Cyclops Gladiator

Creature - Cyclops Warrior

Whenever Cyclops Gladiator attacks, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature defending player controls. If you do, that creature deals damage equal to its power to Cyclops Gladiator.

Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass

Creature - Cyclops

The Champion armed herself to face the cyclops, heedless of her companions' despair.
"How will you defeat it with only one spear?" asked young Althemone.
The Champion raised her weapon. "It has but one eye."
-The Theriad

Cyclops Tyrant

Creature - Cyclops

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

Cyclops Tyrant can't block creatures with power 2 or less.

A single eye, blinded by rage.

Cylian Elf

Creature - Elf Scout

From her sunsail tent high above the forest floor, an elf harkener can hear the footfalls of a single creature through the cacophony of Naya's jungle sounds.

Cylian Sunsinger

Creature - Elf Shaman

: Cylian Sunsinger and each other creature with the same name as it get +3/+3 until end of turn.

"The sun shines bright upon the strong."

Cystbearer

Creature - Beast

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

Phyrexia strives to simulate natural life, but it can't resist improving on the design.

Dack's Duplicate

Creature - Shapeshifter

You may have Dack's Duplicate enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield except it gains haste and dethrone. (Whenever it attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Daggerback Basilisk

Creature - Basilisk

Deathtouch

"Petrifying gaze, deadly fangs, knifelike dorsal spines, venomous saliva . . . Am I missing anything? . . . Toxic bones? Seriously?"
-Samila, Murasa Expeditionary House

Daggerdrome Imp

Creature - Imp

Flying

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

One of the many reasons why open-air markets close at dusk.

Daghatar the Adamant

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

Vigilance

Daghatar the Adamant enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.

: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto a second target creature.

"Our victories will protect a thousand generations."

Dakra Mystic

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

, : Each player reveals the top card of his or her library. You may put the revealed cards into their owners' graveyards. If you don't, each player draws a card.

Choices are rarely as simple as they seem.

Damia, Sage of Stone

Legendary Creature - Gorgon Wizard

Deathtouch

Skip your draw step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have fewer than seven cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference.

Ask your query and be on your way. Just don't look her in the eye.

Daring Skyjek

Creature - Human Knight

Battalion - Whenever Daring Skyjek and at least two other creatures attack, Daring Skyjek gains flying until end of turn.

"The hard part isn't landing in the saddle. The hard part is leaping before you see it."

Daring Thief

Creature - Human Rogue

Inspired - Whenever Daring Thief becomes untapped, you may exchange control of target nonland permanent you control and target permanent an opponent controls that shares a card type with it.

Honesty is the first casualty of war.

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.

Dark Hatchling

Creature - Horror

Flying

When Dark Hatchling enters the battlefield, destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Dark Impostor

Creature - Vampire Assassin

: Exile target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on Dark Impostor.

Dark Impostor has all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with it.

"Ah, this is a nice life. I can see why you were so desperate to keep it."

Dark Revenant

Creature - Spirit

Flying

When Dark Revenant dies, put it on top of its owner's library.

The murderer faced justice in the Azorius courts, but his soul was set free on a technicality.

Darklit Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

: Darklit Gargoyle gets +2/-1 until end of turn.

It shines in the darkness of its master's ambitions.

Darkslick Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

When Darkslick Drake dies, draw a card.

At the edge of the Mephidross, Phyrexia's influence seeps into life and land.

Darksteel Colossus

Artifact Creature - Golem

Trample

Darksteel Colossus is indestructible.

If Darksteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Darksteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Darksteel Juggernaut

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Darksteel Juggernaut's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Darksteel Juggernaut is indestructible and attacks each turn if able.

One part unstoppable force, one part immovable object.

Darksteel Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Darksteel Myr is indestructible. (Lethal damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.)

Darksteel Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Golem

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

Vigilance

Darksteel Sentinel is indestructible. (Lethal damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.)

Darkthicket Wolf

Creature - Wolf

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

Werewolf slayers don't know for certain how werewolves are created. So they kill all the wolves, just to be safe.

