Elder Cathar

Creature - Human Soldier

When Elder Cathar dies, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. If that creature is a Human, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.

"My greatest hope is that you will surpass me in every way, consigning my name to some forgotten corner of history."

Elder of Laurels

Creature - Human Advisor

: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Hopes and prayers can carry the same force as swords and torches.

Elderscale Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Trample

When Elderscale Wurm enters the battlefield, if your life total is less than 7, your life total becomes 7.

As long as you have 7 or more life, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 7 reduces it to 7 instead.

Eldrazi Aggressor

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Eldrazi Aggressor has haste as long as you control another colorless creature.

"They employ a foul sort of teamwork."
-General Tazri, allied commander

Eldrazi Devastator

Creature - Eldrazi

Trample

"No matter how big your champion, theirs is bigger. No matter how great your numbers, theirs are greater. No matter how voracious your appetite, they are hungrier. That is why the Eldrazi will win."-Kalitas, thrall of Ulamog

Eldrazi Displacer

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

{C}: Exile another target creature, then return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Eldrazi Mimic

Creature - Eldrazi

Whenever another colorless creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may change Eldrazi Mimic's base power and toughness to that creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

It is consistently inconsistent.

Eldrazi Obligator

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When you cast Eldrazi Obligator, you may pay {C}. If you do, gain control of target creature until end of turn, untap that creature, and it gains haste until end of turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Haste

Eldrazi Skyspawner

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flying

When Eldrazi Skyspawner enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Legendary Creature - Praetor

Vigilance

Other creatures you control get +2/+2.

Creatures your opponents control get -2/-2.

"The Gitaxians whisper among themselves of other worlds. If they exist, we must bring Phyrexia's magnificence to them."

Elgaud Inquisitor

Creature - Human Cleric

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

When Elgaud Inquisitor dies, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"It will take more than steel alone to purge this world of evil."

Elgaud Shieldmate

Creature - Human Soldier

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)

As long as Elgaud Shieldmate is paired with another creature, both creatures have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Elite Arcanist

Creature - Human Wizard

When Elite Arcanist enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant card from your hand.

, : Copy the exiled card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. X is the converted mana cost of the exiled card.

Elite Inquisitor

Creature - Human Soldier

First strike, vigilance

Protection from Vampires, from Werewolves, and from Zombies

"No matter how many I kill, there are always more to hunt. It makes me smile just to think about it."

Elite Scaleguard

Creature - Human Soldier

When Elite Scaleguard enters the battlefield, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.

Elite Skirmisher

Creature - Human Soldier

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Elite Skirmisher, you may tap target creature.

Some adopted the tactics of the leonin to combat the ferocity of the minotaurs.

Elite Vanguard

Creature - Human Soldier

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

Elusive Krasis

Creature - Fish Mutant

Elusive Krasis is unblockable.

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Elusive Spellfist

Creature - Human Monk

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Elusive Spellfist gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

"Learn to see an obstacle from a new perspective. Underneath, for example."
-Chanyi, Ojutai monk

Elvish Aberration

Creature - Elf Mutant

: Add to your mana pool.

Forestcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Forest card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Elvish Archdruid

Creature - Elf Druid

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

: Add to your mana pool for each Elf you control.

He knows the name of every elf born in the last four centuries. More importantly, they all know his.

Elvish Mystic

Creature - Elf Druid

: Add to your mana pool.

"Life grows everywhere. My kin merely find those places where it grows strongest."-Nissa Revane

Elvish Piper

Creature - Elf Shaman

, : You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

From Gaea grew the world, and the world was silent. From Gaea grew the world's elves, and the world was silent no more.
-Elvish teaching

Elvish Skysweeper

Creature - Elf Warrior

, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target creature with flying.

The spires of Ravnica are no different from the tall trees of other planes. The elves navigate and protect them just the same.

Elvish Visionary

Creature - Elf Shaman

When Elvish Visionary enters the battlefield, draw a card.

