Uncanny Speed

Instant

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

"To survive, we must embrace the savagery we knew in our race's infancy."
-Edgar Markov

Unchecked Growth

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. If it's a Spirit, it gains trample until end of turn.

"That energy was once granted to growing things. Now the kami keep it for themselves, releasing it in sudden floods that overwhelm flesh and foliage alike."
-Sakiko, Mother of Summer

Uncle Istvan

Creature - Human

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Uncle Istvan by creatures.

Solitude drove the old hermit insane. Now he only keeps company with those he can catch.

Uncontrollable Anger

Enchantment - Aura

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

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and attacks each turn if able.

A barbarian's heart pounds with the fury of a prisoner, threatening at any moment to break the bars of its cage.

Uncovered Clues

Sorcery

Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

The Implicit Maze winds through Ravnica, connecting arcane landmarks of all ten guilds.

Undead Alchemist

Creature - Zombie

If a Zombie you control would deal combat damage to a player, instead that player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from his or her library, exile that card and put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Undead Executioner

Creature - Zombie

When Undead Executioner dies, you may have target creature get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Heartless killer in life, brainless killer in death.

Undead Leotau

Creature - Zombie Cat

: Undead Leotau gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

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.)

Undead Minotaur

Creature - Zombie Minotaur

"The work that went into creating this magnificent specimen. Horrific, deadly, well-balanced. Not all necromancers do elegant work like this."-Lestin, necromancer

Undead Slayer

Creature - Human Cleric

, : Exile target Skeleton, Vampire, or Zombie.

"My motive is not vengeance but mercy. I deliver the soulless back to their severed souls."

Undead Warchief

Creature - Zombie

Zombie spells you cast cost less to cast.

Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.

It has the strength of seven men. In fact, it used to be seven men.

Undercity Informer

Creature - Human Rogue

, Sacrifice a creature: 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.

"Scandal and slander are never welcome news. That's why I'm never the messenger."

Undercity Plague

Sorcery

Target player loses 1 life, discards a card, then sacrifices a permanent.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Undercity Shade

Creature - Shade

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

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

"Officially, there's nothing under that bridge to hunt . . . Unofficially, my torchers are too terrified to go there after nightfall."
-Agrus Kos

Underground River

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Add or to your mana pool. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Undergrowth Champion

Creature - Elemental

If damage would be dealt to Undergrowth Champion while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from Undergrowth Champion.

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Undergrowth Champion.

Undergrowth Scavenger

Creature - Fungus Horror

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

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

Undertaker

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The weight of death is heavy but not immovable.

Underworld Cerberus

Creature - Hound

Underworld Cerberus can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.

When Underworld Cerberus dies, exile it and each player returns all creature cards from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.

Underworld Coinsmith

Enchantment Creature - Human Cleric

Constellation - Whenever Underworld Coinsmith or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

, Pay 1 life: Each opponent loses 1 life.

Coins of the Underworld are shaped from clay funerary masks.

Underworld Connections

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ", Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

If you're looking for it, it's available. The question is how much you're willing to pay.

Underworld Dreams

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Underworld Dreams deals 1 damage to him or her.

"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind, dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan."
-Rabindranath Tagore

Undying Evil

Instant

Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (When it 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.)

"Is it true the evil that people do follows them into death? Let's find out."
-Liliana Vess

Undying Flames

Sorcery

Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. Undying Flames deals damage to target creature or player equal to that card's converted mana cost.

Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)

Undying Rage

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and can't block.

When Undying Rage is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Undying Rage to its owner's hand.

Radha was born in Skyshroud, but her temper is undeniably Keldon.

Unearthly Blizzard

Sorcery - Arcane

Up to three target creatures can't block this turn.

"We are trapped. The mountains and blinding kami storms have made us hopelessly lost. We are starving. In the name of all things sacred, please, send help . . . ."
-Lost Battalion, final message to General Takeno

Unexpected Potential

Conspiracy

Hidden agenda (Start the game with this conspiracy face down in the command zone and secretly name a card. You may turn this conspiracy face up any time and reveal the chosen name.)

