Soul Seizer

Creature - Spirit

Flying

When Soul Seizer deals combat damage to a player, you may transform it. If you do, attach it to target creature that player controls.

Soul Snare

Enchantment

, Sacrifice Soul Snare: Exile target creature that's attacking you or a planeswalker you control.

"Body and spirit are sworn enemies. They will take any excuse to be rid of each other."
-Tariel, Reckoner of Souls

Soul Stair Expedition

Enchantment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a quest counter on Soul Stair Expedition.

Remove three quest counters from Soul Stair Expedition and sacrifice it: Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Soul Summons

Sorcery

Manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Ugin's magic reaches beyond the dragons. The clans have adapted it for war.

Soul Tithe

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant nonland permanent

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted permanent's controller, that player sacrifices it unless he or she pays , where X is its converted mana cost.

Soul Warden

Creature - Human Cleric

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

"One does not question the size or shape of the grains of sand in an hourglass. Nor do I question the temperament of the souls under my guidance."

Soul's Attendant

Creature - Human Cleric

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

In truth, her own faith was gone, trodden in Ulamog's wake. She pantomimed the blessing in the hope that it would inspire others to continue to struggle.

Soul's Fire

Instant

Target creature you control on the battlefield deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

An avatar he sculpts of anger and flame.

Soul's Grace

Instant

You gain life equal to target creature's power.

An avatar he sculpts of fellowship and light.

Soul's Majesty

Sorcery

Draw cards equal to the power of target creature you control.

An avatar he sculpts of wisdom and strength.

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.

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.

Soulcage Fiend

Creature - Demon

When Soulcage Fiend dies, each player loses 3 life.

Vowing to free the souls of her children, Kastinne followed the tormentors into the ghastly network of caves below Stensia.

Soulcatcher

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

Whenever a creature with flying dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Soulcatcher.

"Holy couriers guide aven spirits up to the home of the Ancestor."
-Mystic elder

Soulfire Grand Master

Creature - Human Monk

Lifelink

Instant and sorcery spells you control have lifelink.

: The next time you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand this turn, put that card into your hand instead of into your graveyard as it resolves.

Soulflayer

Creature - Demon

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

If a creature card with flying was exiled with Soulflayer's delve ability, Soulflayer has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, reach, trample, and vigilance.

Soulmender

Creature - Human Cleric

: You gain 1 life.

"Healing is more art than magic. Well, there is still quite a bit of magic."

Soulquake

Sorcery

Return all creatures on the battlefield and all creature cards in graveyards to their owners' hands.

The Maelstrom sent a wave of raw mana through the battlefield, carrying off the fighting and fallen alike.

Soulsurge Elemental

Creature - Elemental

First strike

Soulsurge Elemental's power is equal to the number of creatures you control.

It draws its strength from those around it, but the pleasure of destruction is all its own.

Soulsworn Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Soulsworn Spirit is unblockable.

When Soulsworn Spirit enters the battlefield, detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Sovereigns of Lost Alara

Creature - Spirit

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

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, you may search your library for an Aura card that could enchant that creature, put it onto the battlefield attached to that creature, then shuffle your library.

Spare from Evil

Instant

Creatures you control gain protection from non-Human creatures until end of turn.

"As long as we can utter a prayer or lift a weapon, we have the power to fight back."
-Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Spark Jolt

Instant

Spark Jolt deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Acolytes of Purphoros hammer the world until they see the sparks of change.

Spark Trooper

Creature - Elemental Soldier

Trample, lifelink, haste

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Spark Trooper.

Izzet-designed conductors atop Sunhome charge empty sets of armor that give form to the fluctuating elementals.

Sparkmage Apprentice

Creature - Human Wizard

When Sparkmage Apprentice enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Sparkmages are performance artists of sorts, but pain is the price of admission.

Sparkmage's Gambit

Sorcery

Sparkmage's Gambit deals 1 damage to each of up to two target creatures. Those creatures can't block this turn.

"A touch of lightning, and anyone can be taught to dance."
-Tobin, sparkmage

Spatial Contortion

Instant

({C} represents colorless mana.)

Target creature gets +3/-3 until end of turn.

"For those without the Planeswalker spark, the merest touch of the Blind Eternities can kill."
-Ugin

Spawn of Rix Maadi

Creature - Horror

Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

"Straight from the blood-drenched imagination of our illustrious parun!"
-Nyoser, Gore-House ringleader

Spawn of Thraxes

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Spawn of Thraxes enters the battlefield, it deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Mountains you control.

Sparks from Purphoros's forge fill the belly of every dragon.

Spawnbinder Mage

Creature - Human Wizard Ally

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Tap target creature.

"Follow me. Step lightly. And resist the urge to kick them."

Spawning Bed

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Spawning Bed: Put three 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Young Eldrazi crawl forth from the dust, compelled by a greater will.

Spawning Breath

Instant

Spawning Breath deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Put a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Death by death, Kozilek's lineage spread.