Dauntless Escort

Creature - Rhino Soldier

Sacrifice Dauntless Escort: Creatures you control are indestructible this turn.

Elspeth's squires do not seek advancement. For them, no knightly glory could surpass the glory of serving their champion.

Dauntless River Marshal

Creature - Human Soldier

Dauntless River Marshal gets +1/+1 as long as you control an Island.

: Tap target creature.

"Thieves and squid squirm the same way when you capture them."

Dawnbringer Charioteers

Creature - Human Soldier

Flying, lifelink

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

"Nyx may belong to the gods, but the skies of Theros are ours."

Dawnglare Invoker

Creature - Kor Wizard

Flying

: Tap all creatures target player controls.

"What we knew as Emeria, Ula, and Cosi were not divine beings at all, but a cruel trick, and a grave error."
-The Invokers' Tales

Dawnray Archer

Creature - Human Archer

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

, : Dawnray Archer deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Their shots are fired most often as signals-or at those who didn't get the message.

Dawnstrike Paladin

Creature - Human Knight

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

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

She crushes darkness beneath her charger's hooves.

Dawntreader Elk

Creature - Elk

, Sacrifice Dawntreader Elk: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Silent as winter snow, it seeks wild places unspoiled by the walking dead.

Daxos of Meletis

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

Daxos of Meletis can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.

Whenever Daxos of Meletis deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library. You gain life equal to that card's converted mana cost. Until end of turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Daybreak Ranger

Creature - Human Archer Werewolf

: Daybreak Ranger deals 2 damage to target creature with flying.

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

Dazzling Ramparts

Creature - Wall

Defender

, : Tap target creature.

When Anafenza holds court under the First Tree, the gates of Mer-Ek are sealed. No safer place exists in all of Tarkir.

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.

Deadbridge Goliath

Creature - Insect

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.)

Some Golgari insects live for centuries-and they never stop growing.

Deadeye Navigator

Creature - Spirit

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)

As long as Deadeye Navigator is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has ": Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control."

Deadly Recluse

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

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

Even dragons fear its silken strands.

Deadshot Minotaur

Creature - Minotaur

When Deadshot Minotaur enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to target creature with flying.

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

"May the earth rise up to meet you."

Deadwood Treefolk

Creature - Treefolk

Vanishing 3 (This permanent enters the battlefield with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)

When Deadwood Treefolk enters the battlefield or leaves the battlefield, return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Deal Broker

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Deal Broker face up.

Immediately after the draft, you may reveal a card in your card pool. Each other player may offer you one card in his or her card pool in exchange. You may accept any one offer.

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Dearly Departed

Creature - Spirit

Flying

As long as Dearly Departed is in your graveyard, each Human creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

"Never forget our ancestors. They have not forgotten us."
-Mikaeus, the Lunarch

Death Baron

Creature - Zombie Wizard

Skeleton creatures you control and other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch.

For the necromancer barons, killing and recruitment are one and the same.

Death Cultist

Creature - Human Wizard

Sacrifice Death Cultist: Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Death inevitably seduces all who study it.

Death's Shadow

Creature - Avatar

Death's Shadow gets -X/-X, where X is your life total.

The shadow of the candle looms tall even as its light grows dim.

Death-Hood Cobra

Creature - Snake

: Death-Hood Cobra gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

: Death-Hood Cobra gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

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

Deathbringer Regent

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Deathbringer Regent enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand and there are five or more other creatures on the battlefield, destroy all other creatures.

Deathbringer Thoctar

Creature - Zombie Beast

Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Deathbringer Thoctar.

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Deathbringer Thoctar: Deathbringer Thoctar deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

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

Deathforge Shaman

Creature - Ogre Shaman

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

When Deathforge Shaman enters the battlefield, it deals damage to target player equal to twice the number of times it was kicked.

Deathgaze Cockatrice

Creature - Cockatrice

Flying

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

"Sometimes I come across a stone finger or foot and I know I'm in cockatrice territory."-Rulak, bog guide

Deathgreeter

Creature - Human Shaman

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

"The bones of allies grant wisdom. The bones of enemies grant strength. The bones of dragons grant life eternal."

