Defiant Strike

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"Stand where the whole battle can see you. Strike so they'll never forget."
-Anafenza, khan of the Abzan

Deflecting Palm

Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. If damage is prevented this way, Deflecting Palm deals that much damage to that source's controller.

Deicide

Instant

Exile target enchantment. If the exiled card is a God card, search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them, then that player shuffles his or her library.

"It is done."
-Elspeth

Demolish

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

"To truly defeat a skaberen, you must destroy not the monster but the lab."
-Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

Demon's Grasp

Sorcery

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

"Take what solace you can in the knowledge that you will not be here to witness Zendikar's demise."-Ob Nixilis

Deputy of Acquittals

Creature - Human Wizard

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

When Deputy of Acquittals enters the battlefield, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

"Everyone deserves a day in court."

Desecration Demon

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of each combat, any opponent may sacrifice a creature. If a player does, tap Desecration Demon and put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Desecration Plague

Sorcery

Destroy target enchantment or land.

"The gods think of us as insects. Perhaps there is wisdom in that."
-Perisophia the philosopher

Deserter's Quarters

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Deserter's Quarters during your untap step.

, : Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Deserter's Quarters remains tapped.

In Akros, the penalty for running from battle is one night's stay in the Deserter's Quarters.

Desolation Twin

Creature - Eldrazi

When you cast Desolation Twin, put a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token onto the battlefield.

"With precise coordination and enough blood spilled, one can be driven off, even brought down. But two . . . that's a lot of blood."-Munda, ambush leader

Desperate Stand

Sorcery

Strive - Desperate Stand costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Any number of target creatures each get +2/+0 and gain first strike and vigilance until end of turn.

At the Akroan gates, hoplites revived the tactics of Kytheon Iora's infamous irregulars.

Despise

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.

"Truth is always a weapon in your enemies' hands."
-Geth, Lord of the Vault

Destroy the Evidence

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card, then puts those cards into his or her graveyard.

Everyone knew the Dimir had done the damage. Everyone suspected the Izzet had hired them.

Destructive Revelry

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Destructive Revelry deals 2 damage to that permanent's controller.

"Stoke a fire hot enough and you'll never run out of things to burn."
-Xenagos, the Reveler

Detention Sphere

Enchantment

When Detention Sphere enters the battlefield, you may exile target nonland permanent not named Detention Sphere and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.

When Detention Sphere leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Deviant Glee

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and has ": This creature gains trample until end of turn."

"You just need the right incentive to fulfill my dreams."

Devour Flesh

Instant

Target player sacrifices a creature, then gains life equal to that creature's toughness.

His twisted mind concluded that if he was what he ate, and he wanted to stay human, . . .

Devour in Flames

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Devour in Flames, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

Devour in Flames deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Ob Nixilis had prepared for every eventuality-except Chandra Nalaar.

Devouring Light

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.)

Exile target attacking or blocking creature.

Into the light the good are welcomed, and with the light the evil are banished.

Devout Invocation

Sorcery

Tap any number of untapped creatures you control. Put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield for each creature tapped this way.

A prayer to bring demons to their knees.

Diabolic Tutor

Sorcery

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

Dictate of Erebos

Enchantment

Flash

Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

"I take no pleasure in your suffering, but it is necessary. Once you accept your fate you'll find eternity more tolerable."

Dictate of Heliod

Enchantment

Flash

Creatures you control get +2/+2.

"In our war Heliod gave mortals some favor, yet other times he withheld aid. Are we still no more than game pieces to him?"
-Polyxene the Doubter

Dictate of Karametra

Enchantment

Flash

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana to his or her mana pool of any type that land produced.

"I refuse to let the folly of mortals endanger the home I made for them."

Dictate of Kruphix

Enchantment

Flash

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

"Knowledge is cruel. It will break your heart and test your allegiances. Are you certain you want this curse?"

Dictate of the Twin Gods

Enchantment

Flash

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

Iroas and Mogis are as different in appearance as they are in personality.

Diffusion Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Whenever a Sliver creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays .

"The hive shimmered, and its walls seemed a living mirror."
-Hastric, Thunian scout

Dig Through Time

Instant

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

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Diluvian Primordial

Creature - Avatar

Flying

When Diluvian Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a card cast this way would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.

Dimensional Infiltrator

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flash

Flying

{C}: Target opponent exiles the top card of his or her library. If it's a land card, you may return Dimensional Infiltrator to its owner's hand. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Dimir Charm

Instant

Choose one - Counter target sorcery spell; or destroy target creature with power 2 or less; or look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put one back and the rest into that player's graveyard.

"Dangerous to recognize. Deadly not to."
-Lazav

Dimir Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Dimir Cluestone: Draw a card.

It waits in the chill of the undercity, holding nameless secrets for those who dare to touch it.

