Wall of Water

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Wall of Water gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

A deafening roar arose as the fury of an enormous vertical river supplanted our serenity. Eddies turned into whirling geysers, leveling everything in their path.

Wall of Vipers

Creature - Snake Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Destroy Wall of Vipers and target creature it's blocking. Any player may activate this ability.

What wall can never be climbed, but is always scaled?
-Nakaya riddle

Wall of Vines

Creature - Plant Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Like all jungle plants, the vines must fight and claw for sunlight. Once their place is secured, they grow strong, sharp, and impenetrable.

Wall of Vapor

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Wall of Vapor by creatures it's blocking.

"Walls of a castle are made out of stone,/ Walls of a house out of bricks or of wood./ My walls are made out of magic alone,/ Stronger than any that ever have stood." -Chrysoberyl Earthsdaughter, Incantations

Wall of Torches

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

The foolish try to leap through the unlit spaces. The arrogant believe the fires harmless. The wise find a different door.

Wall of Tombstones

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, Wall of Tombstones's toughness becomes 1 plus the number of creature cards in your graveyard. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Wall of Tears

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Tears blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.

"Many have been lost to pity."
-Karn, silver golem

Wall of Tanglecord

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender

: Wall of Tanglecord gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Rootlike fibers travel far from Mirrodin's metallic forests, emerging from the crust to drink in the mana-infused sunlight.

Wall of Swords

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Flying

The air hummed with the scissoring sound of uncounted blades that hovered in front of the invaders as though wielded by a phalanx of unseen hands.

Wall of Stone

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

The Earth herself lends her strength to these walls of living stone, which possess the stability of ancient mountains. These mighty bulwarks thwart ground-based troops, providing welcome relief for weary warriors who defend the land.

Wall of Spears

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

First strike

Even the most conservative generals revised their tactics after the Battle of Sarinth, during which a handful of peasant-pikemen held off a trio of rampaging Craw Wurms.

Wall of Souls

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Souls is dealt combat damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent.

"It is the nature of evil to turn you against yourself."
-Starke

Wall of Shields

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Banding (If any creatures with banding you control are blocking a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by.)

"It's the pokey bits that hurt the most."
-Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician

Wall of Shards

Snow Creature - Wall

Defender, flying

Cumulative upkeep-An opponent gains 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Wall of Shadows

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Wall of Shadows by creatures it's blocking.

Wall of Shadows can't be the target of spells that can target only Walls or of abilities that can target only Walls.

Wall of Roots

Creature - Plant Wall

Defender

Put a -0/-1 counter on Wall of Roots: Add to your mana pool. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Sometimes the wise ones wove their magic into living plants; as the plant grew, so grew the magic.

Wall of Reverence

Creature - Spirit Wall

Defender, flying

At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.

The lives of elves are long, but their memories are longer. Even after death, they do not desert their homes.

Wall of Resurgence

Creature - Wall

Defender

When Wall of Resurgence enters the battlefield, you may put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control. If you do, that land becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste that's still a land.

Wall of Resistance

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Flying

At the beginning of each end step, if Wall of Resistance was dealt damage this turn, put a +0/+1 counter on it.

Telim'Tor could no longer recall the exact number of assaults-but his troops could.

Wall of Razors

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

First strike

"In this blessed structure let the very walls baptize themselves in the blood of intruders."
-Stronghold architect, journal

Wall of Putrid Flesh

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Protection from white

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Wall of Putrid Flesh by enchanted creatures.

Wall of Pine Needles

Creature - Plant Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Regenerate Wall of Pine Needles.

The power of the forest takes a hundred forms. Some are more surprising than others.

Wall of Opposition

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Wall of Opposition gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Like so many obstacles in life, the Wall of Opposition is but an illusion, held fast by the focus and belief of the one who creates it.

Wall of Omens

Creature - Wall

Defender

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

"I search for a vision of Zendikar that does not include the Eldrazi."
-Expedition journal entry

Wall of Nets

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

At end of combat, exile all creatures blocked by Wall of Nets.

When Wall of Nets leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with Wall of Nets to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Wall of Mulch

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.

Mulch is the fabric of life in the forest. Plants live in it, they die in it, and then they become part of it, feeding countless generations to come.

Wall of Limbs

Creature - Zombie Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Wall of Limbs.

, Sacrifice Wall of Limbs: Target player loses X life, where X is Wall of Limbs's power.

Wall of Light

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Protection from black

As many attackers were dazzled by the wall's beauty as were halted by its force.

Wall of Lava

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Wall of Lava gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Now there's something you don't see every day."
-Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Wall of Kelp

Creature - Plant Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, : Put a 0/1 blue Plant Wall creature token with defender named Kelp onto the battlefield.

"Ya can eat it or ya can weave it, but ya can't fight in it."
-Zeki, Reef Pirate

Wall of Junk

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Junk blocks, return it to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Urza saw the wall and realized that even if he tore every Phyrexian to pieces, they would still resist him.

Wall of Ice

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

"And through the drifts the snowy cliffs/ Did send a dismal sheen:/ Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken-/ The ice was all between."/-Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Wall of Hope

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Hope is dealt damage, you gain that much life.

"What cage would you rather be inside of than out?"
-Daru riddle

Wall of Heat

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

At a distance, we mistook the sound for a waterfall . . .

Wall of Glare

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Wall of Glare can block any number of creatures.

The blinding barrier served Benalia better than a hundred shields.

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

Wall of Fire

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Wall of Fire gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Mercy is for those who keep their distance.

Wall of Faith

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Wall of Faith gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"This is a fine suit, armorsmith. I will be safe from harm. If only you could forge rings to mail the rest of my people . . ."
-Lord Hilneth

Wall of Essence

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Essence is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life.

The ceiling and the floor fell in love, but only the wall knew.
-Dal saying

Wall of Earth

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

The ground shuddered violently and the earth seemed to come to life. The elemental force contained in the vast wall of earth was trapped, bent to its controller's will.

Wall of Dust

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Dust blocks a creature, that creature can't attack during its controller's next turn.

An ever-moving swarm of dust engulfs and disorients anything that comes near.

Wall of Distortion

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, : Target player discards a card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

It reflects only nightmares.

Wall of Diffusion

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Wall of Diffusion can block creatures with shadow as though Wall of Diffusion had shadow.

"The injury was being caught between this world and our own; the insult was to find walls within."
-Lyna, Soltari emissary

Wall of Denial

Creature - Wall

Defender, flying

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

It provides what every discerning mage requires-time to think.

Wall of Deceit

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Turn Wall of Deceit face down.

Morph (You may cast this face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Wall of Corpses

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, Sacrifice Wall of Corpses: Destroy target creature Wall of Corpses is blocking.

"I shall make walls of their flesh, and their blood will be my mortar."
-Kaervek

Wall of Caltrops

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Caltrops blocks a creature, if at least one other Wall creature is blocking that creature and no non-Wall creatures are blocking that creature, Wall of Caltrops gains banding until end of turn. (If any creatures with banding you control are blocking a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by.)

"Ow! Ow ow ow! Oooh, ow, OW!"

Wall of Brambles

Creature - Plant Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Regenerate Wall of Brambles.

"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf." -Conrad Aiken

Wall of Bone

Creature - Skeleton Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Regenerate Wall of Bone. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

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.

Wall of Blood

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Pay 1 life: Wall of Blood gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Blood is thicker than mortar.

Wall of Air

Creature - Wall

Defender, flying (This creature can't attack, and it can block creatures with flying.)

When no falcons fly, beware the sky.
-Femeref aphorism

Walking Wall

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender

: Walking Wall gets +3/-1 until end of turn and can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"The fortress is not what it seems."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Walking Sponge

Creature - Sponge

: Target creature loses your choice of flying, first strike, or trample until end of turn.

Not only does it catch fish, it cleans them too.

Walking Dream

Creature - Illusion

Walking Dream is unblockable.

Walking Dream doesn't untap during your untap step if an opponent controls two or more creatures.

Dreams, by definition, live shorter lives than those who dream them.

Walking Desecration

Creature - Zombie

, : Creatures of the creature type of your choice attack this turn if able.

Such sacrilege turns blinding grief into blinding rage.

Walking Dead

Creature - Zombie

: Regenerate Walking Dead.

The Walking Dead are the remains of freakish experiments by the Necromantic Lords.

Walking Corpse

Creature - Zombie

"Feeding a normal army is a problem of logistics. With zombies, it is an asset. Feeding is why they fight. Feeding is why they are feared."
-Jadar, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Walking Atlas

Artifact Creature - Construct

: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Crafted by lullmages and bound to the land, it alters itself to match the tumultuous terrain.

Walking Archive

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Walking Archive enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player draws a card for each +1/+1 counter on Walking Archive.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Walking Archive.

Walker of the Wastes

Creature - Eldrazi

({C} represents colorless mana.)

Trample

Walker of the Wastes gets +1/+1 for each land you control named Wastes.

In the absence of life, something yet grows.

Walker of the Grove

Creature - Elemental

When Walker of the Grove leaves the battlefield, put a 4/4 green Elemental creature token onto the battlefield.

Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Walker of Secret Ways

Creature - Human Ninja

Ninjutsu (, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)

Whenever Walker of Secret Ways deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand.

: Return target Ninja you control to its owner's hand. Activate this ability only during your turn.

