Mountain Titan

Creature - Giant

: Until end of turn, whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Mountain Titan.

"The Titans claimed to draw strength from the rocks, but I suspect them of some darker allegiance."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Musician

Creature - Human Wizard

Cumulative upkeep (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.)

: Put a music counter on target creature. If it doesn't have "At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy this creature unless you pay for each music counter on it," it gains that ability.

Norritt

Creature - Imp

: Untap target blue creature.

: Choose target non-Wall creature the active player has controlled continuously since the beginning of the turn. That creature attacks this turn if able. If it doesn't, destroy it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate this ability only before attackers are declared.

Orcish Cannoneers

Creature - Orc Warrior

: Orcish Cannoneers deals 2 damage to target creature or player and 3 damage to you.

"It's a thankless job, and you'll probably die in an explosion. But the pay is pretty good."
-Toothlicker Harj, Orcish Captain

Orcish Healer

Creature - Orc Cleric

, : Target creature can't be regenerated this turn.

, : Regenerate target black or green creature.

, : Regenerate target black or green creature.

Orcish Librarian

Creature - Orc

, : Look at the top eight cards of your library. Exile four of them at random, then put the rest on top of your library in any order.

Us hungry, need food . . . .
Lots of books . . . . Hmm . . . .

Orcish Lumberjack

Creature - Orc

, Sacrifice a Forest: Add three mana in any combination of and/or to your mana pool.

"How did I ever let myself get talked into this project?"
-Toothlicker Harj, Orcish Captain

Pale Bears

Creature - Bear

Islandwalk

"Daughter, on the day you have killed your Pale Bear, then will I give you your true name."
-Lovisa Coldeyes,
Balduvian Chieftain

Pestilence Rats

Creature - Rat

Pestilence Rats's power is equal to the number of other Rats on the battlefield. (For example, as long as there are two other Rats on the battlefield, Pestilence Rats's power and toughness are 2/3.)

Phantasmal Fiend

Creature - Illusion

: Phantasmal Fiend gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

: Switch Phantasmal Fiend's power and toughness until end of turn.

Phantasmal Mount

Creature - Illusion Horse

Flying

: Target creature you control with toughness 2 or less gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn. When Phantasmal Mount leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice that creature. When the creature leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice Phantasmal Mount.

Phantasmal Sphere

Creature - Illusion

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on Phantasmal Sphere, then sacrifice Phantasmal Sphere unless you pay for each +1/+1 counter on it.

When Phantasmal Sphere leaves the battlefield, put a blue Orb creature token with flying onto the battlefield under target opponent's control. That creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on Phantasmal Sphere.

Phelddagrif

Legendary Creature - Phelddagrif

: Phelddagrif gains trample until end of turn. Target opponent puts a 1/1 green Hippo creature token onto the battlefield.

: Phelddagrif gains flying until end of turn. Target opponent gains 2 life.

: Return Phelddagrif to its owner's hand. Target opponent may draw a card.

Phyrexian Devourer

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Phyrexian Devourer's power is 7 or greater, sacrifice it.

Exile the top card of your library: Put X +1/+1 counters on Phyrexian Devourer, where X is the exiled card's converted mana cost.

Phyrexian War Beast

Artifact Creature - Beast

When Phyrexian War Beast leaves the battlefield, sacrifice a land and Phyrexian War Beast deals 1 damage to you.

"Deal with the spawn of Phyrexia cautiously; only with time may we control them."
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

Polar Kraken

Creature - Kraken

Trample

Polar Kraken enters the battlefield tapped.

Cumulative upkeep-Sacrifice a land. (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.)

"It was big. Really, really, big. No, bigger than that. It was big!"
-Arna Kennerüd, Skyknight

Pygmy Allosaurus

Creature - Lizard

Swampwalk

"I don't understand the appeal of keeping these things as pets, unless you want your children eaten."
-General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Pyknite

Creature - Ouphe

When Pyknite enters the battlefield, draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Never cross a Pyknite, if you value your scalp."
-Lovisa Coldeyes,
Balduvian Chieftain

Rime Dryad

Creature - Dryad

Snow forestwalk

"The Dryads told us to stay, as no new horrors would come when it was so cold. Three of us left anyway. The rest believed their lies, and their skeletons weren't found until the thaw."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Rogue Skycaptain

Creature - Human Rogue Mercenary

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a wage counter on Rogue Skycaptain. You may pay for each wage counter on it. If you don't, remove all wage counters from Rogue Skycaptain and an opponent gains control of it.

