Wurmcalling

Sorcery

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Put an X/X green Wurm creature token onto the battlefield.

Brass Gnat

Artifact Creature - Insect

Flying

Brass Gnat doesn't untap during your untap step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap Brass Gnat.

Its buzzing is the sound of its inner mechanisms, ever winding down.

Locket of Yesterdays

Artifact

Spells you cast cost less to cast for each card with the same name as that spell in your graveyard.

Every hour, at the turning of the glass, its owner had whispered to the locket, seeding it with secrets. This would be her legacy, her memory, if the rifts should take her.

Rebuff the Wicked

Instant

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

"I cannot teach you their brand of magic, but I can teach you how to defend against it."
-Tavalus, priest of Korlis

Mana Tithe

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"Those who seek to upset the balance must be taxed for such ambitions."
-Verithain, mesa high priest

Porphyry Nodes

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy the creature with the least power. It can't be regenerated. If two or more creatures are tied for least power, you choose one of them.

When there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice Porphyry Nodes.

Sunlance

Sorcery

Sunlance deals 3 damage to target nonwhite creature.

"It's easy for the innocent to speak of justice. They seldom feel its terrible power."
-Orim, Samite inquisitor

Pongify

Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller puts a 3/3 green Ape creature token onto the battlefield.

Some spellcrafting mistakes go on to become spells of their own.

Timebender

Creature - Human Wizard

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

When Timebender is turned face up, choose one - Remove two time counters from target permanent or suspended card; or put two time counters on target permanent with a time counter on it or suspended card.

Venarian Glimmer

Instant

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card with converted mana cost X or less from it. That player discards that card.

Dream of nothing, and wake to a dream come true.

Piracy Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target creature gains islandwalk until end of turn; or target creature gets +2/-1 until end of turn; or target player discards a card.

Extirpate

Instant

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

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

Midnight Charm

Instant

Choose one - Midnight Charm deals 1 damage to target creature and you gain 1 life; or target creature gains first strike until end of turn; or tap target creature.

Ridged Kusite

Creature - Horror Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

"It offers but a taste of the power that the shadows have to offer. But even that is a heady wine indeed."
-Ratadrabik of Urborg

Shrouded Lore

Sorcery

Target opponent chooses a card in your graveyard. You may pay . If you do, repeat this process except that opponent can't choose a card already chosen for Shrouded Lore. Then put the last chosen card into your hand.

Vampiric Link

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

The familiar's fangs deliver the master's bite.

Dust Corona

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and can't be blocked by creatures with flying.

"They infiltrated deep into the enemy camp under cover of darkness . . . and dirt."
-Corus, viashino warrior

Firefright Mage

Creature - Goblin Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Target creature can't be blocked this turn except by artifact creatures and/or red creatures.

After millennia of advancement in goblin military theory, Toggo VI realized that almost everyone is afraid of fire.

Timecrafting

Instant

Choose one - Remove X time counters from target permanent or suspended card; or put X time counters on target permanent with a time counter on it or suspended card.

Oddly, an unstable time stream makes wizards want to tinker with it even more.

Dead (Dead/Gone)

Instant

Dead deals 2 damage to target creature.

Brute Force

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Blood, bone, and sinew are magnified, as is the rage that drives them. The brain, however, remains unchanged-a little bean, swinging by a strand in a cavernous, raving head.

Uktabi Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying, haste

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

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

Healing Leaves

Instant

Choose one - Target player gains 3 life; or prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

The elves of Llanowar don't trust in alchemy. They rely instead on pure herbs harvested from the forest's sacred heart.

Keen Sense

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Crovax sensed that Mirri wasn't ready for the curse taking hold of her. Weeping in his heart, he fled.

Gift of Granite

Enchantment - Aura

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

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2.

The blessing adds both protection to the recipient and weightlessness to the stone.

Samite Censer-Bearer

Creature - Human Rebel Cleric

, Sacrifice Samite Censer-Bearer: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to each creature you control this turn.

Samite alchemists extracted aromatic traces of healing minerals from the residue of the receding salt dunes.

Scout's Warning

Instant

The next creature card you play this turn can be played as though it had flash.

Draw a card.

"There is no tactic I enjoy more than ambushing the ambushers."

Mystic Speculation

Sorcery

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Scry 3. (To scry 3, look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Nix

Instant

Counter target spell if no mana was spent to cast it.

"There is no shortcut to work done true and well. The Creators learned this to their sorrow, the first time they made the world."
-Githri the Prisoner

Rift Elemental

Creature - Elemental

, Remove a time counter from a permanent you control or suspended card you own: Rift Elemental gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

"It's difficult to heal a rift after it begins wandering about on its own."
-Teferi

Llanowar Augur

Creature - Elf Shaman

Sacrifice Llanowar Augur: Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

"I am irrelevant. The future I hold in my hands is everything."

