Wojek Halberdiers

Creature - Human Soldier

Battalion - Whenever Wojek Halberdiers and at least two other creatures attack, Wojek Halberdiers gains first strike until end of turn.

Tired of Boros interference, the Rakdos unleashed hellraiser goblins, hoping their corpses would weigh down the halberds.

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.

Sunhome Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

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

: Put a 1/1 red and white Soldier creature token with haste onto the battlefield.

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."

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

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.

High Priest of Penance

Creature - Human Cleric

Whenever High Priest of Penance is dealt damage, you may destroy target nonland permanent.

"All I require is faith, loyalty, obedience, trust, and complete and utter devotion."

Basilica Screecher

Creature - Bat

Flying

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

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

Boros Mastiff

Creature - Hound

Battalion - Whenever Boros Mastiff and at least two other creatures attack, Boros Mastiff gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Murmuring Phantasm

Creature - Spirit

Defender

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

Bane Alley Blackguard

Creature - Human Rogue

"I'm in the field of procurement, and business is good. The guilds want all kinds of maps and relics these days, though what they want them for I'm not quite sure."

Blood Scrivener

Creature - Zombie Wizard

If you would draw a card while you have no cards in hand, instead draw two cards and lose 1 life.

Make sure you bleed the fine print.

Riot Piker

Creature - Goblin Berserker

First strike

Riot Piker attacks each turn if able.

He doesn't care whether he's rioting about trade rights or just having a drunken brawl. He wakes up every morning eager to smash some heads.

Kraul Warrior

Creature - Insect Warrior

: Kraul Warrior gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

The insectile kraul lurk in the tunnels below street level. Many are loyal to the Golgari Swarm, but others follow their own esoteric caste system.

Skylasher

Creature - Insect

Flash

Skylasher can't be countered.

Reach, protection from blue

"It preys on those who would spy on our lands, so we never prey on it."
-Kroshkar, Gruul shaman

Deputy of Acquittals

Creature - Human Wizard

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

When Deputy of Acquittals enters the battlefield, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

"Everyone deserves a day in court."

Savageborn Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Double strike

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

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Savageborn Hydra. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Spike Jester

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Haste

For the Rakdos, "suicidal charge" and "good showmanship" are one and the same.

Tithe Drinker

Creature - Vampire

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

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

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."

Woodlot Crawler

Creature - Insect

Forestwalk, protection from green

"We learned something from the Simic. Unfortunately for them."
-Nefara, Dimir agent

Zhur-Taa Druid

Creature - Human Druid

: Add to your mana pool.

Whenever you tap Zhur-Taa Druid for mana, it deals 1 damage to each opponent.

"Only the decadent think magic should be pristine and without cost."

Mesmeric Fiend

Creature - Nightmare Horror

When Mesmeric Fiend enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.

When Mesmeric Fiend leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.

Amrou Scout

Creature - Kithkin Rebel Scout

, : Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with converted mana cost 3 or less and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

The people of Amrou were scattered by war and driven into hiding. Scouts maintain the beacon fires that signal "return" and "home."

Kataki, War's Wage

Legendary Creature - Spirit

All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay ."

"Before the war, we prayed to Kataki to sharpen our swords and harden our armor. Without his blessing our weapons are all but useless against the kami hordes."
-Kenzo the Hardhearted

Kithkin Greatheart

Creature - Kithkin Soldier

As long as you control a Giant, Kithkin Greatheart gets +1/+1 and has first strike.

Sometimes a curious giant singles out a "little one" to follow for a few days, never realizing the effect it will have on the little one's life.

Veteran Armorer

Creature - Human Soldier

Other creatures you control get +0/+1.

"Give me a sword and I'll kill a few enemies. But give me a hammer and a fiery forge, and I'll turn the tide of battle."

Narcomoeba

Creature - Illusion

Flying

When Narcomoeba is put into your graveyard from your library, you may put it onto the battlefield.

It was created by the Iquati as a living memory-one that objects to being forgotten.

Spellstutter Sprite

Creature - Faerie Wizard

Flash

Flying

When Spellstutter Sprite enters the battlefield, counter target spell with converted mana cost X or less, where X is the number of Faeries you control.

Blightspeaker

Creature - Human Rebel Cleric

: Target player loses 1 life.

, : Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with converted mana cost 3 or less and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

One croaked sermon spreads propaganda and plague.

Dark Confidant

Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost.

Greatness, at any cost.

Rathi Trapper

Creature - Human Rebel Rogue

, : Tap target creature.

Tangling vines, fetid murk, paralyzing poisons, and crawling dead. The swamp is nature's trap waiting to be exploited by unnatural minds.

Mogg War Marshal

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

When Mogg War Marshal enters the battlefield or dies, put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token onto the battlefield.

