Mysteries of the Deep

Instant

Draw two cards.

Landfall - If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, draw three cards instead.

"The Roil is destructive, but not random. It's Zendikar's way of revealing secrets."
-Ilori, merfolk falconer

Surrakar Banisher

Creature - Surrakar

When Surrakar Banisher enters the battlefield, you may return target tapped creature to its owner's hand.

Surrakar grab things they don't want.

Vapor Snare

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

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

Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Legendary Creature - Vampire Shaman

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player sacrifices a non-Vampire creature.

"So many have died in search of that map. And now it appears in the hands of the arrogant child Chandra Nalaar."

Caustic Crawler

Creature - Insect

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target creature get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Novice explorers can mistake the acid-carved stone lairs for ancient ruins. They rarely survive to learn better.

Deathforge Shaman

Creature - Ogre Shaman

Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)

When Deathforge Shaman enters the battlefield, it deals damage to target player equal to twice the number of times it was kicked.

Grotag Thrasher

Creature - Lizard

Whenever Grotag Thrasher attacks, target creature can't block this turn.

The goblin fancied himself a rider. The lizard was happy with its new flail.

Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs

Legendary Creature - Ogre Warrior

Whenever a creature an opponent controls attacks, if you're the defending player, put a 3/3 red Ogre creature token onto the battlefield unless that creature's controller pays .

Warning to those who scale the cliffs without paying tribute: It's a long way down.

Rumbling Aftershocks

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a kicked spell, you may have Rumbling Aftershocks deal damage to target creature or player equal to the number of times that spell was kicked.

"I like it here. You always get a little more for your mana."
-Chandra Nalaar

Bestial Menace

Sorcery

Put a 1/1 green Snake creature token, a 2/2 green Wolf creature token, and a 3/3 green Elephant creature token onto the battlefield.

"My battle cry reaches ears far keener than yours."
-Saidah, Joraga hunter

Vastwood Zendikon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

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

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

Arrow Volley Trap

Instant - Trap

If four or more creatures are attacking, you may pay rather than pay Arrow Volley Trap's mana cost.

Arrow Volley Trap deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target attacking creatures.

Caravan Hurda

Creature - Giant

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

"Not too bright, but good enough for the job required-carrying and walking in a straight line."
-Bruse Tarl, Goma Fada nomad

Conqueror's Pledge

Sorcery

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

Put six 1/1 white Kor Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield. If Conqueror's Pledge was kicked, put twelve of those tokens onto the battlefield instead.

Landbind Ritual

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each Plains you control.

"Honor this place, for our children's children will stand here and speak these same words again."
-Ayli, Kamsa cleric

Shepherd of the Lost

Creature - Angel

Flying, first strike, vigilance

"Should you fall in the wilds, lift your voice to the Sky Realm. The one who answers will be your salvation."
-Emeria's Creed

World Queller

Creature - Avatar

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a card type. If you do, each player sacrifices a permanent of that type.

"Why fight the world when you know who will win?"
-Nissa Revane

Archive Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent searched his or her library this turn, you may pay rather than pay Archive Trap's mana cost.

Target opponent puts the top thirteen cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Sea Gate Loremaster

Creature - Merfolk Wizard Ally

: Draw a card for each Ally you control.

"He's a living library. He remembers everything our band of explorers has seen, and we can use that to our advantage."
-Zahr Gada, Halimar expedition leader

Seascape Aerialist

Creature - Merfolk Wizard Ally

Whenever Seascape Aerialist or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Ally creatures you control gain flying until end of turn.

"The sky is like another sea. It teems with currents, life, and endless possibility."

Sky Ruin Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

"Hold up your spears. And try not to look like food."
-Tarsa, Sea Gate sell-sword

Sphinx of Lost Truths

Creature - Sphinx

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

Flying

When Sphinx of Lost Truths enters the battlefield, draw three cards. Then if it wasn't kicked, discard three cards.

Whiplash Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent had two or more creatures enter the battlefield under his or her control this turn, you may pay rather than pay Whiplash Trap's mana cost.

Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.

Bog Tatters

Creature - Wraith

Swampwalk

A wraith is a tale of brutal slaying told anew whenever it finds a victim.