Deathless Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

: Target creature is indestructible this turn.

"I should have died that day, but I suffered not a scratch. I awoke in a lake of blood, none of it apparently my own."
-The War Diaries

Deathless Behemoth

Creature - Eldrazi

Vigilance

Sacrifice two Eldrazi Scions: Return Deathless Behemoth from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

"Over and over it rose. Over and over we fell."-Ganda, Goma Fada deserter

Deathmist Raptor

Creature - Lizard Beast

Deathtouch

Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, you may return Deathmist Raptor from your graveyard to the battlefield face up or face down.

Megamorph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Deathpact Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Deathpact Angel dies, put a 1/1 white and black Cleric creature token onto the battlefield. It has ", , Sacrifice this creature: Return a card named Deathpact Angel from your graveyard to the battlefield."

Deathrite Shaman

Creature - Elf Shaman

: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

, : Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life.

, : Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.

Deceiver Exarch

Creature - Cleric

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

When Deceiver Exarch enters the battlefield, choose one - Untap target permanent you control; or tap target permanent an opponent controls.

Deceiver of Form

Creature - Eldrazi

({C} represents colorless mana.)

At the beginning of combat on your turn, reveal the top card of your library. If a creature card is revealed this way, you may have creatures you control other than Deceiver of Form become copies of that card until end of turn. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.

Decorated Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

: Prevent the next 1 combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

The awards and medals of polis-dwellers mean nothing to griffins, but they repay acts of generosity.

Deep-Sea Kraken

Creature - Kraken

Deep-Sea Kraken can't be blocked.

Suspend 9- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with nine time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if Deep-Sea Kraken is suspended, remove a time counter from it.

The rift remained open for days, sluicing ancient seawater. It closed only after the last great tentacle squirmed its way through.

Deepcavern Imp

Creature - Imp Rebel

Flying, haste

Echo-Discard a card. (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.)

Deepfathom Skulker

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

{C}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Deepfire Elemental

Creature - Elemental

: Destroy target artifact or creature with converted mana cost X.

"There are deep, deep places in this world that have long burned hot with little regard for the whitening of the earth's thin skin."
-Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper

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

Defiant Bloodlord

Creature - Vampire

Flying

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

"Despite their bravado, mortals are fragile. If Zendikar is to endure, its lords must save it."-Drana, Kalastria bloodchief

Defiant Ogre

Creature - Ogre Warrior

When Defiant Ogre enters the battlefield, choose one -

• Put a +1/+1 counter on Defiant Ogre.

• Destroy target artifact.

"I have no clan, but I still have purpose."

Defiler of Souls

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a monocolored creature.

"Stray not into sin, lest you face the doorman of an insatiable tomb."
-Prayer of Asha

Deft Duelist

Creature - Human Rogue

First strike

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Some Serul Cove rogues traffic in stolen sigils, which fetch a high price from those who would rather pay for honor than earn it.

Delver of Secrets

Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card. If an instant or sorcery card is revealed this way, transform Delver of Secrets.

Dementia Bat

Creature - Bat

Flying

, Sacrifice Dementia Bat: Target player discards two cards.

"When terror outweighs all other thoughts, they will understand that I am the true Father of Machines."
-Azax-Azog, the Demon Thane

Demigod of Revenge

Creature - Spirit Avatar

Flying, haste

When you cast Demigod of Revenge, return all cards named Demigod of Revenge from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"His laugh, a bellowing, deathly din, slices through the heavens, making them bleed."
-The Seer's Parables

Demon of Death's Gate

Creature - Demon

You may pay 6 life and sacrifice three black creatures rather than pay Demon of Death's Gate's mana cost.

Flying, trample

The locks on the cages of the damned are opened with keys of marrow, sinew, and blood.

Demon of Wailing Agonies

Creature - Demon

Flying

Lieutenant - As long as you control your commander, Demon of Wailing Agonies gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever Demon of Wailing Agonies deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a creature."

Demon's Herald

Creature - Human Wizard

, , Sacrifice a blue creature, a black creature, and a red creature: Search your library for a card named Prince of Thralls and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

"May these deaths be the first of many."

