Soul's Might

Sorcery

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's power.

An avatar he sculpts of instinct and force.

Carrion Thrash

Creature - Viashino Warrior

When Carrion Thrash dies, you may pay . If you do, return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Viashino hunt in gangs called thrashes. Not all thrashes hunt the freshest game.

Kresh the Bloodbraided

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

Whenever another creature dies, you may put X +1/+1 counters on Kresh the Bloodbraided, where X is that creature's power.

Each of his twenty-two braids is bound with bone and leather from a foe.

Rakeclaw Gargantuan

Creature - Beast

: Target creature with power 5 or greater gains first strike until end of turn.

Naya teems with gargantuans, titanic monsters to whom both nature and civilization defer.

Waveskimmer Aven

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

The greatest gift you can give a sea aven is solitude.

Lich's Mirror

Artifact

If you would lose the game, instead shuffle your hand, your graveyard, and all permanents you own into your library, then draw seven cards and your life total becomes 20.

It shows not what you are but what you were.

Minion Reflector

Artifact

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay . If you do, put a token that's a copy of that creature onto the battlefield. That token has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this permanent."

To crack a mirror is to provide an opening for the reflection to escape.

Norn's Annex

Artifact

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Creatures can't attack you or a planeswalker you control unless their controller pays for each of those creatures.

Sensor Splicer

Creature - Artificer

When Sensor Splicer enters the battlefield, put a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

Golem creatures you control have vigilance.

Shriek Raptor

Creature - Bird

Flying

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

"That's no glint hawk. The skies have changed for the worse."
-Ria Ivor, White Sun partisan

Numbing Dose

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact or creature

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

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted permanent's controller, that player loses 1 life.

Spire Monitor

Creature - Drake

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Flying

Each monitor is given an eye for each spire it is to guard.

Xenograft

Enchantment

As Xenograft enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Each creature you control is the chosen type in addition to its other types.

"I despise Vorinclex and his slobberings about ‘evolution.' Only I know true progress."
-Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Caress of Phyrexia

Sorcery

Target player draws three cards, loses 3 life, and gets three poison counters.

"I am weak. Make . . . me . . . ideal."

Dementia Bat

Creature - Bat

Flying

, Sacrifice Dementia Bat: Target player discards two cards.

"When terror outweighs all other thoughts, they will understand that I am the true Father of Machines."
-Azax-Azog, the Demon Thane

Pith Driller

Artifact Creature - Horror

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

When Pith Driller enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

After boring up through the crust of Mirrodin, it turned its expertise upon the surface dwellers.

Reaper of Sheoldred

Creature - Horror

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Whenever a source deals damage to Reaper of Sheoldred, that source's controller gets a poison counter.

Act of Aggression

Instant

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Invader Parasite

Creature - Insect

Imprint - When Invader Parasite enters the battlefield, exile target land.

Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, Invader Parasite deals 2 damage to that player.

Rage Extractor

Artifact

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Whenever you cast a spell with {P} in its mana cost, Rage Extractor deals damage equal to that spell's converted mana cost to target creature or player.

New Phyrexia is an engine that both consumes and creates malice.

Slash Panther

Artifact Creature - Cat

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Haste

It runs an endless circuit along the ruined roads of the soon-to-be-forgotten Mirran civilization.

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."

Victorious Destruction

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land. Its controller loses 1 life.

"The refugees look at these structures with hope. We must relieve them of this burden."
-Juex, tormentor exarch

Rotted Hystrix

Creature - Beast

Vorinclex had no grand plan. The oil did its own work, evolving creatures into worthy predators.

Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

First strike

Metalcraft - Creatures you control get +3/+0 as long as you control three or more artifacts.

"As long as my hand holds a blade, there's hope for a pure Mirrodin once again."

Batterskull

Artifact - Equipment

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it.)

Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink.

: Return Batterskull to its owner's hand.

Equip

Etched Monstrosity

Artifact Creature - Golem

Etched Monstrosity enters the battlefield with five -1/-1 counters on it.