Llanowar Mentor

Creature - Elf Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Put a 1/1 green Elf Druid creature token named Llanowar Elves onto the battlefield. It has ": Add to your mana pool."

Magus of the Vineyard

Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of each player's precombat main phase, add to that player's mana pool.

Battered and beaten by years of salt and claw, he never ceased to walk, and to seed. Only now, in this time of rebirth, do his seeds take root.

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.

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.)

Consecrate Land

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is indestructible and can't be enchanted by other Auras.

Icatian Javelineers

Creature - Human Soldier

Icatian Javelineers enters the battlefield with a javelin counter on it.

, Remove a javelin counter from Icatian Javelineers: Icatian Javelineers deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Flying Men

Creature - Human

Flying

Saffiyah clapped her hands and twenty flying men appeared at her side, each well trained in the art of combat.

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.

Whispers of the Muse

Instant

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Draw a card.

"I followed her song only to find it was a dirge."
-Crovax

Darkness

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride,/ And hug it in my arms." -William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Funeral Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target player discards a card; or target creature gets +2/-1 until end of turn; or target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn.

Shadow Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Put target creature you control on top of its owner's library.

, : Shadow Guildmage deals 1 damage to target creature or player and 1 damage to you.

To keep the dead so others may live.
-Shadow Guild maxim

Disintegrate

Sorcery

Disintegrate deals X damage to target creature or player. That creature can't be regenerated this turn. If the creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Avoid Fate

Instant

Counter target instant or Aura spell that targets a permanent you control.

Thallid

Creature - Fungus

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

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

Assault (Assault/Battery)

Sorcery

Assault deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Feldon's Cane

Artifact

, Exile Feldon's Cane: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Feldon found the first of these canes frozen in the Ronom Glacier.

The Rack

Artifact

As The Rack enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, The Rack deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in his or her hand.

Invented in Mishra's earlier days, the Rack was once his most feared creation.

Shared Trauma

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Goblin Cadets

Creature - Goblin

Whenever Goblin Cadets blocks or becomes blocked, target opponent gains control of it. (This removes Goblin Cadets from combat.)

"If you kids don't stop that racket, I'm turning this expedition around right now!"

Collective Voyage

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player searches his or her library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way, puts them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles his or her library.

Veteran Explorer

Creature - Human Soldier Scout

When Veteran Explorer dies, each player may search his or her library for up to two basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched his or her library this way shuffles it.

Sol Ring

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Amulet of Vigor

Artifact

Whenever a permanent enters the battlefield tapped and under your control, untap it.

"After years of study, I've learned an important lesson: the relics we watch may be watching us back."
-Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Basilisk Collar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink.

Equip

During their endless travels, the mages of the Goma Fada caravan have learned ways to harness both life and death.

Cloudfin Raptor

Creature - Bird Mutant

Flying

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.)

Illness in the Ranks

Enchantment

Creature tokens get -1/-1.

"Selesnya denied us tribute. Let's show them the error of their ways."
-Milana, Orzhov prelate

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.

Gridlock

Instant

Tap X target nonland permanents.

"One tiny peg pulled from a single wagon wheel, and an entire district grinds to a halt."
-Lazav

Mugging

Sorcery

Mugging deals 2 damage to target creature. That creature can't block this turn.

Scream: muffled. Pockets: emptied. Neck function: never the same again.

Legion Loyalist

Creature - Goblin Soldier

Haste

Battalion - Whenever Legion Loyalist and at least two other creatures attack, creatures you control gain first strike and trample until end of turn and can't be blocked by creature tokens this turn.

Boros Elite

Creature - Human Soldier

Battalion - Whenever Boros Elite and at least two other creatures attack, Boros Elite gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"First, you must fight among the rank and file. It is there I will discern your skills as a leader."
-Aurelia, to Gideon Jura

Serene Remembrance

Sorcery

Shuffle Serene Remembrance and up to three target cards from a single graveyard into their owners' libraries.

While Lazav schemed and Niv-Mizzet researched, Trostani sought the future in the whispers of the past.

Wasteland Viper

Creature - Snake

Deathtouch

Bloodrush - , Discard Wasteland Viper: Target attacking creature gets +1/+2 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

"The Gruul embrace all things poisonous and living in the cracks of society."
-Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov

Shadow Alley Denizen

Creature - Vampire Rogue

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

Rapid Hybridization

Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller puts a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token onto the battlefield.

"We've merged your life essence with that of several creatures at once. You're welcome."
-Speaker Trifon

Forced Adaptation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature.

"We're planting the seeds of change. Sometimes, we plant them in people."
-Vorel of the Hull Clade

Burst of Strength

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature and untap it.