Spawning Grounds

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant landEnchanted land has ": Put a 5/5 green Beast creature token with trample onto the battlefield."

It's the only water source in miles of desert, but the local tribes avoid it at all costs.

Spawnsire of Ulamog

Creature - Eldrazi

Annihilator 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent.)

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

{20}: Cast any number of Eldrazi cards you own from outside the game without paying their mana costs.

Spawnwrithe

Creature - Elemental

Trample

Whenever Spawnwrithe deals combat damage to a player, put a token that's a copy of Spawnwrithe onto the battlefield.

Its victims feel only an itchy, wriggling feeling just under their skin. By then, it's far too late.

Spear of Heliod

Legendary Enchantment Artifact

Creatures you control get +1/+1.

, : Destroy target creature that dealt damage to you this turn.

Legend speaks of the Sun Spear, the mighty weapon that can strike any point in Theros, even the depths of the Underworld.

Spearbreaker Behemoth

Creature - Beast

Spearbreaker Behemoth is indestructible.

: Target creature with power 5 or greater is indestructible this turn.

Few Nayans dare hunt the gargantuans. They're regarded not as animals but as forces of nature, like landslides or typhoons.

Spearpoint Oread

Enchantment Creature - Nymph

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

First strike

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has first strike.

Species Gorger

Creature - Frog Beast

At the beginning of your upkeep, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

"We raised eelhawks to control the squidflies, then waspcrabs to prey on the eelhawks. Now what do we do with all these waspcrabs?"
-Gulistan, Simic biomancer

Spectra Ward

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from all colors. This effect doesn't remove Auras. (It can't be blocked, targeted, or dealt damage by anything that's white, blue, black, red, or green.)

Spectral Flight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying.

"The church looks down on binding spirits into armor, but now I can look down on them."
-Dierk, geistmage

Spectral Gateguards

Creature - Spirit Soldier

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)

As long as Spectral Gateguards is paired with another creature, both creatures have vigilance.

Spectral Prison

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

When enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell, sacrifice Spectral Prison.

Spectral Procession

Sorcery

( can be paid with any two mana or with . This card's converted mana cost is 6.)

Put three 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

"The dead have it easy. They suffer no more. If breaking their rest helps the living, so be it."
-Olka, mistmeadow witch

Spectral Rider

Creature - Spirit Knight

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

Never a word. Never a warning. Only the sound of hoofbeats along the crossways, and the screams of the avenged.

Spectral Searchlight

Artifact

: Choose a player. That player adds one mana of any color he or she chooses to his or her mana pool.

The first searchlights were given as gifts, symbols of cooperation, to the emissaries present at the signing of the Guildpact.

Spell Blast

Instant

Counter target spell with converted mana cost X. (For example, if that spell's mana cost is , X is 5.)

Spell Contortion

Instant

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

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . Draw a card for each time Spell Contortion was kicked.

Spell Crumple

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard. Put Spell Crumple on the bottom of its owner's library.

Spell Pierce

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays .

"There's a hole in your plan."
-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Spell Rupture

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays , where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"Like water, mana will drain from an inferior vessel."
-Jalan Tosk, Simic forcemage

Spell Shrivel

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Spell Snare

Instant

Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.

Every culture has its unlucky numbers. In a city where you're either alone, in a crowd, or being stabbed in the back, two is the worst number of all.

Spell Snip

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

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

"Magic cast through a hand of flesh is just as weak as the flesh itself."
-Lodus of the Ethersworn

Spellbook

Artifact

You have no maximum hand size.

"Everything the wise woman learned she wrote in a book, and when the pages were black with ink, she took white ink and began again."
-Karn, silver golem

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.

Spellbreaker Behemoth

Creature - Beast

Spellbreaker Behemoth can't be countered.

Creature spells you control with power 5 or greater can't be countered.

"Some think its immunity to countermagic evolved because of the constant mage attacks on Naya. I think it just ate a bunch of wizards."
-Broka, drumhunter

Spellheart Chimera

Creature - Chimera

Flying, trample

Spellheart Chimera's power is equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.

Thaumaturges remain silent around chimeras, lest their words conjure even stranger beasts.

Spellskite

Artifact Creature - Horror

: Change a target of target spell or ability to Spellskite. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"Let's show Vorinclex that progress doesn't always need teeth or claws."
-Malcator, Executor of Synthesis

Spellstutter Sprite

Creature - Faerie Wizard

Flash

Flying

When Spellstutter Sprite enters the battlefield, counter target spell with converted mana cost X or less, where X is the number of Faeries you control.

Spelltwine

Sorcery

Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard and target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. Copy those cards. Cast the copies if able without paying their mana costs. Exile Spelltwine.

Sphere of Safety

Enchantment

Creatures can't attack you or a planeswalker you control unless their controller pays for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

The Rakdos believe that all are eager to join their revels, even when told otherwise.

