Tower Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

: Tower Drake gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

The first motion put forth in the pristine Jelenn Column was for severe restrictions on the airspace around New Prahv.

Dead Reveler

Creature - Zombie

Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

He's the unlife of the party.

Sewer Shambler

Creature - Zombie

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

Scavenge (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Guttersnipe

Creature - Goblin Shaman

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Guttersnipe deals 2 damage to each opponent.

He wants to watch Ravnica burn, one soul at a time.

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.

Splatter Thug

Creature - Human Warrior

First strike

Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

The mask isn't meant to hide his identity. It's meant to keep the viscera out of his eyes.

Viashino Racketeer

Creature - Viashino Rogue

When Viashino Racketeer enters the battlefield, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

"You may call me a fool, selling this stuff on Orzhov turf. Well, you need to be a little reckless to survive."

Axebane Guardian

Creature - Human Druid

Defender

: Add X mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool, where X is the number of creatures with defender you control.

Only a worthy few are permitted within the sentient forest known as Axebane.

Oak Street Innkeeper

Creature - Elf

As long as it's not your turn, tapped creatures you control have hexproof.

The city is vast and perilous, but there are places where a weary traveler can feel very much at home.

Stonefare Crocodile

Creature - Crocodile

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

The Izzet's plans to exploit the undercity ran into a few stubborn obstacles.

Wild Beastmaster

Creature - Human Shaman

Whenever Wild Beastmaster attacks, each other creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is Wild Beastmaster's power.

"When they covered the world in city, all they did was give themselves nowhere to run."

Centaur Healer

Creature - Centaur Cleric

When Centaur Healer enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

Instructors at the Kasarna training grounds are capable healers in case their students fail to grasp the subtleties of combat.

Dreg Mangler

Creature - Plant Zombie

Haste

Scavenge (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Hellhole Flailer

Creature - Ogre Warrior

Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

, Sacrifice Hellhole Flailer: Hellhole Flailer deals damage equal to its power to target player.

Izzet Staticaster

Creature - Human Wizard

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

Haste

: Izzet Staticaster deals 1 damage to target creature and each other creature with the same name as that creature.

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.

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.)

Trestle Troll

Creature - Troll

Defender

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

: Regenerate Trestle Troll.

Unwelcome in Golgari colonies, he found his own dark place from which to represent the Swarm.

Wayfaring Temple

Creature - Elemental

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

Whenever Wayfaring Temple deals combat damage to a player, populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Cryptborn Horror

Creature - Horror

Trample

Cryptborn Horror enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total life lost by your opponents this turn.

Although Cryptwitch Merree vanished after a spat with Rakdos, her playthings lingered.

Vassal Soul

Creature - Spirit

Flying

For the Azorius, the opportunity to serve the law is too great an honor for death to interrupt.

Sage's Row Denizen

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

Whenever another blue creature enters the battlefield under your control, target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"I offer you wisdom untainted by false loyalty, learning free of any guild's agenda."

Biovisionary

Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of the end step, if you control four or more creatures named Biovisionary, you win the game.

He tired of his fellow researchers and their useless prattling, so he decided to make a network of scholars with whom he could carry a conversation.

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

Crocanura

Creature - Crocodile Frog

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Corpse Blockade

Creature - Zombie

Defender

Sacrifice another creature: Corpse Blockade gains deathtouch until end of turn.

There are laws against it, but the dead have no one to complain to and the living are too frightened to investigate.

Bane Alley Broker

Creature - Human Rogue

: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand face down.

You may look at cards exiled with Bane Alley Broker.

, : Return a card exiled with Bane Alley Broker to its owner's hand.

Boros Reckoner

Creature - Minotaur Wizard

Whenever Boros Reckoner is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target creature or player.

: Boros Reckoner gains first strike until end of turn.

"Imagine a thunderstorm that's also a tactical genius. That's him."
-Dars Gostok, Firefist captain

Slaughterhorn

Creature - Beast

Bloodrush - , Discard Slaughterhorn: Target attacking creature gets +3/+2 until end of turn.

The Orzhov clergy would never cross its path, but sending thrull couriers to do so is cheap and entertaining.

Kingpin's Pet

Creature - Thrull

Flying

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

"Debt and death sound so similar, and thrulls are so hard of hearing. Mistakes are inevitable."
-Milana, Orzhov prelate

Simic Fluxmage

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

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

Simic Manipulator

Creature - Mutant Wizard

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

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

Mortus Strider

Creature - Skeleton

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

Dimir's best agents hide from death itself.

Elusive Krasis

Creature - Fish Mutant

Elusive Krasis is unblockable.

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Deathcult Rogue

Creature - Human Rogue

Deathcult Rogue can't be blocked except by Rogues.

"The hussars can't catch him, and he evades our traps with ease. I fear he walks unseen even in the halls of New Prahv."
-Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Drakewing Krasis

Creature - Lizard Drake

Flying, trample

Cautious not to repeat Vig's mistakes, the Simic fuse life essences using magic alone. Each result is called a krasis.

Basilica Guards

Creature - Human Soldier

Defender

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

"None may pass . . . for free."

