Vicious Shadows

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, you may have Vicious Shadows deal damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

"Thrashes of the ancient past still linger in spirit and shadow, desperate to sink their claws into our souls."
-Rakka Mar

Victim of Night

Instant

Destroy target non-Vampire, non-Werewolf, non-Zombie creature.

"Do not touch a drop. Not yet. I want to watch this so-called slayer's last crisis of faith."
-Olivia Voldaren

Victimize

Sorcery

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

The priest cast Xantcha to the ground. "It is defective. We must scrap it."

Victorious Destruction

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land. Its controller loses 1 life.

"The refugees look at these structures with hope. We must relieve them of this burden."
-Juex, tormentor exarch

Victory's Herald

Creature - Angel

Flying

Whenever Victory's Herald attacks, attacking creatures gain flying and lifelink until end of turn.

The corruption stirred the heavens above, awaking a shining champion.

View from Above

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. If you control a white permanent, return View from Above to its owner's hand.

"This air feels so heavy and thick. There are no winds to speak of. I fear the knowledge that comes from a place like this."

Vigil for the Lost

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay . If you do, you gain X life.

"As she grew cold in my arms, I swore an oath that her funeral pyre would be dwarfed by a bonfire of our enemies."

Vigilante Justice

Enchantment

Whenever a Human enters the battlefield under your control, Vigilante Justice deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

It begins as a whisper and ends with the red roar of fire.

Vile Aggregate

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Vile Aggregate's power is equal to the number of colorless creatures you control.

Trample

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

Vile Rebirth

Instant

Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

"‘Here lies our beloved Gartu, the gentlest of all men.' Ooh, I love irony."
-Jadar, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Vile Redeemer

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flash

When you cast Vile Redeemer, you may pay {C}. If you do, put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield for each nontoken creature that died under your control this turn. Those tokens have "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C} to your mana pool."

Vile Requiem

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Vile Requiem.

, Sacrifice Vile Requiem: Destroy up to X target nonblack creatures, where X is the number of verse counters on Vile Requiem. They can't be regenerated.

Village Bell-Ringer

Creature - Human Scout

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

When Village Bell-Ringer enters the battlefield, untap all creatures you control.

"Priests, hunters, slayers-to arms! The enemy approaches!"

Village Cannibals

Creature - Human

Whenever another Human creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Village Cannibals.

Some have endured the horrors of Innistrad by becoming the worst monsters of all.

Village Ironsmith

Creature - Human Werewolf

First strike

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Village Ironsmith.

Each night, he abandons the trappings of civilization.

Village Survivors

Creature - Human

Vigilance

Fateful hour - As long as you have 5 or less life, other creatures you control have vigilance.

As their villages fell to werewolves, fleeing refugees discovered they too had remarkable survival instincts.

Villagers of Estwald

Creature - Human Werewolf

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Villagers of Estwald.

You can spot a werewolf-infested town by its lack of butcher shops.

Villainous Wealth

Sorcery

Target opponent exiles the top X cards of his or her library. You may cast any number of nonland cards with converted mana cost X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.

Gold buys death. Death earns gold.

Vines of the Recluse

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+2 and gains reach until end of turn. Untap it. (A creature with reach can block creatures with flying.)

"The most elegant solutions are found in nature. You just have to know where to look."

Vines of Vastwood

Instant

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

Target creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn. If Vines of Vastwood was kicked, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Vineweft

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

: Return Vineweft from your graveyard to your hand.

Fortified by the wilds.

Violent Outburst

Instant

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Violent Ultimatum

Sorcery

Destroy three target permanents.

"Words are a waste of time. Destruction is a language everyone understands."
-Sarkhan Vol

Viper's Kiss

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

"I could heal a snakebite. Looks like you got bitten by a constellation."
-Aescalos, healer of Pharika

Viral Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

: Proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

Viridian Betrayers

Creature - Elf Warrior

Viridian Betrayers has infect as long as an opponent is poisoned. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

To secure a place in Phyrexia's ranks, they hunted their surviving kin.

