Arrow Volley Trap

Instant - Trap

If four or more creatures are attacking, you may pay rather than pay Arrow Volley Trap's mana cost.

Arrow Volley Trap deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target attacking creatures.

Arrow Storm

Sorcery

Arrow Storm deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Raid - If you attacked with a creature this turn, instead Arrow Storm deals 5 damage to that creature or player and the damage can't be prevented.

First the thunder, then the rain.

Arrogant Bloodlord

Creature - Vampire Knight

Whenever Arrogant Bloodlord blocks or becomes blocked by a creature with power 1 or less, destroy Arrogant Bloodlord at end of combat.

"I would rather take my own head than be thwarted by a presumptuous wretch with a shield and a dream."

Arrest

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

"We will prove your guilt. We don't arrest the innocent, you know."
-Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Army of the Damned

Sorcery

Put thirteen 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens onto the battlefield tapped.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sometimes death comes knocking. Sometimes it tears down the walls.

Arms Dealer

Creature - Goblin Rogue

, Sacrifice a Goblin: Arms Dealer deals 4 damage to target creature.

"Guaranteed to leave your enemies sufficiently stabbed, bitten, cleaved, or exploded."
-Grezkrick's Emporium motto

Armory of Iroas

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Equip

From a distance the weapons look pristine, but in fact they are tarnished and dented, each as unique as the champion who carried it to battle.

Armory Guard

Creature - Giant Soldier

Armory Guard has vigilance as long as you control a Gate.

The Dimir agents watched from the shadows. "Eight hours, and I've yet to see him blink," Nefara hissed. "I suggest we find another way in."

Armored Wolf-Rider

Creature - Elf Knight

Wolf-riders of Selesnya apprentice from a young age. Each rider raises a wolf pup from birth to serve as a mount, hoping that one day the two will share the honor of guarding the Great Concourse.

Armored Warhorse

Creature - Horse

"When we of the Northern Verge claim a mount, no peasant's nag will do. It must be as strong as our virtue, and must join us of its own will."
-Sarlena, paladin of the Northern Verge

Armored Transport

Artifact Creature - Construct

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Armored Transport by creatures blocking it.

"If only our jails were as secure."
-Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Armored Skaab

Creature - Zombie Warrior

When Armored Skaab enters the battlefield, put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.

Literally made for battle.

Armored Cancrix

Creature - Crab

Creatures displaced from time still turn up every year, stranded by the temporal disaster that once swept across Dominaria.

Armored Ascension

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each Plains you control and has flying.

With skill and strength honed upon the prairie, Naxtil won his battles high above it.

Armistice

Enchantment

: You draw a card and target opponent gains 3 life.

We all must profit for peace to last.
-Mercadian saying

Armillary Sphere

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Armillary Sphere: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

The mysterious purpose of two of the rings had eluded Esper mages-until now.

Armed (Armed/Dangerous)

Sorcery

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains double strike until end of turn.

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

Armament of Nyx

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has double strike as long as it's an enchantment. Otherwise, prevent all damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature. (A creature with double strike deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Armament Master

Creature - Kor Soldier

Other Kor creatures you control get +2/+2 for each Equipment attached to Armament Master.

"We prepare for the known with daggers, rations, rope, and pitons. But we also prepare for the unknown with billycat tails, pikku roots, hedron chips . . ."

Armament Corps

Creature - Human Soldier

When Armament Corps enters the battlefield, distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures you control.

The Abzan avoid extended supply lines by incorporating weapons stores into their battle formations.

Armada Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Trample

When Armada Wurm enters the battlefield, put a 5/5 green Wurm creature token with trample onto the battlefield.

No one in the Conclave acts alone.

Arm with Æther

Sorcery

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, you may return target creature that player controls to its owner's hand."

"Anything we can do to hurt the Phyrexian invaders is worth dying for."

Arid Mesa

Land

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Arid Mesa: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Argentum Armor

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +6/+6.

Whenever equipped creature attacks, destroy target permanent.