Royal Herbalist

Creature - Human Cleric

, Exile the top card of your library: You gain 1 life.

"Just as an Herbalist heals a wound, so must we heal the rift between Balduvia and Kjeldor."
-King Darien of Kjeldor

Seasoned Tactician

Creature - Human Advisor

, Exile the top four cards of your library: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

"The benefits of peace far outweigh the pride of Generals."
-King Darien of Kjeldor

Shambling Strider

Creature - Yeti

: Shambling Strider gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Freyalise forbid that any stranger should wander into the Striders' territory.

Shield Sphere

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender

Whenever Shield Sphere blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

"My Soldiers know that they need never fear for their protection."
-King Darien of Kjeldor

Shyft

Creature - Shapeshifter

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have Shyft become the color or colors of your choice. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

"Capturing this specimen was not easy. Study it well, that you someday might be as versatile."
-Gerda Äagesdotter,
Archmage of the Unseen

Silver Erne

Creature - Bird

Flying, trample

"I've seen a larger Erne knock a Giant to the ground and stay airborne. They move not with the wind, but as the wind."
-Arna Kennerüd, Skyknight

Skeleton Ship

Legendary Creature - Skeleton

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Skeleton Ship.

: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"The sea gives up her dead as easily as the soil."
-Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Snow Fortress

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Snow Fortress gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Snow Fortress gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

: Snow Fortress deals 1 damage to target creature without flying that's attacking you.

Snow Hound

Creature - Hound

, : Return Snow Hound and target green or blue creature you control to their owner's hand.

"If you're starving, eat your horses, your dead, or yourself-but never eat your dog."
-General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Soldevi Adnate

Creature - Human Cleric

, Sacrifice a black or artifact creature: Add to your mana pool an amount of equal to the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost.

"People love to follow fools; they don't feel so alone then."
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Soldevi Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Soldevi Golem doesn't untap during your untap step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may untap target tapped creature an opponent controls. If you do, untap Soldevi Golem.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Soldevi Heretic

Creature - Human Cleric

, : Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn. Target opponent may draw a card.

"In the arms of tragedy, there is little comfort in being right."
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Soldevi Machinist

Creature - Human Wizard Artificer

: Add to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to activate abilities of artifacts.

"Perhaps this time the power of the artificers shall be used wisely."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Soldevi Sentry

Artifact Creature - Soldier

: Choose target opponent. Regenerate Soldevi Sentry. When it regenerates this way, that player may draw a card.

"A dreadful invention. What ease is there under the watchful eye of cold steel?"
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Soldevi Simulacrum

Artifact Creature - Soldier

Cumulative upkeep (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.)

: Soldevi Simulacrum gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

They look human-
until they bleed.

Soldevi Steam Beast

Artifact Creature - Beast

Whenever Soldevi Steam Beast becomes tapped, target opponent gains 2 life.

: Regenerate Soldevi Steam Beast.

"Dagsson saw the steam as life-giving-until his followers felt its scalding touch."
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Soldier of Fortune

Creature - Human Mercenary

, : Target player shuffles his or her library.

"Loyalty to coin alone is loyalty nonetheless."
-General Varchild

Spiny Starfish

Creature - Starfish

: Regenerate Spiny Starfish.

At the beginning of each end step, if Spiny Starfish regenerated this turn, put a 0/1 blue Starfish creature token onto the battlefield for each time it regenerated this turn.

Storm Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Flying

, Exile the top card of your library: Tap target creature with flying.

, Exile the top card of your library: If the exiled card is a snow land, Storm Elemental gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Storm Spirit

Creature - Elemental Spirit

Flying

: Storm Spirit deals 2 damage to target creature.

"Come to us, with your lightning. Come to us, with your thunder. Serve us with your strength, and smite our foes with your power."
-Steinar Icefist, Balduvian Shaman

Stromgald Spy

Creature - Human Rogue

Whenever Stromgald Spy attacks and isn't blocked, you may have defending player play with his or her hand revealed for as long as Stromgald Spy remains on the battlefield. If you do, Stromgald Spy assigns no combat damage this turn.

Sustaining Spirit

Creature - Angel Spirit

Cumulative upkeep (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.)

Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

"Faith is our greatest protector."
-Halvor Arensson, Kjeldoran Priest

Swamp Mosquito

Creature - Insect

Flying

Whenever Swamp Mosquito attacks and isn't blocked, defending player gets a poison counter. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Sworn Defender

Creature - Human Knight

: Sworn Defender's power becomes the toughness of target creature blocking or being blocked by Sworn Defender minus 1 until end of turn, and Sworn Defender's toughness becomes 1 plus the power of that creature until end of turn.

Thunder Wall

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Flying

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

"The Lemures had barely taken wing when the sky roared with thunder. The swarm of little beasts wavered, divided, and fell, crashing to the earth."
-General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Tinder Wall

Creature - Plant Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Sacrifice Tinder Wall: Add to your mana pool.

, Sacrifice Tinder Wall: Tinder Wall deals 2 damage to target creature it's blocking.

Tor Giant

Creature - Giant

"What do you do then? Run. Run very fast. Don't stop until you see the camp-or a bigger Giant."
-Toothlicker Harj,
Orcish Captain

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

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

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

Viscerid Drone

Creature - Homarid Drone

, Sacrifice a creature and a Swamp: Destroy target nonartifact creature. It can't be regenerated.

, Sacrifice a creature and a snow Swamp: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Not all of Terisiare's flooding was natural . . . .

Walking Wall

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender

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

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

Wall of Lava

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

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

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

Wall of Pine Needles

Creature - Plant Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Regenerate Wall of Pine Needles.

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

Wall of Shields

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

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

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

Wandering Mage

Creature - Human Cleric Wizard

, Pay 1 life: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target Cleric or Wizard creature this turn.

, Put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target player this turn.

Whip Vine

Creature - Plant Wall

Defender; reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

You may choose not to untap Whip Vine during your untap step.

: Tap target creature with flying blocked by Whip Vine. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Whip Vine remains tapped.

Wiitigo

Creature - Yeti

Wiitigo enters the battlefield with six +1/+1 counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on Wiitigo if it has blocked or been blocked since your last upkeep. Otherwise, remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

Wild Aesthir

Creature - Bird

Flying, first strike

: Wild Aesthir gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"High in the Karplusans, death is swift and razor-clawed."
-Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain

Woolly Mammoths

Creature - Elephant

Woolly Mammoths has trample as long as you control a snow land.

"Mammoths may be good to ride on, but they're certainly bad to fall off of!"
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Woolly Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Whenever Woolly Spider blocks a creature with flying, Woolly Spider gets +0/+2 until end of turn.

"We need not fear the forces of the air; I've yet to see a Spider without an appetite."
-Taaveti of Kelsinko, Elvish Hunter

Yavimaya Ancients

Creature - Treefolk

: Yavimaya Ancients gets +1/-2 until end of turn.

"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
-Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Yavimaya Ants

Creature - Insect

Trample, haste

Cumulative upkeep (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.)

"Few natural forces are as devastating as hunger."
-Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Yavimaya Gnats

Creature - Insect

Flying

: Regenerate Yavimaya Gnats.

"It is our third day of travel on the Yavimaya River, and still these creatures plague us. Davin Lansson, our naturalist, has facetiously labeled them ‘gnats,' and the name has stuck."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Zuran Enchanter

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Target player discards a card. Activate this ability only during your turn.

"We are Kjeldorans no more."
-Zur the Enchanter

Zuran Spellcaster

Creature - Human Wizard

: Zuran Spellcaster deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

"A mage must be precise as well as potent; cautious, as well as clever."
-Zur the Enchanter

Abomination

Creature - Horror

Whenever Abomination blocks or becomes blocked by a green or white creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Ali Baba

Creature - Human Rogue

: Tap target Wall.

"When he reached the entrance of the cavern, he pronounced the words, ‘Open, Sesame!'"
-The Arabian Nights, Junior Classics trans.

Amrou Kithkin

Creature - Kithkin

Amrou Kithkin can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.

Quick and agile, Amrou Kithkin can usually escape from even the most fearsome opponents.

Angry Mob

Creature - Human

Trample

As long as it's your turn, Angry Mob's power and toughness are each equal to 2 plus the number of Swamps your opponents control. As long as it's not your turn, Angry Mob's power and toughness are each 2.

Apprentice Wizard

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Add to your mana pool.

Battering Ram

Artifact Creature - Construct

At the beginning of combat on your turn, Battering Ram gains banding until end of combat. (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 being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)

Whenever Battering Ram becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

Bird Maiden

Creature - Human Bird

Flying

Four things that never meet do here unite
To shed my blood and to ravage my heart,
A radiant brow and tresses that beguile
And rosy cheeks and a glittering smile."
-The Arabian Nights, trans. Haddawy

Brothers of Fire

Creature - Human Shaman

: Brothers of Fire deals 1 damage to target creature or player and 1 damage to you.

Fire is never a gentle master.