Walk the Aeons

Sorcery

Buyback-Sacrifice three Islands. (You may sacrifice three Islands in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Target player takes an extra turn after this one.

Waking Nightmare

Sorcery - Arcane

Target player discards two cards.

"Once each year, the oni and other evil spirits paraded through villages to disturb mortals' sleep. During the war, this parade became a nightly event."
-Observations of the Kami War

Wakestone Gargoyle

Creature - Gargoyle

Defender, flying

: Creatures you control with defender can attack this turn as though they didn't have defender.

Its pulsating cry shatters bonds of iron, granite, and servitude.

Wakedancer

Creature - Human Shaman

Morbid - When Wakedancer enters the battlefield, if a creature died this turn, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Hers is an ancient form of necromancy, steeped in shamanic trance and ritual that few skaberen or ghoulcallers comprehend.

Wake Thrasher

Creature - Merfolk Soldier

Whenever a permanent you control becomes untapped, Wake Thrasher gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Anyone who thinks merrows have more brains than brawn has never been run over by one.

Wake the Reflections

Sorcery

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

"You see a bird, an oak, a packbeast. I see the potential for an army."
-Lalia, Selesnya dryad

Wake the Dead

Instant

Cast Wake the Dead only during combat on an opponent's turn.

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.

Wake of Vultures

Creature - Bird

Flying

, Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate Wake of Vultures.

"So the vulture said to the griffin, ‘You gonna eat that?'"
-Azeworai, "The Ugly Bird"

Wake of Destruction

Sorcery

Destroy target land and all other lands with the same name as that land.

Land charred black, rivers boiled,
Crops and wells alike despoiled,
Mountains leveled, forests felled-
Footprints of the beasts of Keld.

Waiting in the Weeds

Sorcery

Each player puts a 1/1 green Cat creature token onto the battlefield for each untapped Forest he or she controls.

The trees have ears, eyes, and teeth.

Wail of the Nim

Instant

Choose one - Regenerate each creature you control; or Wail of the Nim deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Vulturous Zombie

Creature - Plant Zombie

Flying

Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, put a +1/+1 counter on Vulturous Zombie.

"When something dies, all things benefit. Well okay, just our things."
-Ezoc, Golgari rot farmer

Vulturous Aven

Creature - Bird Shaman

Flying

Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.)

When Vulturous Aven exploits a creature, you draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Vulshok War Boar

Creature - Boar Beast

When Vulshok War Boar enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice an artifact.

It must eat its weight in metal daily, or its furnacelike belly will consume itself for lack of fuel.

Vulshok Sorcerer

Creature - Human Shaman

Haste

: Vulshok Sorcerer deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Vulshok sorcerers train by leaping into electrified storm clouds. Dead or alive, they come back down with smiles on their faces.

Vulshok Replica

Artifact Creature - Berserker

, Sacrifice Vulshok Replica: Vulshok Replica deals 3 damage to target player.

All the fury of the Vulshok with only a trace of their recklessness.

Vulshok Refugee

Creature - Human Warrior

Protection from red

"I will carve my people's vengeance on the face of Phyrexia."

Vulshok Morningstar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Vulshok Heartstoker

Creature - Human Shaman

When Vulshok Heartstoker enters the battlefield, target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

He fashions stirring words with as much passion as a smith fashioning a warhammer.

Vulshok Gauntlets

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+2 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Vulshok Berserker

Creature - Human Berserker

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

He will carve out a legend for himself with his own two hands.

Vulshok Battlemaster

Creature - Human Warrior

Haste

When Vulshok Battlemaster enters the battlefield, attach all Equipment on the battlefield to it. (Control of the Equipment doesn't change.)

Vulshok Battlegear

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+3.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Vulpine Goliath

Creature - Fox

Trample

"With a diet of hydras, giants, and massive serpents, anything would get that big."
-Corisande, Setessan hunter

Vug Lizard

Creature - Lizard

Mountainwalk

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.)

Vraska the Unseen

Planeswalker - Vraska (Loyalty: 5)

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

-3: Destroy target nonland permanent.

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

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."

Voyager Staff

Artifact

, Sacrifice Voyager Staff: Exile target creature. Return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Voyager staffs are sought by those hoping to find an escape from the sprawling glut of Ravnica.

Voyager Drake

Creature - Drake

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

Flying

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

Voyage's End

Instant

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

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

Vow of Wildness

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

Vow of Malice

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

Vow of Lightning

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

Vow of Flight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

Vow of Duty

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

Votary of the Conclave

Creature - Human Soldier

: Regenerate Votary of the Conclave.

An ageless order, the votaries receive the gift of rejuvenation from the temple gardens they guard.

Vortex Elemental

Creature - Elemental

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

: Target creature blocks Vortex Elemental this turn if able.

The sea is always hungry.