, Remove five -1/-1 counters from Etched Monstrosity: Target player draws three cards.

Now etched only with the scars of phyresis.

Pestilent Souleater

Artifact Creature - Insect

: Pestilent Souleater gains infect until end of turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life. A creature with infect deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Banishment Decree

Instant

Put target artifact, creature, or enchantment on top of its owner's library.

"Unworthy of consecration."
-Axsh, lesser cenobite

Loxodon Partisan

Creature - Elephant Soldier

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)

"This war is not about loxodon or leonin, Sylvok or Auriok. To defeat these rotters, we must do it together."

Corrupted Conscience

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Karn's creation is now his master.

Quicksilver Geyser

Instant

Return up to two target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

"Phyrexians are tenacious. That's not the same thing as clever."
-Tezzeret

Spire Serpent

Creature - Serpent

Defender

Metalcraft - As long as you control three or more artifacts, Spire Serpent gets +2/+2 and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

A mirror to draw its eye, a rod to rouse its rage, and a sword to break its bonds.

Nested Ghoul

Creature - Zombie Warrior

Whenever a source deals damage to Nested Ghoul, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

"The chest cavity is cleared of useless meat. I know just what to do with the space."
-Gyed, Vault Priest

Scourge Servant

Creature - Zombie

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

"The union of the oil and necrogen has produced many pleasing reactions."
-Sheoldred, Whispering One

Spread the Sickness

Sorcery

Destroy target creature, then proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

Life is ephemeral. Phyrexia is eternal.

Concussive Bolt

Sorcery

Concussive Bolt deals 4 damage to target player.

Metalcraft - If you control three or more artifacts, creatures that player controls can't block this turn.

Shock one, awe the rest.

Galvanoth

Creature - Beast

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.

It chews open Mirrodin's husk and feeds on the outpouring of energy.

Kuldotha Ringleader

Creature - Giant Berserker

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)

Kuldotha Ringleader attacks each turn if able.

Being surrounded by goblins is less objectionable when they're fighting for you.

Melira's Keepers

Creature - Human Warrior

Melira's Keepers can't have counters placed on it.

Her warriors are the last defense against the coming storm.

Phyrexian Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

If damage would be dealt to Phyrexian Hydra, prevent that damage. Put a -1/-1 counter on Phyrexian Hydra for each 1 damage prevented this way.

Plaguemaw Beast

Creature - Beast

, Sacrifice a creature: Proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

Phyrexia's spiral of consumption grows ever wider and darker.

Mirrorworks

Artifact

Whenever another nontoken artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay . If you do, put a token that's a copy of that artifact onto the battlefield.

The faces of Geth's corpse-dredgers are disturbingly similar.

Myr Turbine

Artifact

: Put a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

, Tap five untapped Myr you control: Search your library for a Myr creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Psychosis Crawler

Artifact Creature - Horror

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

"If that brain can't figure out the secret of the serum, then add more brains."
-Rhmir, Hand of the Augur

Strandwalker

Artifact - Equipment

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it.)

Equipped creature gets +2/+4 and has reach.

Equip

Tangle Hulk

Artifact Creature - Beast

: Regenerate Tangle Hulk.

"A true Phyrexian predator. It will never know death, just as nature intended."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Elspeth Tirel

Planeswalker - Elspeth (Loyalty: 4)

+2: You gain 1 life for each creature you control.

-2: Put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

-5: Destroy all other permanents except for lands and tokens.

Razor Hippogriff

Creature - Hippogriff

Flying

When Razor Hippogriff enters the battlefield, return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain life equal to that card's converted mana cost.

She incubates her eggs in gold and mana.

Inexorable Tide

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

"See how gratefully this world accepts our blessings."
-Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Sky-Eel School

Creature - Fish

Flying

When Sky-Eel School enters the battlefield, draw a card, then discard a card.

They swim on tides few can see, away from a threat few yet understand.

