Banshee

Creature - Spirit

, : Banshee deals half X damage, rounded down, to target creature or player, and half X damage, rounded up, to you.

Some say Banshees are the hounds of Death, baying to herd their prey into the arms of their master.

Bant Battlemage

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

, : Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"A night attack will be easy. We'll make an air raid over the Akrasan border. Just get me some flint to light the war torches."

Bant Sojourners

Creature - Human Soldier

When you cycle Bant Sojourners or it dies, you may put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield.

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

"We must spread Bant's light before we are shadowed over."

Bant Sureblade

Creature - Human Soldier

As long as you control another multicolored permanent, Bant Sureblade gets +1/+1 and has first strike.

Soldiers who fought through Grixis learned to hit first, recite the prayer of Asha later.

Barbarian Bully

Creature - Human Barbarian

Discard a card at random: Barbarian Bully gets +2/+2 until end of turn unless a player has Barbarian Bully deal 4 damage to him or her. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"Out of my way"

Barbarian Guides

Creature - Human Barbarian

, : Choose a land type. Target creature you control gains snow landwalk of the chosen type until end of turn. Return that creature to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Barbarian Lunatic

Creature - Human Barbarian

, Sacrifice Barbarian Lunatic: Barbarian Lunatic deals 2 damage to target creature.

"I once saw a single barbarian charge a band of twenty nomads. I've seen some crazy ones, too."
-Nomad sentry

Barbarian Outcast

Creature - Human Barbarian Beast

When you control no Swamps, sacrifice Barbarian Outcast.

"We offer power to anyone willing to take it. Sadly, few are unburdened enough by their prejudices to accept."
-Cabal surgeon

Barbarian Riftcutter

Creature - Human Barbarian

, Sacrifice Barbarian Riftcutter: Destroy target land.

"Riftcutters are suicidal anarchists, waving those lightning axes around so much that the walls are as likely to fall as their foes."
-Heruj, Selesnya initiate

Barbary Apes

Creature - Ape

Unpredictable in the extreme, these carnivorous apes will prey even upon their own kind.

Barbed Shocker

Creature - Insect

Trample, haste

Whenever Barbed Shocker deals damage to a player, that player discards all the cards in his or her hand, then draws that many cards.

Fervid shamans willingly submit to shockers in hopes of glimpsing the fortunes of the future.

Barbed Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have ": This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Spans of spines leapt from one sliver to the next, forming a deadly hedge around the Weatherlight.

Barbed-Back Wurm

Creature - Wurm

: Target green creature blocking Barbed-Back Wurm gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"The Mwonvuli Jungle has given the darkness teeth for tearing the gift of life from the weak."
-Jolrael

Barishi

Creature - Elemental

When Barishi dies, exile Barishi, then shuffle all creature cards from your graveyard into your library.

Barkhide Mauler

Creature - Beast

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

Anywhere else they would be hunted for their skins, but in Wirewood, they are safe.

Barktooth Warbeard

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

He is devious and cunning, in both appearance and deed. Beware the Warbeard, for this brute bites as well as he barks!

Baron Sengir

Legendary Creature - Vampire

Flying

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Baron Sengir this turn dies, put a +2/+2 counter on Baron Sengir.

: Regenerate another target Vampire.

"Beast. Defiler. The source of all my pain." -Ihsan's Shade

Barony Vampire

Creature - Vampire

"Poor little sun-dweller out past curfew. And to think, you might have survived if it wasn't so close to suppertime."

Barrage Ogre

Creature - Ogre Warrior

, Sacrifice an artifact: Barrage Ogre deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

The elves had devised countless strategies to combat Memnarch's war machines, but they had no idea what to do when one was thrown at them.

Barrage Tyrant

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

, Sacrifice another colorless creature: Barrage Tyrant deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target creature or player.

Terrible fury. Excellent aim.

Barrenton Cragtreads

Creature - Kithkin Scout

Barrenton Cragtreads can't be blocked by red creatures.

"Boggarts are easy to get around. Just toss some mutton in another direction. Giants are a little harder. You have to be quick to avoid their steps. Cinders are the difficult ones, but even they have fears to be exploited."

Barrenton Medic

Creature - Kithkin Cleric

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Put a -1/-1 counter on Barrenton Medic: Untap Barrenton Medic.

His dreams are filled with noxious powders and clinking vials.

Barrin, Master Wizard

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

, Sacrifice a permanent: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

"Knowledge is no more expensive than ignorance, and at least as satisfying."
-Barrin, master wizard

Barrow Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Barrow Ghoul unless you exile the top creature card of your graveyard.