Equip

Mirrodin's creator still lives, still shapes metal, and still commands world-shaking power.

Argent Sphinx

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Metalcraft - : Exile Argent Sphinx. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step. Activate this ability only if you control three or more artifacts.

A great mirage, a dream of wings and silver.

Argent Mutation

Instant

Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"My world is corrupted beyond cleansing. I must prevent this from happening to other worlds."
-Karn

Arena Athlete

Creature - Human

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Arena Athlete, target creature an opponent controls can't block this turn.

The Iroan Games award no medals. Athletes vie for a visit from Iroas, god of victory.

Ardent Recruit

Creature - Human Soldier

Metalcraft - Ardent Recruit gets +2/+2 as long as you control three or more artifacts.

"We lost our homes and our kin. We won't let those rotters take our future as well."

Ardent Plea

Enchantment

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

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.)

Arctic Aven

Creature - Bird Wizard

Flying

Arctic Aven gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Plains.

: Arctic Aven gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Archwing Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying, haste

At the beginning of the end step, return Archwing Dragon to its owner's hand.

Swifter than an angel, crueler than a demon, and relentless as a ghoul.

Archweaver

Creature - Spider

Reach, trample

The silk of the archweavers adds structural integrity to otherwise unstable Izzet building sites.

Archon of the Triumvirate

Creature - Archon

Flying

Whenever Archon of the Triumvirate attacks, detain up to two target nonland permanents your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those permanents can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

Archon of Redemption

Creature - Archon

Flying

Whenever Archon of Redemption or another creature with flying enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain life equal to that creature's power.

Until Emeria is freed, he raises his sword in her name.

Archon of Justice

Creature - Archon

Flying

When Archon of Justice dies, exile target permanent.

In dark times, Truth bears a blade.

Archmage Ascension

Enchantment

At the beginning of each end step, if you drew two or more cards this turn, you may put a quest counter on Archmage Ascension.

As long as Archmage Ascension has six or more quest counters on it, if you would draw a card, you may instead search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Archive Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent searched his or her library this turn, you may pay rather than pay Archive Trap's mana cost.

Target opponent puts the top thirteen cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Architects of Will

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

When Architects of Will enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order.

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

This secret society of mages manipulates the beliefs and opinions of others.

Archfiend of Depravity

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures he or she controls, then sacrifices the rest.

"Why would I kill you all? Who then would be left to worship me?"

Archetype of Imagination

Enchantment Creature - Human Wizard

Creatures you control have flying.

Creatures your opponents control lose flying and can't have or gain flying.

"Is it not the embodiment of our aspirations?"
-Prokopios, astronomer of Meletis

Archetype of Finality

Enchantment Creature - Gorgon

Creatures you control have deathtouch.

Creatures your opponents control lose deathtouch and can't have or gain deathtouch.

She sees mortals not as they wish to be, but as what they will become.

Archetype of Endurance

Enchantment Creature - Boar

Creatures you control have hexproof.

Creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and can't have or gain hexproof.

Despite its fearsome stature, it is as elusive as a shadow, circling round to stalk those who presume to hunt it.

Archetype of Courage

Enchantment Creature - Human Soldier

Creatures you control have first strike.

Creatures your opponents control lose first strike and can't have or gain first strike.

"It has been my experience that soldiers most fervently follow generals who lead by example."
-Elspeth

Archetype of Aggression

Enchantment Creature - Human Warrior

Creatures you control have trample.

Creatures your opponents control lose trample and can't have or gain trample.

"Did Purphoros bless Maikal because of his rage? Or did Maikal's rage blossom after he'd been blessed? Only the gods know."
-Eocles, oracle of Purphoros

Archers' Parapet

Creature - Wall

Defender

, : Each opponent loses 1 life.

Every shaft is graven with a name from a kin tree, calling upon the spirits of the ancestors to make it fly true.

