Hellrider

Creature - Devil

Haste

Whenever a creature you control attacks, Hellrider deals 1 damage to defending player.

"Behind every devil's mayhem lurks a demon's scheme."
-Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

Hinterland Hermit

Creature - Human Werewolf

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

He tried to live far from those he could hurt . . .

Markov Blademaster

Creature - Vampire Warrior

Double strike

Whenever Markov Blademaster deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

"Mortals practice swordplay for a few decades at best. How can they ever attain the exquisite mastery that eternity has to offer?"

Markov Warlord

Creature - Vampire Warrior

Haste

When Markov Warlord enters the battlefield, up to two target creatures can't block this turn.

"What use is a stake or holy symbol in the hands of a coward?"

Mondronen Shaman

Creature - Human Werewolf Shaman

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

"Tovolar, my master. Gather the howlpack, for the Hunter's Moon is nigh and Thraben's walls grow weak."

Moonveil Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Each creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Their hearts beat, their lungs draw breath, and they have one true form. I count them as allies of the living."
-Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Nearheath Stalker

Creature - Vampire Rogue

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.)

"Do not speak of this to the elders. They look unfavorably upon my indulgences."

Pyreheart Wolf

Creature - Wolf

Whenever Pyreheart Wolf attacks, each creature you control can't be blocked this turn except by two or more creatures.

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.)

Russet Wolves

Creature - Wolf

"The wolves of our valley are bred to detest the scent of ghouls. For centuries they have kept our estates clear of such carrion."
-Olivia Voldaren

Briarpack Alpha

Creature - Wolf

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

When Briarpack Alpha enters the battlefield, target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"The wolves turned on us and a chill swept over me. The pack had a new leader."
-Alena, trapper of Kessig

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.

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.

Ghoultree

Creature - Zombie Treefolk

Ghoultree costs less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.

It uproots entire fengrafs to add to its twisted frame.

Gravetiller Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Trample

Morbid - Gravetiller Wurm enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it if a creature died this turn.

As the creatures of the night closed in on humanity, Innistrad's primeval forces stirred, as though waking to watch the slaughter.

Hollowhenge Beast

Creature - Beast

In a world of monsters, it's the stuff of nightmares.

Kessig 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.)

Its silk is highly prized, but then again, so is your life.

Lambholt Elder

Creature - Human Werewolf

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

"Be wary of the seemingly gentle souls. The weak here were slaughtered long ago."
-Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

Predator Ooze

Creature - Ooze

Predator Ooze is indestructible.

Whenever Predator Ooze attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

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

Scorned Villager

Creature - Human Werewolf

: Add to your mana pool.

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

"My village's fear drove me into the wild . . ."

Somberwald Dryad

Creature - Dryad

Forestwalk (This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

The Somberwald is her domain, and she has yet to hear an acceptable excuse for trespassing.

Strangleroot Geist

Creature - Spirit

Haste

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.)

Geists of the hanged often haunt the tree on which they died.

Ulvenwald Bear

Creature - Bear

Morbid - When Ulvenwald Bear enters the battlefield, if a creature died this turn, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Out chasing bears
-Kessig expression meaning "died in the woods"

Village Survivors

Creature - Human

Vigilance

Fateful hour - As long as you have 5 or less life, other creatures you control have vigilance.

As their villages fell to werewolves, fleeing refugees discovered they too had remarkable survival instincts.

Vorapede

Creature - Insect

Vigilance, trample

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.)

"If you think you've killed one, guess again."
-Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Wolfbitten Captive

Creature - Human Werewolf

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

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

Young Wolf

Creature - Wolf

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.)

The Ulvenwald makes no allowances for youth. Today's newborn is either tomorrow's hunter or tomorrow's lunch.

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.

Drogskol Captain

Creature - Spirit Soldier

Flying

Other Spirit creatures you control get +1/+1 and have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Dead or alive, true leaders can inspire an entire army.