Dimir Guildgate

Land - Gate

Dimir Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Enter and become a mastermind of spies, lies, and deception.

Dimir Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Dimir Keyrune becomes a 2/2 blue and black Horror artifact creature until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

A key that slips through every lock.

Dinrova Horror

Creature - Horror

When Dinrova Horror enters the battlefield, return target permanent to its owner's hand, then that player discards a card.

"Welcome to the Dimir Public Offices. Not responsible for death or loss of property. Basement off-limits."
-Sign outside Dinrova Building

Dirty (Down/Dirty)

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Disciple of Deceit

Creature - Human Rogue

Inspired - Whenever Disciple of Deceit becomes untapped, you may discard a nonland card. If you do, search your library for a card with the same converted mana cost as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Disciple of Phenax

Creature - Human Cleric

When Disciple of Phenax enters the battlefield, target player reveals a number of cards from his or her hand equal to your devotion to black. You choose one of them. That player discards that card. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Disciple of the Old Ways

Creature - Human Warrior

: Disciple of the Old Ways gains first strike until end of turn.

"Selesnya thinks nature is a pretty plaything. True nature would rip their faces off and wear their skins as trophies."

Disdainful Stroke

Instant

Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.

"You are beneath contempt. Your lineage will be forgotten."

Dismal Backwater

Land

Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield tapped.

When Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Dismiss into Dream

Enchantment

Each creature your opponents control is an Illusion in addition to its other types and has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

"You trust in the shadows of a breeze."-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Disowned Ancestor

Creature - Spirit Warrior

Outlast (, : Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)

Long after death, the spirits of the Disowned continue to seek redemption among their Abzan kin.

Dispel

Instant

Counter target instant spell.

"Civilization will subsume us unless we overwhelm it instead."
-Speaker Zegana

Disperse

Instant

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Most casualties of the power struggle between vedalken and Neurok didn't die on the field of battle; they merely disappeared.

Dissipate

Instant

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

"This abomination never belonged in our world. I'm merely setting it free."
-Dierk, geistmage

Dissolve

Instant

Counter target spell. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

"You thought only the gods could stop you?"

Divination

Sorcery

Draw two cards.

"The key to unlocking this puzzle is within you."
-Doriel, mentor of Mistral Isle

Divine Favor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Divine Favor enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.

With an armory of light, even the squire may champion her people.

Divine Verdict

Instant

Destroy target attacking or blocking creature.

"Guilty."

Domestication

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

At the beginning of your end step, if enchanted creature's power is 4 or greater, sacrifice Domestication.

Dominator 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.)

When Dominator Drone enters the battlefield, if you control another colorless creature, each opponent loses 2 life.

Domri Rade

Planeswalker - Domri (Loyalty: 3)

+1: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

-2: Target creature you control fights another target creature.

-7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control have double strike, trample, hexproof, and haste."

Doom Blade

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Doomwake Giant

Enchantment Creature - Giant

Constellation - Whenever Doomwake Giant or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Crippling fear precedes it. A foul stench accompanies it. Death follows in its wake.

Door of Destinies

Artifact

As Door of Destinies enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on Door of Destinies.

Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on Door of Destinies.

Doorkeeper

Creature - Homunculus

Defender

, : Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the number of creatures with defender you control.

One piercing stare usually convinces thieves to go elsewhere.

Down (Down/Dirty)

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Downsize

Instant

Target creature you don't control gets -4/-0 until end of turn.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Dragon Egg

Creature - Dragon

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

When Dragon Egg dies, put a 2/2 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield. It has ": This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Dragon birth lairs are littered with treasure to entice the young from their eggs.

Dragon Grip

Enchantment - Aura

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, you may cast Dragon Grip as though it had flash. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike.

Dragon Hatchling

Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Dragon Hatchling gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Those dragons grow fast. For a while they feed on squirrels and goblins and then suddenly you're missing a mammoth."
-Hurdek, Mazar mammoth trainer

Dragon Mantle

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Dragon Mantle enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has ": This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Dragon Throne of Tarkir

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has defender and ", : Other creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power."

Equip

What once soared high above Tarkir is now reduced to a seat.

Dragon's Eye Savants

Creature - Human Wizard

Morph-Reveal a blue card in your hand. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

When Dragon's Eye Savants is turned face up, look at target opponent's hand.

Dragon-Style Twins

Creature - Human Monk

Double strike

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

"We are the flicker of the flame and its heat, the two sides of a single blade."

Dragonmaster Outcast

Creature - Human Shaman

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control six or more lands, put a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"Cast out by my tribe, I am a pariah trapped in this mammal's carcass. Only my true kin hear my cries."

Dragonscale Boon

Instant

Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature and untap it.

