Skullcrack

Instant

Players can't gain life this turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn. Skullcrack deals 3 damage to target player.

The lawmage's argument was clever and well reasoned, but Blunk's response proved irrefutable.

Skull Rend

Sorcery

Skull Rend deals 2 damage to each opponent. Those players each discard two cards at random.

"We could never accept anyone with a face that pretty or a mind that sane."
-Nyoser, Gore-House ringleader

Skitterskin

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Skitterskin can't block.

: Regenerate Skitterskin. Activate this ability only if you control another colorless creature.

Skinbrand Goblin

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Bloodrush - , Discard Skinbrand Goblin: Target attacking creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

"These Gruul skin-runes-discern whether their patterns evoke streets, leylines, or both. You have four days."
-Niv-Mizzet, to his assistant

Skarrg Guildmage

Creature - Human Shaman

: Creatures you control gain trample until end of turn.

: Target land you control becomes a 4/4 Elemental creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

Skarrg Goliath

Creature - Beast

Trample

Bloodrush - , Discard Skarrg Goliath: Target attacking creature gets +9/+9 and gains trample until end of turn.

"They bind us with their laws. We free ourselves with nature's fist."
-Nikya of the Old Ways

Siren Song Lyre

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", : Tap target creature."

Equip

A siren once tried to steal it out of jealousy but was caught by the song of its strings.

Siren of the Silent Song

Creature - Zombie Siren

Flying

Inspired - Whenever Siren of the Silent Song becomes untapped, each opponent discards a card, then puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Siren of the Fanged Coast

Creature - Siren

Flying

Tribute 3 (As this creature enters the battlefield, an opponent of your choice may place three +1/+1 counters on it.)

When Siren of the Fanged Coast enters the battlefield, if tribute wasn't paid, gain control of target creature.

Sire of Stagnation

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, that player exiles the top two cards of his or her library and you draw two cards.

As the great scourge passed by, Zendikar shivered, then lay silent.

Sire of Insanity

Creature - Demon

At the beginning of each end step, each player discards his or her hand.

Its victims become mindless lunatics. Conveniently, that's the first step in joining the Cult of Rakdos.

Sip of Hemlock

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.

Conspirators poisoned the oracle not because her visions were wrong, but because they were right.

Sinister Possession

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 2 life.

"You caught something on a cold night's stroll? No, I'd say something caught you."
-Mezim Magrah, civic healer

Singing Bell Strike

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Singing Bell Strike enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.

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

Enchanted creature has ": Untap this creature."

Sin Collector

Creature - Human Cleric

When Sin Collector enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it and exile that card.

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."

Simic Manipulator

Creature - Mutant Wizard

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.)

, Remove one or more +1/+1 counters from Simic Manipulator: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of +1/+1 counters removed this way.

Simic Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Simic Keyrune becomes a 2/3 green and blue Crab artifact creature with hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Simic Guildgate

Land - Gate

Simic Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Enter and comprehend the perfection of orchestrated life.

Simic Fluxmage

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

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.)

, : Move a +1/+1 counter from Simic Fluxmage onto target creature.

Simic Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Simic Cluestone: Draw a card.

Simic symbols are among the most intricate and fragile, yet few vandalize them for fear of the strange lifeforms that might be released.

Simic Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn; or permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn; or return target creature to its owner's hand.

"We measure our progress in heartbeats."
-Prime Speaker Zegana

Simic Charge

Silent Skimmer

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flying

Whenever Silent Skimmer attacks, defending player loses 2 life.

"I watched it pass at a distance. When I looked back to my companions, Najet was dead."-Akiri, kor line-slinger

Silent Sentinel

Creature - Archon

Flying

Whenever Silent Sentinel attacks, you may return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

It serves a justice higher than the whims of the gods.

Silent Artisan

Creature - Giant

On the fourth day they passed through a forest of immense stacked stones. Althemone, youngest of the companions, called these pillars the work of a god, but the Champion knew better. She quickened her pace.
-The Theriad

Silence the Believers

Instant

Strive - Silence the Believers costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Exile any number of target creatures and all Auras attached to them.

Silence

Instant

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn. (Spells cast before this resolves are unaffected.)

"Take a quiet moment to reflect on your sins."
-Cleph, Order of Redeemed Souls

Signal the Clans

Instant

Search your library for three creature cards and reveal them. If you reveal three cards with different names, choose one of them at random and put that card into your hand. Shuffle the rest into your library.

Gruul clanfolk obey few rules, but all feel bound to answer the call of the horn.

Sign in Blood

Sorcery

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sigiled Starfish

Creature - Starfish

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

Kruphix hid the most dire prophecies about humankind where humans would never find them and tritons wouldn't care to read them.

Sigiled Skink

Creature - Lizard

Whenever Sigiled Skink attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

The runes seem to come alive as it moves, rippling like slow flames across its scales.

Sightless Brawler

Enchantment Creature - Human Warrior

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.)

Sightless Brawler can't attack alone.

Enchanted creature gets +3/+2 and can't attack alone.