Drogskol Reaver

Creature - Spirit

Flying, double strike, lifelink

Whenever you gain life, draw a card.

Wracked and warped with anguish, it obsessively seeks out other souls to hoard within its eternal prison.

Falkenrath Aristocrat

Creature - Vampire

Flying, haste

Sacrifice a creature: Falkenrath Aristocrat is indestructible this turn. If the sacrificed creature was a Human, put a +1/+1 counter on Falkenrath Aristocrat.

"Your blood is quite pleasing. A pity there's not enough for both of us."

Havengul Lich

Creature - Zombie Wizard

: You may cast target creature card in a graveyard this turn. When you cast that card this turn, Havengul Lich gains all activated abilities of that card until end of turn.

Fusing intelligence with the power of undeath requires inspiration of the darkest kind.

Huntmaster of the Fells

Creature - Human Werewolf

Whenever this creature enters the battlefield or transforms into Huntmaster of the Fells, put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield and you gain 2 life.

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

Immerwolf

Creature - Wolf

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

Other Wolf and Werewolf creatures you control get +1/+1.

Non-Human Werewolves you control can't transform.

Stromkirk Captain

Creature - Vampire Soldier

First strike

Other Vampire creatures you control get +1/+1 and have first strike.

"No longer can we allow our human populations to be mindlessly slaughtered by ghouls. Slay all who trespass."
-Runo Stromkirk

Abbey Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying, vigilance

"The darkness crawls with vampires and ghouls, but we are not without allies."
-Mikaeus, the Lunarch

Angel of Flight Alabaster

Creature - Angel

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, return target Spirit card from your graveyard to your hand.

She endures without Avacyn but secretly asks each soul she guides if it has seen her.

Angelic Overseer

Creature - Angel

Flying

As long as you control a Human, Angelic Overseer has hexproof and indestructible.

From mortal hope immortal power springs.

Avacynian Priest

Creature - Human Cleric

, : Tap target non-Human creature.

Moorlanders speak in awe of the priests' talent for arriving just in time to drive off the wicked things that prowl the ravished parish.

Champion of the Parish

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever another Human enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Champion of the Parish.

"I stand for every cobbler, tanner, and fool in this town-and they stand for me."

Chapel Geist

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Death has bound it with chains of past regrets. Forever it searches for atonement, each kindness removing a single link.

Cloistered Youth

Creature - Human

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may transform Cloistered Youth.

"I heard her talking in her sleep-pleading, shrieking, snarling. It was not my daughter's voice. That is not my daughter."
-Ekatrin, elder of Hanweir

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

Doomed Traveler

Creature - Human Soldier

When Doomed Traveler dies, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Elder Cathar

Creature - Human Soldier

When Elder Cathar dies, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. If that creature is a Human, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.

"My greatest hope is that you will surpass me in every way, consigning my name to some forgotten corner of history."

Elite Inquisitor

Creature - Human Soldier

First strike, vigilance

Protection from Vampires, from Werewolves, and from Zombies

"No matter how many I kill, there are always more to hunt. It makes me smile just to think about it."

Fiend Hunter

Creature - Human Cleric

When Fiend Hunter enters the battlefield, you may exile another target creature.

When Fiend Hunter leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Gallows Warden

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Other Spirit creatures you control get +0/+1.

The spirit cares nothing for the crimes or triumphs of the slain. It shelters all beneath its stormy cloak.

Geist-Honored Monk

Creature - Human Monk

Vigilance

Geist-Honored Monk's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.

When Geist-Honored Monk enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

Mausoleum Guard

Creature - Human Scout

When Mausoleum Guard dies, put two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

"Ghoulcallers trying to get in, geists trying to get out . . . . This duty is never dull."

Mentor of the Meek

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever another creature with power 2 or less enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

"In these halls there is no pass or fail. Your true test comes with the first full moon."

Mikaeus, the Lunarch

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

Mikaeus, the Lunarch enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mikaeus.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Mikaeus: Put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.

