Curse of the Pierced Heart

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, Curse of the Pierced Heart deals 1 damage to that player.

"May your veins weep, and may every vampire take notice."
-Stensian curse

Curse of the Nightly Hunt

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

Creatures enchanted player controls attack each turn if able.

When the moon rises and the bloodlust takes hold, nothing matters but the kill.

Curse of the Forsaken

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant playerWhenever a creature attacks enchanted player, its controller gains 1 life.

"Purge the damned, for they have no place among the righteous!"-Seeta of Thraben

Curse of the Bloody Tome

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

After seeing his life's work drip away, the mage decided it was a good time to go crazy.

Curse of Stalked Prey

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to enchanted player, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

"Innocent thorns can fill the air with your bloodscent. Don't stray from the path."
-Elmut, crossway watcher

Curse of Shallow Graves

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant playerWhenever a player attacks enchanted player with one or more creatures, that attacking player may put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield tapped.

Curse of Predation

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant playerWhenever a creature attacks enchanted player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

"Hunters feed on the fear of their prey."-Garruk Wildspeaker

Curse of Oblivion

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player exiles two cards from his or her graveyard.

The first step to peace is to learn how to forget.

Curse of Misfortunes

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may search your library for a Curse card that doesn't have the same name as a Curse attached to enchanted player, put it onto the battlefield attached to that player, then shuffle your library.

Curse of Inertia

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant playerWhenever a player attacks enchanted player with one or more creatures, that attacking player may tap or untap target permanent of his or her choice.

"As long as I pull the strings, you will dance."-Tezzeret

Curse of Exhaustion

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

Enchanted player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

"I do believe your heresy will prove more difficult now that you have more pressing concerns."
-Bishop Argust

Curse of Echoes

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

Whenever enchanted player casts an instant or sorcery spell, each other player may copy that spell and may choose new targets for the copy he or she controls.

Curse of Death's Hold

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

Creatures enchanted player controls get -1/-1.

"May you and all your kin waste and wither until your clan is no more!"

Curse of Chaos

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant playerWhenever a player attacks enchanted player with one or more creatures, that attacking player may discard a card. If the player does, he or she draws a card.

"Let them cry for mercy. The only one who can hear them is me."-Siglind the Conqueror

Curse of Bloodletting

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

If a source would deal damage to enchanted player, it deals double that damage to that player instead.

It is the demon's mark, an infernal claim on the flesh of the guilty.

Curiosity

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

"Surely you know the joy of the hunt, my furry friend. My kind of hunt just takes a different form than yours."

Cunning Strike

Instant

Cunning Strike deals 2 damage to target creature and 2 damage to target player.

Draw a card.

"The opponent who blocks the path, becomes the path."
-Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest

Cunning Sparkmage

Creature - Human Shaman

Haste

: Cunning Sparkmage deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

"I see the weaknesses you hide even from yourself."

Cunning Lethemancer

Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card.

"Give me your memories, and you will have release from the suffering they bring you."

Cunning Breezedancer

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Cunning Breezedancer gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"That which is beautiful in form can also be deadly."
-Ishai, Ojutai dragonspeaker

Cumber Stone

Artifact

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0.

"The stone is more potent than ever. The flesh that creeps into our land will become even more slovenly and weak."
-Niclavs, archmage of Esper

Cultivator Drone

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

: Add {C} to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a colorless spell, activate an ability of a colorless permanent, or pay a cost that contains {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Cultivate

Sorcery

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Culling Mark

Sorcery

Target creature blocks this turn if able.

Hunt without Nylea's leave and you may find yourself the next quarry.

Culling Drone

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of his or her library.)

Silence rules Bala Ged, broken only by the skittering of Eldrazi.

Culling Dais

Artifact

, Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on Culling Dais.

, Sacrifice Culling Dais: Draw a card for each charge counter on Culling Dais.

"Forswear the flesh and you will truly see."
-Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Cudgel Troll

Creature - Troll

: Regenerate Cudgel Troll. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

Crystallization

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

When enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, exile that creature.

Crystalline Nautilus

Enchantment Creature - Nautilus

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.)

When Crystalline Nautilus becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

Enchanted creature gets +4/+4 and has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Crystal Vein

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, Sacrifice Crystal Vein: Add to your mana pool.

Crystal Ball

Artifact

, : Scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

It glints with arcane truths to those who know how to glimpse them.

Cryptoplasm

Creature - Shapeshifter

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have Cryptoplasm become a copy of another target creature. If you do, Cryptoplasm gains this ability.

"If left in the enemy's shape too long, it might be lost to them."
-Vy Covalt, Neurok agent

Cryptic Cruiser

Creature - Eldrazi Processor

Devoid (This card has no color.)

, Put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard: Tap target creature.

"The seas are no less imperiled than the dry lands. This fight is mine as much as it is yours."-Kiora, to Gideon Jura

Cryptic Command

Instant

Choose two - Counter target spell; or return target permanent to its owner's hand; or tap all creatures your opponents control; or draw a card.

