Valiant Guard

Creature - Human Soldier

As the outsiders invaded Bant, soldiers who once saw sigils as the highest marks of glory began to see the scars of battle as tokens of equal worth.

Valley Dasher

Creature - Human Berserker

Haste

Valley Dasher attacks each turn if able.

Mardu riders' greatest fear is that a battle might end before their weapons draw blood.

Valley Rannet

Creature - Beast

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

Valleymaker

Creature - Giant Shaman

, Sacrifice a Mountain: Valleymaker deals 3 damage to target creature.

, Sacrifice a Forest: Choose a player. That player adds to his or her mana pool.

Their home uprooted by a giant, the gang of boggarts mourned their old stomping ground.

Valor

Creature - Incarnation

First strike

As long as Valor is in your graveyard and you control a Plains, creatures you control have first strike.

"The cracks widened, the shell crumbled, and Valor spread throughout the land."
-Scroll of Beginnings

Valor Made Real

Instant

Target creature can block any number of creatures this turn.

"As my father taught, ‘Training will raise your shield to the blow, but courage fills the gaps the shield leaves open.'"

Valorous Stance

Instant

Choose one -

• Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

• Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater.

"Every choice alters the path of fate."
-Sarkhan Vol

Vampire Aristocrat

Creature - Vampire Rogue

Sacrifice a creature: Vampire Aristocrat gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"I admit, I am a creature of the city. The sights, the nightly excitement, the abundance of fine drink . . ."

Vampire Bats

Creature - Bat

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

: Vampire Bats gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability no more than twice each turn.

Vampire Envoy

Creature - Vampire Cleric Ally

Flying

Whenever Vampire Envoy becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

"Zendikar will fight until it has bled its last."

Vampire Hexmage

Creature - Vampire Shaman

First strike

Sacrifice Vampire Hexmage: Remove all counters from target permanent.

When the blood hunt lost its thrill, she looked for less tangible means of domination.

Vampire Interloper

Creature - Vampire Scout

Flying

Vampire Interloper can't block.

He listens to every heartbeat, deciding which one of hundreds he will stop.

Vampire Lacerator

Creature - Vampire Warrior

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life unless an opponent has 10 or less life.

The lacerators cut themselves before each hunt. They must feed before the sun rises or bleed to death.

Vampire Nighthawk

Creature - Vampire Shaman

Flying

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

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

Vampire Nocturnus

Creature - Vampire

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

As long as the top card of your library is black, Vampire Nocturnus and other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+1 and have flying.

"Your life will set with the sun."

Vampire Outcasts

Creature - Vampire

Bloodthirst 2 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.)

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

Vampire Warlord

Creature - Vampire Warrior

Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Vampire Warlord. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

"How can you serve me? By dying."

Vampire's Bite

Instant

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

Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn. If Vampire's Bite was kicked, that creature gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Vampiric Fury

Instant

Vampire creatures you control get +2/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn.

Many peasants secretly admire vampires' glamour and elegance-until they witness a moment of pure bloodlust.

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.

Vampiric Rites

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

For vampires, blood carries more than life. Memories long eroded from the minds of bloodchiefs can be reclaimed from the veins of their sired kin.

Vampiric Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have "Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."

They draw upon the strength of their hive and of their victims.

Vampiric Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Flying

When Vampiric Spirit enters the battlefield, you lose 4 life.

Vandalblast

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact you don't control.

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

Beauty is in the eye of the exploder.

Vandalize

Sorcery

Choose one or both -

• Destroy target artifact.

• Destroy target land.

"As we have learned from Kolaghan, to ruin is to rule."
-Shensu, Kolaghan rider

Vanguard of Brimaz

Creature - Cat Soldier

Vigilance

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Vanguard of Brimaz, put a 1/1 white Cat Soldier creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.

"The humans and their gods never blessed me. Only the pride deserves my allegiance."

Vanguard's Shield

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and can block an additional creature.

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

Wars are not fought on a single front.

Vanish into Memory

Instant

Exile target creature. You draw cards equal to that creature's power. At the beginning of your next upkeep, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you do, discard cards equal to its toughness.