"Our fight is not about territory or revenge. It is about freedom, plain and simple."
-Ruric Thar, Ghor-Clan chieftain

Killing Glare

Instant

Destroy target creature with power X or less.

A casual glance into a dark corner may be your last.

Guildscorn Ward

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has protection from multicolored.

"The Gateless have risen. The Ten shall fall."
-Ninth District graffiti

Death's Approach

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -X/-X, where X is the number of creature cards in its controller's graveyard.

"It's cold in the grave, and the dead crave your warmth. Who are you to deny them?"
-Strava, Dimir mage

Shielded Passage

Instant

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Izzet delved into the depths of Ravnica's past, and Selesnya followed without fear.

Foundry Street Denizen

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Whenever another red creature enters the battlefield under your control, Foundry Street Denizen gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

After the Foundry Street riot, Arrester Hulbein tried to ban bludgeons. Which, inevitably, resulted in another riot.

Realmwright

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

As Realmwright enters the battlefield, choose a basic land type.

Lands you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types.

There is not a single inch of Ravnica that hasn't been altered at one point or another to fit someone's whims.

Glaring Spotlight

Artifact

Creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

, Sacrifice Glaring Spotlight: Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn and are unblockable this turn.

Bioshift

Instant

Move any number of +1/+1 counters from target creature onto another target creature with the same controller.

"It's all right if you change your mind. There's always a chance we can rearrange parts later."
-Zija, Simic mutationist

Dutiful Thrull

Creature - Thrull

: Regenerate Dutiful Thrull.

"They are useful, but there's little satisfaction in supplication that throws itself under your heel."
-Jozica, Orzhov enforcer

Furious Resistance

Instant

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

"At least the Gateless rebels have ideals. Rakdos just mocks, defiles, and kills all we hold dear."
-Libuse, Boros sergeant

Skyblinder Staff

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked by creatures with flying.

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

"If bats are the only thing between me and a mountain of Orzhov coins, then I'm about to be a very rich thief."

Spire Tracer

Creature - Elf Scout

Spire Tracer can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.

Cartographers on Ravnica chart not just the horizontal, but also the vertical.

Thrull Parasite

Creature - Thrull

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.

The hunger of a vampire and the subtlety of a tax collector.

Wake the Reflections

Sorcery

Populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"You see a bird, an oak, a packbeast. I see the potential for an army."
-Lalia, Selesnya dryad

Trait Doctoring

Sorcery

Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another until end of turn.

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.)

Sinister Possession

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 2 life.

"You caught something on a cold night's stroll? No, I'd say something caught you."
-Mezim Magrah, civic healer

Clear a Path

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with defender.

"Why do guards always look surprised when we bash them?" asked Ruric.
"I think they expect a bribe," said Thar.

Weapon Surge

Instant

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Mending Touch

Instant

Regenerate target creature.

"The gift of life must be freely given. Anything less would diminish us all."
-Arin, Selesnya healer

Mutant's Prey

Instant

Target creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it fights target creature an opponent controls. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Every street corner is a hunting ground, every citizen potential prey.

Blazing Salvo

Instant

Blazing Salvo deals 3 damage to target creature unless that creature's controller has Blazing Salvo deal 5 damage to him or her.

Barbarians equate courage with the ability to endure pain.

Pay No Heed

Instant

Prevent all damage a source of your choice would deal this turn.

"Inhale life. Exhale pain."
-Mystic elder

Soulmender

Creature - Human Cleric

: You gain 1 life.

"Healing is more art than magic. Well, there is still quite a bit of magic."

Galerider Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have flying.

Masters of adaptation, galeriders serve multiple purposes useful to the hive. When they're not patrolling their territories, their majestic wings serve to circulate cool air through the vast hive chambers.

Spell Blast

Instant

Counter target spell with converted mana cost X. (For example, if that spell's mana cost is , X is 5.)

Artificer's Hex

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant Equipment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if enchanted Equipment is attached to a creature, destroy that creature.

"Some treasures aren't worth finding, let alone stealing."-Dack Fayden

Festering Newt

Creature - Salamander

When Festering Newt dies, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn. That creature gets -4/-4 instead if you control a creature named Bogbrew Witch.

Its back bubbles like a witch's cauldron, and it smells just as vile.

Shadowborn Apostle

Creature - Human Cleric

A deck can have any number of cards named Shadowborn Apostle.

, Sacrifice six creatures named Shadowborn Apostle: Search your library for a Demon creature card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Tenacious Dead

Creature - Skeleton Warrior

When Tenacious Dead dies, you may pay . If you do, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.

Raising the bones of Hekjek the Mad proved far easier than getting them to lie back down.

Barrage of Expendables

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a creature: Barrage of Expendables deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Goblin generals don't distinguish between troops and ammunition.