"They killed my family to deny me a future. They fed on my ancestors to deny me a past."
-Crovax

Bartel Runeaxe

Legendary Creature - Giant Warrior

Vigilance

Bartel Runeaxe can't be the target of Aura spells.

Thundering down from Hammerheim, no foe could slow Bartel's charge.

Baru, Fist of Krosa

Legendary Creature - Human Druid

Whenever a Forest enters the battlefield, green creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn.

Grandeur - Discard another card named Baru, Fist of Krosa: Put an X/X green Wurm creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the number of lands you control.

Basal Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Slivers have "Sacrifice this permanent: Add to your mana pool."

"Fascinating . . . These creatures display the paradox of tenacity and purposed self-destruction I have sought to breed into my thrulls."
-Endrek Sahr, master breeder

Basal Thrull

Creature - Thrull

, Sacrifice Basal Thrull: Add to your mana pool.

Initially bred for sacrifice, the Thrulls eventually turned on their masters, the Order of the Ebon Hand, with gruesome results.
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. II

Basalt Gargoyle

Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

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.)

: Basalt Gargoyle gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Basalt Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Basalt Golem can't be blocked by artifact creatures.

Whenever Basalt Golem becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller sacrifices it at end of combat. If the player does, he or she puts a 0/2 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender onto the battlefield.

Basandra, Battle Seraph

Legendary Creature - Angel

Flying

Players can't cast spells during combat.

: Target creature attacks this turn if able.

"Why listen to the mumblings of wizards when the lash speaks true?"

Basilica Guards

Creature - Human Soldier

Defender

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

"None may pass . . . for free."

Basilica Screecher

Creature - Bat

Flying

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

A screech in the night is all it takes for Orzhov debtors to clutch at their coin purses.

Basking Rootwalla

Creature - Lizard

: Basking Rootwalla gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Madness (If you discard this card, you may cast it for its madness cost instead of putting it into your graveyard.)

Bassara Tower Archer

Creature - Human Archer

Hexproof, reach

Setessan warriors of Bassara Tower are known for their guerrilla tactics and skill with the bow. Interlopers into the Nessian Wood do not get far.

Battered Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Battered Golem doesn't untap during your untap step.

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield, you may untap Battered Golem.

A dent marks every year of service, and it has as much rust as glory.

Batterhorn

Creature - Beast

When Batterhorn enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact.

Novice shopkeeps spend hours deciding how best to display their wares. Veterans focus on portability.

Battering Craghorn

Creature - Goat Beast

First strike

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

Their skeletons can be found all over Skirk Ridge, tangled in each other's horns.

Battering Krasis

Creature - Fish Beast

Trample

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.)

Battering Ram

Artifact Creature - Construct

At the beginning of combat on your turn, Battering Ram gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)

Whenever Battering Ram becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

Battering Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have trample.

Covered with hard shell-like plates, these slivers burrow through solid rock to carve out new nests for their hives.

Battering Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Bloodthirst 1 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creatures with power less than Battering Wurm's power can't block it.

Battle Brawler

Creature - Orc Warrior

As long as you control a red or white permanent, Battle Brawler gets +1/+0 and has first strike.

Every time he returns from battle unscathed, he feels a tinge of disappointment.

Battle Hurda

Creature - Giant

First strike

"Murasan hurdas were too aggressive to tolerate a harness, so we put them on guard duty. Now the bandits can't get within spitting distance of us."
-Bruse Tarl, Goma Fada nomad

Battle Rampart

Creature - Wall

Defender

: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

"I will build no sanctuaries. The safety you seek can be won only by the sword."
-Yannash, outpost builder

Battle Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control get +2/+0.

"One emitted a strange series of buzzing clicks and guttural commands, then clawed arms emerged from all of them. Is there no limit to their adaptations?"-Hastric, Thunian scout

Battle Squadron

Creature - Goblin

Flying

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

The goblins made an unruly pile with military precision.

Battle-Mad Ronin

Creature - Human Samurai

Bushido 2 (When this blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.)

Battle-Mad Ronin attacks each turn if able.

"I fought fiercely, bravely, and without mercy. Had I not struck down my captain in the heat of battle, I might have become a hero instead of an outcast."

Battle-Rattle Shaman

Creature - Goblin Shaman

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have target creature get +2/+0 until end of turn.