Sphere of the Suns

Artifact

Sphere of the Suns enters the battlefield tapped and with three charge counters on it.

, Remove a charge counter from Sphere of the Suns: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Sphinx Ambassador

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever Sphinx Ambassador deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for a card, then that player names a card. If you searched for a creature card that isn't the named card, you may put it onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Sphinx of Jwar Isle

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

You may look at the top card of your library. (You may do this at any time.)

"Even if the sphinxes do know the location of every relic, getting one to talk is harder than just searching yourself."
-Sachir, Akoum Expeditionary House

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.

Sphinx of Magosi

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

: Draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on Sphinx of Magosi.

"A riddle is nothing more than a trap for small minds, baited with the promise of understanding."

Sphinx of the Chimes

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Discard two nonland cards with the same name: Draw four cards.

"I've dreamt of the future, Isperia. Danger is on the horizon. You must heed my warning."

Sphinx of the Final Word

Creature - Sphinx

Sphinx of the Final Word can't be countered.

Flying, hexproof

Instant and sorcery spells you control can't be countered by spells or abilities.

He answers questions as readily as he asks them, but his answer is always "no."

Sphinx of the Steel Wind

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green

No one has properly answered her favorite riddle: "Why should I spare your life?"

Sphinx of Uthuun

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Sphinx of Uthuun enters the battlefield, reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Sphinx Sovereign

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

At the beginning of your end step, you gain 3 life if Sphinx Sovereign is untapped. Otherwise, each opponent loses 3 life.

"What rises without legs, whispers without a voice, bites without teeth, and dies without having life?"

Sphinx Summoner

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Sphinx Summoner enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.

Sphinx's Disciple

Creature - Human Wizard

Flying

Inspired - Whenever Sphinx's Disciple becomes untapped, draw a card.

Few dare to brave the Dakra Isles. Those who return are forever changed.

Sphinx's Herald

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, , Sacrifice a white creature, a blue creature, and a black creature: Search your library for a card named Sphinx Sovereign and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

He calls a riddle through the gaps of cloven clouds, hoping for an answer.

Sphinx's Revelation

Instant

You gain X life and draw X cards.

"Let the knowledge of absolute law inspire you to live a life of absolute order."

Sphinx-Bone Wand

Artifact

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put a charge counter on Sphinx-Bone Wand. If you do, Sphinx-Bone Wand deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to target creature or player.

Its host's final curse lies captured within.

Spider Spawning

Sorcery

Put a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach onto the battlefield for each creature card in your graveyard.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Spider Umbra

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

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

Spidersilk Net

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Spidery Grasp

Instant

Untap target creature. It gets +2/+4 and gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

"Nobody's seen the Lady of Videns for years. Poor dear, no companions at all in that old castle."
-Yonda of Gavony

Spike Feeder

Creature - Spike

Spike Feeder enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spike Feeder: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spike Feeder: You gain 2 life.

Spike Jester

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Haste

For the Rakdos, "suicidal charge" and "good showmanship" are one and the same.

Spiked Baloth

Creature - Beast

Trample (If this creature 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.)

If a baloth isn't hungry, it's dead.

Spikeshot Elder

Creature - Goblin Shaman

: Spikeshot Elder deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

Now that he knows a thousand ways of hurting people, his next shamanic quest is to discover a thousand more.

Spin Engine

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Target creature can't block Spin Engine this turn.

"It will be battle-ready before our strike at Oxid Ridge, and it will guarantee our victory."
-Ketuc of the Helm

Spinal Embrace

Instant

Cast Spinal Embrace only during combat.

Untap target creature you don't control and gain control of it. It gains haste until end of turn. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it. If you do, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Spine of Ish Sah

Artifact

When Spine of Ish Sah enters the battlefield, destroy target permanent.

When Spine of Ish Sah is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Spine of Ish Sah to its owner's hand.

Spinebiter

Creature - Beast

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

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

Spined Thopter

Artifact Creature - Thopter

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Flying

"I appreciate the depravity of noble designs turned to devious ends."
-Tezzeret

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

Spiraling Duelist

Creature - Human Berserker

Metalcraft - Spiraling Duelist has double strike as long as you control three or more artifacts.

"I never move the same way twice. Those rotters can't grasp chaos."

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.

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.

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.

Spire Tracer

Creature - Elf Scout

Spire Tracer can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.

Cartographers on Ravnica chart not just the horizontal, but also the vertical.

Spirespine

Enchantment Creature - Beast

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

Spirespine blocks each turn if able.

Enchanted creature gets +4/+1 and blocks each turn if able.

Spirit Away

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying.

The fear of slipping from the geist's tenuous grip overwhelmed Tolo's joy at his first flight.

Spirit Bonds

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay . If you do, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

, Sacrifice a Spirit: Target non-Spirit creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Designed by Justin Gary

Spirit Mantle

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has protection from creatures.

The shield of unimpeachable purity is as strong as any wrought on the anvil.