Nessian Game Warden

Creature - Beast

When Nessian Game Warden enters the battlefield, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of Forests you control. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Nessian Demolok

Creature - Beast

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

When Nessian Demolok enters the battlefield, if tribute wasn't paid, destroy target noncreature permanent.

Nessian Courser

Creature - Centaur Warrior

Nessian Asp

Creature - Snake

Reach

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

It's not the two heads you should fear. It's the four fangs.

Nephalia Seakite

Creature - Bird

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

Flying

"Keep one eye on the cliff road or you may fall to your death. Keep one eye on the sky or your death may fall on you."
-Manfried Ulmach, Elgaud Master-at-Arms

Nemesis of Mortals

Creature - Snake

Nemesis of Mortals costs less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.

: Monstrosity 5. This ability costs less to activate for each creature card in your graveyard. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put five +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

Necropolis Regent

Creature - Vampire

Flying

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.

"Jarad fancies himself king of the undercity, but he's merely king of rot."

Necropolis Fiend

Creature - Demon

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

Flying

, , Exile X cards from your graveyard: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Necromancer's Assistant

Creature - Zombie

When Necromancer's Assistant enters the battlefield, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.

Zombies and necromancers agree: easy access to brains is preferred.

Necrogen Scudder

Creature - Horror

Flying

When Necrogen Scudder enters the battlefield, you lose 3 life.

Contrary to popular belief, it's kept aloft by necrogen gas, not the screaming agony of a thousand murdered souls.

Nav Squad Commandos

Creature - Human Soldier

Battalion - Whenever Nav Squad Commandos and at least two other creatures attack, Nav Squad Commandos gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap it.

Funded by the Azorius to keep current maps of the undercity, the Boros nav squads survey even the most unsavory areas.

Narset, Enlightened Master

Legendary Creature - Human Monk

First strike, hexproof

Whenever Narset, Enlightened Master attacks, exile the top four cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may cast noncreature cards exiled with Narset this turn without paying their mana costs.

Mystic of the Hidden Way

Creature - Human Monk

Mystic of the Hidden Way can't be blocked.

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

"There are no obstacles, only different paths."

Murmuring Phantasm

Creature - Spirit

Defender

"The most insidious thing in the world is nonsense that sounds just plausible enough to listen to."
-Lazav

Murk Strider

Creature - Eldrazi Processor

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When Murk Strider enters the battlefield, you may put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard. If you do, return target creature to its owner's hand.

If you can see it, it's too late.

Murasa Ranger

Creature - Human Warrior

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay . If you do, put two +1/+1 counters on Murasa Ranger.

"If you're not prepared to fight, you'd best be prepared to die."

Munda, Ambush Leader

Legendary Creature - Kor Ally

Haste

Rally - Whenever Munda, Ambush Leader or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may look at the top four cards of your library. If you do, reveal any number of Ally cards from among them, then put those cards on top of your library in any order and the rest on the bottom in any order.

Munda's Vanguard

Creature - Kor Knight Ally

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

"Do not let yourselves fall now. Zendikar is depending on us-on you!"

Mortus Strider

Creature - Skeleton

When Mortus Strider dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Dimir's best agents hide from death itself.

Monastery Swiftspear

Creature - Human Monk

Haste

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

The calligraphy of combat is written with strokes of sudden blood.

Monastery Flock

Creature - Bird

Defender, flying

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 arrow strikes one bird down, but the flock remains."
-Jeskai teaching

Molten Primordial

Creature - Avatar

Haste

When Molten Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn.

Mogis's Marauder

Creature - Human Berserker

When Mogis's Marauder enters the battlefield, up to X target creatures each gain intimidate and haste until end of turn, where X is your devotion to black. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Mnemonic Wall

Creature - Wall

Defender

When Mnemonic Wall enters the battlefield, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I'd build an entire fortress of them if I could."
-Mzali, Lighthouse archmage

Mistfire Weaver

Creature - Djinn Wizard

Flying

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

When Mistfire Weaver is turned face up, target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn.

Mistcutter Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Mistcutter Hydra can't be countered.

Haste, protection from blue

Mistcutter Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Mist Intruder

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flying

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

The wastes spread as quickly as the wind.

Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker

Legendary Creature - Vampire

Flying

Whenever Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals four land cards, then puts those cards into his or her graveyard.

Minotaur Skullcleaver

Creature - Minotaur Berserker

Haste

When Minotaur Skullcleaver enters the battlefield, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

"Their only dreams are of full stomachs."
-Kleon the Iron-Booted

Minotaur Aggressor

Creature - Minotaur Berserker

First strike, haste

The smelting district is home to many who see the guilds as not for them.

Minotaur Abomination

Creature - Zombie Minotaur

"Look at that. Shuffling, wobbling, entrails placed haphazardly. It's shameful. Who would let that kind of work flap about for all to see?"-Lestin, necromancer

Miner's Bane

Creature - Elemental

: Miner's Bane gets +1/+0 and gains trample until end of turn. (If it 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.)

There are certain stones even dwarves know to leave in the earth.

Mindsparker

Creature - Elemental

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Whenever an opponent casts a white or blue instant or sorcery spell, Mindsparker deals 2 damage to that player.

Mindreaver

Creature - Human Wizard

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Mindreaver, exile the top three cards of target player's library.

, Sacrifice Mindreaver: Counter target spell with the same name as a card exiled with Mindreaver.

Mindmelter

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Mindmelter can't be blocked.

{C}: Target opponent exiles a card from his or her hand. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Mindeye Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

When Mindeye Drake dies, target player puts the top five cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

They can map both the cityscape and the minds of its architects.

Mind Raker

Creature - Eldrazi Processor

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When Mind Raker enters the battlefield, you may put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard. If you do, each opponent discards a card.

It consumes any dreams of victory.

Mina and Denn, Wildborn

Legendary Creature - Elf Ally

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

Greenweaver Mina and her twin brother Denn lead the last of the Mul Daya into an uncertain future.

Millennial Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

"You've got to keep your wits about you on the roofs. Not all stones are compliant handholds."
-Iveta, rooftop runner

Midnight Guard

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, untap Midnight Guard.

"When you're on watch, no noise is harmless and no shadow can be ignored."
-Olgard of the Skiltfolk

Metropolis Sprite

Creature - Faerie Rogue

Flying

: Metropolis Sprite gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

"Well, if that goblin didn't want his tongue pierced, he shouldn't have stuck it out at me."

Messenger Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

When Messenger Drake dies, draw a card.

The more important the message, the larger the messenger.

Merfolk Spy

Creature - Merfolk Rogue

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Whenever Merfolk Spy deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals a card at random from his or her hand.

Merfolk of the Depths

Creature - Merfolk Soldier

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

When giant sinkholes opened across Ravnica, they revealed buried oceans and the merfolk, once thought to be extinct.

Mercurial Pretender

Creature - Shapeshifter

You may have Mercurial Pretender enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature you control except it gains ": Return this creature to its owner's hand."

The king went off to find himself. Imagine his terror when he succeeded.

Mercurial Chemister

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Draw two cards.

, , Discard a card: Mercurial Chemister deals damage to target creature equal to the discarded card's converted mana cost.

What some see as "distracted" is really "fathoming the unfathomable."

Mer-Ek Nightblade

Creature - Orc Assassin

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

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

Meletis Charlatan

Creature - Human Wizard

, : The controller of target instant or sorcery spell copies it. That player may choose new targets for the copy.

"Every object has an echo in the Æther beyond the world. Every idea has a shadow that can be brought to light."

Meletis Astronomer

Creature - Human Wizard

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Meletis Astronomer, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an enchantment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Melek, Izzet Paragon

Legendary Creature - Weird Wizard

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

You may cast the top card of your library if it's an instant or sorcery card.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your library, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Megantic Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control get +3/+3.

Even the thrums, the lowliest of slivers, become deadly in its presence.

Medomai the Ageless

Legendary Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever Medomai the Ageless deals combat damage to a player, take an extra turn after this one.

Medomai the Ageless can't attack during extra turns.

Meandering Towershell

Creature - Turtle

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Whenever Meandering Towershell attacks, exile it. Return it to the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking at the beginning of the declare attackers step on your next turn.

Maze Sentinel

Creature - Elemental

Vigilance

Multicolored creatures you control have vigilance.

The route has been known for millennia, but only by those with no means to tell it.