Desecrated Earth

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Its controller discards a card.

"The land is swollen with mana, cursed relics, and secrets. If you puncture it, you never know what will burst out."
-Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Hagra Diabolist

Creature - Ogre Shaman Ally

Whenever Hagra Diabolist or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target player lose life equal to the number of Allies you control.

"When exploring the darkest regions, wickedness can be the best accomplice of all."

Halo Hunter

Creature - Demon

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

When Halo Hunter enters the battlefield, destroy target Angel.

Hanging on the walls of his lair, the fallen halos cast his depravity in everlasting light.

Malakir Bloodwitch

Creature - Vampire Shaman

Flying, protection from white

When Malakir Bloodwitch enters the battlefield, each opponent loses life equal to the number of Vampires you control. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Mind Sludge

Sorcery

Target player discards a card for each Swamp you control.

"Guard your thoughts. You never know who might wish to take them from you."
-Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet

Ob Nixilis, the Fallen

Legendary Creature - Demon

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target player lose 3 life. If you do, put three +1/+1 counters on Ob Nixilis, the Fallen.

His spark lost, he plots revenge upon the plane whose corrupting mana fractured his soul.

Geyser Glider

Creature - Elemental Beast

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Geyser Glider gains flying until end of turn.

"Quit pontificating, mage. The last thing we want to do is give it more hot air."
-Tala Vertan, Makindi shieldmate

Kazuul Warlord

Creature - Minotaur Warrior Ally

Whenever Kazuul Warlord or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Ally creature you control.

On expeditions, minotaurs are worth their weight in gold. Fortunately for their paymasters, most minotaurs don't know how much they weigh.

Spire Barrage

Sorcery

Spire Barrage deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Mountains you control.

Goblin lessons include the 2,071 tips for survival. Frek only remembered 2,070.

Tuktuk Grunts

Creature - Goblin Warrior Ally

Haste

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

Goblins are more aggressive with a crowd to cheer them on.

Baloth Cage Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent had an artifact enter the battlefield under his or her control this turn, you may pay rather than pay Baloth Cage Trap's mana cost.

Put a 4/4 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.

Gigantiform

Enchantment - Aura

Kicker

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature is 8/8 and has trample.

When Gigantiform enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, you may search your library for a card named Gigantiform, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Relic Crush

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment and up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

There are many ruins, but there used to be many more.

Territorial Baloth

Creature - Beast

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

Its territory is defined by wherever it is at the moment.

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.

Zendikar Farguide

Creature - Elemental

Forestwalk

Expeditions follow the paths it leaves in its wake.

Eldrazi Monument

Artifact

Creatures you control get +1/+1, have flying, and are indestructible.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. If you can't, sacrifice Eldrazi Monument.

"Gods don't die. They merely slumber."
-Ayli, Kamsa cleric

Glassdust Hulk

Artifact Creature - Golem

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, Glassdust Hulk gets +1/+1 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Deny Reality

Sorcery

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Etherium Abomination

Artifact Creature - Horror

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.)

It was given life by the etherium of a hundred slain Esperites.

Nemesis of Reason

Creature - Leviathan Horror

Whenever Nemesis of Reason attacks, defending player puts the top ten cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Words describing it fail. Pages relating it shrivel. Tales recounting it end.

Bituminous Blast

Instant

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Bituminous Blast deals 4 damage to target creature.

Breath of Malfegor

Instant

Breath of Malfegor deals 5 damage to each opponent.

The blood of the demons quickened as their master rose over the battlefield. The blood of the angels also quickened: here was the chance to finally end the war started millennia ago.

Lightning Reaver

Creature - Zombie Beast

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

Whenever Lightning Reaver deals combat damage to a player, put a charge counter on it.

At the beginning of your end step, Lightning Reaver deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to each opponent.

Monstrous Carabid

Creature - Insect

Monstrous Carabid attacks each turn if able.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

What happens when a plane of predators collides with four planes of prey?

Blitz Hellion

Creature - Hellion

Trample, haste

At the beginning of the end step, Blitz Hellion's owner shuffles it into his or her library.