You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast spells with the chosen name.

Unexpected Results

Sorcery

Shuffle your library, then reveal the top card. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield and return Unexpected Results to its owner's hand.

Unexpectedly Absent

Instant

Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library just beneath the top X cards of that library.

Once you've been dragged down the currents of time, you'll never quite trust your own permanence again.

Unflinching Courage

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has trample and lifelink.

As Trostani's influence grew, vitality spread through the Conclave-much to the other guilds' dismay.

Unforge

Instant

Destroy target Equipment. If that Equipment was attached to a creature, Unforge deals 2 damage to that creature.

Compared to the fire of the forge, the strength of steel is nothing.

Unhallowed Pact

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Agreements with demons seldom end at the grave.

Unholy Strength

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

"Born under the moon, the second child will stumble on temptation and seek power in the dark places of the heart."
-Codex of the Constellari

Unified Front

Sorcery

Converge - Put a 1/1 white Kor Ally creature token onto the battlefield for each color of mana spent to cast Unified Front.

The kor's pride in their independence has given way to a strong sense of community that embraces all of Zendikar.

Unified Will

Instant

Counter target spell if you control more creatures than that spell's controller.

"We're glad to be of service-to be an audience to your failure."
-Maizah Shere, Tazeem lullmage

Unity of Purpose

Instant

Support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)

Untap each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Faced with the novel problem of inspiring an army, Jace asked himself: "What would Gideon say?"

Unknown Shores

Land

: Add {C} to your mana pool. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

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

Philosophers speak of a place where myths wash like tides upon the shores of the real.

Unliving Psychopath

Creature - Zombie Assassin

: Unliving Psychopath gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

, : Destroy target creature with power less than Unliving Psychopath's power.

"The victim bears the marks of the ‘Ktozok Impaler'. . . but he was executed years ago!"
-Gorev Hadszak, Wojek investigator

Unmake

Instant

Exile target creature.

A gwyllion's favorite trap is the vanity mirror. A bewitched piece of glass traps the looker's soul and does away with the body.

Unmake the Graves

Instant

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

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

"I'm raising an army. Any volunteers?"

Unnatural Aggression

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target creature you control fights target creature an opponent controls. If the creature an opponent controls would die this turn, exile it instead.

The battle served as a grim reminder of what a final victory for the Eldrazi would mean.

Unnatural Endurance

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Regenerate it.

"Eldrazi don't die easy. Sometimes they don't die at all."
-Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist

Unnatural Predation

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

"Domination by the strongest-that is all that matters in the Tangle now."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Unnatural Speed

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

"How can we hope to match the speed of lightning? The fury of storms? The power of mountains? The answer is simple. We cannot. I advise against this war."
-Sensei Hisoka, letter to Lord Konda

Unnerve

Sorcery

Each opponent discards two cards.

"If fear is the only tool you have left, then you'll never control me."
-Xantcha, to Gix

Unnerving Assault

Instant

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0 until end of turn if was spent to cast Unnerving Assault, and creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn if was spent to cast it. (Do both if was spent.)

The scales of battle rarely balance.

Unquestioned Authority

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Unquestioned Authority enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has protection from creatures.

"Only the Ancestor should be revered."
-Mystic heretic

Unravel the Æther

Instant

Choose target artifact or enchantment. Its owner shuffles it into his or her library.

Thaumaturges of Theros have learned to weave their magic into the world around them, but it can be pulled apart strand by strand.

Unruly Mob

Creature - Human

Whenever another creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Unruly Mob.

"Who says werewolves are the only ones who can hunt as a pack?"
-Kolman, elder of Gatstaf

Unscythe, Killer of Kings

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has first strike.