Selfless Cathar

Creature - Human Cleric

, Sacrifice Selfless Cathar: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"If I fail to offer myself, we will surely be overrun. My fate would be the same."

Silverchase Fox

Creature - Fox

, Sacrifice Silverchase Fox: Exile target enchantment.

"Be careful in your hunt. The clever little creature can steal your wards and lead you right into the werewolf's den."
-Britta, midwife of Gatstaf

Slayer of the Wicked

Creature - Human Soldier

When Slayer of the Wicked enters the battlefield, you may destroy target Vampire, Werewolf, or Zombie.

You don't want to see his trophy room.

Spectral Rider

Creature - Spirit Knight

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

Never a word. Never a warning. Only the sound of hoofbeats along the crossways, and the screams of the avenged.

Thraben Purebloods

Creature - Hound

"I've learned to trust my dogs' instincts. When they're calm, I'm calm. And when they get nervous, I get my crossbow."
-Hinrik of House Cecani

Thraben Sentry

Creature - Human Soldier

Vigilance

Whenever another creature you control dies, you may transform Thraben Sentry.

"Looks like it's going to be a quiet night."

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

Village Bell-Ringer

Creature - Human Scout

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

When Village Bell-Ringer enters the battlefield, untap all creatures you control.

"Priests, hunters, slayers-to arms! The enemy approaches!"

Voiceless Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Flying, first strike

"I'd rather take on a neckbiter or moonhowler any day. Oh well, looks like I'm going to end up parrying with empty air half the night."
-Saint Trogen, the Slayer

Armored Skaab

Creature - Zombie Warrior

When Armored Skaab enters the battlefield, put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.

Literally made for battle.

Battleground Geist

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Other Spirit creatures you control get +1/+0.

Not content to nudge vases and chill drawing rooms, some geists muster spectral armies to claw at the hearts of the living.

Civilized Scholar

Creature - Human Advisor

: Draw a card, then discard a card. If a creature card is discarded this way, untap Civilized Scholar, then transform it.

"Me, angry? Of course not. Thanks to my research, I'm above such petty emotions now."

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.

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."

Fortress Crab

Creature - Crab

Unbreakable and unappetizing, the crab grows uninterrupted, sometimes to the size of a cottage and beyond.

Invisible Stalker

Creature - Human Rogue

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

Invisible Stalker can't be blocked.

"All that concerns me is the vampires' sense of smell and those freezing Nephalian nights."

Laboratory Maniac

Creature - Human Wizard

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

His mind whirled with grand plans, never thinking of what might happen if he were to succeed.

Lantern Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Flying

: Return Lantern Spirit to its owner's hand.

Bound to the square where she died, she calls out to those in danger-usually scaring them straight into the peril she warns of.

Ludevic's Test Subject

Creature - Lizard

Defender

: Put a hatchling counter on Ludevic's Test Subject. Then if there are five or more hatchling counters on it, remove all of them and transform it.

Makeshift Mauler

Creature - Zombie Horror

As an additional cost to cast Makeshift Mauler, exile a creature card from your graveyard.

"It always amazes me what perfectly good things people throw away."
-Ludevic, necro-alchemist

Mindshrieker

Creature - Spirit Bird

Flying

: Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Mindshrieker gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is that card's converted mana cost.

Mirror-Mad Phantasm

Creature - Spirit

Flying

: Mirror-Mad Phantasm's owner shuffles it into his or her library. If that player does, he or she reveals cards from the top of that library until a card named Mirror-Mad Phantasm is revealed. The player puts that card onto the battlefield and all other cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard.

Moon Heron

Creature - Spirit Bird

Flying

The heron is the symbol of the archangel Avacyn. The fact that such spirits still fly gives the church hope that its founder may one day return.

Murder of Crows

Creature - Bird

Flying

Whenever another creature dies, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Even more than carrion, they crave the last words of the dying.

