Nimbus of the Isles

Creature - Elemental

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

The people of the Sevick Isles have a unique understanding of the term "ominous clouds."

Paragon of Gathering Mists

Creature - Human Wizard

Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.

, : Another target blue creature you control gains flying until end of turn.

Quickling

Creature - Faerie Rogue

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

Flying

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

Research Assistant

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Draw a card, then discard a card.

There are many words and phrases that can cause an experienced wizard to tremble in fear. Chief among them is "oops."

Soul of Ravnica

Creature - Avatar

Flying

: Draw a card for each color among permanents you control.

, Exile Soul of Ravnica from your graveyard: Draw a card for each color among permanents you control.

Stormtide Leviathan

Creature - Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.

Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.

Welkin Tern

Creature - Bird

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

Welkin Tern can block only creatures with flying.

"It preys on other birds. And drakelings. And drakes. Pretty much anything that crosses its flight path is fair game."
-Amira, skycaptain of Thune

Black Cat

Creature - Zombie Cat

When Black Cat dies, target opponent discards a card at random.

Its last life is spent tormenting your dreams.

Blood Host

Creature - Vampire

, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Blood Host and you gain 2 life.

It would be ill-mannered to decline his invitation. It would be ill-advised to accept it.

Carrion Crow

Creature - Zombie Bird

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

Carrion Crow enters the battlefield tapped.

When carrion feeds on carrion, dark days approach.

Cruel Sadist

Creature - Human Assassin

, , Pay 1 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on Cruel Sadist.

, , Remove X +1/+1 counters from Cruel Sadist: Cruel Sadist deals X damage to target creature.

Face of innocence. Hand of death.
Designed by Edmund McMillen

Gravedigger

Creature - Zombie

When Gravedigger enters the battlefield, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

His grim ritual ushers the dead to their new life.

Indulgent Tormentor

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature or pays 3 life.

The promise of anguish is payment enough for services rendered.

Leeching Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Whenever a Sliver you control attacks, defending player loses 1 life.

"Seeing one slowly devour one of my party begged the question-do they know what cruelty is?"
-Hastric, Thunian scout

Necrogen Scudder

Creature - Horror

Flying

When Necrogen Scudder enters the battlefield, you lose 3 life.

Contrary to popular belief, it's kept aloft by necrogen gas, not the screaming agony of a thousand murdered souls.

Necromancer's Assistant

Creature - Zombie

When Necromancer's Assistant enters the battlefield, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.

Zombies and necromancers agree: easy access to brains is preferred.

Nightfire Giant

Creature - Zombie Giant

Nightfire Giant gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Mountain.

: Nightfire Giant deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Nightfire turns the greatest weakness of the undead into formidable strength.

Ob Nixilis, Unshackled

Legendary Creature - Demon

Flying, trample

Whenever an opponent searches his or her library, that player sacrifices a creature and loses 10 life.

Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis, Unshackled.

Designed by Brad Muir

Paragon of Open Graves

Creature - Skeleton Warrior

Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.

, : Another target black creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Rotfeaster Maggot

Creature - Insect

When Rotfeaster Maggot enters the battlefield, exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain life equal to that card's toughness.

Is it at the top of the food chain or the bottom?

Shadowcloak Vampire

Creature - Vampire

Pay 2 life: Shadowcloak Vampire gains flying until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

"My favorite guilty pleasure? Are there innocent ones?"

Soul of Innistrad

Creature - Avatar

Deathtouch

: Return up to three target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

, Exile Soul of Innistrad from your graveyard: Return up to three target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

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.

Wall of Limbs

Creature - Zombie Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Wall of Limbs.

, Sacrifice Wall of Limbs: Target player loses X life, where X is Wall of Limbs's power.

Witch's Familiar

Creature - Frog

Some bog witches practice the strange art of batrachomancy, reading portents in the number, size, and color of warts on a toad's hide.

Xathrid Slyblade

Creature - Human Assassin

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

: Until end of turn, Xathrid Slyblade loses hexproof and gains first strike and deathtouch. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike. Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Designed by Rob Pardo

Zof Shade

Creature - Shade

: Zof Shade gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

It haunts the remnants of the Helix of Zof, leeching strength from the vast Eldrazi ruin.

Altac Bloodseeker

Creature - Human Berserker

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, Altac Bloodseeker gets +2/+0 and gains first strike and haste until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike, and it can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

Belligerent Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"The slivers became adept at provoking a fear response in other species."
-Hastric, Thunian scout

Borderland Marauder

Creature - Human Warrior

Whenever Borderland Marauder attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Though she is rightly feared, there are relatively few tales of her deeds in battle, for few survive her raids.

Brood Keeper

Creature - Human Shaman

Whenever an Aura becomes attached to Brood Keeper, put a 2/2 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield. It has ": This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

"Come, little one. Unfurl your wings, fill your lungs, and release your first fiery breath."

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.

Frenzied Goblin

Creature - Goblin Berserker

Whenever Frenzied Goblin attacks, you may pay . If you do, target creature can't block this turn.

The upside to not thinking about the consequences is that you'll always surprise those who do.

Generator Servant

Creature - Elemental

, Sacrifice Generator Servant: Add to your mana pool. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (That creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

Goblin Kaboomist

Creature - Goblin Warrior

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a colorless artifact token named Land Mine onto the battlefield with ", Sacrifice this artifact: This artifact deals 2 damage to target attacking creature without flying." Then flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Goblin Kaboomist deals 2 damage to itself.

Designed by Stone Librande

Goblin Rabblemaster

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Other Goblin creatures you control attack each turn if able.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token with haste onto the battlefield.

Whenever Goblin Rabblemaster attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking Goblin.

Goblin Roughrider

Creature - Goblin Knight

Astride the bucking creature, Gribble hurtled down the mountainside while his Grotag brethren cheered. It was at that moment that legend of the Skrill Tamer was born.

Hoarding Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Hoarding Dragon enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card, exile it, then shuffle your library.

When Hoarding Dragon dies, you may put the exiled card into its owner's hand.

Kird Chieftain

Creature - Ape

Kird Chieftain gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Forest.

: Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn. (If it would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

Krenko's Enforcer

Creature - Goblin Warrior

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

He just likes to break legs. Collecting the debt is a bonus.

Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient

Legendary Creature - Ogre Spirit

Whenever you activate an ability of an artifact, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay . If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

The Onakke were masters of dark arts and artifice. Their creations continue to spread foul magic, paving the way for their return.

Miner's Bane

Creature - Elemental

: Miner's Bane gets +1/+0 and gains trample until end of turn. (If it would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

There are certain stones even dwarves know to leave in the earth.

Paragon of Fierce Defiance

Creature - Human Warrior

Other red creatures you control get +1/+1.

, : Another target red creature you control gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

Rummaging Goblin

Creature - Goblin Rogue

, Discard a card: Draw a card.

To a goblin, value is based on the four S's: shiny, stabby, smelly, and super smelly.

Scrapyard Mongrel

Creature - Hound

As long as you control an artifact, Scrapyard Mongrel gets +2/+0 and has trample. (If it would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

Trespassers are welcome to try.

Siege Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Siege Dragon enters the battlefield, destroy all Walls your opponents control.

Whenever Siege Dragon attacks, if defending player controls no Walls, it deals 2 damage to each creature without flying that player controls.

Soul of Shandalar

Creature - Avatar

First strike

: Soul of Shandalar deals 3 damage to target player and 3 damage to up to one target creature that player controls.

, Exile Soul of Shandalar from your graveyard: Soul of Shandalar deals 3 damage to target player and 3 damage to up to one target creature that player controls.

Thundering Giant

Creature - Giant

Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

The giant was felt a few seconds before he was seen.

Torch Fiend

Creature - Devil

, Sacrifice Torch Fiend: Destroy target artifact.

Devils redecorate every room with fire.