Whenever a creature dealt damage by equipped creature this turn dies, you may exile that card. If you do, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Equip

Unstable Footing

Instant

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

Damage can't be prevented this turn. If Unstable Footing was kicked, it deals 5 damage to target player.

A long way down is shorter than you think.

Unstable Frontier

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Target land you control becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.

The goblins went to sleep in Jund and awoke in Grixis. They'd never seen a zombie before. They would never see one again.

Unstable Mutation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Unstable Obelisk

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Unstable Obelisk: Destroy target permanent.

Its collapse is like the lashing out of a long-dead civilization that resents being forgotten.

Unstoppable Ash

Creature - Treefolk Warrior

Trample

Champion a Treefolk or Warrior (When this enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you exile another Treefolk or Warrior you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.)

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, it gets +0/+5 until end of turn.

Unsummon

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Not to be. That is the answer.

Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper

Legendary Land

Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper enters the battlefield tapped.

, Pay 2 life: Add to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast legendary spells.

Untaidake is the needle that weaves the fabric of creation.

Untamed Hunger

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"Mindlessness is not weakness. When we are lost to hunger we are unstoppable."
-Drana, Kalastria bloodchief

Untamed Might

Instant

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

"Beasts kill for their very survival. If you would have their strength, you must know their desperation."
-Konnos, Sylvok sage

Unwilling Recruit

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gets +X/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

Frorn didn't want to be kept, but he didn't want to be thrown back either.

Unwinding Clock

Artifact

Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

"The partisans have unearthed a strange artifact. None know its origin, but it gives them hope of a life beyond."
-Elspeth's journal

Unyaro Bees

Creature - Insect

Flying

: Unyaro Bees gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

, Sacrifice Unyaro Bees: Unyaro Bees deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

With no jungle left to contain it, the "plague of daggers" spread across Dominaria.

Unyielding Krumar

Creature - Orc Warrior

: Unyielding Krumar gains first strike until end of turn.

"The man whom I call father killed the orc who sired me, offering his world and his blade in return."

Updraft Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Flying

"It slips through the smallest cracks in the mountain, emerging whole and unfettered. There is nowhere it cannot go, for what can hold back the air itself?"
-Chanyi, Ojutai monk

Uproot

Sorcery - Arcane

Put target land on top of its owner's library.

"We arrived at the battlefield too late. Again. Another error on your part, and you will have to answer to me personally."
-General Takeno, letter to the imperial mapmaker

Upwelling

Enchantment

Mana pools don't empty as steps and phases end.

Freyalise promised a dawn that would never end, a day of limitless life. As many dread her promise as revere it.

Ur-Golem's Eye

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

It still stares accusingly at Memnarch, though millennia have passed since he separated the eye from its body.

Urabrask the Hidden

Legendary Creature - Praetor

Creatures you control have haste.

Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

When the Mirran resistance arrived, the furnace dwellers looked to Urabrask for guidance. His decree stunned the others: "Let them be."

Urban Burgeoning

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has "Untap this land during each other player's untap step."

The ruins of Old Prahv became a wildspace, although all birdsong was silenced by lingering Azorius magic.

Urban Evolution

Sorcery

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

As the Simic released more of their krasis experiments, they required new habitats, always at the expense of the locals.

Urbis Protector

Creature - Human Cleric

When Urbis Protector enters the battlefield, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"I hear that Boros is losing its angels to the Gateless Movement. I'm sure this comes as no surprise to you."
-Teysa, to Lazav

Urborg Syphon-Mage

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Each other player loses 2 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

"I have become a gourmet of sorts. Each soul has its own distinctive flavor. The art is in inviting the right company to the feast."

Urborg Volcano

Land

Urborg Volcano enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Deep in the heart of Urborg lie massive volcanoes whose thick black smoke covers the land with perpetual darkness.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Legendary Land

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
-Lord Windgrace

Urge to Feed

Instant

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You may tap any number of untapped Vampire creatures you control. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each of those Vampires.