Archers of Qarsi

Creature - Naga Archer

Defender

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"We think of the naga as creeping cutthroats, slitherers in the swamps. But they are equally at home in the trees."
-Goton, Qal Sisma shaman

Archdemon of Unx

Creature - Demon

Flying, trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a non-Zombie creature, then put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

The necropolis at Unx was once a living city, its streets untrodden by death.

Archangel's Light

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each card in your graveyard, then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

"This is the light of Avacyn. Even in her absence she offers us hope."
-Radulf, priest of Avacyn

Archangel of Thune

Creature - Angel

Flying

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

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Even the wicked have nightmares.

Archangel of Strife

Creature - Angel

Flying

As Archangel of Strife enters the battlefield, each player chooses war or peace.

Creatures controlled by players who chose war get +3/+0.

Creatures controlled by players who chose peace get +0/+3.

Archangel

Creature - Angel

Flying, vigilance

The sky rang with the cries of armored seraphs, and the darkness made a tactical retreat.

Archaeomancer

Creature - Human Wizard

When Archaeomancer enters the battlefield, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Words of power never disappear. They sleep, awaiting those with the will to rouse them."

Arcbound Worker

Artifact Creature - Construct

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

The parts are as strong as the whole.

Arcbound Wanderer

Artifact Creature - Golem

Modular-Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Stinger

Artifact Creature - Insect

Flying

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Ravager

Artifact Creature - Beast

Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Ravager.

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbond

Instant

Choose target creature. Whenever that creature is dealt damage this turn, it deals that much damage to each other creature and each player.

"If you must die today, make your death worthy of legend."
-Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

Arcane Sanctum

Land

Arcane Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

"We must rely on our own knowledge, not on the dogma of the seekers or the mutterings of the sphinxes."
-Tullus of Palandius

Arcane Melee

Enchantment

Instant and sorcery spells cost less to cast.

Debates between wizards are never purely academic.

Arcane Lighthouse

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Arcane Denial

Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Arc Trail

Sorcery

Arc Trail deals 2 damage to target creature or player and 1 damage to another target creature or player.

"Don't try to hit your enemies. Concentrate on the space between them, and fill the air with doom."
-Spear-Tribe teaching

Arc Runner

Creature - Elemental Ox

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

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Arc Runner.

The storms of the wastelands form quickly and hit hard. Few have anything to do with rain.

Arc Lightning

Sorcery

Arc Lightning deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures and/or players.

Rainclouds don't last long in Shiv, but that doesn't stop the lightning.

Arbor Elf

Creature - Elf Druid

: Untap target Forest.

"The forest will surround you with its life if you are still and calm."

Arbor Colossus

Creature - Giant

Reach

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

When Arbor Colossus becomes monstrous, destroy target creature with flying an opponent controls.

Arbiter of the Ideal

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Inspired - Whenever Arbiter of the Ideal becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact, creature, or land card, you may put it onto the battlefield with a manifestation counter on it. That permanent is an enchantment in addition to its other types.

Arbiter of Knollridge

Creature - Giant Wizard

Vigilance

When Arbiter of Knollridge enters the battlefield, each player's life total becomes the highest life total among all players.

Though giants are mortal, they live so long and on such a grand scale that many small folk don't believe they ever truly die.

Arbalest Elite

Creature - Human Archer

, : Arbalest Elite deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. Arbalest Elite doesn't untap during your next untap step.

There are few things as satisfying as a good, healthy thunk.

Arashin War Beast

Creature - Beast

Whenever Arashin War Beast deals combat damage to one or more blocking creatures, manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Arashin Sovereign

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Arashin Sovereign dies, you may put it on the top or bottom of its owner's library.

Dromoka dragons foster trust among their subjects, while the other clans must spend their time quelling rebellion.

Arashin Foremost

Creature - Human Warrior

Double strike

Whenever Arashin Foremost enters the battlefield or attacks, another target Warrior creature you control gains double strike until end of turn.

"I would gladly give my life if it would inspire my clan to victory."

Arashin Cleric

Creature - Human Cleric

When Arashin Cleric enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

"We'll have time to put out the fires when those trapped within the ruins are safe."