Selhoff Occultist

Creature - Human Rogue

Whenever Selhoff Occultist or another creature dies, target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"The mist whispers to those who know it to be more than a mundane fog."

Skaab Goliath

Creature - Zombie Giant

As an additional cost to cast Skaab Goliath, exile two creature cards from your graveyard.

Trample

"Three heads, six arms, and some armor grafts are better than . . . the normal numbers of those things."
-Stitcher Geralf

Skaab Ruinator

Creature - Zombie Horror

As an additional cost to cast Skaab Ruinator, exile three creature cards from your graveyard.

Flying

You may cast Skaab Ruinator from your graveyard.

Snapcaster Mage

Creature - Human Wizard

Flash

When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Stitched Drake

Creature - Zombie Drake

As an additional cost to cast Stitched Drake, exile a creature card from your graveyard.

Flying

"The best skaab are more powerful and more beautiful than the sum of their parts."
-Stitcher Geralf

Stitcher's Apprentice

Creature - Homunculus

, : Put a 2/2 blue Homunculus creature token onto the battlefield, then sacrifice a creature.

"Oglor create life, Oglor take it away. Oglor god! . . . until Master return."

Sturmgeist

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Sturmgeist's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Whenever Sturmgeist deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

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.

Abattoir Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

First strike

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Abattoir Ghoul this turn dies, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Death took his humanity but not his skill with the knife.

Bitterheart Witch

Creature - Human Shaman

Deathtouch

When Bitterheart Witch dies, you may search your library for a Curse card, put it onto the battlefield attached to target player, then shuffle your library.

Bloodgift Demon

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

He relishes the devotion of his Skirsdag puppets and their belief that it will earn them immortality.

Bloodline Keeper

Creature - Vampire

Flying

: Put a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

: Transform Bloodline Keeper. Activate this ability only if you control five or more Vampires.

Brain Weevil

Creature - Insect

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

Sacrifice Brain Weevil: Target player discards two cards. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

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

Disciple of Griselbrand

Creature - Human Cleric

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

The demon Griselbrand dared to stand against Avacyn, earning him the loathing of thousands and the admiration of a few.

Falkenrath Noble

Creature - Vampire

Flying

Whenever Falkenrath Noble or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"I often think on how excited they must feel to be chosen as my prey."

Ghoulraiser

Creature - Zombie

When Ghoulraiser enters the battlefield, return a Zombie card at random from your graveyard to your hand.

"Come. Bring your brothers. Tonight, you feast on living flesh."
-Jadar, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Manor Skeleton

Creature - Skeleton

Haste

: Regenerate Manor Skeleton.

Lungs dried to parchment wheeze blasphemies within a cage of bleached bone.

Markov Patrician

Creature - Vampire

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

Vampires of the Markov bloodline pride themselves on their exquisite taste in fashion, art, and "wine of the vein."

Morkrut Banshee

Creature - Spirit

Morbid - When Morkrut Banshee enters the battlefield, if a creature died this turn, target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

"Let go your grudges, or risk wandering the bogs forever in a murderous rage."
-Hildin, priest of Avacyn

Reaper from the Abyss

Creature - Demon

Flying

Morbid - At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, destroy target non-Demon creature.

"Avacyn has deserted you. I welcome your devotion in her stead."

Rotting Fensnake

Creature - Zombie Snake

Its venom sacs are long gone, but its crushing strength is somehow greater than ever.

Screeching Bat

Creature - Bat

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, transform Screeching Bat.

The bat has such clarity of hearing that simple sounds become symphonies.

Skirsdag High Priest

Creature - Human Cleric

Morbid - , Tap two untapped creatures you control: Put a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying onto the battlefield. Activate this ability only if a creature died this turn.

"Thraben's pleas fall on deaf ears. Ours do not."

Stromkirk Patrol

Creature - Vampire Soldier

Whenever Stromkirk Patrol deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

"You'd best move along, human. Our palates are far less discerning than our master's."