Vedalken Certarch

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

Metalcraft - : Tap target artifact, creature, or land. Activate this ability only if you control three or more artifacts.

"An appropriately detailed model is indistinguishable from reality, and much easier to control."

Vedalken Æthermage

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

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

When Vedalken Æthermage enters the battlefield, return target Sliver to its owner's hand.

Wizardcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Vedalken Archmage

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, draw a card.

"The Knowledge Pool knows. Memnarch understands."
-Janus, speaker of the synod

Vedalken Anatomist

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, : Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. You may tap or untap that creature.

"Specimen 211 examination report. Observation: graft sublimation incomplete. Result: death. Prepare specimen 212."

Vector Asp

Artifact Creature - Snake

: Vector Asp gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Phyrexia's machines take inspiration from nature. Twisted, disturbing inspiration.

Vectis Silencers

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Silencers gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.)

Even on Esper, there are those who eschew the use of magic in favor of simpler methods.

Vectis Dominator

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

: Tap target creature unless its controller pays 2 life.

"I appreciate the artistry of the telemins, but the creatures of the other worlds provide a much more dramatic performance."
-Ennor, mentalist

Vectis Agents

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Agents gets -2/-0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

With their life energy suppressed under their etherium enhancements, thieves from Esper found it surprisingly easy to explore the ruins of Grixis.

Vebulid

Creature - Horror

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

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Vebulid.

When Vebulid attacks or blocks, destroy it at end of combat.

Vaultbreaker

Creature - Orc Rogue

Whenever Vaultbreaker attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Dash (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Vault Skirge

Artifact Creature - Imp

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Flying

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

From the remnants of the dead, Geth forged a swarm to safeguard his throne.

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.

Vastwood Gorger

Creature - Wurm

"A long and difficult incision revealed that all vital organs are housed in the head, save for a long chain of stomachs, forty in all, leading from its throat to the end of the tail."
-Mulak Ffar, Vastwood Biodiversity

Vastwood Animist

Creature - Elf Shaman Ally

: Target land you control becomes an X/X Elemental creature until end of turn, where X is the number of Allies you control. It's still a land.

He calls on the forests for counsel and summons the earth to his cause.

Vassal Soul

Creature - Spirit

Flying

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

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.

Varchild's War-Riders

Creature - Human Warrior

Cumulative upkeep-Put a 1/1 red Survivor creature token onto the battlefield under an opponent's control. (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.)

Trample; rampage 1 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

"What tries to crush our spirit only strengthens our resolve." -Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Varchild's Crusader

Creature - Human Knight

: Varchild's Crusader can't be blocked this turn except by Walls. Sacrifice Varchild's Crusader at the beginning of the next end step.

"We could have peace, but Varchild would rather have the maps of the new Kjeldor drawn in Balduvian blood."King Darien of Kjeldor

Vaporous Djinn

Creature - Djinn

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, Vaporous Djinn phases out unless you pay . (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before you untap during your next untap step.)

"What is taking them so long to fill the waterskins?"
-Mwani, Mtenda goatherd

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

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."

Vampiric Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Flying

When Vampiric Spirit enters the battlefield, you lose 4 life.

Vampiric Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have "Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."

They draw upon the strength of their hive and of their victims.

Vampiric Dragon

Creature - Vampire Dragon

Flying

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Vampiric Dragon this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Vampiric Dragon.

: Vampiric Dragon deals 1 damage to target creature.

Vampire Warlord

Creature - Vampire Warrior

Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Vampire Warlord. (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.)

"How can you serve me? By dying."

Vampire Outcasts

Creature - Vampire

Bloodthirst 2 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.)

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

Vampire Nocturnus

Creature - Vampire

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

As long as the top card of your library is black, Vampire Nocturnus and other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+1 and have flying.

"Your life will set with the sun."

Vampire Nighthawk

Creature - Vampire Shaman

Flying

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

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

Vampire Lacerator

Creature - Vampire Warrior

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life unless an opponent has 10 or less life.

The lacerators cut themselves before each hunt. They must feed before the sun rises or bleed to death.

Vampire Interloper

Creature - Vampire Scout

Flying

Vampire Interloper can't block.

He listens to every heartbeat, deciding which one of hundreds he will stop.

Vampire Hounds

Creature - Vampire Hound

Discard a creature card: Vampire Hounds gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

The hounds' barks are a horrifying chorus of screams, moans, and whispers.

Vampire Hexmage

Creature - Vampire Shaman

First strike

Sacrifice Vampire Hexmage: Remove all counters from target permanent.

When the blood hunt lost its thrill, she looked for less tangible means of domination.

Vampire Envoy

Creature - Vampire Cleric Ally

Flying

Whenever Vampire Envoy becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

"Zendikar will fight until it has bled its last."

Vampire Bats

Creature - Bat

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

: Vampire Bats gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability no more than twice each turn.

Vampire Aristocrat

Creature - Vampire Rogue

Sacrifice a creature: Vampire Aristocrat gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"I admit, I am a creature of the city. The sights, the nightly excitement, the abundance of fine drink . . ."

Valor

Creature - Incarnation

First strike

As long as Valor is in your graveyard and you control a Plains, creatures you control have first strike.

"The cracks widened, the shell crumbled, and Valor spread throughout the land."
-Scroll of Beginnings

Valleymaker

Creature - Giant Shaman

, Sacrifice a Mountain: Valleymaker deals 3 damage to target creature.

, Sacrifice a Forest: Choose a player. That player adds to his or her mana pool.

Their home uprooted by a giant, the gang of boggarts mourned their old stomping ground.

Valley Rannet

Creature - Beast

Mountaincycling , forestcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Valley Dasher

Creature - Human Berserker

Haste

Valley Dasher attacks each turn if able.

Mardu riders' greatest fear is that a battle might end before their weapons draw blood.

Valiant Guard

Creature - Human Soldier

As the outsiders invaded Bant, soldiers who once saw sigils as the highest marks of glory began to see the scars of battle as tokens of equal worth.

Valeron Outlander

Creature - Human Scout

Protection from black

After years of honing her philosophy in debate with stubborn rhoxes, Niella was ready to convert any heathen.

Valakut Predator

Creature - Elemental

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Valakut Predator gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"Whatever volcanoes dream of, it seems like they always wake up grumpy."-Raff Slugeater, goblin shortcutter

Valakut Invoker

Creature - Human Shaman

: Valakut Invoker deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

"As long as we have walked this world, we have known it as a harsh and unforgiving place."-The Invokers' Tales

Valakut Fireboar

Creature - Elemental Boar

Whenever Valakut Fireboar attacks, switch its power and toughness until end of turn.

"Just move very slowly, and for the love of Ula, do not get it mad."
-Chadir the Navigator

Vagrant Plowbeasts

Creature - Beast

: Regenerate target creature with power 5 or greater.

Plowbeasts of Naya escaped their harnesses in droves, content to snack on the conveniently cultivated fields of Eos and Valeron.

Vaevictis Asmadi

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Vaevictis Asmadi unless you pay .

: Vaevictis Asmadi gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Vaevictis Asmadi gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Vaevictis Asmadi gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Uyo, Silent Prophet

Legendary Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return two lands you control to their owner's hand: Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Utvara Scalper

Creature - Goblin Scout

Flying

Utvara Scalper attacks each turn if able.

He wages war wherever the wind carries him.

Utvara Hellkite

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, put a 6/6 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

The fear of dragons is as old and as powerful as the fear of death itself.

Utopia Tree

Creature - Plant

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

The fruit of this fabled tree takes on the flavor of whatever food you love most.

Utopia Mycon

Creature - Fungus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Utopia Mycon.

Remove three spore counters from Utopia Mycon: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

Sacrifice a Saproling: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Uthden Troll

Creature - Troll

: Regenerate Uthden Troll.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere,
Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near,
Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da
hurt'll disappear."
-Traditional

Urza's Engine

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Trample

: Urza's Engine gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

: Attacking creatures banded with Urza's Engine gain trample until end of turn.

"Humans and machines working together can be fearsome indeed!" -Arcum Dagsson

Urza's Avenger

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

: Urza's Avenger gets -1/-1 and gains your choice of banding, flying, first strike, or trample until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Unable to settle on just one design, Urza decided to create one versatile being.

Ursine Fylgja

Creature - Spirit Bear

Ursine Fylgja enters the battlefield with four healing counters on it.

Remove a healing counter from Ursine Fylgja: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Ursine Fylgja this turn.

: Put a healing counter on Ursine Fylgja.

Ursapine

Creature - Beast

: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

A friendly ursapine means a constant supply of sharp spears. An unfriendly one means a constant supply of small holes.

Uril, the Miststalker

Legendary Creature - Beast

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

Uril, the Miststalker gets +2/+2 for each Aura attached to it.

It strides through the whitecover, mists in which even gargantuans can hide.

Urborg Syphon-Mage

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Each other player loses 2 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

"I have become a gourmet of sorts. Each soul has its own distinctive flavor. The art is in inviting the right company to the feast."

Urborg Stalker

Creature - Horror

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player controls a nonblack, nonland permanent, Urborg Stalker deals 1 damage to that player.

"May you be a stalker's dream."
-Urborg curse

Urborg Skeleton

Creature - Skeleton

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

: Regenerate Urborg Skeleton.

If Urborg Skeleton was kicked, it enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Urborg Shambler

Creature - Horror

Other black creatures get -1/-1.

A writhing mass of rot, with sharp claws and a vicious spirit.

Urborg Phantom

Creature - Spirit Minion

Urborg Phantom can't block.

: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by Urborg Phantom this turn.

A chilling fog with teeth of ice.

Urborg Panther

Creature - Nightstalker Cat

, Sacrifice Urborg Panther: Destroy target creature blocking Urborg Panther.

Sacrifice a creature named Feral Shadow, a creature named Breathstealer, and Urborg Panther: Search your library for a card named Spirit of the Night and put that card onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Urborg Mindsucker

Creature - Horror

, Sacrifice Urborg Mindsucker: Target opponent discards a card at random. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

"My pet will pick the ripe fruit from your tortured brain as if it were hanging from a vine."
-Kaervek

Urborg Emissary

Creature - Human Wizard

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

When Urborg Emissary enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Urborg Elf

Creature - Elf Druid

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

The elves of Urborg are as deadly and capricious as the swamp itself.

Urborg Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

Urborg Drake attacks each turn if able.

Relentless as the sea, remorseless as death.

Urbis Protector

Creature - Human Cleric

When Urbis Protector enters the battlefield, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"I hear that Boros is losing its angels to the Gateless Movement. I'm sure this comes as no surprise to you."
-Teysa, to Lazav

Urabrask the Hidden

Legendary Creature - Praetor

Creatures you control have haste.

Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

When the Mirran resistance arrived, the furnace dwellers looked to Urabrask for guidance. His decree stunned the others: "Let them be."

Ur-Drago

Legendary Creature - Elemental

First strike

Creatures with swampwalk can be blocked as though they didn't have swampwalk.

Updraft Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Flying

"It slips through the smallest cracks in the mountain, emerging whole and unfettered. There is nowhere it cannot go, for what can hold back the air itself?"
-Chanyi, Ojutai monk

Unyielding Krumar

Creature - Orc Warrior

: Unyielding Krumar gains first strike until end of turn.

"The man whom I call father killed the orc who sired me, offering his world and his blade in return."

Unyaro Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

Sacrifice Unyaro Griffin: Counter target red instant or sorcery spell.

The griffin's shadow gives courage to the righteous and dread to the idle.

Unyaro Bees

Creature - Insect

Flying

: Unyaro Bees gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

, Sacrifice Unyaro Bees: Unyaro Bees deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

With no jungle left to contain it, the "plague of daggers" spread across Dominaria.

Unworthy Dead

Creature - Skeleton

: Regenerate Unworthy Dead.

"Great Yawgmoth moves across the seas of shard and bone and rust. We exalt him in life, in death, and in between."
-Phyrexian Scriptures

Unstoppable Ash

Creature - Treefolk Warrior

Trample

Champion a Treefolk or Warrior (When this enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you exile another Treefolk or Warrior you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.)

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, it gets +0/+5 until end of turn.

Unstable Shapeshifter

Creature - Shapeshifter

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, Unstable Shapeshifter becomes a copy of that creature and gains this ability.

"In a world of untruths, the living lie rules."
-Oracle en-Vec

Unstable Hulk

Creature - Goblin Mutant

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

When Unstable Hulk is turned face up, it gets +6/+6 and gains trample until end of turn. You skip your next turn.

Unseen Walker

Creature - Dryad

Forestwalk

: Target creature gains forestwalk until end of turn.

"To pass through the jungle: silence, courtesy, ferocity, as the occasion demands."
-Kamau, "Proper Passage"

Unruly Mob

Creature - Human

Whenever another creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Unruly Mob.

"Who says werewolves are the only ones who can hunt as a pack?"
-Kolman, elder of Gatstaf

Unliving Psychopath

Creature - Zombie Assassin

: Unliving Psychopath gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

, : Destroy target creature with power less than Unliving Psychopath's power.

"The victim bears the marks of the ‘Ktozok Impaler'. . . but he was executed years ago!"
-Gorev Hadszak, Wojek investigator

Underworld Cerberus

Creature - Hound

Underworld Cerberus can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.

When Underworld Cerberus dies, exile it and each player returns all creature cards from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.

Undertaker

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The weight of death is heavy but not immovable.

Undergrowth Scavenger

Creature - Fungus Horror

Undergrowth Scavenger enters the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

It sees a rotting carcass as a good wine which has been aged properly.

Undergrowth Champion

Creature - Elemental

If damage would be dealt to Undergrowth Champion while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from Undergrowth Champion.

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Undergrowth Champion.

Undercity Shade

Creature - Shade

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

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

"Officially, there's nothing under that bridge to hunt . . . Unofficially, my torchers are too terrified to go there after nightfall."
-Agrus Kos

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."

Undead Warchief

Creature - Zombie

Zombie spells you cast cost less to cast.

Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.

It has the strength of seven men. In fact, it used to be seven men.

Undead Slayer

Creature - Human Cleric

, : Exile target Skeleton, Vampire, or Zombie.

"My motive is not vengeance but mercy. I deliver the soulless back to their severed souls."

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

Undead Leotau

Creature - Zombie Cat

: Undead Leotau gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Unearth (: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Undead Gladiator

Creature - Zombie Barbarian

, Discard a card: Return Undead Gladiator from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

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

Undead Executioner

Creature - Zombie

When Undead Executioner dies, you may have target creature get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Heartless killer in life, brainless killer in death.

Undead Alchemist

Creature - Zombie

If a Zombie you control would deal combat damage to a player, instead that player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from his or her library, exile that card and put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Uncle Istvan

Creature - Human

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Uncle Istvan by creatures.

Solitude drove the old hermit insane. Now he only keeps company with those he can catch.

Unbreathing Horde

Creature - Zombie

Unbreathing Horde enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie you control and each Zombie card in your graveyard.

If Unbreathing Horde would be dealt damage, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

Unblinking Bleb

Creature - Illusion

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

Whenever Unblinking Bleb or another permanent is turned face up, you may scry 2. (To 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.)

Umbra Stalker

Creature - Elemental

Chroma - Umbra Stalker's power and toughness are each equal to the number of black mana symbols in the mana costs of cards in your graveyard.

Don't venture into the darkness, lest it decide not to let you leave.

Umbra Mystic

Creature - Human Wizard

Auras attached to permanents you control have totem armor. (If an enchanted permanent you control would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy an Aura attached to it.)

"I have found the courage to face death-twice, if I must."

Umara Raptor

Creature - Bird Ally

Flying

Whenever Umara Raptor or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Umara Raptor.

Messenger, weapon, friend.