Demonic Taskmaster

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than Demonic Taskmaster.

Subservience to greater power is the only law in the pit.

Demonlord of Ashmouth

Creature - Demon

Flying

When Demonlord of Ashmouth enters the battlefield, exile it unless you sacrifice another creature.

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.)

Den Protector

Creature - Human Warrior

Creatures with power less than Den Protector's power can't block it.

Megamorph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

When Den Protector is turned face up, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

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."

Deranged Assistant

Creature - Human Wizard

, Put the top card of your library into your graveyard: Add to your mana pool.

"Garl, adjust the slurry dispensers. Garl, fetch more corpses. Garl, quit crying and give me your brain tissue. If he doesn't stop being so rude, I'm quitting."

Deranged Outcast

Creature - Human Rogue

, Sacrifice a Human: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Cast out by his village, he now takes grim offense at refugees who seek shelter in his forest.

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Legendary Creature - Bird Wizard

FlyingWhenever Derevi, Empyrial Tactician enters the battlefield or a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may tap or untap target permanent.: Put Derevi onto the battlefield from the command zone.

Desecration Demon

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of each combat, any opponent may sacrifice a creature. If a player does, tap Desecration Demon and put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Desecrator Hag

Creature - Hag

When Desecrator Hag enters the battlefield, return to your hand the creature card in your graveyard with the greatest power. If two or more cards are tied for greatest power, you choose one of them.

Loose earth is not a burial but an appetizer.

Desolation Twin

Creature - Eldrazi

When you cast Desolation Twin, put a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token onto the battlefield.

"With precise coordination and enough blood spilled, one can be driven off, even brought down. But two . . . that's a lot of blood."-Munda, ambush leader

Destructor Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Destructor Dragon dies, destroy target noncreature permanent.

After countless attacks on the Salt Road where it passes through the frozen tundra, the Abzan began to refer to the area as Atarka territory rather than Temur lands.

Devouring Swarm

Creature - Insect

Flying

Sacrifice a creature: Devouring Swarm gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Their arrival is heralded by the deafening hum of ten thousand wings. Their departure is marked by the silence of the dead.

Devout Chaplain

Creature - Human Cleric

, Tap two untapped Humans you control: Exile target artifact or enchantment.

"By Avacyn's decree, we shall cleanse these relics of their demonic past."

Devout Lightcaster

Creature - Kor Cleric

Protection from black

When Devout Lightcaster enters the battlefield, exile target black permanent.

"Goddess, grant us light to banish the world's shadows."
-Prayer to Kamsa

Diaochan, Artful Beauty

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

: Destroy target creature of your choice, then destroy target creature of an opponent's choice. Activate this ability only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Diffusion Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Whenever a Sliver creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays .

"The hive shimmered, and its walls seemed a living mirror."
-Hastric, Thunian scout

Diluvian Primordial

Creature - Avatar

Flying

When Diluvian Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a card cast this way would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.

Dimensional Infiltrator

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flash

Flying

{C}: Target opponent exiles the top card of his or her library. If it's a land card, you may return Dimensional Infiltrator to its owner's hand. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Dimir Doppelganger

Creature - Shapeshifter

: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Dimir Doppelganger becomes a copy of that card and gains this ability.

"Fear not. Your life will not go unlived."

Dinrova Horror

Creature - Horror

When Dinrova Horror enters the battlefield, return target permanent to its owner's hand, then that player discards a card.

"Welcome to the Dimir Public Offices. Not responsible for death or loss of property. Basement off-limits."
-Sign outside Dinrova Building

Diregraf Captain

Creature - Zombie Soldier

Deathtouch

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.

Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.

Though its mind has long since rotted away, it wields a sword with deadly skill.

Diregraf Escort

Creature - Human Cleric

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)

As long as Diregraf Escort is paired with another creature, both creatures have protection from Zombies.

Diregraf Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

Diregraf Ghoul enters the battlefield tapped.

"At least this one still has arms and legs. Well, most of its legs."
-Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia