Elite Vanguard

Creature - Human Soldier

The vanguard is skilled at waging war alone. The enemy is often defeated before its reinforcements reach the front.

Gideon's Lawkeeper

Creature - Human Soldier

, : Tap target creature.

"The essence of a lawful society is swift deterrence."

Pride Guardian

Creature - Cat Monk

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Pride Guardian blocks, you gain 3 life.

"Any hotheaded cub can raise a sword in anger."

Phantasmal Bear

Creature - Bear Illusion

When Phantasmal Bear becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

"You know it to be false, but when its claws find you, what you know won't matter much at all."
-Pol Jamaar, illusionist

Goblin Fireslinger

Creature - Goblin Warrior

: Goblin Fireslinger deals 1 damage to target player.

A rock between your eyes hurts. A burning rock between your eyes ruins your whole day.

Grim Lavamancer

Creature - Human Wizard

, , Exile two cards from your graveyard: Grim Lavamancer deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"Fools dig for water, corpses, or gold. The earth's real treasure is far deeper."

Birds of Paradise

Creature - Bird

Flying

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

"The gods used their feathers to paint all the colors of the world."
-Yare-Tiva, warden of Gramur forest

Gladecover Scout

Creature - Elf Scout

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

"The forest is my cover and I hold it close. In such a tight embrace, there is no room for wickedness."

Llanowar Elves

Creature - Elf Druid

: Add to your mana pool.

One bone broken for every twig snapped underfoot.
-Llanowar penalty for trespassing

Sanctuary Cat

Creature - Cat

Cats prowl the corridors of Avacyn's churches in search of devils or signs of their mischief.

Gravecrawler

Creature - Zombie

Gravecrawler can't block.

You may cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

"Innistrad's ghoulcallers are talented enough, but let me show you what someone with real power can create."
-Liliana Vess

Forge Devil

Creature - Devil

When Forge Devil enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target creature and 1 damage to you.

Devils infiltrated the lower levels of Thraben Cathedral, making cracks in load-bearing pillars and setting fire to precious archives.

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.

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."

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.

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."

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.

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

Typhoid Rats

Creature - Rat

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

Kidnappers caught in Havengul are given two choices: languish in prison or become rat catchers. The smart ones go to prison.

Reckless Waif

Creature - Human Rogue Werewolf

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

"Yes, I'm alone. No, I'm not worried."

Stromkirk Noble

Creature - Vampire

Stromkirk Noble can't be blocked by Humans.

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

"A responsible king walks among his subjects."

Avacyn's Pilgrim

Creature - Human Monk

: Add to your mana pool.

"Avacyn's protection is everywhere. From the holy church to the sacred glade, all that we see is under her blessed watch."

Trained Caracal

Creature - Cat

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

Some Ravnicans consider carrying a sword to be beneath them, preferring instead a tooth-and-claw escort.

Faerie Impostor

Creature - Faerie Rogue

Flying

When Faerie Impostor enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you return another creature you control to its owner's hand.

Many Tin Street shops display a sign on the door: "No cloaks allowed."

Drainpipe Vermin

Creature - Rat

When Drainpipe Vermin dies, you may pay . If you do, target player discards a card.

When times are tough, the poor eat the rats. When times are tougher, the rats eat the poor.

Bellows Lizard

Creature - Lizard

: Bellows Lizard gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

As the price of wood and coal rose, smiths found creative ways to keep their forges burning.

Centaur's Herald

Creature - Elf Scout

, Sacrifice Centaur's Herald: Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.

The farther they go from Vitu-Ghazi, the less willing the crowd is to part for them.

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.

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."

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.

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

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."

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."

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.

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."

Sphinx's Herald

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, , Sacrifice a white creature, a blue creature, and a black creature: Search your library for a card named Sphinx Sovereign and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

He calls a riddle through the gaps of cloven clouds, hoping for an answer.

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."

Dragon's Herald

Creature - Goblin Shaman

, , Sacrifice a black creature, a red creature, and a green creature: Search your library for a card named Hellkite Overlord and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

The penultimate step of the ritual involves bathing in a delicious glaze.

Goblin Mountaineer

Creature - Goblin Scout

Mountainwalk

Goblin lairs sit high in Jund's mountains. This gives the goblins easy access to the sacrificial peaks above and lets them build up a head of steam before attacking prey down below.

Behemoth's Herald

Creature - Elf Shaman

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

"Mine is an insatiable god, with appetites as magnificent as the jungle itself."

Feral Hydra

Creature - Hydra Beast

Feral Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Feral Hydra. Any player may activate this ability.

It shreds its prey as each head fights for the choicest bits.

Wild Nacatl

Creature - Cat Warrior

Wild Nacatl gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Mountain.

Wild Nacatl gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Plains.

"The Cloud Nacatl sit and think, a bunch of soft paws. We are the Claws of Marisi, stalking, pouncing, drawing blood."

Confessor

Creature - Human Cleric

Whenever a player discards a card, you may gain 1 life.

"There will be gains for our losses. There will be rights for our wrongs."

Dedicated Martyr

Creature - Human Cleric

, Sacrifice Dedicated Martyr: You gain 3 life.

"If he's so willing to suffer for his cause, then by all means, let us oblige him."
-Cabal Patriarch

Devoted Caretaker

Creature - Human Cleric

, : Target permanent you control gains protection from instant spells and from sorcery spells until end of turn.

Her eyes blaze with the strength of twenty shields. Every glance is a salvation.

Mystic Penitent

Creature - Human Nomad Mystic

Vigilance

Threshold - As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Mystic Penitent gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Tireless Tribe

Creature - Human Nomad

Discard a card: Tireless Tribe gets +0/+4 until end of turn.

"We've survived starvation, dwarf attacks, and heatstroke. Why should a little sandstorm bother us?"

Thought Nibbler

Creature - Beast

Flying

Your maximum hand size is reduced by two.

Balshan wizards have long used them to gnaw away the memories they wish to forget.

Zombie Cannibal

Creature - Zombie

Whenever Zombie Cannibal deals combat damage to a player, you may exile target card from that player's graveyard.

Nothing is sacred to the undead-not even their own kind.

Dwarven Grunt

Creature - Dwarf

Mountainwalk

Hard as stone and twice as stubborn.
-Dwarven compliment

Obstinate Familiar

Creature - Lizard

If you would draw a card, you may skip that draw instead.

"Lizards make excellent familiars. They never know when they've lost."
-Matoc, lavamancer

Spark Mage

Creature - Dwarf Wizard

Whenever Spark Mage deals combat damage to a player, you may have Spark Mage deal 1 damage to target creature that player controls.

The Pardic Mountains are known for their spicy cuisine.

Diligent Farmhand

Creature - Human Druid

, Sacrifice Diligent Farmhand: Search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

If Diligent Farmhand is in a graveyard, effects from spells named Muscle Burst count it as a card named Muscle Burst.

Druid Lyrist

Creature - Human Druid

, , Sacrifice Druid Lyrist: Destroy target enchantment.

The druids and the forest are in perfect harmony. They sing the same songs.

Ivy Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Ivy Elemental enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

In the gardens of the centaurs, many travelers have mysteriously vanished while admiring the elaborate topiaries.

Nimble Mongoose

Creature - Mongoose

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

Threshold - Nimble Mongoose gets +2/+2 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Faster than a cobra's bite.

Woodland Druid

Creature - Human Druid

What is a tree?
Slow hard thought.
What is a flower?
Swift soft flesh.
What is a druid?
Both.

Furnace Scamp

Creature - Beast

Whenever Furnace Scamp deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. If you do, Furnace Scamp deals 3 damage to that player.

Born of the core, and dying to stoke it.

Slag Fiend

Creature - Construct

Slag Fiend's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifact cards in all graveyards.

"Seal the furnace vents. Admit no others. We'll tend our forges without their tainted ways."
-Decree of Urabrask

Glistener Elf

Creature - Elf Warrior

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

"Beg me for life, and I will fill you with the glory of Phyrexian perfection."

Hex Parasite

Artifact Creature - Insect

: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, Hex Parasite gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Drawn by power, fueled by conquest.

Ardent Recruit

Creature - Human Soldier

Metalcraft - Ardent Recruit gets +2/+2 as long as you control three or more artifacts.

"We lost our homes and our kin. We won't let those rotters take our future as well."

Signal Pest

Artifact Creature - Pest

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)

Signal Pest can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.

It leaps from tree to tree, revealing the enemy's positions.

Glint Hawk

Creature - Bird

Flying

When Glint Hawk enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you return an artifact you control to its owner's hand.

Its eyes burned nearly blind by the Whitesun, it hunts by metallic gleam.

