Æther Figment

Creature - Illusion

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

Æther Figment is unblockable.

If Æther Figment was kicked, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Æther Flash

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, Æther Flash deals 2 damage to it.

"You can't get there from here. Well, you can-it just won't be fun."
-Ertai, wizard adept

Æther Gale

Sorcery

Return six target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

The militia formed up in the central plaza awaiting the onslaught, but the giants never quite made it.

Æther Membrane

Creature - Wall

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

Whenever Æther Membrane blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.

Æther Mutation

Sorcery

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that creature's converted mana cost.

Æther Rift

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card at random. If you discard a creature card this way, return it from your graveyard to the battlefield unless any player pays 5 life.

Æther Searcher

Artifact Creature - Construct

Reveal Æther Searcher as you draft it. Reveal the next card you draft and note its name.

When Æther Searcher enters the battlefield, you may search your hand and/or library for a card with a name noted as you drafted cards named Æther Searcher. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you searched your library this way, shuffle it.

Æther Shockwave

Instant

Choose one - Tap all Spirits; or tap all non-Spirit creatures.

"The strain upon the veil between worlds began to show near the end of the Kami War. Strange happenings that neither side could control lashed out across Kamigawa."
-Observations of the Kami War

Æther Snap

Sorcery

Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.

"May you wake to find you were only ever a dream."
-Mephidross curse

Æther Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Draw a card.

Æther Sting

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, Æther Sting deals 1 damage to that player.

When Gatha fell, he was called to account for each abomination he created.

Æther Storm

Enchantment

Creature spells can't be cast.

Pay 4 life: Destroy Æther Storm. It can't be regenerated. Any player may activate this ability.

Thunder in the wind / no rain / peace mourns its passing.

Æther Tide

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Æther Tide, discard X creature cards.

Return X target creatures to their owners' hands.

The tide of magic brought them here. Now it would take them home.

Æther Tradewinds

Instant

Return target permanent you control and target permanent you don't control to their owners' hands.

"The wind smells of misfortune. Check your knots."
-Anitan, Ondu cleric

Æther Vial

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Æther Vial.

: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Æther Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.

Æther Web

Enchantment - Aura

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

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1, has reach, and can block creatures with shadow as though they didn't have shadow. (Creatures with reach can block creatures with flying.)

Ætherflame Wall

Creature - Wall

Defender

Ætherflame Wall can block creatures with shadow as though they didn't have shadow.

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

Ætherize

Instant

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

"You can come back once you've learned some manners-and figured out how to reconstitute your physical forms."

Ætherling

Creature - Shapeshifter

: Exile Ætherling. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

: Ætherling can't be blocked this turn.

: Ætherling gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

: Ætherling gets -1/+1 until end of turn.

Æthermage's Touch

Instant

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. It has "At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand." Then put the rest of the cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Ætherplasm

Creature - Illusion

Whenever Ætherplasm blocks a creature, you may return Ætherplasm to its owner's hand. If you do, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield blocking that creature.

Its fickle form holds hints of a thousand former identities.

Æthersnipe

Creature - Elemental

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

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

Ætherspouts

Instant

For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on the top or bottom of his or her library.

"Don't worry, there's plenty for everyone."
-Vickon, Eleventh Company battlemage

Æthertow

Instant

Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Back from the Brink

Enchantment

Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of that card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

On Innistrad, death is just a career change.

Back to Basics

Enchantment

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

"A ruler wears a crown while the rest of us wear hats, but which would you rather have when it's raining?"
-Barrin, Principia

Back to Nature

Instant

Destroy all enchantments.

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

Backdraft

Instant

Choose a player who cast one or more sorcery spells this turn. Backdraft deals damage to that player equal to half the damage dealt by one of those sorcery spells this turn, rounded down.

Backfire

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to you, Backfire deals that much damage to that creature's controller.

Backlash

Instant

Tap target untapped creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to its controller.

Darigaaz decided his foe would be more useful as a weapon.

Backslide

Instant

Turn target creature with morph face down.

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

Some things are better left unknown.

Backup Plan

Conspiracy

(Start the game with this conspiracy face up in the command zone.)

Draw an additional hand of seven cards as the game begins. Before taking mulligans, shuffle all but one of your hands into your library.

"In the market for an alternative, friend?"

Bad Moon

Enchantment

Black creatures get +1/+1.

Bad River

Land

Bad River enters the battlefield tapped.

, Sacrifice Bad River: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Badlands

Land - Swamp Mountain

(: Add or to your mana pool.)

Baki's Curse

Sorcery

Baki's Curse deals 2 damage to each creature for each Aura attached to that creature.

"Those who fling spells too quickly should have reason to regret it."
-Baki, Wizard Attendant

Baku Altar

Artifact

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on Baku Altar.

, , Remove a ki counter from Baku Altar: Put a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token onto the battlefield.

Bala Ged Scorpion

Creature - Scorpion

When Bala Ged Scorpion enters the battlefield, you may destroy target creature with power 1 or less.

Fast and lethal, with a penchant for the weak and infirm.

Bala Ged Thief

Creature - Human Rogue Ally

Whenever Bala Ged Thief or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, target player reveals a number of cards from his or her hand equal to the number of Allies you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.

Balance

Sorcery

Each player chooses a number of lands he or she controls equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players discard cards and sacrifice creatures the same way.

Balance of Power

Sorcery

If target opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.

"To empty your mind is to fill your grave."
-Lat-Nam teaching

Balancing Act

Sorcery

Each player chooses a number of permanents he or she controls equal to the number of permanents controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Each player discards cards the same way.

Balduvian Barbarians

Creature - Human Barbarian

"From the snowy slopes of Kaelor,
To the canyons of Bandu,
We drink and fight and feast and die
As we were born to do."
-Balduvian tavern song

Balduvian Bears

Creature - Bear

"They're a hardy bunch, but I'd still bet that they just slept through the worst of the cold times."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Balduvian Conjurer

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target snow land becomes a 2/2 creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

"The very lands of Balduvia are alive."
-Arna Kennerüd, Skyknight

Balduvian Dead

Creature - Zombie

, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Put a 3/1 black and red Graveborn creature token with haste onto the battlefield. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Balduvian Fallen

Creature - Zombie

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.)

Whenever Balduvian Fallen's cumulative upkeep is paid, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each or spent this way.

Balduvian Frostwaker

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Target snow land becomes a 2/2 blue Elemental creature with flying. It's still a land.

"Whether frozen or fertile, the land is our ally. It awaits the call to battle."

Balduvian Horde

Creature - Human Barbarian

When Balduvian Horde enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you discard a card at random.

Balduvian Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Balduvian Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+0 counters on it.

Remove a +1/+0 counter from Balduvian Hydra: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Balduvian Hydra this turn.

: Put a +1/+0 counter on Balduvian Hydra. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Balduvian Rage

Instant

Target attacking creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

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

"Let your heartbeat be the thunder in the valley. Let your swords be the lightning on the peaks."
-Lothar Lovisason, Balduvian chieftain

Balduvian Shaman

Creature - Human Cleric Shaman

: Change the text of target white enchantment you control that doesn't have cumulative upkeep by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (For example, you may change "black creatures can't attack" to "blue creatures can't attack.") That enchantment gains "Cumulative upkeep ." (At the beginning of its controller's upkeep, that player puts an age counter on it, then sacrifices it unless he or she pays its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Balduvian Trading Post

Land

If Balduvian Trading Post would enter the battlefield, sacrifice an untapped Mountain instead. If you do, put Balduvian Trading Post onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Balduvian Trading Post deals 1 damage to target attacking creature.

Balduvian War-Makers

Creature - Human Barbarian

Haste

Rampage 1 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

"Those mewling Barbarians will cower before my righteous steel!"
-General Varchild

Balduvian Warlord

Creature - Human Barbarian

: Remove target blocking creature from combat. Creatures it was blocking that hadn't become blocked by another creature this combat become unblocked, then it blocks an attacking creature of your choice. Activate this ability only during the declare blockers step.

Balefire Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever Balefire Dragon deals combat damage to a player, it deals that much damage to each creature that player controls.

If it comes for you, die boldly or die swiftly-for die you will.

Balefire Liege

Creature - Spirit Horror

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

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

Whenever you cast a red spell, Balefire Liege deals 3 damage to target player.

Whenever you cast a white spell, you gain 3 life.

Baleful Eidolon

Enchantment Creature - Spirit

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

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

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch.

Baleful Force

Creature - Elemental

At the beginning of each upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

"As with any malevolent being, the trick is knowing how long you can afford to keep it in your service."-Liliana Vess

Baleful Stare

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You draw a card for each Mountain and red card in it.

"Though there is little to be learned from your dust and stones, I shall wring them dry nevertheless."

Baleful Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying, deathtouch

When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Ball Lightning

Creature - Elemental

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.)

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

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Ball Lightning.

Ballista Squad

Creature - Human Rebel

, : Ballista Squad deals X damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

The perfect antidote for a tightly packed formation.

Balloon Peddler

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

The market festival turned out to be the high point of Jaffy's visit.

Ballynock Cohort

Creature - Kithkin Soldier

First strike

Ballynock Cohort gets +1/+1 as long as you control another white creature.

A kithkin's worst enemy is solitude.

Ballynock Trapper

Creature - Kithkin Soldier

: Tap target creature.

Whenever you cast a white spell, you may untap Ballynock Trapper.

No matter how large or small, fierce or fleeting, the kithkin have a trap for it.

Ballyrush Banneret

Creature - Kithkin Soldier

Kithkin spells and Soldier spells you cast cost less to cast.

Only wool from the side of the springjack turned most often to the sun can be woven into kithkin battle standards. Jackherds record every movement of their woolly-jacks until shearing.

Balm of Restoration

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Balm of Restoration: Choose one - You gain 2 life; or prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

"Not all armies enjoyed the services of a medic. For them, Balm of Restoration was that much more valuable."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. I

Baloth Cage Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent had an artifact enter the battlefield under his or her control this turn, you may pay rather than pay Baloth Cage Trap's mana cost.

Put a 4/4 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.

Baloth Null

Creature - Zombie Beast

When Baloth Null enters the battlefield, return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

"Humans use pigs to hunt for mushrooms, don't they? It's like that."
-Harak, Malakir bloodwitch

Baloth Pup

Creature - Beast

Baloth Pup has trample as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.

A young baloth channels its energy into playful destructiveness. Over time, it becomes less playful but no less destructive.

Baloth Woodcrasher

Creature - Beast

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Baloth Woodcrasher gets +4/+4 and gains trample until end of turn.

Its insatiable hunger quickly depletes a region of prey. It must migrate from place to place to feed its massive bulk.

Balshan Beguiler

Creature - Human Wizard

Whenever Balshan Beguiler deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals the top two cards of his or her library. You choose one of those cards and put it into his or her graveyard.

Balshan Collaborator

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

: Balshan Collaborator gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Power, gold, crackers-every bird has its price."
-Chainer, dementia master

Balshan Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

, Discard a card: Return Balshan Griffin to its owner's hand.

It helps to have an extra direction in which to run.

Balthor the Defiled

Legendary Creature - Zombie Dwarf

Minion creatures get +1/+1.

, Exile Balthor the Defiled: Each player returns all black and all red creature cards from his or her graveyard to the battlefield.

He remembers enough of his life to weep for what he has lost.

Balthor the Stout

Legendary Creature - Dwarf Barbarian

Other Barbarian creatures get +1/+1.

: Another target Barbarian creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"I like to think of him as concentrated barbarian."
-Kamahl, pit fighter

Balustrade Spy

Creature - Vampire Rogue

Flying

When Balustrade Spy enters the battlefield, target player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card, then puts those cards into his or her graveyard.

Bamboozle

Sorcery

Target player reveals the top four cards of his or her library. You choose two of those cards and put them into his or her graveyard. Put the rest on top of his or her library in any order.

Bandage

Instant

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

Draw a card.

Life is measured in inches. To a healer, every one of those inches is precious.

Bane Alley Blackguard

Creature - Human Rogue

"I'm in the field of procurement, and business is good. The guilds want all kinds of maps and relics these days, though what they want them for I'm not quite sure."

Bane Alley Broker

Creature - Human Rogue

: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand face down.

You may look at cards exiled with Bane Alley Broker.

, : Return a card exiled with Bane Alley Broker to its owner's hand.

Bane of Bala Ged

Creature - Eldrazi

Whenever Bane of Bala Ged attacks, defending player exiles two permanents he or she controls.

The continent of Bala Ged was ravaged by massive Eldrazi of Ulamog's lineage, its lush jungles and cascading rivers reduced to dust.

Bane of Progress

Creature - Elemental

When Bane of Progress enters the battlefield, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on Bane of Progress for each permanent destroyed this way.

It sees shaped stone and carved wood as mutilations.

Bane of the Living

Creature - Insect

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

When Bane of the Living is turned face up, all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Banefire

Sorcery

Banefire deals X damage to target creature or player.

If X is 5 or more, Banefire can't be countered by spells or abilities and the damage can't be prevented.

For Sarkhan Vol, the dragon is the purest expression of life's savage splendor.

Baneful Omen

Enchantment

At the beginning of your end step, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, each opponent loses life equal to that card's converted mana cost.

"Ah, again it does not bode well for you."

Baneslayer Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying, first strike, lifelink, protection from Demons and from Dragons

Some angels protect the meek and innocent. Others seek out and smite evil wherever it lurks.

Banewasp Affliction

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness.

The consuming undeath of Grixis terrifies the survivors of Vithia, but its fauna is just as fearsome.

Banisher Priest

Creature - Human Cleric

When Banisher Priest enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until Banisher Priest leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

"Oathbreaker, I cast you out!"

Banishing Knack

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gains ": Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand."

Suddenly he realized that everything was connected by invisible strings, strings that could be pulled-or cut.

Banishing Light

Enchantment

When Banishing Light enters the battlefield, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until Banishing Light leaves the battlefield. (That permanent returns under its owner's control.)

Banishing Stroke

Instant

Put target artifact, creature, or enchantment on the bottom of its owner's library.

Miracle (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Banishment Decree

Instant

Put target artifact, creature, or enchantment on top of its owner's library.

"Unworthy of consecration."
-Axsh, lesser cenobite

Banners Raised

Instant

Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

After the destruction of the Helvault, fearful mobs soon became fearless battalions.

Banshee

Creature - Spirit

, : Banshee deals half X damage, rounded down, to target creature or player, and half X damage, rounded up, to you.

Some say Banshees are the hounds of Death, baying to herd their prey into the arms of their master.

Banshee's Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Banshee's Blade.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put a charge counter on Banshee's Blade.

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.)

Bant Battlemage

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

, : Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

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

Bant Charm

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target artifact; or put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library; or counter target instant spell.

Bant is a world where death and chaos hold no sway.

Bant Panorama

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Bant Panorama: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

Bant's hearts are as pure as its air and as bright as its skies.