"From a tiny sprout, the greatest trees grow and flourish. May the seeds of your mind be equally fruitful."

Emancipation Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Emancipation Angel enters the battlefield, return a permanent you control to its owner's hand.

"You have done your best. I give you leave to rest."

Ember Beast

Creature - Beast

Ember Beast can't attack or block alone.

Spot one ember beast, attack.
Spot a second, best fall back.
-Dwarven saying

Ember Hauler

Creature - Goblin

, Sacrifice Ember Hauler: Ember Hauler deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Flurk's crude goblin language didn't differentiate between "I bring the flame" and "I am the flame."

Ember Swallower

Creature - Elemental

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

When Ember Swallower becomes monstrous, each player sacrifices three lands.

Ember Weaver

Creature - Spider

Reach (This can block creatures with flying.)

As long as you control a red permanent, Ember Weaver gets +1/+0 and has first strike.

"Each night, the sun unravels and blows away. Each day, the spiders set a new one in the sky."
-Sunseeder myth

Embersmith

Creature - Human Artificer

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay . If you do, Embersmith deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

The Vulshok see the artificer as a catalyst, bringing the spark of creation that ignites change.

Embodiment of Fury

Creature - Elemental

Trample

Land creatures you control have trample.

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target land you control become a 3/3 Elemental creature with haste until end of turn. It's still a land.

Embodiment of Insight

Creature - Elemental

Vigilance

Land creatures you control have vigilance.

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target land you control become a 3/3 Elemental creature with haste until end of turn. It's still a land.

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.

Emerald Oryx

Creature - Antelope

Forestwalk (This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

After the oryx dies, its flesh returns to the earth, but its emerald bones remain as a tribute to the forest.

Emeria Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

When the earth shudders, the sky overflows.

Emeria Shepherd

Creature - Angel

Flying

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may return target nonland permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. If that land is a Plains, you may return that nonland permanent card to the battlefield instead.

Emmara Tandris

Legendary Creature - Elf Shaman

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creature tokens you control.

When Selesnya needed a champion, Emmara put the ranks of her guild before herself-making her the perfect choice.

Empyrial Archangel

Creature - Angel

Flying, shroud

All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to Empyrial Archangel instead.

Her wings are the prayers of the devoted; her sword, the despair of the vile.

Emrakul's Hatcher

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

When Emrakul's Hatcher enters the battlefield, put three 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Wordlessly it leads its abhorrent brood.

Emrakul, the Aeons Torn

Legendary Creature - Eldrazi

Emrakul, the Aeons Torn can't be countered.

When you cast Emrakul, take an extra turn after this one.

Flying, protection from colored spells, annihilator 6

When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.

Enatu Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

When Enatu Golem dies, you gain 4 life.

Golems conjured from the debris of Enatu Temple provided a sturdy but expendable first line of defense against the Eldrazi.

Enclave Cryptologist

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

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

LEVEL 1-2

0/1

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

LEVEL 3+

0/1

: Draw a card.

Enclave Elite

Creature - Merfolk Soldier

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

Islandwalk

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

Endbringer

Creature - Eldrazi

Untap Endbringer during each other player's untap step.

: Endbringer deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

{C}, : Target creature can't attack or block this turn.

{C}{C}, : Draw a card.

Endless Cockroaches

Creature - Insect

When Endless Cockroaches dies, return it to its owner's hand.

There is nothing more repulsive than a cockroach-except a cockroach and all its friends.

Endless One

Creature - Eldrazi

Endless One enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

It embodies all possible meanings of the word "infinite."

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Whenever you cast a creature spell, put X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.

When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder.

Enduring Scalelord

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are placed on another creature you control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Enduring Scalelord.

Only the sun that beats down upon Arashin's walls could shine more brightly.

Engulfing Slagwurm

Creature - Wurm

Whenever Engulfing Slagwurm blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Its teeth exist only for decoration.

Enigma Sphinx

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Enigma Sphinx is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put it into your library third from the top.

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Enlisted Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

A match for any army-even its own.

Enormous Baloth

Creature - Beast

Its diet consists of fruits, plants, small woodland animals, large woodland animals, woodlands, fruit groves, fruit farmers, and small cities.

Enraged Revolutionary

Creature - Human Warrior

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

When every right is voted away, only rage remains.

Entomber Exarch

Creature - Cleric

When Entomber Exarch enters the battlefield, choose one - Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand; or target opponent reveals his or her hand, you choose a noncreature card from it, then that player discards that card.

Ephara's Warden

Creature - Human Cleric

: Tap target creature with power 3 or less.

"When you threaten the sanctity of the polis, you insult Ephara herself. If she doesn't smite you, I will."

Epochrasite

Artifact Creature - Construct

Epochrasite enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it if you didn't cast it from your hand.

When Epochrasite dies, exile it with three time counters on it and it gains suspend. (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast this card without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Erdwal Ripper

Creature - Vampire

Haste

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

Savage vampires lurk in the Erdwal's network of passageways where prey is plentiful and easy to catch.

Errant Ephemeron

Creature - Illusion

Flying

Suspend 4- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Escaped Null

Creature - Zombie Berserker

Lifelink

Whenever Escaped Null blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +5/+0 until end of turn.

Left masterless by Kozilek, it wandered the wilds, raving in its ceaseless hunger.

Esper Battlemage

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

, : Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

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

She can heal the flesh, or exploit its many weaknesses.

Esper Cormorants

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

"The smiths of this land must be mad to reach so far and so high for another creature to decorate."
-Cagen Vargan, Jhessian sea scout

Esper Sojourners

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

When you cycle Esper Sojourners or it dies, you may tap or untap target permanent.

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

The wilder the frontier, the greater the need for a controlling hand.

Esper Stormblade

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

As long as you control another multicolored permanent, Esper Stormblade gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Stormcallers came to appreciate the novelty of Jund's volcanic updrafts.

Esperzoa

Artifact Creature - Jellyfish

Flying

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

The more metal it digests, the more its jelly will fetch on the alchemists' market.

Essence Depleter

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

{C}: Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

When Kozilek emerged at Sea Gate, his brood lineage swarmed to the surface.

Essence of the Wild

Creature - Avatar

Creatures you control enter the battlefield as a copy of Essence of the Wild.

Wander too far into the wild and it may take you for its own.

Essence Warden

Creature - Elf Shaman

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

"The more our numbers grow, the more I gain hope that Volrath and his cursed stronghold will one day fall."
-Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Etched Champion

Artifact Creature - Soldier

Metalcraft - Etched Champion has protection from all colors as long as you control three or more artifacts.

Its predecessors were etched with the wisdom of ancients; its own etchings bear warnings of a future fraught with war.

Etched Monstrosity

Artifact Creature - Golem

Etched Monstrosity enters the battlefield with five -1/-1 counters on it.

, Remove five -1/-1 counters from Etched Monstrosity: Target player draws three cards.

Now etched only with the scars of phyresis.

Etched Oracle

Artifact Creature - Wizard

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

, Remove four +1/+1 counters from Etched Oracle: Target player draws three cards.

Eternal Dragon

Creature - Dragon Spirit

Flying

: Return Eternal Dragon from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Plainscycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Eternal Witness

Creature - Human Shaman

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

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Ethercaste Knight

Artifact Creature - Human Knight

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

"We coat ourselves in steel every day. What is etherium but the next logical step?"

Etherium Abomination

Artifact Creature - Horror

Unearth (: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

It was given life by the etherium of a hundred slain Esperites.

Etherium Sculptor

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Artificer

Artifact spells you cast cost less to cast.

The greatest masters of the craft abandon tools altogether, shaping metal with hand and mind alone.

Ethersworn Adjudicator

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Knight

Flying

, : Destroy target creature or enchantment.

: Untap Ethersworn Adjudicator.

Esper mages devised their weapons to be so devastating that war seemed unnecessary.

Ethersworn Canonist

Artifact Creature - Human Cleric

Each player who has cast a nonartifact spell this turn can't cast additional nonartifact spells.

"The noble work of our order is to infuse all life on Esper with etherium. Our goal will be reached more rapidly if new life is . . . suppressed."

Ethersworn Shieldmage

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

Flash

When Ethersworn Shieldmage enters the battlefield, prevent all damage that would be dealt to artifact creatures this turn.

"See, children of metal? Already your bodies are rejecting harm. Continue on our path, and perfection will be yours."

Evangel of Heliod

Creature - Human Cleric

When Evangel of Heliod enters the battlefield, put a number of 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield equal to your devotion to white. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.)

Evernight Shade

Creature - Shade

: Evernight Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Evil Twin

Creature - Shapeshifter

You may have Evil Twin enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield except it gains ", : Destroy target creature with the same name as this creature."

You can always tell the evil one by the dagger he's sticking in you.

Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

First strike, haste

Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

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

Expedition Envoy

Creature - Human Scout Ally

The unofficial motto of every expedition house is "ready for anything," a phrase whose significance has been amplified since the emergence of the Eldrazi.

Expedition Raptor

Creature - Bird

Flying

When Expedition Raptor enters the battlefield, support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two other target creatures.)

Experiment One

Creature - Human Ooze

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Remove two +1/+1 counters from Experiment One: Regenerate Experiment One.

Extractor Demon

Creature - Demon

Flying

Whenever another creature leaves the battlefield, you may have target player put the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Unearth (: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Exuberant Firestoker

Creature - Human Druid Shaman

At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature with power 5 or greater, you may have Exuberant Firestoker deal 2 damage to target player.

: Add to your mana pool.

The artistry of Etlan's firedancers is more spectacular when behemoths join in.

Eyeless Watcher

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When Eyeless Watcher enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Every Eldrazi in Ulamog's lineage is an extension of the titan's will.

Ezuri's Archers

Creature - Elf Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

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

Ezuri's Brigade

Creature - Elf Warrior

Metalcraft - As long as you control three or more artifacts, Ezuri's Brigade gets +4/+4 and has trample.

Riding ravenous, ever-growing vorracs is almost as dangerous as fitting them with saddles.

Ezuri, Renegade Leader

Legendary Creature - Elf Warrior

: Regenerate another target Elf.

: Elf creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

The infamous Ezuri commands the highest bounty the vedalken have ever placed upon an outlaw.

Fabled Hero

Creature - Human Soldier

Double strike

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Fabled Hero, put a +1/+1 counter on Fabled Hero.

"You. Poet. Be sure to write this down."

Facevaulter

Creature - Goblin Warrior

, Sacrifice a Goblin: Facevaulter gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Boggarts get so excited when they find something new to smash that they really don't notice who gets underfoot.

Faerie Impostor

Creature - Faerie Rogue

Flying

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

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

Faerie Invaders

Creature - Faerie Rogue

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

Flying

Small enough to penetrate the narrowest crack in a castle wall and numerous enough to hack apart a griffin.

Faerie Macabre

Creature - Faerie Rogue

Flying

Discard Faerie Macabre: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards.

The line between dream and death is gauzy and fragile. She leads those too near it from one side to the other.

Faerie Mechanist

Artifact Creature - Faerie Artificer

Flying

When Faerie Mechanist enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Falkenrath Aristocrat

Creature - Vampire

Flying, haste

Sacrifice a creature: Falkenrath Aristocrat is indestructible this turn. If the sacrificed creature was a Human, put a +1/+1 counter on Falkenrath Aristocrat.

"Your blood is quite pleasing. A pity there's not enough for both of us."

Falkenrath Exterminator

Creature - Vampire Archer

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

: Falkenrath Exterminator deals damage to target creature equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on Falkenrath Exterminator.