Bleak Coven Vampires

Creature - Vampire Warrior

Metalcraft - When Bleak Coven Vampires enters the battlefield, if you control three or more artifacts, target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

As the shadow of the Mephidross spread over the Tangle, the vampires' territory expanded.

Painful Quandary

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless he or she discards a card.

"For each word spoken, one forgotten. For each thought, a memory rotten."
-Moriok incantation

Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Legendary Creature - Dragon Skeleton

Flying

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

: Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon gains haste until end of turn.

: Regenerate Skithiryx.

Barrage Ogre

Creature - Ogre Warrior

, Sacrifice an artifact: Barrage Ogre deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

The elves had devised countless strategies to combat Memnarch's war machines, but they had no idea what to do when one was thrown at them.

Kuldotha Phoenix

Creature - Phoenix

Flying, haste

Metalcraft - : Return Kuldotha Phoenix from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only if you control three or more artifacts.

Scoria Elemental

Creature - Elemental

A single molten cord links it to the subterranean furnaces, drawing heat and metal from beneath Kuldotha. Until that bond is cut, it carves a swath of raw destruction.

Acid Web Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach

When Acid Web Spider enters the battlefield, you may destroy target Equipment.

Its web is an excellent source of found copper for the daring or the stupid.

Asceticism

Enchantment

Creatures you control have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

: Regenerate target creature.

"Let my ignominy build walls thicker than iron and stronger than darksteel."
-Thrun, the last troll

Bellowing Tanglewurm

Creature - Wurm

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

Other green creatures you control have intimidate.

Molder Beast

Creature - Beast

Trample

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Molder Beast gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

"A trail of scrap metal can lead it into an ambush. But take care not to overfeed it."
-Adaran, Tangle hunter

Putrefax

Creature - Horror

Trample, haste

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Putrefax.

Venser, the Sojourner

Planeswalker - Venser (Loyalty: 3)

+2: Exile target permanent you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

-1: Creatures are unblockable this turn.

-8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, exile target permanent."

Clone Shell

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

Imprint - When Clone Shell enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

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

Darksteel Juggernaut

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Darksteel Juggernaut's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Darksteel Juggernaut is indestructible and attacks each turn if able.

One part unstoppable force, one part immovable object.

Golem Artisan

Artifact Creature - Golem

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

: Target artifact creature gains your choice of flying, trample, or haste until end of turn.

Better living through metallurgy.

Kuldotha Forgemaster

Artifact Creature - Construct

, Sacrifice three artifacts: Search your library for an artifact card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

The goblins say it used to be larger, before it began to stoke the Great Furnace with pieces of itself.

Precursor Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

When Precursor Golem enters the battlefield, put two 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell that targets only a single Golem, that player copies that spell for each other Golem that spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those Golems.

Saberclaw Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

: Saberclaw Golem gains first strike until end of turn.

The warriors of the Blade Tribe charged the golem, twenty strong. They returned numbering ten . . . and a half.

Soliton

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Untap Soliton.

The gemini engines had lost connection with each other and wandered apart, developing an independent awareness of their surroundings.

Trigon of Thought

Artifact

Trigon of Thought enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.

, : Put a charge counter on Trigon of Thought.

, , Remove a charge counter from Trigon of Thought: Draw a card.

Venser's Journal

Artifact

You have no maximum hand size.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

A Planeswalker's chronicle spans worlds and civilizations, each page a lifetime.

Mammoth Umbra

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has vigilance.

Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Near-Death Experience

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly 1 life, you win the game.

Lands ravaged, cities in ruins, so many lives sacrificed, and yet there was no other word for it but victory.

Soulbound Guardians

Creature - Kor Spirit

Defender, flying

The kor's most righteous dead are given the greatest reward: an eternity tied to the land they so cherish.

Totem-Guide Hartebeest

Creature - Antelope

When Totem-Guide Hartebeest enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Aura card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

The kor track hartebeests in hopes of finding magic to help fight the Eldrazi.

Drake Umbra

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has flying.

Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Frostwind Invoker

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Flying

: Creatures you control gain flying until end of turn.

