Spirit of the Labyrinth

Enchantment Creature - Spirit

Each player can't draw more than one card each turn.

Students at the Dekatia Academy learn that being sent to study with her is a lesson in itself.

Spiritmonger

Creature - Beast

Whenever Spiritmonger deals damage to a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Spiritmonger.

: Regenerate Spiritmonger.

: Spiritmonger becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

Spite of Mogis

Sorcery

Spite of Mogis deals damage to target creature equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Spitebellows

Creature - Elemental

When Spitebellows leaves the battlefield, it deals 6 damage to target creature.

Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Disaster stalks with gaping jaws across unready lands.

Spiteful Blow

Sorcery

Destroy target creature and target land.

"Only a fool takes Phenax at his word. What do you expect from a god born of lies and betrayal?"
-Verenes, priest of Iroas

Spiteful Returned

Enchantment Creature - Zombie

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.)

Whenever Spiteful Returned or enchanted creature attacks, defending player loses 2 life.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

Spiteful Shadows

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to its controller.

"Let us remind these human cattle why they fear the shadows of this world."
-Aldreg, Skirsdag cultist

Spiteful Visions

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Whenever a player draws a card, Spiteful Visions deals 1 damage to that player.

Knowledge brings the sting of disillusionment, but the pain teaches perspective.

Splatter Thug

Creature - Human Warrior

First strike

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.)

The mask isn't meant to hide his identity. It's meant to keep the viscera out of his eyes.

Splinter Twin

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": Put a token that's a copy of this creature onto the battlefield. That token has haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step."

"I know just the person for that job."

Splinterfright

Creature - Elemental

Trample

Splinterfright's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.

Split Decision

Instant

Will of the council - Choose target instant or sorcery spell. Starting with you, each player votes for denial or duplication. If denial gets more votes, counter the spell. If duplication gets more votes or the vote is tied, copy the spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Spoils of Blood

Instant

Put an X/X black Horror creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn.

"There are always leftovers."
-Derecht, flesh carver

Spoils of Victory

Sorcery

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card and put that card onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Spontaneous Combustion

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Spontaneous Combustion, sacrifice a creature.

Spontaneous Combustion deals 3 damage to each creature.

"Heat of battle" is usually a metaphor.

Spore Burst

Sorcery

Domain - Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield for each basic land type among lands you control.

Seeds from Jund don't drift gently on the wind. They get up and stampede.

Sporecap Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"They don't move much, but then again, if you get caught in its web, it has all the time in the world to get to you."
-Saidah, Joraga hunter

Sporemound

Creature - Fungus

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

"If you threaten its territory, it produces spores. Actually, no matter what you do, it produces spores."-Hadi Kasten, Calla Dale naturalist

Sporesower Thallid

Creature - Fungus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on each Fungus you control.

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

Sporoloth Ancient

Creature - Fungus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Sporoloth Ancient.

Creatures you control have "Remove two spore counters from this creature: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield."

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.

Spreading Seas

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

When Spreading Seas enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted land is an Island.

Most inhabitants of Zendikar have given up on the idea of an accurate map.

Springjack Pasture

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Put a 0/1 white Goat creature token onto the battlefield.

, Sacrifice X Goats: Add X mana of any one color to your mana pool. You gain X life.

Springleaf Drum

Artifact

, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

After trying mudskippers for an afternoon, Scratch decided that crickcarp made the best noise.

Sprinting Warbrute

Creature - Ogre Berserker

Sprinting Warbrute attacks each turn if able.

Dash (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Sprouting Thrinax

Creature - Lizard

When Sprouting Thrinax dies, put three 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

The vast network of predation on Jund has actually caused some strange creatures to adapt to being eaten.

Sprouting Vines

Instant

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Spurnmage Advocate

Creature - Human Nomad

: Return two target cards from an opponent's graveyard to his or her hand. Destroy target attacking creature.

"Our unity humbles our foes."

Squadron Hawk

Creature - Bird

Flying

When Squadron Hawk enters the battlefield, you may search your library for up to three cards named Squadron Hawk, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Squallmonger

Creature - Monger

: Squallmonger deals 1 damage to each creature with flying and each player. Any player may activate this ability.

"Squall, gale, hurricane-it's all a matter of size . . . and price."

Squee, Goblin Nabob

Legendary Creature - Goblin

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return Squee, Goblin Nabob from your graveyard to your hand.

"Some goblins are expendable. Some are impossible to get rid of. But he's both-at the same time!"
-Starke

Squelching Leeches

Creature - Leech

Squelching Leeches's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.

Leeches are sacred to followers of Pharika for drawing poison from a wound, but feared by everyone else for drawing blood from the flesh.

Squirrel Nest

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ": Put a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token onto the battlefield."

In the Krosan Forest, you've got to keep an eye out for the squirrels.

Stab Wound

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player loses 2 life.

Stabbing Pain

Instant

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Tap that creature.

"You can take the fight out of nearly any creature if you know where its soft spot is."
-Guttor, flesh-warper

Staff of Nin

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card.

: Staff of Nin deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

"I have attuned the staff to your screams so that only I may benefit from your pain."
-Volux, disciple of Nin

Staff of the Death Magus

Artifact

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

A symbol of ambition in ruthless times.

Staff of the Flame Magus

Artifact

Whenever you cast a red spell or a Mountain enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

A symbol of passion in indifferent times.

Staff of the Mind Magus

Artifact

Whenever you cast a blue spell or an Island enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

A symbol of sagacity in bewildering times.

Staff of the Sun Magus

Artifact

Whenever you cast a white spell or a Plains enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

A symbol of conviction in uncertain times.

Staff of the Wild Magus

Artifact

Whenever you cast a green spell or a Forest enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

A symbol of ferocity in oppressive times.

Staggershock

Instant

Staggershock deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

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.)

Stain the Mind

Sorcery

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Name a nonland card. Search target player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Stalking Drone

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

{C}: Stalking Drone gets +1/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

As the Eldrazi adapted to the jungles of Zendikar, some took on the tactics of more familiar predators.

Stalking Vengeance

Creature - Avatar

Haste

Whenever another creature you control dies, it deals damage equal to its power to target player.

Something roams the killing places, sniffing the guilt of the slayers, stalking them on iron paws.

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

Creature - Human Soldier

Defender

Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.

"Hold fast the line! Either we stop them here or we wake up in their guts!"
-Tala Vertan, Makindi shieldmate

Stampeding Elk Herd

Creature - Elk

Formidable - Whenever Stampeding Elk Herd attacks, if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater, creatures you control gain trample until end of turn.

The Atarka use them not just for food, but also to clear away snow, trees, and enemy forces.

Stampeding Rhino

Creature - Rhino

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.)

The quickest way to get through the jungle is to agitate a rhino and run in its wake.

Starfall

Instant

Starfall deals 3 damage to target creature. If that creature is an enchantment, Starfall deals 3 damage to that creature's controller.

"The most brilliant stars are not born of Nyx."
-Rhexenor, Akroan flamespeaker

Starstorm

Instant

Starstorm deals X damage to each creature.

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

Pardic barbarians didn't complain when the Order started blaming every crisis on the Cabal.

Stasis Cell

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

: Attach Stasis Cell to target creature.

The Simic created the cells to preserve their experiments. The Azorius put the cells to use on the guilty.

Stasis Snare

Enchantment

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

When Stasis Snare enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until Stasis Snare leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

Statute of Denial

Instant

Counter target spell. If you control a blue creature, draw a card, then discard a card.

"Pyrotechnic activity of any sort is strictly prohibited. It is irrelevant that today is a holiday."

Staunch-Hearted Warrior

Creature - Human Warrior

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Staunch-Hearted Warrior, put two +1/+1 counters on Staunch-Hearted Warrior.

As soon as she faces a monster, she begins composing its epitaph.

Stave Off

Instant

Target creature gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything of that color.)

Steady Progress

Instant

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

Draw a card.

"More of that strange oil . . . It's probably nothing."

Stealer of Secrets

Creature - Human Rogue

Whenever Stealer of Secrets deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

The Dimir would hire her, if only they knew where she lived. The Azorius would condemn her, if only they knew her name.

Steam Augury

Instant

Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Keranos is a fickle god, delivering punishment as readily as prophecy.

Steam Vents

Land - Island Mountain

(: Add or to your mana pool.)

As Steam Vents enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Steam Vents enters the battlefield tapped.

Crafted with genius, energized with madness.

Steel Hellkite

Artifact Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Steel Hellkite gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost X whose controller was dealt combat damage by Steel Hellkite this turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Steel Overseer

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.

"The world is already run by all manner of machines. One day, they'll remind us of that fact."
-Sargis Haz, artificer

Steel Sabotage

Instant

Choose one - Counter target artifact spell; or return target artifact to its owner's hand.

"You are hopelessly obsolete, my brothers. Come and join the Great Work."
-Rhmir, Hand of the Augur

Steelclad Serpent

Artifact Creature - Serpent

Steelclad Serpent can't attack unless you control another artifact.

"From the highest towers to the deepest sea, all life must be touched by etherium."
-Lodus of the Ethersworn

Steelform Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control get +0/+1.

"Though the slivers may sometimes resemble us, they are not human. Anyone who fights them must remember this."-Sarlena, paladin of the Northern Verge

Steeple Roc

Creature - Bird

Flying, first strike

"Sometimes it forgets to loosen its grip before taking flight. I lost my roof that way."
-Ecaban, Boros scout

Stensia Bloodhall

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Stensia Bloodhall deals 2 damage to target player.