Sifter of Skulls

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C} to your mana pool." ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Siegecraft

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+4.

"They thought their fortress impregnable . . . until we marched up with ours, and blocked out the sun."
-Golran, dragonscale captain

Siege Wurm

Creature - Wurm

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.)

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 Rubblefield was once among the wealthiest districts in Ravnica. All it took was a single wurm to reduce it to ruins.

Siege Rhino

Creature - Rhino

Trample

When Siege Rhino enters the battlefield, each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

The mere approach of an Abzan war beast is enough to send enemies fleeing in panic.

Siege Mastodon

Creature - Elephant

"The walls of the wicked will fall before us. Ready the siege engines. We proceed to war!"
-General Avitora

Siege Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Siege Dragon enters the battlefield, destroy all Walls your opponents control.

Whenever Siege Dragon attacks, if defending player controls no Walls, it deals 2 damage to each creature without flying that player controls.

Sidisi, Brood Tyrant

Legendary Creature - Naga Shaman

Whenever Sidisi, Brood Tyrant enters the battlefield or attacks, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.

Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Sidisi's Pet

Creature - Zombie Ape

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

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

The Sultai distinguish between pet and slave by the material of the chain.

Shrivel

Sorcery

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Have you ever killed insects nibbling at your crops? I think that's what the Eldrazi believe they're doing to us."
-Sheyda, Ondu gamekeeper

Shrine of the Forsaken Gods

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Add to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast colorless spells. Activate this ability only if you control seven or more lands.

The gods known to the merfolk as Ula, Emeria, and Cosi were nothing more than false memories of a monstrous trinity: the Eldrazi titans Ulamog, Emrakul, and Kozilek.

Shrike Harpy

Creature - Harpy

Flying

Tribute 2 (As this creature enters the battlefield, an opponent of your choice may place two +1/+1 counters on it.)

When Shrike Harpy enters the battlefield, if tribute wasn't paid, target opponent sacrifices a creature.

Shrieking Affliction

Enchantment

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, he or she loses 3 life.

A gargoyle's voice reaches pitches that will shatter glass and warp bone.

Shredding Winds

Instant

Shredding Winds deals 7 damage to target creature with flying.

"Enemies of the wood! Your presence here is a slap in Nylea's face. Do not be surprised if she slaps back."
-Telphe, druid of Nylea

Shrapnel Blast

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Shrapnel Blast, sacrifice an artifact.

Shrapnel Blast deals 5 damage to target creature or player.

Showstopper

Instant

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain "When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to target creature an opponent controls."

The audience quickly realized a few things: it wasn't a magic trick, there wasn't candy in there, and they'd need new clothes.

Show of Valor

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+4 until end of turn.

"Duty, honor, and valor are either in your heart or they are not. You will never know for certain until you are tested."
-Ajani Goldmane

Shoulder to Shoulder

Sorcery

Support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)

Draw a card.

"Sea Gate may have fallen, but we still stand. We still fight."
-Gideon Jura

Shock

Instant

Shock deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"The beauty of it is they never see it coming. Ever."
-Razzix, sparkmage

Shivan Reef

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Add or to your mana pool. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.

Shivan Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

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

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Shiv's Embrace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

Shipwreck Singer

Creature - Siren

Flying

: Target creature an opponent controls attacks this turn if able.

, : Attacking creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Her melody melds death and beauty with such artistry that even the gods weep to hear it.

Shipbreaker Kraken

Creature - Kraken

: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

When Shipbreaker Kraken becomes monstrous, tap up to four target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps for as long as you control Shipbreaker Kraken.

Shimmering Grotto

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

"This is the price of being last in the food chain. We must keep our places of beauty hidden away instead of displayed for all to see."
-Hildin, priest of Avacyn

Shielded Passage

Instant

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Izzet delved into the depths of Ravnica's past, and Selesnya followed without fear.

Shield of the Avatar

Artifact - Equipment

If a source would deal damage to equipped creature, prevent X of that damage, where X is the number of creatures you control.

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

We are made stronger by those we fight for.
Designed by Richard Garriott

Sheer Drop

Sorcery

Destroy target tapped creature.

Awaken 3- (If you cast this spell for , also put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Shatterskull Recruit

Creature - Giant Warrior Ally

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Saved from certain death by the kor, he considers himself bound to them by an unbreakable blood oath.

Shattering Blow

Instant

Exile target artifact.

"Aurelia seems too eager to solve her problems by delivering them to oblivion."
-Prime Speaker Zegana

Shatter

Instant

Destroy target artifact.

"I am an artist, a builder, a creator . . . I create the biggest explosions around."
-Krol, goblin furnace-priest

Shambling Vent

Land

Shambling Vent enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Shambling Vent becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink until end of turn. It's still a land.

Shambling Attendants

Creature - Zombie

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

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

"Let the world behold what becomes of those who defy us."
-Taigam, Sidisi's Hand

Shambleshark

Creature - Fish Crab

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

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.)

Shaman of Spring

Creature - Elf Shaman

When Shaman of Spring enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Some shamanic sects advocate the different seasons, each working to preserve nature's cycles.