Alarans commemorated its appearances with new holidays bearing names like the Great Cataclysm and the Fall of Ilson Gate.

Deadshot Minotaur

Creature - Minotaur

When Deadshot Minotaur enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to target creature with flying.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"May the earth rise up to meet you."

Gorger Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Devour 1 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

In war-torn Alara, sometimes a wurm's gullet is the safest place to be.

Predatory Advantage

Enchantment

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if that player didn't cast a creature spell this turn, put a 2/2 green Lizard creature token onto the battlefield.

Those who forget their past are doomed to be eaten by it.

Skyclaw Thrash

Artifact Creature - Viashino Warrior

Whenever Skyclaw Thrash attacks, flip a coin. If you win the flip, Skyclaw Thrash gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn.

Their newfound wings shined elegantly and functioned partially.

Spellbound Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever Spellbound Dragon attacks, draw a card, then discard a card. Spellbound Dragon gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the discarded card's converted mana cost.

A king in Jund, a serf in Esper.

Lord of Extinction

Creature - Elemental

Lord of Extinction's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in all graveyards.

The forlorn cries of the dead combine to make its laugh.

Marrow Chomper

Creature - Zombie Lizard

Devour 2 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

When Marrow Chomper enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life for each creature it devoured.

Sages of the Anima

Creature - Elf Wizard

If you would draw a card, instead reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all creature cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Godtrackers found new pantheons of beast-gods beyond Naya's borders.

Sen Triplets

Legendary Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose target opponent. This turn, that player can't cast spells or activate abilities and plays with his or her hand revealed. You may play cards from that player's hand this turn.

They are the masters of your mind.

Drastic Revelation

Sorcery

Discard your hand. Draw seven cards, then discard three cards at random.

Every disaster holds mystery, for lack of a sane witness.

Naya Sojourners

Creature - Elf Shaman

When you cycle Naya Sojourners or it dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The elves had entered a land like an open grave-an act of fortitude or folly?

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.

Finest Hour

Enchantment

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

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, if it's the first combat phase of the turn, untap that creature. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

Maelstrom Nexus

Enchantment

The first spell you cast each turn has cascade. (When you cast your first spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Slave of Bolas

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Nicol Bolas doesn't distinguish between servants and victims.

Giant Ambush Beetle

Creature - Insect

Haste

When Giant Ambush Beetle enters the battlefield, you may have target creature block it this turn if able.

It waits with absolute stillness. One might think it a statue if it weren't occasionally seen chewing on its victims.

Baneslayer Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying, first strike, lifelink, protection from Demons and from Dragons

Some angels protect the meek and innocent. Others seek out and smite evil wherever it lurks.

Tireless Missionaries

Creature - Human Cleric

When Tireless Missionaries enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

If they succeed in their holy work, their order will vanish into welcome obscurity, for there will be no more souls to redeem.

Air Servant

Creature - Elemental

Flying

: Tap target creature with flying.

"Wind is forceful, yet ephemeral. It can knock a dragon out of the sky, yet pass through the smallest crack unhindered."
-Jestus Dreya, Of Elements and Eternity

Armored Cancrix

Creature - Crab

Creatures displaced from time still turn up every year, stranded by the temporal disaster that once swept across Dominaria.

Jace's Ingenuity

Instant

Draw three cards.

"Brute force can sometimes kick down a locked door, but knowledge is a skeleton key."

Traumatize

Sorcery

Target player puts the top half of his or her library, rounded down, into his or her graveyard.

Dreads had half a mind to leave.

Haunting Echoes

Sorcery

Exile all cards from target player's graveyard other than basic land cards. For each card exiled this way, search that player's library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Liliana Vess

Planeswalker - Liliana (Loyalty: 5)

+1: Target player discards a card.

−2: Search your library for a card, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it.

−8: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Nightwing Shade

Creature - Shade

Flying

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

"There is one hour of the night even we do not watch."
-Sedva, captain of the watch

Rotting Legion

Creature - Zombie

Rotting Legion enters the battlefield tapped.

Zombies have one speed: shamble.