Viridian Claw

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike.

Equip

"Phyrexians can't corrupt what they can't get close enough to touch."

Viridian Corrupter

Creature - Elf Shaman

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

When Viridian Corrupter enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact.

Viridian Emissary

Creature - Elf Scout

When Viridian Emissary dies, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Viridian Harvest

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

When enchanted artifact is put into a graveyard, you gain 6 life.

"In the midst of horror beyond imagining, I still see things that lift my heart."
-Ezuri

Viridian Revel

Enchantment

Whenever an artifact is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, you may draw a card.

"Let them have their revel. Soon those who won't submit will be turned. Those who won't be turned will die."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Virulent Plague

Enchantment

Creature tokens get -2/-2.

"This pestilence robs us of glorious death in battle. We starve to death with full bellies and drown trying to slake our unnatural thirst."
-Kerai Hatesinger, Kolaghan warrior

Virulent Swipe

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Virulent Wound

Instant

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. When that creature dies this turn, its controller gets a poison counter.

Sadly, the extent of Gerkk's healing knowledge was "don't pick at it."

Viscera Dragger

Creature - Zombie Ogre Warrior

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

Unearth (: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Viscera Seer

Creature - Vampire Wizard

Sacrifice a creature: 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.)

In matters of life and death, he trusts his gut.

Viseling

Artifact Creature - Construct

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Viseling deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in his or her hand minus 4.

"This may hurt a lot."

Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter

Legendary Creature - Vampire

Flying, lifelink

Sacrifice a creature: Put X +1/+1 counters on Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Remove all +1/+1 counters from Vish Kal: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each +1/+1 counter removed this way.

Vision Skeins

Instant

Each player draws two cards.

"I could see in the other mage's eyes that he'd thought of it too. Then it became a race to exploit the knowledge first."

Visions of Beyond

Instant

Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.

"The past is the foundation for all that exists in the present. We merely reconstruct what our ancestors have already discovered."
-Sachimir, Sage of Memories

Visions of Brutality

Enchantment - Aura

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't block.

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, its controller loses that much life.

Vital Splicer

Creature - Human Artificer

When Vital Splicer enters the battlefield, put a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

: Regenerate target Golem you control.

"For every one that falls, ten shall rise. The revelation of New Phyrexia is at hand."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Vithian Renegades

Creature - Human Shaman

When Vithian Renegades enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact.

"Here is the proof that what has been done may yet be undone. The hope we thought dead will be gloriously reborn."

Vithian Stinger

Creature - Human Shaman

: Vithian Stinger deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Unearth (: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage

Creature - Dryad Shaman

: Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.

: Populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"Preachers of freedom forget that conformity can be beautiful."

Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

In the autumn, she casts her seeds across the streets below, and come spring, her children rise in service to the Conclave.

Vivid Crag

Land

Vivid Crag enters the battlefield tapped with two charge counters on it.

: Add to your mana pool.

, Remove a charge counter from Vivid Crag: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Vivid Creek

Land

Vivid Creek enters the battlefield tapped with two charge counters on it.

: Add to your mana pool.

, Remove a charge counter from Vivid Creek: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Vivid Grove

Land

Vivid Grove enters the battlefield tapped with two charge counters on it.

: Add to your mana pool.

, Remove a charge counter from Vivid Grove: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Vivid Marsh

Land

Vivid Marsh enters the battlefield tapped with two charge counters on it.

: Add to your mana pool.

, Remove a charge counter from Vivid Marsh: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Vivid Meadow

Land

Vivid Meadow enters the battlefield tapped with two charge counters on it.

: Add to your mana pool.

, Remove a charge counter from Vivid Meadow: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Vivisection

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Vivisection, sacrifice a creature.

Draw three cards.

