Sunspear Shikari

Creature - Cat Soldier

As long as Sunspear Shikari is equipped, it has first strike and lifelink.

Left without their leader Raksha, the leonin split into two prides: one side supported the regent kha, while the other rebelled in fury.

Sunspire Gatekeepers

Creature - Human Soldier

When Sunspire Gatekeepers enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, put a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.

"You will pass with respect, or you will not pass at all."

Sunspire Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

"For each griffin wounded by an arrow, there's a corpse with a bow nearby."
-Pel Javya, Wojek investigator

Sunspring Expedition

Enchantment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a quest counter on Sunspring Expedition.

Remove three quest counters from Sunspring Expedition and sacrifice it: You gain 8 life.

Suntail Hawk

Creature - Bird

Flying

Its eye the glaring sun, its cry the keening wind.

Suntouched Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

As the fifth sun joins the other four, new abilities awaken in the creatures of Mirrodin.

Sunweb

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Flying

Sunweb can't block creatures with power 2 or less.

"There is no sweeter music than the wails of a dying dragon."
-Rashida Scalebane

Supplant Form

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. You put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of that creature.

"Ice can be shaped to any form, even the whisper of a memory."
-Mytha, Temur shaman

Supply (Supply/Demand)

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Supply-Line Cranes

Creature - Bird

Flying

When Supply-Line Cranes enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

They are trained from hatching to deliver aid where it is needed most.

Suppression Field

Enchantment

Activated abilities cost more to activate unless they're mana abilities.

The most feared of Azorius punishments is to be freed-sent back out into the world, stripped of all magical defenses.

Supreme Exemplar

Creature - Elemental

Flying

Champion an Elemental (When this enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you exile another Elemental you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.)

Supreme Verdict

Sorcery

Supreme Verdict can't be countered.

Destroy all creatures.

Leonos had no second thoughts about the abolishment edict. He'd left skyrunes warning of the eviction, even though it was cloudy.

Suq'Ata Lancer

Creature - Human Knight

Haste

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

"Never stop 'til you see your lance come out the other side."
-Telim'Tor

Sure Strike

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

To survive imminent doom, it sometimes takes a foolhardy soul who acts first and fears later.

Surestrike Trident

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike and ", Unattach Surestrike Trident: This creature deals damage equal to its power to target player."

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Surge Node

Artifact

Surge Node enters the battlefield with six charge counters on it.

, , Remove a charge counter from Surge Node: Put a charge counter on target artifact.

Without a foe to focus on, the machine priests had time to indulge in new sciences.

Surge of Righteousness

Instant

Destroy target black or red creature that's attacking or blocking. You gain 2 life.

Though she stood alone, she struck with the force of an army.

Surge of Thoughtweft

Tribal Instant - Kithkin

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. If you control a Kithkin, draw a card.

Kithkin weave together their very thoughts, creating a depth of cooperation unknown to other races.

Surge of Zeal

Instant

Radiance - Target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it gain haste until end of turn.

"If only my poxes were as infectious as their zealotry."
-Savra

Surgespanner

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Whenever Surgespanner becomes tapped, you may pay . If you do, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

They ride on waves of Æther, washing out anything that might pollute the Merrow Lanes.

Surgical Extraction

Instant

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Surging Æther

Instant

Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast any revealed cards with the same name as this spell without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Surging Dementia

Sorcery

Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast any revealed cards with the same name as this spell without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Target player discards a card.

Surging Flame

Instant

Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast any revealed cards with the same name as this spell without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Surging Flame deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Surging Might

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast any revealed cards with the same name as this spell without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Surging Sentinels

Creature - Human Soldier

First strike

Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast any revealed cards with the same name as this spell without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Surrak Dragonclaw

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

Flash

Surrak Dragonclaw can't be countered.

Creature spells you control can't be countered.

Other creatures you control have trample.

Both his rank and his scars were earned in single combat against a cave bear.

Surrak, the Hunt Caller

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

Formidable - At the beginning of combat on your turn, if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater, target creature you control gains haste until end of turn.

"The greatest honor is to feed Atarka."

Surrakar Banisher

Creature - Surrakar

When Surrakar Banisher enters the battlefield, you may return target tapped creature to its owner's hand.

Surrakar grab things they don't want.

Surrakar Marauder

Creature - Surrakar

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Surrakar Marauder gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Surrakar Spellblade

Creature - Surrakar

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put a charge counter on Surrakar Spellblade.

Whenever Surrakar Spellblade deals combat damage to a player, you may draw X cards, where X is the number of charge counters on it.

Surreal Memoir

Sorcery

Return an instant card at random from your graveyard to your hand.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Surveilling Sprite

Creature - Faerie Rogue

Flying

When Surveilling Sprite dies, you may draw a card.

Their natural curiosity, combined with a knack for trespassing, makes sprites excellent spies.

Survey the Wreckage

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token onto the battlefield.

Goblins and architects seldom get along.

Surveyor's Scope

Artifact

, Exile Surveyor's Scope: Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of players who control at least two more lands than you. Put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Survival Cache

Sorcery

You gain 2 life. Then if you have more life than an opponent, draw a card.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Survivor of the Unseen

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.)

: Draw two cards, then put a card from your hand on top of your library.

Suspension Field

Enchantment

When Suspension Field enters the battlefield, you may exile target creature with toughness 3 or greater until Suspension Field leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

Suture Priest

Creature - Cleric

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

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Suture Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Flying

: Regenerate target creature.

Is her need to heal born out of compassion or penance?

Sutured Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

Trample

As Sutured Ghoul enters the battlefield, exile any number of creature cards from your graveyard.

Sutured Ghoul's power is equal to the total power of the exiled cards and its toughness is equal to their total toughness.

Svogthos, the Restless Tomb

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Until end of turn, Svogthos, the Restless Tomb becomes a black and green Plant Zombie creature with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard." It's still a land.

Swallowing Plague

Sorcery - Arcane

Swallowing Plague deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life.

"We are recalling all forces from the Takenuma Swamp. We lose men daily to kami attacks, and it seems our defeats only encourage them further."
-General Takeno, letter to Lord Konda

Swamp

Basic Land - Swamp

(: Add to your mana pool.)

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.)

Swan Song

Instant

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller puts a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"The most enlightened mages create beauty from violence."
-Medomai the Ageless

Swans of Bryn Argoll

Creature - Bird Spirit

Flying

If a source would deal damage to Swans of Bryn Argoll, prevent that damage. The source's controller draws cards equal to the damage prevented this way.

Any being that harms them quickly learns its lesson.

Swarm of Bloodflies

Creature - Insect

Flying

Swarm of Bloodflies enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Swarm of Bloodflies.

In the Gudul delta, bloodfly bites are indistinguishable from spear wounds.

Swarm of Rats

Creature - Rat

Swarm of Rats's power is equal to the number of Rats you control.

"Rats, rats, rats! Hundreds, thousands, millions of them, and every one a life."
-Bram Stoker, Dracula

Swarm Surge

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. Colorless creatures you control also gain first strike until end of turn.

The Eldrazi rampaged across Zendikar in a tide of chittering, heaving flesh.

Swarmborn Giant

Creature - Giant

When you're dealt combat damage, sacrifice Swarmborn Giant.

: Monstrosity 2. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put two +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

As long as Swarmborn Giant is monstrous, it has reach.

Swarmyard

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel.

Where scavengers nest in hollowed-out rib cages and chittering crawlers peer from empty eye sockets, few dare to trespass.

Sway of the Stars

Sorcery

Each player shuffles his or her hand, graveyard, and permanents he or she owns into his or her library, then draws seven cards. Each player's life total becomes 7.

Sweep Away

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. If that creature is attacking, you may put it on top of its owner's library instead.

The Roil takes many forms. It also takes many victims.

Swell of Courage

Instant

Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.

Reinforce X- (, Discard this card: Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature.)

"Tideshaping is more than creating a few
new puddles."

Swell of Growth

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Nissa is not the only one with a deep connection to Zendikar's primal elements."-Kiora

Swerve

Instant

Change the target of target spell with a single target.

"We can't beat the necromancers in numbers or raw power. We must beat them with ingenuity and timing."
-Rannon, Vithian holdout

Swift Justice

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike and lifelink.

"Having conviction is more important than being righteous."
-Aurelia

Swift Kick

Instant

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. It fights target creature you don't control.

Shintan sensed the malice in his opponent, but he did not strike until the orc's muscles tensed in preparation to throw the first punch.

Swift Maneuver

Instant

Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Darien's call to Yavimaya would have fallen red to the snow had it not been for the agility of the aesthir.

Swift Silence

Instant

Counter all other spells. Draw a card for each spell countered this way.

"This world may not know peace, but in my presence you will know quiet."
-Augustin IV

Swift Warkite

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Swift Warkite enters the battlefield, you may put a creature card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Return it to your hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Swiftfoot Boots

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste.

Equip

Swiftwater Cliffs

Land

Swiftwater Cliffs enters the battlefield tapped.

When Swiftwater Cliffs enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Swirl the Mists

Enchantment

As Swirl the Mists enters the battlefield, choose a color word.

All instances of color words in the text of spells and permanents are changed to the chosen color word.

Swirling Spriggan

Creature - Goblin Shaman

: Target creature you control becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

After its encounter with the spriggan, the patrol was red with anger, green with envy, white with fear, and painfully black and blue.

Switcheroo

Sorcery

Exchange control of two target creatures.

Say hello to your new friend.

Sword Dancer

Creature - Human Rebel

: Target attacking creature gets -1/-0 until end of turn.

Most soldiers think of the sword as a weapon. In the hands of Zho monks, swords are also the strongest of shields.

Sword of Body and Mind

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from blue.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield and that player puts the top ten cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Equip

Sword of Feast and Famine

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.

Equip

Sword of Fire and Ice

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from blue.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, Sword of Fire and Ice deals 2 damage to target creature or player and you draw a card.

Equip

Sword of Kaldra

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +5/+5.

Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a creature, exile that creature.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Sword of Light and Shadow

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from black.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 3 life and you may return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Equip

Sword of the Meek

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+2.

Equip

Whenever a 1/1 creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may return Sword of the Meek from your graveyard to the battlefield, then attach it to that creature.

Sword of the Paruns

Artifact - Equipment

As long as equipped creature is tapped, tapped creatures you control get +2/+0.

As long as equipped creature is untapped, untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.

: You may tap or untap equipped creature.

Equip

Sword of Vengeance

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike, vigilance, trample, and haste.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

When wielded by a true believer, it matters little whether the sword is a relic or a replica.

Sword of War and Peace

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from white.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, Sword of War and Peace deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in his or her hand and you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Equip

Swords to Plowshares

Instant

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Swordwise Centaur

Creature - Centaur Warrior

The girl who would become the Champion of the Sun hacked furiously at the practice dummy. At last she stopped, breathing heavily, and looked up at her instructor.
"So much anger," said the centaur. "I will teach you the ways of war, child. But first you must make peace with yourself."
-The Theriad

Sydri, Galvanic Genius

Legendary Creature - Human Artificer

: Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost until end of turn.: Target artifact creature gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Sygg, River Cutthroat

Legendary Creature - Merfolk Rogue

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn, you may draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)

"It's not a matter of deserving. It's a matter of strength. The power to hold versus the power to take."

Sygg, River Guide

Legendary Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Islandwalk

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

"If there's a place worth going, the Merrow Lanes already do. And if there's a route worth taking, yours truly already has."

Sylvan Advocate

Creature - Elf Druid Ally

Vigilance

As long as you control six or more lands, Sylvan Advocate and land creatures you control get +2/+2.

"The land gives of itself. Its abundance provides, even in times of chaos."

Sylvan Basilisk

Creature - Basilisk

Whenever Sylvan Basilisk becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature.

"We're not sure what one looks like, so to be safe, nobody look at anything until we're out of here."
-Parbold Drix, veteran explorer

Sylvan Bounty

Instant

Target player gains 8 life.

Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Some who scouted new lands chose to stay.

Sylvan Caryatid

Creature - Plant

Defender, hexproof

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

Those who enter the copse never leave. They find peace there and take root, becoming part of the ever-growing grove.

Sylvan Echoes

Enchantment

Whenever you clash and win, you may draw a card. (This ability triggers after the clash ends.)

It takes a huntmaster's eye to discern the contours of mythical prey.

Sylvan Library

Enchantment

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.

Sylvan Offering

Sorcery

Choose an opponent. You and that player each put an X/X green Treefolk creature token onto the battlefield.

Choose an opponent. You and that player each put X 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Sylvan Primordial

Creature - Avatar

Reach

When Sylvan Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, destroy target noncreature permanent that player controls. For each permanent destroyed this way, search your library for a Forest card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

Sylvan Ranger

Creature - Elf Scout

When Sylvan Ranger enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

"Not all paths are found on the forest floor."

Sylvan Safekeeper

Creature - Human Wizard

Sacrifice a land: Target creature you control gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"How could someone so small cause so much trouble?"
-Nomad sentry

Sylvan Scrying

Sorcery

Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

One glimpse of an elf's home lasts her weeks away in the wild.

Sylvok Explorer

Creature - Human Druid

: Add to your mana pool one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Any creature on a druid's shoulder is his family, any land under his feet his home.

Sylvok Lifestaff

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

Whenever equipped creature dies, you gain 3 life.

Equip

The druid's lifestaff connects her to generations of bygone Sylvok.

Sylvok Replica

Artifact Creature - Shaman

, Sacrifice Sylvok Replica: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

All the zeal of the Sylvok with only a trace of their conservancy.

Symbiotic Wurm

Creature - Wurm

When Symbiotic Wurm dies, put seven 1/1 green Insect creature tokens onto the battlefield.

The insects keep the wurm's hide free from parasites. In return, the wurm doesn't eat the insects.

Synchronous Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have vigilance.

"With a twitch of its muscles, its timeline forks. Then, just as quickly, its two selves reintegrate. Causality, strangely, seems not to mind."
-Rukarumel, field journal

Syncopate

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

"Patience, mage. Killing you now would be too easy."