The shaman rattles not to inspire a battle fury but to drown out the shrieks of those fleeing the Eldrazi.

Battlefield Medic

Creature - Human Cleric

: Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn, where X is the number of Clerics on the battlefield.

"Death never stops to rest. Neither can we."

Battlefield Percher

Creature - Bird

Flying

Battlefield Percher can block only creatures with flying.

: Battlefield Percher gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Battlefield Scrounger

Creature - Centaur

Threshold - Put three cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library: Battlefield Scrounger gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn, and only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Battlefield Thaumaturge

Creature - Human Wizard

Each instant and sorcery spell you cast costs less to cast for each creature it targets.

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Battlefield Thaumaturge, Battlefield Thaumaturge gains hexproof until end of turn.

Battleflight Eagle

Creature - Bird

Flying

When Battleflight Eagle enters the battlefield, target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.

Eagles make fine mounts, but they're too proud to carry anyone for long.

Battlefront Krushok

Creature - Beast

Battlefront Krushok can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Krushoks clear debris from fertile fields, fallow fields, and battlefields.

Battlegate Mimic

Creature - Shapeshifter

Whenever you cast a spell that's both red and white, Battlegate Mimic becomes 4/2 and gains first strike until end of turn.

Mimics don't need perfect disguises. They need only the perfect victims: the naive, the young, or the poor of sight.

Battlegrace Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

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

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Battleground Geist

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Other Spirit creatures you control get +1/+0.

Not content to nudge vases and chill drawing rooms, some geists muster spectral armies to claw at the hearts of the living.

Battletide Alchemist

Creature - Kithkin Cleric

If a source would deal damage to a player, you may prevent X of that damage, where X is the number of Clerics you control.

"I do not heal. Healing means that the pain has already been felt. To stop suffering, one must prevent the world's wounds altogether."

Battlewand Oak

Creature - Treefolk Warrior

Whenever a Forest enters the battlefield under your control, Battlewand Oak gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Whenever you cast a Treefolk spell, Battlewand Oak gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Battlewise Aven

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

Threshold - As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Battlewise Aven gets +1/+1 and has first strike.

Experience is a good teacher, not a kind one.

Battlewise Hoplite

Creature - Human Soldier

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Battlewise Hoplite, put a +1/+1 counter on Battlewise Hoplite, then scry 1. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Bay Falcon

Creature - Bird

Flying, vigilance

"Wear the falcon's feathers in your hair-
be fast as the falcon, bright as the Sun."
-"Rise on Wings," Zhalfirin song

Bayou Dragonfly

Creature - Insect

Flying, swampwalk

"Like a sugar stick with wings!"
-Squee, goblin cabin hand

Bazaar Krovod

Creature - Beast

Whenever Bazaar Krovod attacks, another target attacking creature gets +0/+2 until end of turn. Untap that creature.

The Hauler's Collective wields great influence over the Ravnican merchant class. Without it, little moves in the city.

Bazaar Trader

Creature - Goblin

: Target player gains control of target artifact, creature, or land you control.

"No need for a hurda? How about these maps to recently discovered tombs? Or these vials of invisible potion? Very fancy . . ."

Beacon Behemoth

Creature - Beast

: Target creature with power 5 or greater gains vigilance until end of turn.

When its smoky plumes light Naya's sky, every creature from the smallest pip fawn to the largest rannet heeds the warning.

Beacon Hawk

Creature - Bird

Flying

Whenever Beacon Hawk deals combat damage to a player, you may untap target creature.

: Beacon Hawk gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Beacon of Destiny

Creature - Human Cleric

: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, that damage is dealt to Beacon of Destiny instead.

"We all borrowed life from the Ancestor to exist in this world. Today, I repay that debt."

Bear's Companion

Creature - Human Warrior

When Bear's Companion enters the battlefield, put a 4/4 green Bear creature token onto the battlefield.

"The Sultai came hunting for a bear hide. Now I have a belt of naga skin, and my friend has a full belly."

Bearer of Silence

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When you cast Bearer of Silence, you may pay {C}. If you do, target opponent sacrifices a creature. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Flying

Bearer of Silence can't block.

Bearer of the Heavens

Creature - Giant

When Bearer of the Heavens dies, destroy all permanents at the beginning of the next end step.

To hold the heavens from the earth is no curse, but a titanic responsibility.

Beast of Burden

Artifact Creature - Golem

Beast of Burden's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures on the battlefield.

Though it was built as an instrument of labor, it wasn't long before it became an instrument of war.

Beast Walkers

Creature - Human Beast Soldier

: Beast Walkers gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"The Beast Walkers do a great service to Aysen. As humans or as beasts, their heart is yet to Serra true."
-Baris, Serra Inquisitor

Beastbreaker of Bala Ged

Creature - Human Warrior

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 1-3

4/4

LEVEL 4+

6/6

Trample

Beastcaller Savant

Creature - Elf Shaman Ally

Haste

: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

"They come because I call. They stay because I listen."

Beasts of Bogardan

Creature - Beast

Protection from red

Beasts of Bogardan gets +1/+1 as long as an opponent controls a white permanent.

Bogardan is a land as volatile as the creatures who live there.

Beetleback Chief

Creature - Goblin Warrior

When Beetleback Chief enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Whether trained, ridden, or eaten, few goblin military innovations have rivaled the bug.

Beetleform Mage

Creature - Human Insect Wizard

: Beetleform Mage gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"When the Simic say to take command of your life, we don't mean just your career."
-Vorel of the Hull Clade

Beguiler of Wills

Creature - Human Wizard

: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of creatures you control.

"Come, let me free you of the tyranny of thought."

Behemoth's Herald

Creature - Elf Shaman

, , Sacrifice a red creature, a green creature, and a white creature: Search your library for a card named Godsire and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

"Mine is an insatiable god, with appetites as magnificent as the jungle itself."

Belbe's Percher

Creature - Bird

Flying

Belbe's Percher can block only creatures with flying.

Long and powerful, these birds were used to carry messages to and from the evincar.

Belfry Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Haunt (When this creature dies, exile it haunting target creature.)

When Belfry Spirit enters the battlefield or the creature it haunts dies, put two 1/1 black Bat creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

Belligerent Hatchling

Creature - Elemental

First strike

Belligerent Hatchling enters the battlefield with four -1/-1 counters on it.

Whenever you cast a red spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from Belligerent Hatchling.

Whenever you cast a white spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from Belligerent Hatchling.

Belligerent Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"The slivers became adept at provoking a fear response in other species."
-Hastric, Thunian scout

Belligerent Whiptail

Creature - Wurm

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Belligerent Whiptail gains first strike until end of turn.

"Whiptails can sense a traveler's footsteps from a great distance. Measuring that distance has been . . . difficult."-Jalun, Affa sentry

Bellowing Fiend

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Whenever Bellowing Fiend deals damage to a creature, Bellowing Fiend deals 3 damage to that creature's controller and 3 damage to you.

Bellowing Saddlebrute

Creature - Orc Warrior

Raid - When Bellowing Saddlebrute enters the battlefield, you lose 4 life unless you attacked with a creature this turn.

Bellowing Tanglewurm

Creature - Wurm

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

Other green creatures you control have intimidate.

Bellows Lizard

Creature - Lizard

: Bellows Lizard gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

As the price of wood and coal rose, smiths found creative ways to keep their forges burning.

Belltoll Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying, hexproof

Megamorph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

When Belltoll Dragon is turned face up, put a +1/+1 counter on each other Dragon creature you control.

Belltower Sphinx

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever a source deals damage to Belltower Sphinx, that source's controller puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Beloved Chaplain

Creature - Human Cleric

Protection from creatures

Nomad and Nantuko, eagle and elephant; all the birds and beasts are charmed by his quiet dignity.

Ben-Ben, Akki Hermit

Legendary Creature - Goblin Shaman

: Ben-Ben, Akki Hermit deals damage to target attacking creature equal to the number of untapped Mountains you control.

Some akki thought of Ben-Ben as a kami of trickery in disguise. They hunted for him in the maze of warrens, often falling prey to his traps.

Benalish Cavalry

Creature - Human Knight

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

"My people swore to protect Benalia to the end. It is battered, but yet stands, as do we."

Benalish Commander

Creature - Human Soldier

Benalish Commander's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Soldiers you control.

Suspend X-. X can't be 0. (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with X time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Whenever a time counter is removed from Benalish Commander while it's exiled, put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield.

Benalish Emissary

Creature - Human Wizard

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

When Benalish Emissary enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, destroy target land.

Benalish Heralds

Creature - Human Soldier

, : Draw a card.

The detailed dispatch could be summarized in four words: "Time is running out."

Benalish Hero

Creature - Human Soldier

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

Benalish Infantry

Creature - Human Soldier

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"My favorite part of getting into the infantry was getting out again."
-Gerrard of the Weatherlight