Urgent Exorcism

Instant

Destroy target Spirit or enchantment.

"To show geists pity is to prolong their agonies. Whether they know it or not, they seek the Blessed Sleep, and we are to give it to them."
-Mikaeus, the Lunarch

Uril, the Miststalker

Legendary Creature - Beast

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

Uril, the Miststalker gets +2/+2 for each Aura attached to it.

It strides through the whitecover, mists in which even gargantuans can hide.

Ursapine

Creature - Beast

: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

A friendly ursapine means a constant supply of sharp spears. An unfriendly one means a constant supply of small holes.

Ursine Fylgja

Creature - Spirit Bear

Ursine Fylgja enters the battlefield with four healing counters on it.

Remove a healing counter from Ursine Fylgja: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Ursine Fylgja this turn.

: Put a healing counter on Ursine Fylgja.

Urza's Armor

Artifact

If a source would deal damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.

Urza protected his body well, but neglected his soul.

Urza's Factory

Land - Urza's

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Put a 2/2 colorless Assembly-Worker artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

"Though their ideals are leagues apart, Urza's and Mishra's creations have a surprising harmony with one another."
-Tocasia, journal entry

Urza's Mine

Land - Urza's Mine

: Add to your mana pool. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add to your mana pool instead.

Urza's Power Plant

Land - Urza's Power-Plant

: Add to your mana pool. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Tower, add to your mana pool instead.

Urza's Tower

Land - Urza's Tower

: Add to your mana pool. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Power-Plant, add to your mana pool instead.

Uthden Troll

Creature - Troll

: Regenerate Uthden Troll.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere,
Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near,
Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da
hurt'll disappear."
-Traditional

Utopia Mycon

Creature - Fungus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Utopia Mycon.

Remove three spore counters from Utopia Mycon: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

Sacrifice a Saproling: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Utopia Sprawl

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant Forest

As Utopia Sprawl enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of the chosen color to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Utopia Tree

Creature - Plant

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

The fruit of this fabled tree takes on the flavor of whatever food you love most.

Utopia Vow

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

Enchanted creature has ": Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."

"I'll guard this fruit and its seedling until the land is healed. My life now belongs to Dominaria."

Utter End

Instant

Exile target nonland permanent.

"I came seeking a challenge. All I found was you."
-Zurgo, khan of the Mardu

Utvara Hellkite

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, put a 6/6 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

The fear of dragons is as old and as powerful as the fear of death itself.

Utvara Scalper

Creature - Goblin Scout

Flying

Utvara Scalper attacks each turn if able.

He wages war wherever the wind carries him.

Uyo, Silent Prophet

Legendary Creature - Moonfolk Wizard

Flying

, Return two lands you control to their owner's hand: Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Vacuumelt

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Vagrant Plowbeasts

Creature - Beast

: Regenerate target creature with power 5 or greater.

Plowbeasts of Naya escaped their harnesses in droves, content to snack on the conveniently cultivated fields of Eos and Valeron.

Valakut Fireboar

Creature - Elemental Boar

Whenever Valakut Fireboar attacks, switch its power and toughness until end of turn.

"Just move very slowly, and for the love of Ula, do not get it mad."
-Chadir the Navigator

Valakut Invoker

Creature - Human Shaman

: Valakut Invoker deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

"As long as we have walked this world, we have known it as a harsh and unforgiving place."-The Invokers' Tales

Valakut Predator

Creature - Elemental

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Valakut Predator gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"Whatever volcanoes dream of, it seems like they always wake up grumpy."-Raff Slugeater, goblin shortcutter

Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Land

Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle enters the battlefield tapped.

Whenever a Mountain enters the battlefield under your control, if you control at least five other Mountains, you may have Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle deal 3 damage to target creature or player.

: Add to your mana pool.

Valeron Outlander

Creature - Human Scout

Protection from black

After years of honing her philosophy in debate with stubborn rhoxes, Niella was ready to convert any heathen.