Salvage Scout

Creature - Human Scout

, Sacrifice Salvage Scout: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I'm not saying it's dangerous work. I'm just saying don't sign up if you have plans for your seventieth birthday."

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."

Fume Spitter

Creature - Horror

Sacrifice Fume Spitter: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"Our archers made sport of it as it fumbled its way up the slag ridge. As it collapsed we thought ourselves safe, but the foul thing carried more than necrogen."
-Adaran, Tangle hunter

Goblin Gaveleer

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Trample

Goblin Gaveleer gets +2/+0 for each Equipment attached to it.

"When everything looks like a nail, you really need to get yourself a hammer."
-Krol, goblin furnace-priest

Spikeshot Elder

Creature - Goblin Shaman

: Spikeshot Elder deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

Now that he knows a thousand ways of hurting people, his next shamanic quest is to discover a thousand more.

Copperhorn Scout

Creature - Elf Scout

Whenever Copperhorn Scout attacks, untap each other creature you control.

Fangren spur may sound louder, but Viridian resurgents claim that the horn of the vorrac creates a truer, more inspiring note.

Ezuri's Archers

Creature - Elf Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Whenever Ezuri's Archers blocks a creature with flying, Ezuri's Archers gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

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.

Caravan Escort

Creature - Human Knight

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 1-4

2/2

LEVEL 5+

5/5

First strike

Soul's Attendant

Creature - Human Cleric

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may gain 1 life.

In truth, her own faith was gone, trodden in Ulamog's wake. She pantomimed the blessing in the hope that it would inspire others to continue to struggle.

Student of Warfare

Creature - Human Knight

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 2-6

3/3

First strike

LEVEL 7+

4/4

Double strike

Enclave Cryptologist

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 1-2

0/1

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

LEVEL 3+

0/1

: Draw a card.

Skywatcher Adept

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 1-2

2/2

Flying

LEVEL 3+

4/2

Flying

Death Cultist

Creature - Human Wizard

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

Death inevitably seduces all who study it.

Guul Draz Assassin

Creature - Vampire Assassin

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 2-3

2/2

, : Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

LEVEL 4+

4/4

, : Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Mortician Beetle

Creature - Insect

Whenever a player sacrifices a creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Mortician Beetle.

To the soldier, war is famine; to the scavenger, a feast.

Zulaport Enforcer

Creature - Human Warrior

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 1-2

3/3

LEVEL 3+

5/5

Zulaport Enforcer can't be blocked except by black creatures.

Joraga Treespeaker

Creature - Elf Druid

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 1-4

1/2

: Add to your mana pool.

LEVEL 5+

1/4

Elves you control have ": Add to your mana pool."

Hada Freeblade

Creature - Human Soldier Ally

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

"I toiled in Kazuul's mines when I was eight. I think I'm tough enough for a little hiking."

Kitesail Apprentice

Creature - Kor Soldier

As long as Kitesail Apprentice is equipped, it gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Carving lines through the sky, kite sailors map trails for the pilgrims below to follow.

Loam Lion

Creature - Cat

Loam Lion gets +1/+2 as long as you control a Forest.

In Zendikar, today's grassland could be tomorrow's jungle, and hunting grounds change as quickly as the weather.

Perimeter Captain

Creature - Human Soldier

Defender

Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.

"We stand between the jaws of chaos and the mantle of order."

Death's Shadow

Creature - Avatar

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

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

Pulse Tracker

Creature - Vampire Rogue

Whenever Pulse Tracker attacks, each opponent loses 1 life.

Pulse trackers terrorize adventurers, driving them through the jungle toward certain death at the gates of Malakir.

Quag Vampires

Creature - Vampire Rogue

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

Swampwalk

Quag Vampires enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each time it was kicked.

Dragonmaster Outcast

Creature - Human Shaman

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control six or more lands, put a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"Cast out by my tribe, I am a pariah trapped in this mammal's carcass. Only my true kin hear my cries."

Skitter of Lizards

Creature - Lizard

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

Haste

Skitter of Lizards enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each time it was kicked.

Joraga Warcaller

Creature - Elf Warrior

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

Joraga Warcaller enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each time it was kicked.

Other Elf creatures you control get +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on Joraga Warcaller.

Kor Duelist

Creature - Kor Soldier

As long as Kor Duelist is equipped, it has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

"Swords cannot reach far enough. Chains cannot strike hard enough. An eternal dilemma, but a simple one."