The revelry ends when the supply of fresh ingenues runs dry.

Steppe Glider

Creature - Elemental

Flying, vigilance

: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains flying and vigilance until end of turn.

It glides over the landscape. It also happens to be one.

Steppe Lynx

Creature - Cat

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

Nothing quickens the predator's blood like the unfamiliar scents of new hunting grounds and the mewling cries of new prey.

Stern Mentor

Creature - Human Wizard

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 Stern Mentor is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has ": Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard."

Steward of Valeron

Creature - Human Druid Knight

Vigilance

: Add to your mana pool.

Knight-stewards guard the Sun-Dappled Court, a grove of immense, sculptured olive trees that represent Valeron's twelve noble families.

Stifle

Instant

Counter target activated or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
-Pemmin, Riptide survivor

Stingerfling Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

When Stingerfling Spider enters the battlefield, you may destroy target creature with flying.

The juiciest prey is that which grows lazy, thinking itself beyond the reach of danger.

Stingscourger

Creature - Goblin Warrior

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

When Stingscourger enters the battlefield, return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Stinkdrinker Daredevil

Creature - Goblin Rogue

Giant spells you cast cost less to cast.

Boggarts constantly strive to outdo each other with the things they bring back to the warren, each hoping the exploit will become as well-known as those of Auntie Grub.

Stinkweed Imp

Creature - Imp

Flying

Whenever Stinkweed Imp deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature.

Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly five cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)

Stir the Pride

Instant

Choose one - Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn; or until end of turn, creatures you control gain "Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life."

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Stirring Wildwood

Land

Stirring Wildwood enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Until end of turn, Stirring Wildwood becomes a 3/4 green and white Elemental creature with reach. It's still a land.

Stitch Together

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Threshold - Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Stitched Drake

Creature - Zombie Drake

As an additional cost to cast Stitched Drake, exile a creature card from your graveyard.

Flying

"The best skaab are more powerful and more beautiful than the sum of their parts."
-Stitcher Geralf

Stitcher Geralf

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

, : Each player puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Exile up to two creature cards put into graveyards this way. Put an X/X blue Zombie creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the total power of the cards exiled this way.

Stitcher's Apprentice

Creature - Homunculus

, : Put a 2/2 blue Homunculus creature token onto the battlefield, then sacrifice a creature.

"Oglor create life, Oglor take it away. Oglor god! . . . until Master return."

Stoic Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying, vigilance

Players can't untap more than one creature during their untap steps.

Even the most battle-hardened soldiers pause in her presence for a moment of introspection.

Stoic Rebuttal

Instant

Metalcraft - Stoic Rebuttal costs less to cast if you control three or more artifacts.

Counter target spell.

Obsessed with the pursuit of knowledge above all else, vedalken can appear to be cold and emotionless.

Stoke the Flames

Instant

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Stoke the Flames deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Stolen Goods

Sorcery

Target opponent exiles cards from the top of his or her library until he or she exiles a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

Stolen Identity

Sorcery

Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of target artifact or creature.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Stolen Itentity

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

Stomping Ground

Land - Mountain Forest

(: Add or to your mana pool.)

As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Stomping Ground enters the battlefield tapped.

Stone Giant

Creature - Giant

: Target creature you control with toughness less than Stone Giant's power gains flying until end of turn. Destroy that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

A typical day for a giant. A momentous event for a goat.

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.

Stone Haven Medic

Creature - Kor Cleric

, : You gain 1 life.

"These days, soldiers never stick around long enough for a proper healing. They just want me to knit them up so they can hurry back to the fight."

Stone Haven Outfitter

Creature - Kor Artificer Ally

Equipped creatures you control get +1/+1.

Whenever an equipped creature you control dies, draw a card.

The makers and menders are the first called to battle and the last to leave.

Stone Idol Trap

Instant - Trap

Stone Idol Trap costs less to cast for each attacking creature.

Put a 6/12 colorless Construct artifact creature token with trample onto the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of your next end step.

Stonecloaker

Creature - Gargoyle

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

Flying

When Stonecloaker enters the battlefield, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

When Stonecloaker enters the battlefield, exile target card from a graveyard.

Stonefare Crocodile

Creature - Crocodile

: Stonefare Crocodile gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

The Izzet's plans to exploit the undercity ran into a few stubborn obstacles.

Stoneforge Acolyte

Creature - Kor Artificer Ally

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an Equipment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"The stone speaks. We are merely interpreters."

Stoneforge Masterwork

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control that shares a creature type with it.

Equip

The nomadic kor carry only necessities on their long treks. The coming of the Eldrazi redefined "necessities."

Stoneforge Mystic

Creature - Kor Artificer

When Stoneforge Mystic enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

, : You may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Stonefury

Instant

Stonefury deals damage to target creature equal to the number of lands you control.

Akoum can make any intruder look small.