Stingscourger

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

When Stingscourger enters the battlefield, return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Riftsweeper

Creature - Elf Shaman

When Riftsweeper enters the battlefield, choose target face-up exiled card. Its owner shuffles it into his or her library.

"Beings of the rifts are not natural. No longer will these abominations tread upon the body of Gaea."

Tarmogoyf

Creature - Lhurgoyf

Tarmogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.

Thallid Shell-Dweller

Creature - Fungus

Defender

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Thallid Shell-Dweller.

Remove three spore counters from Thallid Shell-Dweller: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

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.)

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.)

Epochrasite

Artifact Creature - Construct

Epochrasite enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it if you didn't cast it from your hand.

When Epochrasite dies, exile it with three time counters on it and it gains suspend. (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast this card without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Myr Retriever

Artifact Creature - Myr

When Myr Retriever dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Capashen Knight

Creature - Human Knight

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

: Capashen Knight gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Few warriors dare to challenge a knight of Capashen. Should one do so, there is one fewer.

Imposing Sovereign

Creature - Human

Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Some are born to rule. The rest are born to bow before them.

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.

Seacoast Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

Seacoast drakes have been known to follow ships for hundreds of miles, waiting to snap up garbage, bait, and the occasional sailor.

Tidebinder Mage

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

When Tidebinder Mage enters the battlefield, tap target red or green creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control Tidebinder Mage.

Corpse Hauler

Creature - Human Rogue

, Sacrifice Corpse Hauler: Return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"He expects a reward, but the only piece of silver he'll get from me is my blade in his gut."-Shelac, necromancer

Gnawing Zombie

Creature - Zombie

, Sacrifice a creature: Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

On still nights you can hear its rotted teeth grinding tirelessly on scavenged bones.

Goblin Diplomats

Creature - Goblin

: Each creature attacks this turn if able.

When you need to convey that special kind of message.

Young Pyromancer

Creature - Human Shaman

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a 1/1 red Elemental creature token onto the battlefield.

Immolation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Kalonian Tusker

Creature - Beast

"And all this time I thought we were tracking it."-Juruk, Kalonian tracker

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

Predatory Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control get +1/+1.

No matter how much the slivers change, their collective might remains.

Vastwood Hydra

Creature - Hydra

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

When Vastwood Hydra dies, you may distribute a number of +1/+1 counters equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on Vastwood Hydra among any number of creatures you control.

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.

Wall of Blossoms

Creature - Plant Wall

Defender

When Wall of Blossoms enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Cavalry Pegasus

Creature - Pegasus

Flying

Whenever Cavalry Pegasus attacks, each attacking Human gains flying until end of turn.

"It is hope, hooved and winged."
-Cymede, queen of Akros

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.

Phalanx Leader

Creature - Human Soldier

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Phalanx Leader, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

His soldiers etch his words on the insides of their shields, their inspiration always in sight during battle.

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."

Traveling Philosopher

Creature - Human Advisor

The Champion and the philosopher Olexa returned from the opposing camp at dusk. Behind them, the enemy raised sail and departed, breaking the siege. When asked what the two had done, the Champion replied, "We spoke to them."
-The Theriad

Artisan of Forms

Creature - Human Wizard

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Artisan of Forms, you may have Artisan of Forms become a copy of target creature and gain this ability.

Omenspeaker

Creature - Human Wizard

When Omenspeaker enters the battlefield, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Her prophecies amaze her even as she speaks them.

Vaporkin

Creature - Elemental

Flying

Vaporkin can block only creatures with flying.

"Mists are carefree. They drift where they will, unencumbered by rocks and river beds."
-Thrasios, triton hero

Fleshmad Steed

Creature - Horse

Whenever another creature dies, tap Fleshmad Steed.

More disturbing than the unknown is a distortion of the familiar.

Returned Phalanx

Creature - Zombie Soldier

Defender

: Returned Phalanx can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.

They lived in different nations and fought in different eras, but as the Returned, they link arms as one.

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.

Deathbellow Raider

Creature - Minotaur Berserker

Deathbellow Raider attacks each turn if able.

: Regenerate Deathbellow Raider.

"The temple has been rededicated. It belongs to Mogis now."
-Rastos, disciple of Mogis

Satyr Rambler

Creature - Satyr

Trample

A satyr is bound by nothing-not home, not family, not loyalty.

Satyr Hedonist

Creature - Satyr

, Sacrifice Satyr Hedonist: Add to your mana pool.

"Any festival you can walk away from wasn't worth attending in the first place."

Sylvan Caryatid

Creature - Plant

Defender, hexproof

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

Those who enter the copse never leave. They find peace there and take root, becoming part of the ever-growing grove.

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."

Akroan Hoplite

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever Akroan Hoplite attacks, it gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of attacking creatures you control.

"Fair fight? How could it be a fair fight? We're Akroans. They're not."