Carnivorous Plant

Creature - Plant Wall

Defender

"It had a mouth like that of a great beast, and gnashed its teeth as it strained to reach us. I am thankful it possessed no means of locomotion."
-Vervamon the Elder

Carrion Ants

Creature - Insect

: Carrion Ants gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"War is no picnic," my father liked to say. But the Ants seemed to disagree.

Cave People

Creature - Human

Whenever Cave People attacks, it gets +1/-2 until end of turn.

, : Target creature gains mountainwalk until end of turn.

Clay Statue

Artifact Creature - Golem

: Regenerate Clay Statue.

Tawnos won fame as Urza's greatest assistant. After he created these warriors, Urza ended his apprenticeship, promoting him directly to the rank of master.

Clockwork Avian

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

Clockwork Avian enters the battlefield with four +1/+0 counters on it.

At end of combat, if Clockwork Avian attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.

, : Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian to be greater than four. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Cosmic Horror

Creature - Horror

First strike

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy Cosmic Horror unless you pay . If Cosmic Horror is destroyed this way, it deals 7 damage to you.

". . . [S]creams of horror rend th' affrighted skies." -Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

Crimson Manticore

Creature - Manticore

Flying

, : Crimson Manticore deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Noted neither for their good looks nor their charm, Manticores can be fearsome allies. As dinner companions, however, they are best left alone.

Cyclopean Mummy

Creature - Zombie

When Cyclopean Mummy dies, exile it.

The ritual of plucking out an eye to gain future sight is but a curse that enables the living to see their own deaths.

Diabolic Machine

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Regenerate Diabolic Machine.

"The bolts of our ballistae smashed into the monstrous thing, but our hopes died in our chests as its gears continued turning."
-Sevti Mukul, The Fall of Alsoor

Durkwood Boars

Creature - Boar

"And the unclean spirits went out, and entered the swine: and the herd ran violently . . . ."
-Mark 5:13

Elder Land Wurm

Creature - Dragon Wurm

Defender, trample

When Elder Land Wurm blocks, it loses defender.

Sometimes it's best to let sleeping dragons lie.

Ghost Ship

Creature - Spirit

Flying

: Regenerate Ghost Ship.

"That phantom prow split the storm as lightning cast its long shadow on the battlefield below."
-Mireille Gaetane, The Valeriad

Giant Tortoise

Creature - Turtle

Giant Tortoise gets +0/+3 as long as it's untapped.

Goblin Rock Sled

Creature - Goblin

Trample

Goblin Rock Sled doesn't untap during your untap step if it attacked during your last turn.

Goblin Rock Sled can't attack unless defending player controls a Mountain.

Grapeshot Catapult

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Grapeshot Catapult deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.

Recent research suggests these creatures were invented by Urza's and Mishra's original master, Tocasia, and that both brothers used them.

Hurr Jackal

Creature - Hound

: Target creature can't be regenerated this turn.

Junún Efreet

Creature - Efreet

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Junún Efreet unless you pay .

Killer Bees

Creature - Insect

Flying

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

The communal mind produces a savage strategy, yet no one could predict that this vicious crossbreed would unravel the secret of steel.

Land Leeches

Creature - Leech

First strike

"The standard cure for leeches requires the application of burning embers. Alternative methods must be devised should an ember of sufficient size prove more harmful than the leech."
-Vervamon the Elder

Leviathan

Creature - Leviathan

Trample

Leviathan enters the battlefield tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice two Islands. If you do, untap Leviathan.

Leviathan can't attack unless you sacrifice two Islands.

Lost Soul

Creature - Spirit Minion

Swampwalk

Her hand gently beckons,
she whispers your name-
But those who go with her
are never the same.

Marsh Viper

Creature - Snake

Whenever Marsh Viper deals damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

"All we had left were their black and bloated bodies."
-Maeveen O'Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier

Murk Dwellers

Creature - Zombie

Whenever Murk Dwellers attacks and isn't blocked, it gets +2/+0 until end of combat.

When Raganorn unsealed the catacombs, he found more than the dead and their treasures.

Nafs Asp

Creature - Snake

Whenever Nafs Asp deals damage to a player, that player loses 1 life at the beginning of his or her next draw step unless he or she pays before that draw step.

Osai Vultures

Creature - Bird

Flying

At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a carrion counter on Osai Vultures.

Remove two carrion counters from Osai Vultures: Osai Vultures gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Pikemen

Creature - Human Soldier

First strike; banding (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.)

"As the cavalry bore down, we faced them with swords drawn and pikes hidden in the grass at our feet. ‘Don't lift your pikes 'til I give the word,' I said."
-Maeveen O'Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier