Archon of the Triumvirate

Creature - Archon

Flying

Whenever Archon of the Triumvirate attacks, detain up to two target nonland permanents your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those permanents can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

Armada Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Trample

When Armada Wurm enters the battlefield, put a 5/5 green Wurm creature token with trample onto the battlefield.

No one in the Conclave acts alone.

Carnival Hellsteed

Creature - Nightmare Horse

First strike, haste

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.)

Its favorite treats are candied hands and sweet hearts.

Centaur Healer

Creature - Centaur Cleric

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

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

Corpsejack Menace

Creature - Fungus

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be placed on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are placed on it instead.

Weakness is not in the nature of the Swarm.

Dreg Mangler

Creature - Plant Zombie

Haste

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

Goblin Electromancer

Creature - Goblin Wizard

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost less to cast.

When asked how much power is required, Izzet mages always answer "more."

Hellhole Flailer

Creature - Ogre Warrior

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

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

Hussar Patrol

Creature - Human Knight

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

Vigilance

"You think no one is watching, you think you're smart enough to escape, and most foolish of all, you think no one cares."
-Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Hypersonic Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying, haste

You may cast sorcery cards as though they had flash. (You may cast them any time you could cast an instant.)

"Even this primitive specimen of my kind is impressive."
-Niv-Mizzet

Isperia, Supreme Judge

Legendary Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, you may draw a card.

"I serve only justice. But through that duty, I serve all of Ravnica."

Izzet Staticaster

Creature - Human Wizard

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

Haste

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

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Legendary Creature - Zombie Elf

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.

, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return Jarad from your graveyard to your hand.

Korozda Guildmage

Creature - Elf Shaman

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

, Sacrifice a nontoken creature: Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Lotleth Troll

Creature - Zombie Troll

Trample

Discard a creature card: Put a +1/+1 counter on Lotleth Troll.

: Regenerate Lotleth Troll.

He lurks in the undercity, eager for the corpse haulers to unload their rotting cargo.

Loxodon Smiter

Creature - Elephant Soldier

Loxodon Smiter can't be countered.

If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Loxodon Smiter, put it onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your graveyard.

Lyev Skyknight

Creature - Human Knight

Flying

When Lyev Skyknight enters the battlefield, detain target nonland permanent an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that permanent can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Mercurial Chemister

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Draw two cards.

, , Discard a card: Mercurial Chemister deals damage to target creature equal to the discarded card's converted mana cost.

What some see as "distracted" is really "fathoming the unfathomable."

New Prahv Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

: Detain target nonland permanent an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that permanent can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Nivix Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"The only action worth taking is one with an unknown outcome."

Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius

Legendary Creature - Dragon Wizard

Flying

Whenever Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius deals damage to a player, you may draw a card.

: Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

He has no patience for minds that do not inspire him or explode by trying.

Rakdos Ragemutt

Creature - Elemental Hound

Lifelink, haste

Ragemutts pull the chariots of the Butcher Clowns, a trio of wingless, zombified faeries formerly of the Izzet.

Rakdos Ringleader

Creature - Skeleton Warrior

First strike

Whenever Rakdos Ringleader deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card at random.

: Regenerate Rakdos Ringleader.

Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Legendary Creature - Demon

You can't cast Rakdos, Lord of Riots unless an opponent lost life this turn.

Flying, trample

Creature spells you cast cost less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Risen Sanctuary

Creature - Elemental

Vigilance

When one of the great guardians arises, it sweeps enemies aside like chaff yet takes care not to crush a single insect underfoot.

Rix Maadi Guildmage

Creature - Human Shaman

: Target blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

: Target player who lost life this turn loses 1 life.

Insatiable, irresistible, and insane.

Skymark Roc

Creature - Bird

Flying

Whenever Skymark Roc attacks, you may return target creature defending player controls with toughness 2 or less to its owner's hand.

"Try not to look guilty. Or delicious."
-Thorpe, street urchin

Sluiceway Scorpion

Creature - Scorpion

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

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.)

Spawn of Rix Maadi

Creature - Horror

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.)

"Straight from the blood-drenched imagination of our illustrious parun!"
-Nyoser, Gore-House ringleader

Trestle Troll

Creature - Troll

Defender

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

: Regenerate Trestle Troll.

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

Trostani, Selesnya's Voice

Legendary Creature - Dryad

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

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

Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage

Creature - Dryad Shaman

: Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.

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

"Preachers of freedom forget that conformity can be beautiful."

Wayfaring Temple

Creature - Elemental

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

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

Azor's Elocutors

Creature - Human Advisor

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a filibuster counter on Azor's Elocutors. Then if Azor's Elocutors has five or more filibuster counters on it, you win the game.

Whenever a source deals damage to you, remove a filibuster counter from Azor's Elocutors.

Blistercoil Weird

Creature - Weird

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Blistercoil Weird gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap it.

Azorius lawmages would like to outlaw the creation of weirds, but first they'd have to settle their long-standing debate on how to classify them.

Cryptborn Horror

Creature - Horror

Trample

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

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

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.

Dryad Militant

Creature - Dryad Soldier

If an instant or sorcery card would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

"We will defend the Worldsoul from Izzet ‘progress' at any cost."

Frostburn Weird

Creature - Weird

: Frostburn Weird gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Many chemisters are oblivious to the innumerable machinations of their guild, instead focusing obsessively on creating the perfect weird.

Golgari Longlegs

Creature - Insect

Despite its enormous stature, it can fold itself into a tunnel with startling quickness, vanishing back into the undercity.

Judge's Familiar

Creature - Bird

Flying

Sacrifice Judge's Familiar: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays .

"It misses nothing and it has no sense of humor."
-Barvisa, courtroom scribe

Nivmagus Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Exile an instant or sorcery spell you control: Put two +1/+1 counters on Nivmagus Elemental. (That spell won't resolve.)

When it escaped, the experimenters hesitated. It would cause untold havoc, yet they wished to see it in action.

Rakdos Cackler

Creature - Devil

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.)

Devil-blades and dripping blood make music Rakdos never tires of hearing.

Rakdos Shred-Freak

Creature - Human Berserker

Haste

"If there were such a thing as a soul, I think it would be behind the gallbladder but above the kidneys."

Slitherhead

Creature - Plant Zombie

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.)

"It makes better use of Uncle Dragi's head than he ever did."
-Pesha, retired blacksmith

Vassal Soul

Creature - Spirit

Flying

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

Artisan of Kozilek

Creature - Eldrazi

When you cast Artisan of Kozilek, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents.)

Angelic Arbiter

Creature - Angel

Flying

Each opponent who cast a spell this turn can't attack with creatures.

Each opponent who attacked with a creature this turn can't cast spells.

Arbiter of Knollridge

Creature - Giant Wizard

Vigilance

When Arbiter of Knollridge enters the battlefield, each player's life total becomes the highest life total among all players.

Though giants are mortal, they live so long and on such a grand scale that many small folk don't believe they ever truly die.

Archangel of Strife

Creature - Angel

Flying

As Archangel of Strife enters the battlefield, each player chooses war or peace.

Creatures controlled by players who chose war get +3/+0.

Creatures controlled by players who chose peace get +0/+3.

Celestial Force

Creature - Elemental

At the beginning of each upkeep, you gain 3 life.

"Wishing upon only one star seems like a failure of imagination."
-Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter

False Prophet

Creature - Human Cleric

When False Prophet dies, exile all creatures.

"You lived for Serra's love. Will you not die for it?"

Jötun Grunt

Creature - Giant Soldier

Cumulative upkeep-Put two cards from a single graveyard on the bottom of their owner's library. (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.)

Lightkeeper of Emeria

Creature - Angel

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

Flying

When Lightkeeper of Emeria enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life for each time it was kicked.

Monk Realist

Creature - Human Monk Cleric

When Monk Realist enters the battlefield, destroy target enchantment.

"We plant the seeds of doubt to harvest the crop of wisdom."

Mother of Runes

Creature - Human Cleric

: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

"My family protects all families."

Shattered Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may gain 3 life.

She preaches the blessings of the Machine Orthodoxy.

Spurnmage Advocate

Creature - Human Nomad

: Return two target cards from an opponent's graveyard to his or her hand. Destroy target attacking creature.

"Our unity humbles our foes."

Voice of All

Creature - Angel

Flying

As Voice of All enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Voice of All has protection from the chosen color.

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

Windborn Muse

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays for each creature he or she controls that's attacking you.

"Her voice is justice, clear and relentless."
-Akroma, angelic avenger

Æthersnipe

Creature - Elemental

When Æthersnipe enters the battlefield, return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

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

Chromeshell Crab

Creature - Crab Beast

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

When Chromeshell Crab is turned face up, you may exchange control of target creature you control and target creature an opponent controls.

Conundrum Sphinx

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever Conundrum Sphinx attacks, each player names a card. Then each player reveals the top card of his or her library. If the card a player revealed is the card he or she named, that player puts it into his or her hand. If it's not, that player puts it on the bottom of his or her library.

Court Hussar

Creature - Vedalken Knight

Vigilance

When Court Hussar enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library, then put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

When Court Hussar enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless was spent to cast it.

Dreamborn Muse

Creature - Spirit

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the number of cards in his or her hand.

"Her voice is insight, piercing and true."
-Ixidor, reality sculptor

Gomazoa

Creature - Jellyfish

Defender, flying

: Put Gomazoa and each creature it's blocking on top of their owners' libraries, then those players shuffle their libraries.

To explorers, "point man" is a polite way of saying "gomazoa fodder."

Guard Gomazoa

Creature - Jellyfish

Defender, flying

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Guard Gomazoa.

It lingers near the outposts of the Makindi Trenches, inadvertently granting another layer of defense.

Mulldrifter

Creature - Elemental

Flying

When Mulldrifter enters the battlefield, draw two cards.

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

Riddlekeeper

Creature - Homunculus

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Fools surrender their sanity to his riddles. Even greater fools try to solve them.

Akrasan Squire

Creature - Human Soldier

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

Bant's armies are primarily composed of members of the Mortar caste, loyal commoners who haven't yet earned a sigil.

Angel's Herald

Creature - Human Cleric

, , Sacrifice a green creature, a white creature, and a blue creature: Search your library for a card named Empyrial Archangel and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Rigorous faith and belief are rewarded on occasion, and richly so.

Bant Battlemage

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

, : Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"A night attack will be easy. We'll make an air raid over the Akrasan border. Just get me some flint to light the war torches."

Battlegrace Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

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

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Gustrider Exuberant

Creature - Human Wizard

Flying

Sacrifice Gustrider Exuberant: Creatures you control with power 5 or greater gain flying until end of turn.

"The elves claim the canopy. The nacatl claim the mountains. I suppose you think we ought to stay on the jungle floor?"

Knight of the Skyward Eye

Creature - Human Knight

: Knight of the Skyward Eye gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

The Order of the Skyward Eye does the bidding of an evil force, unwittingly stirring fear and mistrust across Bant in accordance with his plans.

Knight of the White Orchid

Creature - Human Knight

First strike

When Knight of the White Orchid enters the battlefield, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Both guide and guard on open plain.

Knight-Captain of Eos

Creature - Human Knight

When Knight-Captain of Eos enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

, Sacrifice a Soldier: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

The strength of Bant's caste system is the unfailing loyalty of its meekest members.

Ranger of Eos

Creature - Human Soldier

When Ranger of Eos enters the battlefield, you may search your library for up to two creature cards with converted mana cost 1 or less, reveal them, and put them into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.

At his side, humble beasts become weapons more deadly than sharpened steel.

Rockcaster Platoon

Creature - Rhino Soldier

: Rockcaster Platoon deals 2 damage to each creature with flying and each player.

"Aven bandits can be sly. You've got to fill the sky with boulders-and then seek cover immediately."
-Knight-Captain Wyhorn

Sighted-Caste Sorcerer

Creature - Human Wizard

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

: Sighted-Caste Sorcerer gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Sigiled Paladin

Creature - Human Knight

First strike

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

Each sigil marks the recognition of a great deed and signifies a duty owed to the one who granted it.

Sunseed Nurturer

Creature - Human Druid Wizard

At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature with power 5 or greater, you may gain 2 life.

: Add to your mana pool.

Sunseeders quest for areas of open sky. They train plowbeasts to beat back the dense jungle long enough to cultivate a crop.

Welkin Guide

Creature - Bird Cleric

Flying

When Welkin Guide enters the battlefield, target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.

"Those talons really dig into your skin, but it's better than being dropped."
-Rafiq of the Many

Yoked Plowbeast

Creature - Beast

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

"It is sacrilege to confine a gargantuan to the grinding of straight lines. I will pray that it remembers who is the master of this land."
-Syeena, elvish godtoucher

Cathartic Adept

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Forget. Only then will there be space for hope between the pain and fear."

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.

Fatestitcher

Creature - Zombie Wizard

: You may tap or untap another target permanent.

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.)

Jhessian Lookout

Creature - Human Scout

She stands ready, always watchful, knowing that weeks of peace and serenity can be overturned by a single distant sail.

Kathari Screecher

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

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.)

Kederekt Leviathan

Creature - Leviathan

When Kederekt Leviathan enters the battlefield, return all other nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

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.)

Outrider of Jhess

Creature - Human Knight

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

The island nation of Jhess is under constant siege from Valeron on the mainland. Riders traverse the coastline, always on the lookout for sails or aven.

Archdemon of Unx

Creature - Demon

Flying, trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a non-Zombie creature, then put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

The necropolis at Unx was once a living city, its streets untrodden by death.

Blister Beetle

Creature - Insect

When Blister Beetle enters the battlefield, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Warriors of the Rip Clan wear their beetle-acid scars proudly, even modifying clothing and armor to better display the trophy.

Corpse Connoisseur

Creature - Zombie Wizard

When Corpse Connoisseur enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a creature card and put that card into your graveyard. If you do, shuffle your library.

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.)

Cunning Lethemancer

Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card.

"Give me your memories, and you will have release from the suffering they bring you."

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.

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."

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."

Dreg Reaver

Creature - Zombie Beast

"On our thirty-fourth day of digging, we unearthed a chamber that contained the intact remains of several species long extinct from Grixis. One in particular should make a fine siege engine . . . ."
-Last notes of Shungus Nod, fleshcrafter