Battlewise Hoplite

Creature - Human Soldier

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

Fleecemane Lion

Creature - Cat

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

As long as Fleecemane Lion is monstrous, it has hexproof and indestructible.

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.

Tymaret, the Murder King

Legendary Creature - Zombie Warrior

, Sacrifice another creature: Tymaret, the Murder King deals 2 damage to target player.

, Sacrifice a creature: Return Tymaret from your graveyard to your hand.

His memories remained in the Underworld, but his cruelty crossed the Rivers with him.

Bronze Sable

Artifact Creature - Sable

The Champion stood alone between the horde of the Returned and the shrine to Karametra, cutting down scores among hundreds. She would have been overcome if not for the aid of the temple guardians whom Karametra awakened.
-The Theriad

Serene Master

Creature - Human Monk

Whenever Serene Master blocks, exchange its power and the power of target creature it's blocking until end of combat.

"A great warrior studies many different disciplines and takes the best from each."-Gideon Jura

Nightscape Familiar

Creature - Zombie

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost less to cast.

: Regenerate Nightscape Familiar.

Nightscape masters don't stop at raising the spirit of a fallen battlemage. They raise the flesh along with it.

Baleful Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying, deathtouch

When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Mistmeadow Witch

Creature - Kithkin Wizard

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

Olka collected the evening mist for years, studying its secrets. Once she learned its essence, she could vanish with a thought.

Akroan Skyguard

Creature - Human Soldier

Flying

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Akroan Skyguard, put a +1/+1 counter on Akroan Skyguard.

"Trust me. When you have earned a god's favor, you'll know."

God-Favored General

Creature - Human Soldier

Inspired - Whenever God-Favored General becomes untapped, you may pay . If you do, put two 1/1 white Soldier enchantment creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Someone had to be first to attack, but he was not alone for long.

Hero of Iroas

Creature - Human Soldier

Aura spells you cast cost less to cast.

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Hero of Iroas, put a +1/+1 counter on Hero of Iroas.

"My left has felled a cyclops. My right has slain a giant. I bring both to every fight."

Oreskos Sun Guide

Creature - Cat Monk

Inspired - Whenever Oreskos Sun Guide becomes untapped, you gain 2 life.

"Let the humans have their pantheon. We need no gods to thrive. Even a mortal such as I can capture a part of the sun's power."

Vanguard of Brimaz

Creature - Cat Soldier

Vigilance

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Vanguard of Brimaz, put a 1/1 white Cat Soldier creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.

"The humans and their gods never blessed me. Only the pride deserves my allegiance."

Deepwater Hypnotist

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Inspired - Whenever Deepwater Hypnotist becomes untapped, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

"Watch the waves too long, and you may never look away."
-Meletian proverb

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.

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.

Felhide Brawler

Creature - Minotaur

Felhide Brawler can't block unless you control another Minotaur.

Burial rites among the Felhide minotaurs involve devouring those who fell in battle, to remove their shame from memory and to fuel the survivors' revenge.

Pain Seer

Creature - Human Wizard

Inspired - Whenever Pain Seer becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to that card's converted mana cost.

Every twitching nerve and pulsing vein carries a message, discernible with the right tools.

Impetuous Sunchaser

Creature - Human Soldier

Flying, haste

Impetuous Sunchaser attacks each turn if able.

"I will soar higher than the walls of Akros! Higher than the clouds! Higher than Heliod himself!"

Reckless Reveler

Creature - Satyr

, Sacrifice Reckless Reveler: Destroy target artifact.

"The gods of Theros are born of the expectations and beliefs of mortals. If I have found godhood, what does that say about their true desires?"
-Xenagos, god of revels

Satyr Wayfinder

Creature - Satyr

When Satyr Wayfinder enters the battlefield, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

The first satyr to wake after a revel must search for the site of the next one.

Swordwise Centaur

Creature - Centaur Warrior

The girl who would become the Champion of the Sun hacked furiously at the practice dummy. At last she stopped, breathing heavily, and looked up at her instructor.
"So much anger," said the centaur. "I will teach you the ways of war, child. But first you must make peace with yourself."
-The Theriad

Kiora's Follower

Creature - Merfolk

: Untap another target permanent.

"She may call herself Kiora but I believe she is Thassa, the embodiment of the sea and empress of the depths."

Oreskos Swiftclaw

Creature - Cat Warrior

After the Battle of Pharagax Bridge, the Champion spent many months among the leonin of Oreskos. She found that they were quick to take offense, not because they were thin-skinned, but because they were always eager for a fight.
-The Theriad

Stonewise Fortifier

Creature - Human Wizard

: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Stonewise Fortifier by target creature this turn.

Ephara taught some mortals to feel every vein in marble as though it flows with their own blood.

Battlefield Thaumaturge

Creature - Human Wizard

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

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