"We thought Zendikar's rage was kindled by its explorers and plunderers. But the world had sensed the stirrings of the Eldrazi."
-The Invokers' Tales

Gravitational Shift

Enchantment

Creatures with flying get +2/+0.

Creatures without flying get -2/-0.

As they awakened, the Eldrazi reasserted their mastery over all of Zendikar's natural forces.

Mnemonic Wall

Creature - Wall

Defender

When Mnemonic Wall enters the battlefield, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I'd build an entire fortress of them if I could."
-Mzali, Lighthouse archmage

Consume the Meek

Instant

Destroy each creature with converted mana cost 3 or less. They can't be regenerated.

"Why does it destroy? It does, and to talk of reasons wastes time and breath."
-Nirthu, lone missionary

Corpsehatch

Sorcery

Destroy target nonblack creature. Put two 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief

Legendary Creature - Vampire Shaman

Flying

: Target creature gets -0/-X until end of turn and Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

"If our former masters would have us kneel again, they shall feel our defiance slashed across their membranes."

Dread Drone

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

When Dread Drone enters the battlefield, put two 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Each Eldrazi ancient spawned a lineage of horrors in unfathomable shapes.

Emrakul's Hatcher

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

When Emrakul's Hatcher enters the battlefield, put three 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Wordlessly it leads its abhorrent brood.

Explosive Revelation

Sorcery

Choose target creature or player. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. Explosive Revelation deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to that creature or player. Put the nonland card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Fissure Vent

Sorcery

Choose one or both - Destroy target artifact; and/or destroy target nonbasic land.

"Something down there has an appetite for what we're standing on. Let's hope it doesn't want seconds."
-Samila, Murasa Expeditionary House

Magmaw

Creature - Elemental

, Sacrifice a nonland permanent: Magmaw deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

"The purpose of existence is simple: everything is fuel for the magmaw."
-Jaji, magmaw worshipper

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

World at War

Sorcery

After the first postcombat main phase this turn, there's an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. At the beginning of that combat, untap all creatures that attacked this turn.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Broodwarden

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Eldrazi Spawn creatures you control get +2/+1.

"The least of gods shall tower over the mightiest of mortals, and death shall reign over all."
-Crypt of Agadeem inscription

Haze Frog

Creature - Frog

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

When Haze Frog enters the battlefield, prevent all combat damage that other creatures would deal this turn.

Its breath leaves its prey too drowsy to struggle.

Jaddi Lifestrider

Creature - Elemental

When Jaddi Lifestrider enters the battlefield, you may tap any number of untapped creatures you control. You gain 2 life for each creature tapped this way.

Nature's arms encircle all who are willing to draw close.

Nema Siltlurker

Creature - Lizard

In one gargantuan bite, it will swallow not only you but also the riverbank you were standing on.

Stomper Cub

Creature - Beast

Trample

"This one is only a yearling, but it would be wise to move away before we provide it with excellent hunting practice."
-Samila, Murasa Expeditionary House

Sarkhan the Mad

Planeswalker - Sarkhan (Loyalty: 7)

0: Reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Sarkhan the Mad deals damage to himself equal to that card's converted mana cost.

-2: Target creature's controller sacrifices it, then that player puts a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

-4: Each Dragon creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target player.

Angelheart Vial

Artifact

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may put that many charge counters on Angelheart Vial.

, , Remove four charge counters from Angelheart Vial: You gain 2 life and draw a card.

It holds a whisper from Iona: "Persevere."

Archon of Redemption

Creature - Archon

Flying

Whenever Archon of Redemption or another creature with flying enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain life equal to that creature's power.

Until Emeria is freed, he raises his sword in her name.

Battle Hurda

Creature - Giant

First strike

"Murasan hurdas were too aggressive to tolerate a harness, so we put them on guard duty. Now the bandits can't get within spitting distance of us."
-Bruse Tarl, Goma Fada nomad

Iona's Judgment

Sorcery

Exile target creature or enchantment.

Beneath the gaze of angels, only the righteous may stand without fear.