxodon Stalwart gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Long ago, the Auriok attempted peace with the loxodons. The leonin attempted war. Neither succeeded.

Lunar Avenger

Artifact Creature - Golem

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

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Lunar Avenger: Lunar Avenger gains your choice of flying, first strike, or haste until end of turn.

Magma Giant

Creature - Giant

When Magma Giant enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

Its open mouth is a furnace blast that blisters the skin. Its smoking fists are meteors that split the earth.

Mephidross Vampire

Creature - Vampire

Flying

Each creature you control is a Vampire in addition to its other creature types and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."

Moriok Rigger

Creature - Human Rogue Rigger

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Moriok Rigger.

The Moriok scavenge for weapons, for armor, for food-and ultimately for their souls.

Mycosynth Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Artifact creature spells you cast have affinity for artifacts. (They cost less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Myr Quadropod

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Switch Myr Quadropod's power and toughness until end of turn.

Each myr was designed to fill a specific role. This one, for example, was designed to stomp on other myr.

Myr Servitor

Artifact Creature - Myr

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Myr Servitor is on the battlefield, each player returns all cards named Myr Servitor from his or her graveyard to the battlefield.

The Krark Clan enjoys pulling them apart just to watch them reassemble one another.

Nim Grotesque

Creature - Zombie

Nim Grotesque gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.

In the swirling mists, you could walk right up to one and not know until its teeth are in your throat.

Ouphe Vandals

Creature - Ouphe Rogue

, Sacrifice Ouphe Vandals: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source and destroy that artifact if it's on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

The ouphes finally managed to still the clockwork monstrosity by catching themselves in its cogs.

Plasma Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Plasma Elemental is unblockable.

"I watched a ship sail right through it. I thought it was harmless . . . until I saw what it had done to the crew."
-Bruenna, Neurok leader

Qumulox

Creature - Beast

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Flying

Even the clouds bend themselves to Memnarch's will, eager to swallow those who oppose him.

Raksha Golden Cub

Legendary Creature - Cat Soldier

Vigilance

As long as Raksha Golden Cub is equipped, Cat creatures you control get +2/+2 and have double strike.

Some believe that Raksha, youngest of the kha, is the reincarnation of Dakan, the first and mightiest of leonin leaders.

Razorgrass Screen

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Razorgrass Screen blocks each turn if able.

Hand-stitched, and marked by the blood of the Auriok.

Sawtooth Thresher

Artifact Creature - Construct

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

Remove two +1/+1 counters from Sawtooth Thresher: Sawtooth Thresher gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Silent Arbiter

Artifact Creature - Construct

No more than one creature can attack each combat.

No more than one creature can block each combat.

Scholars say that arbiters exist on every world, created by an unknown hand to enforce justice.

Skyreach Manta

Artifact Creature - Fish

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

Flying

As the dawns break, the manta soars.

Solarion

Artifact Creature - Construct

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

: Double the number of +1/+1 counters on Solarion.

Spinal Parasite

Artifact Creature - Insect

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

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

Summoner's Egg

Artifact Creature - Construct

Imprint - When Summoner's Egg enters the battlefield, you may exile a card from your hand face down.

When Summoner's Egg dies, turn the exiled card face up. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield under your control.

Suncrusher

Artifact Creature - Construct

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

, , Remove a +1/+1 counter from Suncrusher: Destroy target creature.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Suncrusher: Return Suncrusher to its owner's hand.

Suntouched Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

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

As the fifth sun joins the other four, new abilities awaken in the creatures of Mirrodin.

Sylvok Explorer

Creature - Human Druid

: Add to your mana pool one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Any creature on a druid's shoulder is his family, any land under his feet his home.

Synod Centurion

Artifact Creature - Construct

When you control no other artifacts, sacrifice Synod Centurion.

"We order them to stand, they stand. We order them to wait, they wait. We order them to die, they die."
-Pontifex, elder researcher

Tangle Asp

Creature - Snake

Whenever Tangle Asp blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

"I have no fangs, yet I constantly bite. I have no scales, yet I slither through you. What am I?"
-Riddle of the viper's venom

Tel-Jilad Lifebreather

Creature - Troll Shaman

, , Sacrifice a Forest: Regenerate target creature.

"The Tangle loans you life. Spend it well."

Thermal Navigator

Artifact Creature - Construct

Sacrifice an artifact: Thermal Navigator gains flying until end of turn.

It takes off with a roar of superheated wind, startling wild pterons as they survey the ground below.

Tornado Elemental

Creature - Elemental

When Tornado Elemental enters the battlefield, it deals 6 damage to each creature with flying.

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

Tyrranax

Creature - Beast

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

It outnumbers you one to many.

Viridian Lorebearers

Creature - Elf Shaman

, : Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of artifacts your opponents control.

A small band of elves pledged many years ago to avoid the Edges of Forgetting. They have remained hidden until now.

Viridian Scout

Creature - Elf Warrior Scout

, Sacrifice Viridian Scout: Viridian Scout deals 2 damage to target creature with flying.

They know a hoverguard's only blind spot is directly above it.

Vulshok Sorcerer

Creature - Human Shaman

Haste

: Vulshok Sorcerer deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Vulshok sorcerers train by leaping into electrified storm clouds. Dead or alive, they come back down with smiles on their faces.

Ageless Entity

Creature - Elemental

Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on Ageless Entity.

Tel-Jilad's sworn protectors are the trolls, yet more fearsome protectors were created by the Tangle itself.

Arcbound Bruiser

Artifact Creature - Golem

Modular 3 (This enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Break in case of emergency.

Arcbound Crusher

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Trample

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Crusher.

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Fiend

Artifact Creature - Horror

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

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto Arcbound Fiend.

Modular 3 (This enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)