Cryptborn Horror

Creature - Horror

Trample

Cryptborn Horror enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total life lost by your opponents this turn.

Although Cryptwitch Merree vanished after a spat with Rakdos, her playthings lingered.

Crypt Ripper

Creature - Shade

Haste

: Crypt Ripper gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

The tender light of the living quickens the pulse of the dead.

Crypt of Agadeem

Land

Crypt of Agadeem enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Add to your mana pool for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Crypt Incursion

Instant

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

The Golgari maze-runner Varolz hungers to prove his fortitude in battle, and his trail of victims feeds other hungers.

Crypt Ghast

Creature - Spirit

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add to your mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Crypt Creeper

Creature - Zombie

Sacrifice Crypt Creeper: Exile target card from a graveyard.

"I guess what they say is true. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Or at least stranger."
-Captain Eberhart

Crypsis

Instant

Target creature you control gains protection from creatures your opponents control until end of turn. Untap it.

Tritons borrow the camouflage of their oceanic prey to become predators on land.

Crux of Fate

Sorcery

Choose one -

• Destroy all Dragon creatures.

• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Ugin's whispered summons led Sarkhan Vol to the moment that would echo down the centuries and seal Tarkir's fate: the primal battle between Ugin and Nicol Bolas.

Crushing Vines

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target creature with flying; or destroy target artifact.

"Your veil's curse won't stop me, deathmage. I have taken down countless night hunters and this dark plane is not big enough for you to hide."
-Garruk Wildspeaker, to Liliana Vess

Crusher Zendikon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is a 4/2 red Beast creature with trample. It's still a land.

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

Crush Underfoot

Tribal Instant - Giant

Choose a Giant creature you control. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature.

Five-toed grave
-Kithkin phrase meaning
"a giant's footprint"

Crush of Tentacles

Sorcery

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If Crush of Tentacles's surge cost was paid, put an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token onto the battlefield.

Crush

Instant

Destroy target noncreature artifact.

A golem's hands know no tenderness.

Crusader of Odric

Creature - Human Soldier

Crusader of Odric's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.

"We are Odric's sword. We strike without fear, for his mind has divined how our foe will be slain."

Crumbling Vestige

Land

Crumbling Vestige enters the battlefield tapped.

When Crumbling Vestige enters the battlefield, add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

: Add {C} to your mana pool. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Crumbling Necropolis

Land

Crumbling Necropolis enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living."
-Olcot, Rider of Joffik

Crumbling Colossus

Artifact Creature - Golem

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.)

When Crumbling Colossus attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.

Crumble to Dust

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Exile target nonbasic land. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that land and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Cruel Ultimatum

Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a creature, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life.

There is always a greater power.

Cruel Sadist

Creature - Human Assassin

, , Pay 1 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on Cruel Sadist.

, , Remove X +1/+1 counters from Cruel Sadist: Cruel Sadist deals X damage to target creature.

Face of innocence. Hand of death.
Designed by Edmund McMillen

Cruel Feeding

Instant

Strive - Cruel Feeding costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Any number of target creatures each get +1/+0 and gain lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Crucible of the Spirit Dragon

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Put a storage counter on Crucible of the Spirit Dragon.

, Remove X storage counters from Crucible of the Spirit Dragon: Add X mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast Dragon spells or activate abilities of Dragons.

Crucible of Fire

Enchantment

Dragon creatures you control get +3/+3.

"The dragon is a perfect marriage of power and the will to use it."
-Sarkhan Vol

Crowned Ceratok

Creature - Rhino

Trample

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

The best way to calm a rampaging ceratok is to wait until it dies of natural causes.

Crown of Empires

Artifact

, : Tap target creature. Gain control of that creature instead if you control artifacts named Scepter of Empires and Throne of Empires.

"With this crown, assert your authority."
-Crown inscription

Crown of Doom

Artifact

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

: Target player other than Crown of Doom's owner gains control of it. Activate this ability only during your turn.

Every head it rests upon winds up severed.

Crowd's Favor

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.)

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Crossway Vampire

Creature - Vampire

When Crossway Vampire enters the battlefield, target creature can't block this turn.

"Do not flatter Fate. It did not guide you into my clutches tonight. That was all my doing."

Crosstown Courier

Creature - Vedalken

Whenever Crosstown Courier deals combat damage to a player, that player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Information travels quickly through Ravnica's network of messengers and thought agents.

Crosis's Charm

Instant

Choose one - Return target permanent to its owner's hand; or destroy target nonblack creature, and it can't be regenerated; or destroy target artifact.

Crookclaw Transmuter

Creature - Bird Wizard

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

Flying

When Crookclaw Transmuter enters the battlefield, switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Crocanura

Creature - Crocodile Frog

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Crippling Chill

Instant

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Draw a card.

One breath of the geist turns veins to rivers of ice and freezes hearts midbeat.

Crippling Blight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 and can't block.

"Still alive? No matter. I'll leave you as a warning to others who would oppose me."
-Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter

Crimson Muckwader

Creature - Lizard

Crimson Muckwader gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp.