Phyrexians research with the grace of surgeons and the finesse of butchers.

Vizkopa Cofessor

Vizkopa Confessor

Creature - Human Cleric

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

When Vizkopa Confessor enters the battlefield, pay any amount of life. Target opponent reveals that many cards from his or her hand. You choose one of them and exile it.

Vizkopa Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

Voice of All

Creature - Angel

Flying

As Voice of All enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Voice of All has protection from the chosen color.

Voice of Resurgence

Creature - Elemental

Whenever an opponent casts a spell during your turn or when Voice of Resurgence dies, put a green and white Elemental creature token onto the battlefield with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control."

Voice of the Provinces

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Voice of the Provinces enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 white Human creature token onto the battlefield.

Her horn is heard across Innistrad, lifting the hearts of the righteous.

Voiceless Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Flying, first strike

"I'd rather take on a neckbiter or moonhowler any day. Oh well, looks like I'm going to end up parrying with empty air half the night."
-Saint Trogen, the Slayer

Voices from the Void

Sorcery

Domain - Target player discards a card for each basic land type among lands you control.

As Grixis collided with the rest of Alara, the worlds began to hear the hateful whispers of the forgotten dead.

Void Attendant

Creature - Eldrazi Processor

Devoid (This card has no color.)

, Put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard: Put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

The Eldrazi don't merely extinguish life-they supplant it.

Void Grafter

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

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

When Void Grafter enters the battlefield, another target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn.

Void Shatter

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

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

Eldrazi break concentration like glass.

Void Snare

Sorcery

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

"I've tried so many variations on how to get rid of annoying things that it's hard to decide which one I like best."
-Ashurel, voidmage

Void Squall

Sorcery

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Void Stalker

Creature - Elemental

, : Put Void Stalker and target creature on top of their owners' libraries, then those players shuffle their libraries.

Now you see it, now you're gone.

Void Winnower

Creature - Eldrazi

Your opponents can't cast spells with even converted mana costs. (Zero is even.)

Your opponents can't block with creatures with even converted mana costs.

"Have you ever seen a world fall to its knees? Watch, and learn."-Ob Nixilis

Voidwalk

Sorcery

Exile target creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

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.)

Voidwielder

Creature - Human Wizard

When Voidwielder enters the battlefield, you may return target creature to its owner's hand.

"He makes up his own laws, and that's dangerous to all who love peace and prosperity. Kill him on sight."
-Mirela, Azorius hussar

Volatile Rig

Artifact Creature - Construct

Trample

Volatile Rig attacks each turn if able.

Whenever Volatile Rig is dealt damage, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, sacrifice Volatile Rig.

When Volatile Rig dies, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, it deals 4 damage to each creature and each player.

Volcanic Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

Sometimes an eruption in Shiv produces something more dangerous than a mere river of molten rock.

Volcanic Fallout

Instant

Volcanic Fallout can't be countered.

Volcanic Fallout deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

"How can we outrun the sky?"
-Hadran, sunseeder of Naya

Volcanic Geyser

Instant

Volcanic Geyser deals X damage to target creature or player.

"The mountain's fire surges beneath your feet, demanding release. Can you not feel it?"

Volcanic Offering

Instant

Destroy target nonbasic land you don't control and target nonbasic land of an opponent's choice you don't control.

Volcanic Offering deals 7 damage to target creature you don't control and 7 damage to target creature of an opponent's choice you don't control.

Volcanic Rush

Instant

Attacking creatures get +2/+0 and gain trample until end of turn.

"The bravest warriors take the shortest path to victory, whatever that path may be."
-Sakta, Atarka hunter

Volcanic Strength

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has mountainwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)

The mountains bend to no one.

Volcanic Submersion

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

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

A dragon's death is almost as feared as its life. Old, dying dragons throw themselves into volcanoes, causing massive upheaval and widespread disaster.

Volcanic Upheaval

Instant

Destroy target land.

Like a living organism, Zendikar rids itself of infection, and it does so abruptly and ruthlessly.

Volcanic Vision

Sorcery

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Volcanic Vision deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to each creature your opponents control. Exile Volcanic Vision.

Volition Reins

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant permanent

When Volition Reins enters the battlefield, if enchanted permanent is tapped, untap it.

You control enchanted permanent.

"Glorifying the will is a mistake. It is simply one more force to be mastered."

Volt Charge

Instant

Volt Charge deals 3 damage to target creature or player. Proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

Voltaic Key

Artifact

, : Untap target artifact.

The missing piece to every puzzle.

Voracious Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Devour 1 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

When Voracious Dragon enters the battlefield, it deals damage to target creature or player equal to twice the number of Goblins it devoured.

Voracious Null

Creature - Zombie

, Sacrifice another creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on Voracious Null. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

"These days, there's no shortage of food for the nulls of Guul Draz."-Drana, Kalastria bloodchief

Voracious Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Voracious Wurm enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the amount of life you've gained this turn.

Shepherds in Kalonia know it's better to let sheep roam than have them be trapped when the wurms are feeding.

Vorapede

Creature - Insect

Vigilance, trample

Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

"If you think you've killed one, guess again."
-Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Vorel of the Hull Clade

Legendary Creature - Human Merfolk

, : For each counter on target artifact, creature, or land, put another of those counters on that permanent.

"I used to hurl rocks and eat scraps of meat burned over a fire. Look at what I've become and tell me Simic does not hold infinite possibility."

Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Legendary Creature - Praetor

Trample

Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana to your mana pool of any type that land produced.

Whenever an opponent taps a land for mana, that land doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Vorosh, the Hunter

Legendary Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever Vorosh, the Hunter deals combat damage to a player, you may pay . If you do, put six +1/+1 counters on Vorosh.

Vorstclaw

Creature - Elemental Horror

"Where'd the werewolves go? Maybe that got hungry."
-Halana of Ulvenwald

Vortex Elemental

Creature - Elemental

: Put Vortex Elemental and each creature blocking or blocked by it on top of their owners' libraries, then those players shuffle their libraries.

: Target creature blocks Vortex Elemental this turn if able.

The sea is always hungry.

Vow of Duty

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has vigilance, and can't attack you or a planeswalker you control.

"I prefer loyalty to be a matter of respect, not of magic. But one does what one must."
-Kaalia of the Vast

Vow of Flight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has flying, and can't attack you or a planeswalker you control.

"Soaring is wasted on the winged."
-Edric, Spymaster of Trest

Vow of Lightning

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has first strike, and can't attack you or a planeswalker you control.

"Ruhan would never agree to such terms."
-Ruhan of the Fomori

Vow of Malice

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and can't attack you or a planeswalker you control.

"I grant you blades-on the condition that they are not pointed at me."
-Damia, Sage of Stone

Vow of Wildness

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3, has trample, and can't attack you or a planeswalker you control.

"Savagery is the birthright of every creature that draws breath-or wishes it could."
-Karador, Ghost Chieftain

Voyage's End

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Philosophers say those lost at sea ascended to a more perfect realm. Sailors say they drowned.

Voyager Drake

Creature - Drake

Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)

Flying

When Voyager Drake enters the battlefield, up to X target creatures gain flying until end of turn, where X is the number of times Voyager Drake was kicked.

Voyaging Satyr

Creature - Satyr Druid

: Untap target land.

"None can own the land's bounty. The gods made this world for all to share its riches. And I'm not just saying that because you caught me stealing your fruit."

Vraska the Unseen

Planeswalker - Vraska (Loyalty: 5)

+1: Until your next turn, whenever a creature deals combat damage to Vraska the Unseen, destroy that creature.

-3: Destroy target nonland permanent.

-7: Put three 1/1 black Assassin creature tokens onto the battlefield with "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."