Wall of Fire

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Wall of Fire gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Mercy is for those who keep their distance.

Ancient Silverback

Creature - Ape

: Regenerate Ancient Silverback. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

Carnivorous Moss-Beast

Creature - Plant Elemental Beast

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carnivorous Moss-Beast.

Ranger wisdom dictates that when fleeing from a moss-beast, you must stay calm, find your bearings, and run south.

Charging Rhino

Creature - Rhino

Charging Rhino can't be blocked by more than one creature.

"Is it wrong to go straight for what you want? Sneaking is for cats and goblins."
-Tahngarth of the Weatherlight

Genesis Hydra

Creature - Plant Hydra

When you cast Genesis Hydra, reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put a nonland permanent card with converted mana cost X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle the rest into your library.

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

Hornet Nest

Creature - Insect

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Hornet Nest is dealt damage, put that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch onto the battlefield. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Hornet Queen

Creature - Insect

Flying

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

When Hornet Queen enters the battlefield, put four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch onto the battlefield.

Invasive Species

Creature - Insect

When Invasive Species enters the battlefield, return another permanent you control to its owner's hand.

It's easier to relocate a village that lies in their path than to turn the bugs aside.

Kalonian Twingrove

Creature - Treefolk Warrior

Kalonian Twingrove's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests you control.

When Kalonian Twingrove enters the battlefield, put a green Treefolk Warrior creature token onto the battlefield with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests you control."

Living Totem

Creature - Plant Elemental

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

When Living Totem enters the battlefield, you may put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature.

Netcaster Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

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

It is an expert at culling individuals who stray too far from the herd.

Paragon of Eternal Wilds

Creature - Human Druid

Other green creatures you control get +1/+1.

, : Another target green creature you control gains trample until end of turn. (If it would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

Phytotitan

Creature - Plant Elemental

When Phytotitan dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of his or her next upkeep.

Its root system spans the entire floor of the jungle, making eradication impossible.

Reclamation Sage

Creature - Elf Shaman

When Reclamation Sage enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"What was once formed by masons, shaped by smiths, or given life by mages, I will return to the embrace of the earth."

Roaring Primadox

Creature - Beast

At the beginning of your upkeep, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

"They're easy enough to find. Question is, are you sure you want to find one?"
-Juruk, Kalonian tracker

Runeclaw Bear

Creature - Bear

The only honey it wants is the sweet nectar flowing through your veins.

Shaman of Spring

Creature - Elf Shaman

When Shaman of Spring enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Some shamanic sects advocate the different seasons, each working to preserve nature's cycles.

Siege Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Trample (If this creature would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

The Rubblefield was once among the wealthiest districts in Ravnica. All it took was a single wurm to reduce it to ruins.

Soul of Zendikar

Creature - Avatar

Reach

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

, Exile Soul of Zendikar from your graveyard: Put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.

Sunblade Elf

Creature - Elf Warrior

Sunblade Elf gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Plains.

: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"We patrol the steppes to keep enemies from the forest verge."

Undergrowth Scavenger

Creature - Fungus Horror

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

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

Venom Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

"We attacked with arrows dipped in poison. The slivers that did not die began to change."
-Hastric, Thunian scout

Wall of Mulch

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.

Mulch is the fabric of life in the forest. Plants live in it, they die in it, and then they become part of it, feeding countless generations to come.

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

, , Put a verse counter on Yisan, the Wanderer Bard: Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of verse counters on Yisan, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Designed by Brian Fargo

Sliver Hivelord

Legendary Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

"This is the source, the line unbroken since the calamity that brought such monsters to our shores."
-Hastric, Thunian scout

Abzan Battle Priest

Creature - Human Cleric

Outlast (, : Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has lifelink.

"Wherever I walk, the ancestors walk too."

Abzan Falconer

Creature - Human Soldier

Outlast (, : Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.

The fastest way across the dunes is above.

Ainok Bond-Kin

Creature - Hound Soldier

Outlast (, : Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has first strike.

"Hold the line, for family and the fallen!"

Alabaster Kirin

Creature - Kirin

Flying, vigilance

The appearance of a kirin signifies the passing or arrival of an important figure. As word of sightings spread, all the khans took it to mean themselves. Only the shaman Chianul thought of Sarkhan Vol.

Dazzling Ramparts

Creature - Wall

Defender

, : Tap target creature.

When Anafenza holds court under the First Tree, the gates of Mer-Ek are sealed. No safer place exists in all of Tarkir.

Firehoof Cavalry

Creature - Human Berserker

: Firehoof Cavalry gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

"What warrior worth the name fears to leave a trail? If my enemies seek me, let them follow the ashes in my wake."

Herald of Anafenza

Creature - Human Soldier

Outlast (, : Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)

Whenever you activate Herald of Anafenza's outlast ability, put a 1/1 white Warrior creature token onto the battlefield.

High Sentinels of Arashin

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

High Sentinels of Arashin gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

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

Jeskai Student

Creature - Human Monk

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Discipline is the first pillar of the Jeskai Way. Each member of the clan trains in a weapon, perfecting its use over a lifetime.

Mardu Hateblade

Creature - Human Warrior

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

"There may be little honor in my tactics, but there is no honor in losing."

Mardu Hordechief

Creature - Human Warrior

Raid - When Mardu Hordechief enters the battlefield, if you attacked with a creature this turn, put a 1/1 white Warrior creature token onto the battlefield.

The horde grows with each assault.

Master of Pearls

Creature - Human Monk

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

When Master of Pearls is turned face up, creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.

Sage-Eye Harrier

Creature - Bird Warrior

Flying

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

These winged warriors meditate in flight, tracing mandalas in the clouds.

Salt Road Patrol

Creature - Human Scout

Outlast (, : Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)

"Soldiers win battles, but supplies win wars."
-Kadri, Abzan caravan master

Seeker of the Way

Creature - Human Warrior

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Seeker of the Way gains lifelink until end of turn.

"I don't know where my destiny lies, but I know it isn't here."

Timely Hordemate

Creature - Human Warrior

Raid - When Timely Hordemate enters the battlefield, if you attacked with a creature this turn, return target creature card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Venerable Lammasu

Creature - Lammasu

Flying

Lammasu are the enigmatic travelers of Tarkir, soaring high above all lands in all seasons. None know their true purpose, but they often arrive on the eve of great conflicts or turning points in history.

War Behemoth

Creature - Beast

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

"The Houses always hope for peace, but we always pack for war."
-Gvar Barzeel, krumar commander

Watcher of the Roost

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

Morph-Reveal a white card in your hand. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

When Watcher of the Roost is turned face up, you gain 2 life.

Wingmate Roc

Creature - Bird

Flying

Raid - When Wingmate Roc enters the battlefield, if you attacked with a creature this turn, put a 3/4 white Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Whenever Wingmate Roc attacks, you gain 1 life for each attacking creature.

Clever Impersonator

Creature - Shapeshifter

You may have Clever Impersonator enter the battlefield as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.

"Our own selves are the greatest obstacles to enlightenment."
-Narset, khan of the Jeskai

Dragon's Eye Savants

Creature - Human Wizard

Morph-Reveal a blue card in your hand. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

When Dragon's Eye Savants is turned face up, look at target opponent's hand.

Embodiment of Spring

Creature - Elemental

, , Sacrifice Embodiment of Spring: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Arel dreamed of winter's end. The next morning she followed a strange trail and found a seedling in the snow.

Glacial Stalker

Creature - Elemental

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

"Have you spent a winter high in the mountains, where the ice walks and speaks to the wind? It is not a place for those who have not learned respect."
-Ulnok, Temur shaman

Jeskai Elder

Creature - Human Monk

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Whenever Jeskai Elder deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Jeskai Windscout

Creature - Bird Scout

Flying

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

They range from Sage-Eye Stronghold to the farthest reaches of Tarkir.