: Regenerate Crimson Muckwader. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

Crimson Mage

Creature - Human Shaman

: Target creature you control gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

"We wield the fires of rage. War is our blood and destruction our birthright."
-Crimson creed

Crescendo of War

Enchantment

At the beginning of each upkeep, put a strife counter on Crescendo of War.

Attacking creatures get +1/+0 for each strife counter on Crescendo of War.

Blocking creatures you control get +1/+0 for each strife counter on Crescendo of War.

Cremate

Instant

Exile target card from a graveyard.

Draw a card.

"Without a body, the soul is helpless to fight the terms of our contracts."
-Somhaur, Orzhov pontiff

Creepy Doll

Artifact Creature - Construct

Indestructible

Whenever Creepy Doll deals combat damage to a creature, flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy that creature.

A child's porcelain doll went missing one night, as did a pair of kitchen shears and the town magistrate.

Creeping Tar Pit

Land

Creeping Tar Pit enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Until end of turn, Creeping Tar Pit becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature and is unblockable. It's still a land.

Creeping Renaissance

Sorcery

Choose a permanent type. Return all cards of the chosen type from your graveyard to your hand.

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

Creeping Corrosion

Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts.

"We will reveal the futility of their heresy by showing them how fragile their relics are."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Creeperhulk

Creature - Plant Elemental

Trample

: Until end of turn, target creature you control has base power and toughness 5/5 and gains trample.

"I saw the devastation when the juggernauts crashed the walls of An Karras. Then I got to thinking."
-Janji, sylvan druid

Crawlspace

Artifact

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

The goblins did not understand their attraction to the mana rig. They simply knew it was where they belonged.

Craw Wurm

Creature - Wurm

The most terrifying thing about the craw wurm is probably the horrible crashing sound it makes as it speeds through the forest. This noise is so loud it echoes through the trees and seems to come from all directions at once.

Craterize

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

"‘Utterly' is my favorite way to destroy something."
-Chandra Nalaar

Craterhoof Behemoth

Creature - Beast

Haste

When Craterhoof Behemoth enters the battlefield, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Its footsteps of today are the lakes of tomorrow.

Crater's Claws

Sorcery

Crater's Claws deals X damage to target creature or player.

Ferocious - Crater's Claws deals X plus 2 damage to that creature or player instead if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Crater Hellion

Creature - Hellion Beast

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 Crater Hellion enters the battlefield, it deals 4 damage to each other creature.

Crater Elemental

Creature - Elemental

, , Sacrifice Crater Elemental: Crater Elemental deals 4 damage to target creature.

Formidable - : Crater Elemental has base power 8 until end of turn. Activate this ability only if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater.

Cranial Archive

Artifact

, Exile Cranial Archive: Target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library. Draw a card.

The greatest idea the zombie ever had in its head wasn't even its own.

Cradle of Vitality

Enchantment

Whenever you gain life, you may pay . If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each 1 life you gained.

Naya's trees grow tall and sturdy. Their foliage intertwines to form dewcups, rainwater pools where the elves gather to celebrate life.

Crackling Triton

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

, Sacrifice Crackling Triton: Crackling Triton deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

He calls upon both the currents in the sea and the current in the clouds.

Crackling Perimiter

Crackling Perimeter

Enchantment

Tap an untapped Gate you control: Crackling Perimeter deals 1 damage to each opponent.

As the path he sought came into focus, Niv-Mizzet took steps to prevent others from approaching it.

Crackling Doom

Instant

Crackling Doom deals 2 damage to each opponent. Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures he or she controls.

Do not fear the lightning. Fear the one it obeys.

Crab Umbra

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

: Untap enchanted creature.

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

Cower in Fear

Instant

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"You will fully understand fear when you discover it is the final thing you put your faith in."
-Nicol Bolas

Covenant of Minds

Sorcery

Reveal the top three cards of your library. Target opponent may choose to put those cards into your hand. If he or she doesn't, put those cards into your graveyard and draw five cards.

Before signing anything on Grixis, always read the fine print.

Covenant of Blood

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.)

Covenant of Blood deals 4 damage to target creature or player and you gain 4 life.

Courtly Provocateur

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target creature attacks this turn if able.

: Target creature blocks this turn if able.

"My one regret is that I have mastered an art that leaves its audience unable to applaud."

Court Street Denizen

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever another white creature enters the battlefield under your control, tap target creature an opponent controls.

"The Boros fight for justice. The Azorius fight for law. I hold the line between, and make sure the people are given both."

Court Hussar

Creature - Vedalken Knight

Vigilance

When Court Hussar enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library, then put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

When Court Hussar enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless was spent to cast it.

Court Homunculus

Artifact Creature - Homunculus

Court Homunculus gets +1/+1 as long as you control another artifact.

Mages of Esper measure their wealth and status by the number of servants in their retinues.

Court Archers

Creature - Human Archer

Reach (This can block creatures with flying.)

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

The Sun-Dappled Court of Valeron stands secure behind a wall of steel-tipped arrows.

Coursers' Accord

Sorcery

Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Bleak rumors reached Trostani's ears. She decreed that no one should travel alone.