Vital Surge

Instant - Arcane

You gain 3 life.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Vital Splicer

Creature - Human Artificer

When Vital Splicer enters the battlefield, put a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

: Regenerate target Golem you control.

"For every one that falls, ten shall rise. The revelation of New Phyrexia is at hand."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Visions of Brutality

Enchantment - Aura

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't block.

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, its controller loses that much life.

Visions of Beyond

Instant

Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.

"The past is the foundation for all that exists in the present. We merely reconstruct what our ancestors have already discovered."
-Sachimir, Sage of Memories

Visions

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of target player's library. You may then have that player shuffle that library.

"Visions of glory, spare my aching sight,
Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!"
-Thomas Gray, "The Bard"

Vision Skeins

Instant

Each player draws two cards.

"I could see in the other mage's eyes that he'd thought of it too. Then it became a race to exploit the knowledge first."

Vision Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target player puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard; or choose a land type and a basic land type, and each land of the first chosen type becomes the second chosen type until end of turn; or target artifact phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during his or her next untap step.)

Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter

Legendary Creature - Vampire

Flying, lifelink

Sacrifice a creature: Put X +1/+1 counters on Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Remove all +1/+1 counters from Vish Kal: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each +1/+1 counter removed this way.

Viseling

Artifact Creature - Construct

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Viseling deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in his or her hand minus 4.

"This may hurt a lot."

Viscid Lemures

Creature - Spirit

: Viscid Lemures gets -1/-0 and gains swampwalk until end of turn.

"Lemurs? Is that all? Finally, something harmless . . ."
-Norin the Wary

Viscerid Drone

Creature - Homarid Drone

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

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

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

Viscerid Deepwalker

Creature - Homarid Warrior

: Viscerid Deepwalker gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

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.)

Viscerid Armor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

: Return Viscerid Armor to its owner's hand.

A fallen Viscerid's only tribute is to be worn by a comrade.

Viscera Seer

Creature - Vampire Wizard

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

In matters of life and death, he trusts his gut.

Viscera Dragger

Creature - Zombie Ogre Warrior

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

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.)

Visara the Dreadful

Legendary Creature - Gorgon

Flying

: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

"My eyes are my strongest feature."

Virulent Wound

Instant

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. When that creature dies this turn, its controller gets a poison counter.

Sadly, the extent of Gerkk's healing knowledge was "don't pick at it."

Virulent Swipe

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

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.)

Virulent Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have poisonous 1. (Whenever a Sliver deals combat damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter. A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Virulent Plague

Enchantment

Creature tokens get -2/-2.

"This pestilence robs us of glorious death in battle. We starve to death with full bellies and drown trying to slake our unnatural thirst."
-Kerai Hatesinger, Kolaghan warrior

Viridian Zealot

Creature - Elf Warrior

, Sacrifice Viridian Zealot: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I will fight only the way nature intended-and nature intended us to win."

Viridian Shaman

Creature - Elf Shaman

When Viridian Shaman enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact.

She stands as a living symbol of the natural world and an enemy of the forces that threaten it.

Viridian Scout

Creature - Elf Warrior Scout

, Sacrifice Viridian Scout: Viridian Scout deals 2 damage to target creature with flying.

They know a hoverguard's only blind spot is directly above it.

Viridian Revel

Enchantment

Whenever an artifact is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, you may draw a card.

"Let them have their revel. Soon those who won't submit will be turned. Those who won't be turned will die."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Viridian Lorebearers

Creature - Elf Shaman

, : Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of artifacts your opponents control.

A small band of elves pledged many years ago to avoid the Edges of Forgetting. They have remained hidden until now.

Viridian Longbow

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ": This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or 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.)

Viridian Joiner

Creature - Elf Druid

: Add to your mana pool an amount of equal to Viridian Joiner's power.

Viridian Harvest

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

When enchanted artifact is put into a graveyard, you gain 6 life.

"In the midst of horror beyond imagining, I still see things that lift my heart."
-Ezuri

Viridian Emissary

Creature - Elf Scout

When Viridian Emissary dies, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Viridian Corrupter

Creature - Elf Shaman

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

When Viridian Corrupter enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact.

Viridian Claw

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike.

Equip

"Phyrexians can't corrupt what they can't get close enough to touch."

Viridian Betrayers

Creature - Elf Warrior

Viridian Betrayers has infect as long as an opponent is poisoned. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

To secure a place in Phyrexia's ranks, they hunted their surviving kin.

Viridian Acolyte

Creature - Elf Shaman

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

"We have no sun to guide our dead, so I tend the prismatic flames of the spirit fires that show the souls their way. When I die, I hope there is one left to guide my spirit home."

Viridescent Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes green and gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

In the wisps that night, the once timid boggart saw all the terrible, bloody things he was capable of. And it was glorious.

Viral Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

: Proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

Viper's Kiss

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

"I could heal a snakebite. Looks like you got bitten by a constellation."
-Aescalos, healer of Pharika

Violet Pall

Tribal Instant - Faerie

Destroy target nonblack creature. Put a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

A faerie is the offspring of Oona and mischief.

Violent Ultimatum

Sorcery

Destroy three target permanents.

"Words are a waste of time. Destruction is a language everyone understands."
-Sarkhan Vol

Violent Outburst

Instant

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.)

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

Violent Eruption

Instant

Violent Eruption deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

Madness (If you discard this card, you may cast it for its madness cost instead of putting it into your graveyard.)

Vintara Snapper

Creature - Turtle

Vintara Snapper has shroud as long as you control no untapped lands. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"The snapper is still when all else moves
And strikes when all are dozing."
-Tales of the Vintara Forest

Vintara Elephant

Creature - Elephant

Trample

: Vintara Elephant loses trample until end of turn. Any player may activate this ability.

Trained with the aid of rhystic magic, they become uneasy in its absence.

Vineweft

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

: Return Vineweft from your graveyard to your hand.

Fortified by the wilds.

Vines of Vastwood

Instant

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

Target creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn. If Vines of Vastwood was kicked, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Vines of the Recluse

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+2 and gains reach until end of turn. Untap it. (A creature with reach can block creatures with flying.)

"The most elegant solutions are found in nature. You just have to know where to look."

Vinelasher Kudzu

Creature - Plant

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Vinelasher Kudzu.

It grows to hate you.

Vine Trellis

Creature - Plant Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Add to your mana pool.

Nature twists knots stronger than any rope.

Vine Kami

Creature - Spirit

Vine Kami can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.

Soulshift 6 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with converted mana cost 6 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Vine Dryad

Creature - Dryad

Flash

Forestwalk

You may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay Vine Dryad's mana cost.

Vindictive Mob

Creature - Human Berserker

When Vindictive Mob enters the battlefield, sacrifice a creature.

Vindictive Mob can't be blocked by Saprolings.

Many minds, a single madness.

Vindicate

Sorcery

Destroy target permanent.

"Don't mourn for me. This is my destiny."
-Gerrard

Villainous Wealth

Sorcery

Target opponent exiles the top X cards of his or her library. You may cast any number of nonland cards with converted mana cost X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.

Gold buys death. Death earns gold.

Villainous Ogre

Creature - Ogre Warrior

Villainous Ogre can't block.

As long as you control a Demon, Villainous Ogre has ": Regenerate Villainous Ogre."

"The war saw the ogres emerge from their caves, reeking of blood, with the power of oni in their veins."
-Observations of the Kami War

Villagers of Estwald

Creature - Human Werewolf

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Villagers of Estwald.

You can spot a werewolf-infested town by its lack of butcher shops.

Village Survivors

Creature - Human

Vigilance

Fateful hour - As long as you have 5 or less life, other creatures you control have vigilance.

As their villages fell to werewolves, fleeing refugees discovered they too had remarkable survival instincts.

Village Ironsmith

Creature - Human Werewolf

First strike

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Village Ironsmith.

Each night, he abandons the trappings of civilization.

Village Elder

Creature - Human Druid

, , Sacrifice a Forest: Regenerate target creature.

"Enchant me with your tale-telling. Tell about Tree, Grass, River, and Wind. / Tell why Truth must fight with Falsehood, and why Truth will always win."
-"Love Song of Night and Day"

Village Cannibals

Creature - Human

Whenever another Human creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Village Cannibals.

Some have endured the horrors of Innistrad by becoming the worst monsters of all.

Village Bell-Ringer

Creature - Human Scout

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

When Village Bell-Ringer enters the battlefield, untap all creatures you control.

"Priests, hunters, slayers-to arms! The enemy approaches!"

Vile Requiem

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Vile Requiem.

, Sacrifice Vile Requiem: Destroy up to X target nonblack creatures, where X is the number of verse counters on Vile Requiem. They can't be regenerated.

Vile Redeemer

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flash

When you cast Vile Redeemer, you may pay {C}. If you do, put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield for each nontoken creature that died under your control this turn. Those tokens have "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C} to your mana pool."

Vile Rebirth

Instant

Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

"‘Here lies our beloved Gartu, the gentlest of all men.' Ooh, I love irony."
-Jadar, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Vile Deacon

Creature - Human Cleric

Whenever Vile Deacon attacks, it gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Clerics on the battlefield.

"The Cabal and the Order really aren't that different. After all, we are both empowered by faith."

Vile Consumption

Enchantment

All creatures have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay 1 life."

The plague moved faster than an army and was far more deadly.

Vile Aggregate

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Vile Aggregate's power is equal to the number of colorless creatures you control.

Trample

Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of his or her library.)

Vigorous Charge

Instant

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

Target creature gains trample until end of turn. Whenever that creature deals combat damage this turn, if Vigorous Charge was kicked, you gain life equal to that damage.

Vigor Mortis

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If was spent to cast Vigor Mortis, that creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

After fear and weakness rot away, that which remains is stronger than its living form.

Vigor

Creature - Elemental Incarnation

Trample

If damage would be dealt to a creature you control other than Vigor, prevent that damage. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each 1 damage prevented this way.

When Vigor is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Vigilante Justice

Enchantment

Whenever a Human enters the battlefield under your control, Vigilante Justice deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

It begins as a whisper and ends with the red roar of fire.

Vigilant Sentry

Creature - Human Nomad

Threshold - As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Vigilant Sentry gets +1/+1 and has ": Target attacking or blocking creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn."

Vigilant Martyr

Creature - Human Cleric

Sacrifice Vigilant Martyr: Regenerate target creature.

, , Sacrifice Vigilant Martyr: Counter target spell that targets an enchantment.

Vigilant Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

: Untap Vigilant Drake.

It can stay aloft for weeks with little or no sleep.

Vigilance

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)

"Put a spear in a peasant's hands, and you have an expendable troop. Put a purpose in his heart, and you win a warrior."
-Sensei Golden-Tail

Vigil for the Lost

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay . If you do, you gain X life.

"As she grew cold in my arms, I swore an oath that her funeral pyre would be dwarfed by a bonfire of our enemies."

Vigean Intuition

Instant

Choose a card type, then reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all cards of the chosen type revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. (Artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal are card types.)

Vigean Hydropon

Creature - Plant Mutant

Graft 5 (This creature enters the battlefield with five +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)

Vigean Hydropon can't attack or block.

Fruits of magic, roots in science.

Vigean Graftmage

Creature - Vedalken Wizard Mutant

Graft 2 (This creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)

: Untap target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.

View from Above

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. If you control a white permanent, return View from Above to its owner's hand.

"This air feels so heavy and thick. There are no winds to speak of. I fear the knowledge that comes from a place like this."

Victual Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Slivers have ", Sacrifice this permanent: You gain 4 life."

"We are kinfolk," explained Karn to the sliver queen. "Just as you need your progeny to complete you, so do I need the pieces of the Legacy to make me whole."

Victory's Herald

Creature - Angel

Flying

Whenever Victory's Herald attacks, attacking creatures gain flying and lifelink until end of turn.

The corruption stirred the heavens above, awaking a shining champion.

Victorious Destruction

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land. Its controller loses 1 life.

"The refugees look at these structures with hope. We must relieve them of this burden."
-Juex, tormentor exarch

Victimize

Sorcery

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

The priest cast Xantcha to the ground. "It is defective. We must scrap it."

Victim of Night

Instant

Destroy target non-Vampire, non-Werewolf, non-Zombie creature.

"Do not touch a drop. Not yet. I want to watch this so-called slayer's last crisis of faith."
-Olivia Voldaren

Vicious Shadows

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, you may have Vicious Shadows deal damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

"Thrashes of the ancient past still linger in spirit and shadow, desperate to sink their claws into our souls."
-Rakka Mar

Vicious Kavu

Creature - Kavu

Whenever Vicious Kavu attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

As battle raged in Shiv, a strange new ally appeared from below the ravaged ground.

Vicious Hunger

Sorcery

Vicious Hunger deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Only the most ravenous soul feeds on the health of the weak.

Vicious Betrayal

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Vicious Betrayal, sacrifice any number of creatures.

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature sacrificed this way.

Vibrating Sphere

Artifact

As long as it's your turn, creatures you control get +2/+0.

As long as it's not your turn, creatures you control get -0/-2.

"Unearthly and invisible fibers emanate from this sphere, entangling all who draw near."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Viashivan Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Viashivan Dragon gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Viashivan Dragon gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

The Viashivan understand that cruelty arises from opportunity.

Viashino Weaponsmith

Creature - Viashino

Whenever Viashino Weaponsmith becomes blocked by a creature, Viashino Weaponsmith gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Within the rig settlement, those who have mastered the making of weapons earn highest honor.

Viashino Warrior

Creature - Viashino Warrior

"When traveling the Great Desert avoid wearing the scales of lizards, for the Viashino rule the sands and look poorly on the skinning of their cousins."
-Zhalfirin Guide to the Desert

Viashino Spearhunter

Creature - Viashino Warrior

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Viashino lack the majesty of their draconic ancestors, but they lash out with equal rage and twice the spite.

Viashino Slaughtermaster

Creature - Viashino Warrior

Double strike

: Viashino Slaughtermaster gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"I'll fight two at once, and then lick their guts from my blades."

Viashino Slasher

Creature - Viashino Warrior

: Viashino Slasher gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Citizens of Ravnica stick to the main streets. Shortcuts may look tempting, but down each alley, dozens of hungry hands await, and screams do not carry into the busy market throng.

Viashino Skeleton

Creature - Viashino Skeleton

, Discard a card: Regenerate Viashino Skeleton.

Underneath the Dregscape lay the remains of creatures long extinct from Grixis.

Viashino Shanktail

Creature - Viashino Warrior

First strike

Bloodrush - , Discard Viashino Shanktail: Target attacking creature gets +3/+1 and gains first strike until end of turn.

The Slizt Clan's battle cry is an impressive display of fury, defiance, and spit.

Viashino Sandswimmer

Creature - Viashino

: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, return Viashino Sandswimmer to its owner's hand. If you lose the flip, sacrifice Viashino Sandswimmer.

Few swim in a place of such thirst.

Viashino Sandstalker

Creature - Viashino Warrior

Haste (This creature can attack the turn it comes under your control.)

At the beginning of the end step, return Viashino Sandstalker to its owner's hand. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

"Some believe sandstalkers to be illusions; those with scars know better."
-Zhalfirin Guide to the Desert

Viashino Sandscout

Creature - Viashino Scout

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

At the beginning of the end step, return Viashino Sandscout to its owner's hand. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

A viashino's overlapping scales form a buffer against Shiv's ash-flecked winds and a slippery target for goblin pikes.

Viashino Runner

Creature - Viashino

Viashino Runner can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.

"It moved this way, an' that way, an' then before I could stick it, it jumped over my head an' was gone."
-Jula, goblin raider