Slate Street Ruffian

Creature - Human Warrior

Whenever Slate Street Ruffian becomes blocked, defending player discards a card.

"Merciless to the point of psychosis. Let's give him a job."
-Zelinas, Orzhov recruiter

Warmind Infantry

Creature - Elemental Soldier

Battalion - Whenever Warmind Infantry and at least two other creatures attack, Warmind Infantry gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Before Aurelia denounced Niv-Mizzet, the two guilds had collaborated on the Warmind Initiative in pursuit of the ultimate soldier.

Hellraiser Goblin

Creature - Goblin Berserker

Creatures you control have haste and attack each combat if able.

Don't let him lead the soldiers, but by all means let him lead the way.

Nightveil Specter

Creature - Specter

Flying

Whenever Nightveil Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of his or her library.

You may play cards exiled with Nightveil Specter.

Court Street Denizen

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever another white creature enters the battlefield under your control, tap target creature an opponent controls.

"The Boros fight for justice. The Azorius fight for law. I hold the line between, and make sure the people are given both."

Ember Beast

Creature - Beast

Ember Beast can't attack or block alone.

Spot one ember beast, attack.
Spot a second, best fall back.
-Dwarven saying

Undercity Informer

Creature - Human Rogue

, Sacrifice a creature: Target player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card, then puts those cards into his or her graveyard.

"Scandal and slander are never welcome news. That's why I'm never the messenger."

Gateway Shade

Creature - Shade

: Gateway Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Tap an untapped Gate you control: Gateway Shade gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Tireless and merciless, shades are harnessed as spies by the Dimir.

Frontline Medic

Creature - Human Cleric

Battalion - Whenever Frontline Medic and at least two other creatures attack, creatures you control are indestructible this turn.

Sacrifice Frontline Medic: Counter target spell with in its mana cost unless its controller pays .

Skyknight Legionnaire

Creature - Human Knight

Flying, haste

"I do not know which gives me more pride: the legions of soldiers marching in thunderous lockstep, or the cry of the skyknights riding their rocs like jagged lightning overhead."
-Razia

Haazda Snare Squad

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever Haazda Snare Squad attacks, you may pay . If you do, tap target creature an opponent controls.

They've been probation officers, army grunts, bounty hunters-anything to make their district safer.

Wind Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

A smaller cousin to the dragon, drakes are often seen at the side of powerful wizards who use them as airborne eyes and ears.

Hired Torturer

Creature - Human Rogue

Defender

, : Target opponent loses 2 life, then reveals a card at random from his or her hand.

"Follow your passion, I always say. Might as well get paid to do what you love."

Rakdos Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Rakdos rioters paint their faces to resemble the drakes' bloodied muzzles.

Pyrewild Shaman

Creature - Goblin Shaman

Bloodrush - , Discard Pyrewild Shaman: Target attacking creature gets +3/+1 until end of turn.

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, if Pyrewild Shaman is in your graveyard, you may pay . If you do, return Pyrewild Shaman to your hand.

Battering Krasis

Creature - Fish Beast

Trample

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Renegade Krasis

Creature - Beast Mutant

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Whenever Renegade Krasis evolves, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Beetleform Mage

Creature - Human Insect Wizard

: Beetleform Mage gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"When the Simic say to take command of your life, we don't mean just your career."
-Vorel of the Hull Clade

Feral Animist

Creature - Goblin Shaman

: Feral Animist gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power.

He chanted over a pot of boiling blood and honey. His brain buzzed like a nest of hornets, and his muscles rippled with the might of the bear.

Goblin Test Pilot

Creature - Goblin Wizard

Flying

: Goblin Test Pilot deals 2 damage to target creature or player chosen at random.

"All pilots and prototypes destroyed. Extensive collateral damage inflicted. Conclusion: flawless design."
-Manual of Melek

Nivix Cyclops

Creature - Cyclops

Defender

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Nivix Cyclops gets +3/+0 until end of turn and can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.

Sin Collector

Creature - Human Cleric

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

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

Varolz, the Scar-Striped

Legendary Creature - Troll Warrior

Each creature card in your graveyard has scavenge. The scavenge cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Varolz, the Scar-Striped.

Viashino Firstblade

Creature - Viashino Soldier

Haste

When Viashino Firstblade enters the battlefield, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"All that steel doesn't make them slower. It makes them bolder."
-Tajic, Blade of the Legion

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."

Auramancer

Creature - Human Wizard

When Auramancer enters the battlefield, you may return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

"In memories, we can find our deepest reserves of strength."

Banisher Priest

Creature - Human Cleric

When Banisher Priest enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until Banisher Priest leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

"Oathbreaker, I cast you out!"

Fiendslayer Paladin

Creature - Human Knight

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

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

Fiendslayer Paladin can't be the target of black or red spells your opponents control.

Griffin Sentinel

Creature - Griffin

Flying

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

Once a griffin sentinel adopts a territory as its own, only death can force it to betray its post.

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.

Steelform Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control get +0/+1.