Maze Rusher

Creature - Elemental

Haste

Multicolored creatures you control have haste.

"The maze seems to fight us at every turn, resisting our efforts to solve it."
-Niv-Mizzet

Maze Glider

Creature - Elemental

Flying

Multicolored creatures you control have flying.

The pattern of the Implicit Maze extends in more than two dimensions.

Maze Behemoth

Creature - Elemental

Trample

Multicolored creatures you control have trample.

It returned to the leylines as quickly as it had appeared, leaving only broken bodies to mark its passage.

Maze Abomination

Creature - Elemental

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

Multicolored creatures you control have deathtouch.

Maw of the Obzedat

Creature - Thrull

Sacrifice a creature: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

The devout sacrifice themselves to it hoping for escape from their debts to the guild, but many end up owing in the afterlife.

Maw of Kozilek

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

{C}: Maw of Kozilek gets +2/-2 until end of turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

"The Eldrazi make worse than ruins-they make a world where not even ruins stand."
-Gideon Jura

Matter Reshaper

Creature - Eldrazi

({C} represents colorless mana.)

When Matter Reshaper dies, reveal the top card of your library. You may put that card onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card with converted mana cost 3 or less. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Master of Waves

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Protection from red

Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1.

When Master of Waves enters the battlefield, put a number of 1/0 blue Elemental creature tokens onto the battlefield equal to your devotion to blue. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Master of Predicaments

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever Master of Predicaments deals combat damage to a player, choose a card in your hand. That player guesses whether the card's converted mana cost is greater than 4. If the player guessed wrong, you may cast the card without paying its mana cost.

Designed by David Sirlin

Master of Pearls

Creature - Human Monk

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

When Master of Pearls is turned face up, creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.

Master of Diversion

Creature - Human Scout

Whenever Master of Diversion attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.

Choose your battles carefully. For example, avoid the big guy.

Master of Cruelties

Creature - Demon

First strike, deathtouch

Master of Cruelties can only attack alone.

Whenever Master of Cruelties attacks a player and isn't blocked, that player's life total becomes 1. Master of Cruelties assigns no combat damage this combat.

Master Biomancer

Creature - Elf Wizard

Each other creature you control enters the battlefield with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to Master Biomancer's power and as a Mutant in addition to its other types.

"Nature is a wonderful engineer but works far too slowly for my tastes."

Marshmist Titan

Creature - Giant

Marshmist Titan costs less to cast, where X is your devotion to black. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

A favorite of Erebos, for it has sent many to the Underworld.

Mardu Warshrieker

Creature - Orc Shaman

Raid - When Mardu Warshrieker enters the battlefield, if you attacked with a creature this turn, add to your mana pool.

"No body can contain so much fury. It reminds me of another battle, long past."
-Sarkhan Vol

Mardu Skullhunter

Creature - Human Warrior

Mardu Skullhunter enters the battlefield tapped.

Raid - When Mardu Skullhunter enters the battlefield, if you attacked with a creature this turn, target opponent discards a card.

Mardu Roughrider

Creature - Orc Warrior

Whenever Mardu Roughrider attacks, target creature can't block this turn.

The most ferocious saddlebrutes lead the assault, ramming through massed pikes and stout barricades as if they were paper and silk.

Mardu Hordechief

Creature - Human Warrior

Raid - When Mardu Hordechief enters the battlefield, if you attacked with a creature this turn, put a 1/1 white Warrior creature token onto the battlefield.

The horde grows with each assault.

Mardu Heart-Piercer

Creature - Human Archer

Raid - When Mardu Heart-Piercer enters the battlefield, if you attacked with a creature this turn, Mardu Heart-Piercer deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"Those who have never ridden before the wind do not know the true joy of war."

Mardu Hateblade

Creature - Human Warrior

: Mardu Hateblade gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

"There may be little honor in my tactics, but there is no honor in losing."

Mardu Blazebringer

Creature - Ogre Warrior

When Mardu Blazebringer attacks or blocks, sacrifice it at end of combat.

"Make sure he's pointed in the right direction before you light him. And don't let the goblins anywhere near the torch."
-Kerai Suddenblade, Mardu hordechief

Marauding Maulhorn

Creature - Beast

Marauding Maulhorn attacks each combat if able unless you control a creature named Advocate of the Beast.