Arachnus Web

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

At the beginning of the end step, if enchanted creature's power is 4 or greater, destroy Arachnus Web.

Arachnus Spinner

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Tap an untapped Spider you control: Search your graveyard and/or library for a card named Arachnus Web and put it onto the battlefield attached to target creature. If you search your library this way, shuffle it.

Aquus Steed

Creature - Beast

, : Target creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn.

In water, it's as graceful as a dolphin. On land, it darts and jerks so unpredictably that few can ride it for long.

Aqueous Form

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked.

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

Aquastrand Spider

Creature - Spider Mutant

Graft 2 (This creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)

: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Appetite for Brains

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it with converted mana cost 4 or greater and exile that card.

Just as with a peach, the first bite is always the juiciest.

Apostle's Blessing

Instant

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Target artifact or creature you control gains protection from artifacts or from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Apocalypse Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Apocalypse Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, it enters the battlefield with an additional X +1/+1 counters on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Apocalypse Hydra: Apocalypse Hydra deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Apex Hawks

Creature - Bird

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

Flying

Apex Hawks enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each time it was kicked.

Anvilwrought Raptor

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying, first strike

"I know its lightness, for I have seen it fly. I know its weight, for I have seen it strike."
-Brigone, soldier of Meletis

Anticipate

Instant

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

"When I have meditated on all outcomes, my opponent has no recourse."

Anthousa, Setessan Hero

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Anthousa, Setessan Hero, up to three target lands you control each become 2/2 Warrior creatures until end of turn. They're still lands.

The warriors she leads can rarely keep pace with her, and neither can the tales.

Ant Queen

Creature - Insect

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

"Kill the queen first, or we'll be fighting her drones forever. It is not in a queen's nature to have enough servants."
-Borzard, exterminator captain

Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Legendary Creature - Vampire Shaman

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player sacrifices a non-Vampire creature.

"So many have died in search of that map. And now it appears in the hands of the arrogant child Chandra Nalaar."

Annul

Instant

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

The most effective way to destroy a spell is to ensure it was never cast in the first place.

Annihilating Fire

Instant

Annihilating Fire deals 3 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

"The most impressive performances can be done only once."
-Mote, Rakdos madcap

Annihilate

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Draw a card.

"Whatever Yawgmoth marks, dies. There is no escape."
-Tsabo Tavoc, Phyrexian general

Ankle Shanker

Creature - Goblin Berserker

Haste

Whenever Ankle Shanker attacks, creatures you control gain first strike and deathtouch until end of turn.

The stature of the fighter matters less than the depth of the cut.

Animar, Soul of Elements

Legendary Creature - Elemental

Protection from white and from black

Whenever you cast a creature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Animar, Soul of Elements.

Creature spells you cast cost less to cast for each +1/+1 counter on Animar.

Anger of the Gods

Sorcery

Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

There was no reason to pray. This was already an act of the gods.

Anger

Creature - Incarnation

Haste

As long as Anger is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

"For its time as a mortal, Anger chose a shell of boiling rock."
-Scroll of Beginnings

Angelsong

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

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

Clash of sword and cry of beast fall mute when angels sound the call to prayer.

Angelic Wall

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Flying

"The air stirred as if fanned by angels' wings, and the enemy was turned aside."
-Tales of Ikarov the Voyager

Angelic Skirmisher

Creature - Angel

Flying

At the beginning of each combat, choose first strike, vigilance, or lifelink. Creatures you control gain that ability until end of turn.

"A keen mind wields an army as a deft hand wields a sword."

Angelic Overseer

Creature - Angel

Flying

As long as you control a Human, Angelic Overseer has hexproof and indestructible.

From mortal hope immortal power springs.

Angelic Gift

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Angelic Gift enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has flying.

"Zendikar will triumph this day, and our armies will fly with angels."

Angelic Field Marshal

Creature - Angel

Flying

Lieutenant - As long as you control your commander, Angelic Field Marshal gets +2/+2 and creatures you control have vigilance.

Her presence on the battlefield can transform an unruly mob into a disciplined army.