Berserkers of Blood Ridge

Creature - Human Berserker

Berserkers of Blood Ridge attacks each turn if able.

They take a blood oath to die in battle. So far none have failed to fulfill the promise.

Chandra Nalaar

Planeswalker - Chandra (Loyalty: 6)

+1: Chandra Nalaar deals 1 damage to target player.

-X: Chandra Nalaar deals X damage to target creature.

-8: Chandra Nalaar deals 10 damage to target player and each creature he or she controls.

Fire Servant

Creature - Elemental

If a red instant or sorcery spell you control would deal damage, it deals double that damage instead.

"Elemental fire shimmers with rose hues and, unlike terrestrial blazes, smolders long after it's extinguished."
-Jestus Dreya, Of Elements and Eternity

Hoarding Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Hoarding Dragon enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card, exile it, then shuffle your library.

When Hoarding Dragon dies, you may put the exiled card into its owner's hand.

Magma Phoenix

Creature - Phoenix

Flying

When Magma Phoenix dies, it deals 3 damage to each creature and each player.

: Return Magma Phoenix from your graveyard to your hand.

Mitotic Slime

Creature - Ooze

When Mitotic Slime dies, put two 2/2 green Ooze creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "When this creature dies, put two 1/1 green Ooze creature tokens onto the battlefield."

Overwhelming Stampede

Sorcery

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. (If a creature you control would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

Spined Wurm

Creature - Wurm

"They're as much like plants as animals. Leave them unchecked, and they'll choke out all other forms of life."
-Hadi Kasten, Calla Dale naturalist

Stone Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

The sculptor, like most artists, put his heart and soul in his work. But the newly awakened golem decided he wanted his creator's other, more tangible parts.

Lightwielder Paladin

Creature - Human Knight

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Whenever Lightwielder Paladin deals combat damage to a player, you may exile target black or red permanent that player controls.

Air Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Flying

"The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab."
-Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea

Serpent of the Endless Sea

Creature - Serpent

Serpent of the Endless Sea's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Islands you control.

Serpent of the Endless Sea can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

Time Warp

Sorcery

Target player takes an extra turn after this one.

Just when you thought you'd survived the first wave.

Sanguine Bond

Enchantment

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

"Blood is constant. Every drop I drink, someone must bleed."
-Vradeen, vampire nocturnus

Siege-Gang Commander

Creature - Goblin

When Siege-Gang Commander enters the battlefield, put three 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.

, Sacrifice a Goblin: Siege-Gang Commander deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Yawning Fissure

Sorcery

Each opponent sacrifices a land.

The mapmaker scowled. He sighed, unrolled his parchment, and painted a large black blob where the Eternal Meadow was once marked.

Ant Queen

Creature - Insect

: Put a 1/1 green Insect creature token onto the battlefield.

"Kill the queen first, or we'll be fighting her drones forever. It is not in a queen's nature to have enough servants."
-Borzard, exterminator captain

Bramble Creeper

Creature - Elemental

Whenever Bramble Creeper attacks, it gets +5/+0 until end of turn.

"I've seen the fully grown ones tear a baloth to gory ribbons in seconds."
-Kivi, thornberry harvester

Coat of Arms

Artifact

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

A banner for bonds of blood or belief.

Mirror of Fate

Artifact

, Sacrifice Mirror of Fate: Choose up to seven face-up exiled cards you own. Exile all the cards from your library, then put the chosen cards on top of your library.

As the glass shattered, forgotten realities and dead memories came flooding back.

Aerie Mystics

Creature - Bird Wizard

Flying

: Creatures you control gain shroud until end of turn.

They are cautious with their body language and facial expressions. Any stray movement could betray the positions of the troops they protect and cost many lives.

Gleam of Resistance

Instant

Creatures you control get +1/+2 until end of turn. Untap those creatures.

Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Sigil of the Empty Throne

Enchantment

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

When Asha left Bant, she ensured that the world would have protection and order in her absence.

Ethersworn Adjudicator

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Knight

Flying

, : Destroy target creature or enchantment.

: Untap Ethersworn Adjudicator.

Esper mages devised their weapons to be so devastating that war seemed unnecessary.