"It's not just you. Everyone makes it angry."-Ardenoth, elvish nature advocate

Mantis Rider

Creature - Human Monk

Flying, vigilance, haste

Mantis riders know their mounts owe them no allegiance. Even a mantis ridden for years would consume a rider who loses focus for only a moment.

Manaweft Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have ": Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."

"I see in their interconnectedness a strange embodiment of the natural order."-Dionus, elvish archdruid

Malakir Soothsayer

Creature - Vampire Shaman Ally

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

"Your blood whispers secrets your mind could never comprehend."

Malakir Familiar

Creature - Bat

Flying, deathtouch

Whenever you gain life, Malakir Familiar gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"They are deadly, and they are loyal. We can spare them a little blood."-Harak, Malakir bloodwitch

Makindi Sliderunner

Creature - Beast

Trample

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Makindi Sliderunner gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

After a battle, it breaks the hillsides into manageable pieces to prepare for next time.

Makindi Patrol

Creature - Human Knight Ally

Rally - Whenever Makindi Patrol or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, creatures you control gain vigilance until end of turn.

Working with his noble mount, he notices every form on the horizon, every scent in the air, every tremor in the earth.

Makindi Aeronaut

Creature - Kor Scout Ally

Flying

"The Eldrazi have surprised us before. It's my job to make sure that never happens again."

Lyev Skyknight

Creature - Human Knight

Flying

When Lyev Skyknight enters the battlefield, detain target nonland permanent an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that permanent can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Luminate Primordial

Creature - Avatar

Vigilance

When Luminate Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, exile up to one target creature that player controls and that player gains life equal to its power.

Loyal Pegasus

Creature - Pegasus

Flying

Loyal Pegasus can't attack or block alone.

"Even if I should die in the saddle, she will not let me fall to the ground."
-Hypatia of the Winged Horse

Loxodon Smiter

Creature - Elephant Soldier

Loxodon Smiter can't be countered.

If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Loxodon Smiter, put it onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your graveyard.

Lotleth Troll

Creature - Zombie Troll

Trample

Discard a creature card: Put a +1/+1 counter on Lotleth Troll.

: Regenerate Lotleth Troll.

He lurks in the undercity, eager for the corpse haulers to unload their rotting cargo.

Lord of the Void

Creature - Demon

Flying

Whenever Lord of the Void deals combat damage to a player, exile the top seven cards of that player's library, then put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield under your control.

Longshot Squad

Creature - Hound Archer

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

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has reach. (A creature with reach can block creatures with flying.)

Lobber Crew

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Defender

: Lobber Crew deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, untap Lobber Crew.

It's easier to just aim at everything.

Loathsome Catoblepas

Creature - Beast

: Loathsome Catoblepas must be blocked this turn if able.

When Loathsome Catoblepas dies, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

Loam Larva

Creature - Insect

When Loam Larva enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it.

The forest floor of Murasa is home to life as diverse and vibrant as that of the canopy above.

Living Totem

Creature - Plant Elemental

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.)

When Living Totem enters the battlefield, you may put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature.

Linvala, the Preserver

Legendary Creature - Angel

Flying

When Linvala, the Preserver enters the battlefield, if an opponent has more life than you, you gain 5 life.

When Linvala enters the battlefield, if an opponent controls more creatures than you, put a 3/3 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Liliana's Reaver

Creature - Zombie

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

Whenever Liliana's Reaver deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield tapped.

Lifespring Druid

Creature - Elf Druid

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

"The land is not dead, merely sick. I will nurse it back to health."

Lifebane Zombie

Creature - Zombie Warrior

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

When Lifebane Zombie enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a green or white creature card from it and exile that card.

Leyline Phantom

Creature - Illusion

When Leyline Phantom deals combat damage, return it to its owner's hand. (Return it only if it survived combat.)

"Is the maze itself a phantom? Or is one as real as the other? Perhaps I am as mad as the dragon."
-Jace Beleren, journal

Leonin Snarecaster

Creature - Cat Soldier

When Leonin Snarecaster enters the battlefield, you may tap target creature.

Formerly oppressed by the polis of Meletis, leonin occasionally "mistake" their old enemies for game.