"When we were lost and weary, the ainok showed us how to survive. They have earned the right to call themselves Abzan, and to wear the Scale."
-Anafenza, khan of the Abzan

Dragonshift

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature you control becomes a 4/4 blue and red Dragon, loses all abilities, and gains flying.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Drainpipe Vermin

Creature - Rat

When Drainpipe Vermin dies, you may pay . If you do, target player discards a card.

When times are tough, the poor eat the rats. When times are tougher, the rats eat the poor.

Drakewing Krasis

Creature - Lizard Drake

Flying, trample

Cautious not to repeat Vig's mistakes, the Simic fuse life essences using magic alone. Each result is called a krasis.

Dramatic Rescue

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. You gain 2 life.

"I never thought I'd be so glad to see two tons of beak and claws bearing down on me at the speed of an arrow."
-Mirela, Azorius hussar

Drana's Chosen

Creature - Vampire Shaman Ally

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield tapped.

"Drana commands me. I command my nulls. And so her bidding is done."

Drana's Emissary

Creature - Vampire Cleric Ally

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"The taste of freedom is sweeter than blood."

Drana, Liberator of Malakir

Legendary Creature - Vampire Ally

Flying, first strike

Whenever Drana, Liberator of Malakir deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.

"I will not live as a slave. If you would be free, then fight alongside me."

Dread Defiler

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

{C}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Target opponent loses life equal to the exiled card's power. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

It left behind an echoing emptiness more horrible than the grave.

Dreadbore

Sorcery

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

In Rakdos-controlled neighborhoods, everyone is part of the show.

Dreadbringer Lampads

Enchantment Creature - Nymph

Constellation - Whenever Dreadbringer Lampads or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, target creature gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Dreg Mangler

Creature - Plant Zombie

Haste

Scavenge (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Drown in Filth

Sorcery

Choose target creature. Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard, then that creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each land card in your graveyard.

The rot farmer's first rite of passage is to craft a pair of work stilts.

Drown in Sorrow

Sorcery

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

"The sad truth is that the whip of Erebos is long enough to wrap around all our throats."
-Perisophia the philosopher

Drowner of Hope

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When Drowner of Hope enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Sacrifice an Eldrazi Scion: Tap target creature.

Drudge Beetle

Creature - Insect

Scavenge (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

The Street Swarm is the labor class that drives the Golgari's endless cycle of life and death.

Druid's Deliverance

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn. Populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"So many oppose us, but we are the reed that bends without breaking."

Dryad Militant

Creature - Dryad Soldier

If an instant or sorcery card would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

"We will defend the Worldsoul from Izzet ‘progress' at any cost."

Duneblast

Sorcery

Choose up to one creature. Destroy the rest.

The Abzan turn to this spell only as a last resort, for its inevitable result is what they most dread: to be alone.

Duress

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one."
-Liliana Vess

Duskmantle Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere this turn, that player loses 1 life.

: Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Duskmantle Seer

Creature - Vampire Wizard

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player reveals the top card of his or her library, loses life equal to that card's converted mana cost, then puts it into his or her hand.

Dust Stalker

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Haste

At the beginning of each end step, if you control no other colorless creatures, return Dust Stalker to its owner's hand.

The only traces it leaves are silent gusts and prodigious amounts of wreckage.

Dutiful Return

Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

"We have a word for enemies too mutilated for military service: furniture."
-Taigam, Sidisi's Hand

Dutiful Thrull

Creature - Thrull

: Regenerate Dutiful Thrull.

"They are useful, but there's little satisfaction in supplication that throws itself under your heel."
-Jozica, Orzhov enforcer

Dying Wish

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

When enchanted creature dies, target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is its power.

"I wish I could rewrite my every deed and kill you with my first breath instead of my last."

Dynacharge

Instant

Target creature you control gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Nothing evens the odds like a little lightning.

Eagle of the Watch

Creature - Bird

Flying, vigilance

"Even from miles away, I could see our eagles circling. That's when I gave the command to pick up the pace. I knew we were needed at home."
-Kanlos, Akroan captain

Earthen Arms

Sorcery

Put two +1/+1 counters on target permanent.

Awaken 4- (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Eater of Hope

Creature - Demon

Flying

, Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Eater of Hope.

, Sacrifice two other creatures: Destroy target creature.

Gods can be appeased. Demons, however . . .

Efreet Weaponmaster

Creature - Efreet Monk

First strike

When Efreet Weaponmaster enters the battlefield or is turned face up, another target creature you control gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Eidolon of Blossoms

Enchantment Creature - Spirit

Constellation - Whenever Eidolon of Blossoms or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card.

The emotional echoes of dryad gatherings attract lost souls.

Eidolon of Countless Battles

Enchantment Creature - Spirit

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.)

Eidolon of Countless Battles and enchanted creature each get +1/+1 for each creature you control and +1/+1 for each Aura you control.