"Though the slivers may sometimes resemble us, they are not human. Anyone who fights them must remember this."-Sarlena, paladin of the Northern Verge

Phantom Warrior

Creature - Illusion Warrior

Phantom Warrior can't be blocked.

"The construction of a defense is not accomplished by adding bricks."
-Jace Beleren

Scroll Thief

Creature - Merfolk Rogue

Whenever Scroll Thief deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

The arcane academies along the coast were powerless to protect themselves from the brazen raiders of the Kapsho Seas.

Trained Condor

Creature - Bird

Flying

Whenever Trained Condor attacks, another target creature you control gains flying until end of turn.

"They're smart enough to understand that war means lots of carrion."-Griv, condor rider

Wall of Frost

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Frost blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"I welcome it. The pasture is cleared of weeds and the wolves are frozen solid."
-Lumi, goatherd

Warden of Evos Isle

Creature - Bird Wizard

Flying

Creature spells with flying you cast cost less to cast.

On Evos Isle, the swift and formidable aven enforce the will of the ruling sphinxes.

Blood Bairn

Creature - Vampire

Sacrifice another creature: Blood Bairn gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

The travelers were warned to watch out for children on the road.

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.

Syphon Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have lifelink. (Damage dealt by a Sliver creature you control also causes you to gain that much life.)

When the hive must feed, every appendage becomes an additional mouth.

Undead Minotaur

Creature - Zombie Minotaur

"The work that went into creating this magnificent specimen. Horrific, deadly, well-balanced. Not all necromancers do elegant work like this."-Lestin, necromancer

Xathrid Necromancer

Creature - Human Wizard

Whenever Xathrid Necromancer or another Human creature you control dies, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield tapped.

"My commands shall echo forever in their dusty skulls."

Academy Raider

Creature - Human Warrior

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

Whenever Academy Raider deals combat damage to a player, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Blur Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have haste. (They can attack and as soon as they come under your control.)

They move in a synchronized swarm, turning entire squads into heaps of bloody rags and bones in an instant.

Chandra's Phoenix

Creature - Phoenix

Flying

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

Whenever an opponent is dealt damage by a red instant or sorcery spell you control or by a red planeswalker you control, return Chandra's Phoenix from your graveyard to your hand.

Dragon Egg

Creature - Dragon

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

When Dragon Egg dies, put a 2/2 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield. It has ": This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Dragon birth lairs are littered with treasure to entice the young from their eggs.

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.

Regathan Firecat

Creature - Elemental Cat

It stalks the Regathan highlands, leaving behind melted snow, scorched earth, and the charred corpses of would-be temple robbers.

Advocate of the Beast

Creature - Elf Shaman

At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on target Beast creature you control.

"I am neither their drover nor their leader. To these majestic beasts, I am simply their herdmate and nothing more."

Brindle Boar

Creature - Boar

Sacrifice Brindle Boar: You gain 4 life.

"Tell the cooks to prepare the fires. Tonight we feast!"
-Tolar Wolfbrother, Krosan tracker

Rootwalla

Creature - Lizard

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

If you try to sneak up on a rootwalla, you'll suddenly find yourself dealing with twice the lizard.

Witchstalker

Creature - Wolf

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Whenever an opponent casts a blue or black spell during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Witchstalker.

Sliver Construct

Artifact Creature - Sliver Construct

Slivers destroy those who come close to the Skep, the central hive. Shards of torn metal litter the ground as a warning to any artificers inquisitive about the hive's inner workings.

Fabled Hero

Creature - Human Soldier

Double strike

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

"You. Poet. Be sure to write this down."

Lagonna-Band Elder

Creature - Centaur Advisor

When Lagonna-Band Elder enters the battlefield, if you control an enchantment, you gain 3 life.

"The best lessons are not the ones I teach. They are the ones the pupils realize for themselves."

Scholar of Athreos

Creature - Human Cleric

: Each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

She asks pointed questions of the dead who wait for Athreos, learning of life from those who are about to leave it.

Wingsteed Rider

Creature - Human Knight

Flying

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

Trust is the only bridle a pegasus will accept.

Crackling Triton

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

, Sacrifice Crackling Triton: Crackling Triton deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

He calls upon both the currents in the sea and the current in the clouds.

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."

Triton Fortune Hunter

Creature - Merfolk Soldier

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Triton Fortune Hunter, draw a card.

"Thassa has blessed me with power and insight. I am careful not to disappoint her."

Wavecrash Triton

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Wavecrash Triton, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Agent of the Fates

Creature - Human Assassin

Deathtouch

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Agent of the Fates, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

"You are breathing borrowed air."

Blood-Toll Harpy

Creature - Harpy

Flying

When Blood-Toll Harpy enters the battlefield, each player loses 1 life.

When harpies demand a toll to cross through their territory, consider yourself lucky if they permit payment in coin.

Felhide Minotaur

Creature - Minotaur

With spear held high, the Champion came to meet Thyrogog of the Ashlands, who wore the old king's skin as a cloak and fed on the flesh of innocents. The foul minotaur raised the great axe called Goremaster and charged.
-The Theriad