Shadowcloak Vampire

Creature - Vampire

Pay 2 life: Shadowcloak Vampire gains flying until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

"My favorite guilty pleasure? Are there innocent ones?"

Shadowborn Demon

Creature - Demon

Flying

When Shadowborn Demon enters the battlefield, destroy target non-Demon creature.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are fewer than six creature cards in your graveyard, sacrifice a creature.

Shadowborn Apostle

Creature - Human Cleric

A deck can have any number of cards named Shadowborn Apostle.

, Sacrifice six creatures named Shadowborn Apostle: Search your library for a Demon creature card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Shadow Slice

Sorcery

Target opponent loses 3 life.

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.)

Shadow Glider

Creature - Kor Soldier

Flying

A few bands of kor sought refuge from the Eldrazi in Zendikar's vast cave networks, relying on their ability to survive in harsh vertical landscapes.

Shadow Alley Denizen

Creature - Vampire Rogue

Whenever another black creature 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.)

Sewer Shambler

Creature - Zombie

Swampwalk (This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

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.)

Setessan Tactics

Instant

Strive - Setessan Tactics costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Until end of turn, any number of target creatures each get +1/+1 and gain ": This creature fights another target creature."

Setessan Starbreaker

Creature - Human Warrior

When Setessan Starbreaker enters the battlefield, you may destroy target Aura.

"Who says you cannot touch the stars?"

Setessan Oathsworn

Creature - Satyr Warrior

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Setessan Oathsworn, put two +1/+1 counters on Setessan Oathsworn.

"Setessa is not the city of my birth, but it is the place I fight for, and the place I'm willing to die for. Does that not make it my home?"

Setessan Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

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

Most griffins must be caught and broken into the service of the polis. Not so in Setessa, where they volunteer.

Setessan Battle Priest

Creature - Human Cleric

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Setessan Battle Priest, you gain 2 life.

"Your god teaches you only how to kill. Karametra teaches me to defend what I hold dear. That is why I will prevail."

Set Adrift

Sorcery

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

Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library.

The envoy spoke, and Sidisi replied.

Serve (Protect/Serve)

Instant

Target creature gets -6/-0 until end of turn.

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

Servant of Tymaret

Creature - Zombie

Inspired - Whenever Servant of Tymaret becomes untapped, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

: Regenerate Servant of Tymaret.

Life is most precious to those who have already lost it.

Serra Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Follow the light. In its absence, follow her.

Serpentine Spike

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Serpentine Spike deals 2 damage to target creature, 3 damage to another target creature, and 4 damage to a third target creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Serene Steward

Creature - Human Cleric Ally

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

"I can give you strength, but you'll have to bring your own courage."

Serene Remembrance

Sorcery

Shuffle Serene Remembrance and up to three target cards from a single graveyard into their owners' libraries.

While Lazav schemed and Niv-Mizzet researched, Trostani sought the future in the whispers of the past.

Seraph of the Sword

Creature - Angel

Flying

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Seraph of the Sword.

"Only when my sword lies idle shall I rejoice."

Seraph of the Masses

Creature - Angel

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.)

Flying

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

Sepulchral Primordial

Creature - Avatar

Intimidate

When Sepulchral Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Sentry of the Underworld

Creature - Griffin Skeleton

Flying, vigilance

, Pay 3 life: Regenerate Sentry of the Underworld.

When Athreos gathers the newly dead to be ferried across the Five Rivers That Ring the World, he sends skeletal griffins to fetch those who stray.

Sentinel Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause them to tap.)

Through its watchful gaze, all slivers may see.

Sensory Deprivation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -3/-0.

They call it "stitcher's anesthesia," a spell to deaden the senses while the mad doctors begin their grisly work.

Sengir Vampire

Creature - Vampire

Flying

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Sengir Vampire this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Sengir Vampire.

Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.

Seller of Songbirds

Creature - Human

When Seller of Songbirds enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"Lady Wren is the one merchant in Keyhole Downs who isn't running a scam."
-Mirela, Azorius hussar

Selfless Cathar

Creature - Human Cleric

, Sacrifice Selfless Cathar: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"If I fail to offer myself, we will surely be overrun. My fate would be the same."

Selesnya Sentry

Creature - Elephant Soldier

: Regenerate Selesnya Sentry.

Ravnicans still tell tales about the Battle of Sumala where four Selesnya sentries held off an entire clan of Gruul warriors.

Selesnya Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Selesnya Keyrune becomes a 3/3 green and white Wolf artifact creature until end of turn.

A mark of unity when you want one; a fierce guardian when you need one.

Selesnya Guildgate

Land - Gate

Selesnya Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Enter and rejoice! The Conclave stands united, open to one and all.

Selesnya Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Selesnya Cluestone: Draw a card.

"Break it if you must. The loss of one relic is nothing next to the value of enriching us all."
-Suniel the Woodwise

Selesnya Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn; or exile target creature with power 5 or greater; or put a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.

Seismic Stomp

Sorcery

Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

"It is not in me to tread lightly."-Ryda, geomancer