Out of sight, into mind.

Vanishment

Instant

Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library.

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

Vanquish

Instant

Destroy target blocking creature.

"All beings have an inner light. Let me show you yours."
-Ushanti, leonin seer

Vanquish the Foul

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Vapor Snag

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 1 life.

"This creature is inadequate. Send it to the splicers for innovation."
-Malcator, Executor of Synthesis

Vapor Snare

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Vapor Snare unless you return a land you control to its owner's hand.

Vaporkin

Creature - Elemental

Flying

Vaporkin can block only creatures with flying.

"Mists are carefree. They drift where they will, unencumbered by rocks and river beds."
-Thrasios, triton hero

Varolz, the Scar-Striped

Legendary Creature - Troll Warrior

Each creature card in your graveyard has scavenge. The scavenge cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Varolz, the Scar-Striped.

Vassal Soul

Creature - Spirit

Flying

For the Azorius, the opportunity to serve the law is too great an honor for death to interrupt.

Vassal's Duty

Enchantment

: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to target legendary creature you control this turn is dealt to you instead.

"My life is yours, my lord. There is no greater service than to yield it for your safety."

Vastwood Animist

Creature - Elf Shaman Ally

: Target land you control becomes an X/X Elemental creature until end of turn, where X is the number of Allies you control. It's still a land.

He calls on the forests for counsel and summons the earth to his cause.

Vastwood Gorger

Creature - Wurm

"A long and difficult incision revealed that all vital organs are housed in the head, save for a long chain of stomachs, forty in all, leading from its throat to the end of the tail."
-Mulak Ffar, Vastwood Biodiversity

Vastwood Hydra

Creature - Hydra

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

When Vastwood Hydra dies, you may distribute a number of +1/+1 counters equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on Vastwood Hydra among any number of creatures you control.

Vastwood Zendikon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is a 6/4 green Elemental creature. It's still a land.

When enchanted land dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

Vault of the Archangel

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

"For centuries my creation kept this world in balance. Now only her shadow remains."
-Sorin Markov

Vault of Whispers

Artifact Land

(Vault of Whispers isn't a spell.)

: Add to your mana pool.

Vault Skirge

Artifact Creature - Imp

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Flying

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

From the remnants of the dead, Geth forged a swarm to safeguard his throne.

Vault Skyward

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Untap it.

"The edges of the Quicksilver Sea run dark with the spread of the Mephidross. Two more aerial passes before I can be sure what I'm seeing . . ."
-Lafarius, Neurok sky agent

Vaultbreaker

Creature - Orc Rogue

Whenever Vaultbreaker attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Dash (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Vectis Agents

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Agents gets -2/-0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

With their life energy suppressed under their etherium enhancements, thieves from Esper found it surprisingly easy to explore the ruins of Grixis.

Vectis Dominator

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

: Tap target creature unless its controller pays 2 life.

"I appreciate the artistry of the telemins, but the creatures of the other worlds provide a much more dramatic performance."
-Ennor, mentalist

Vectis Silencers

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Silencers gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.)

Even on Esper, there are those who eschew the use of magic in favor of simpler methods.

Vector Asp

Artifact Creature - Snake

: Vector Asp gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Phyrexia's machines take inspiration from nature. Twisted, disturbing inspiration.

Vedalken Anatomist

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, : Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. You may tap or untap that creature.

"Specimen 211 examination report. Observation: graft sublimation incomplete. Result: death. Prepare specimen 212."

Vedalken Archmage

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, draw a card.

"The Knowledge Pool knows. Memnarch understands."
-Janus, speaker of the synod

Vedalken Æthermage

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

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

When Vedalken Æthermage enters the battlefield, return target Sliver to its owner's hand.

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

Vedalken Certarch

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

Metalcraft - : Tap target artifact, creature, or land. Activate this ability only if you control three or more artifacts.

"An appropriately detailed model is indistinguishable from reality, and much easier to control."

Vedalken Dismisser

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

When Vedalken Dismisser enters the battlefield, put target creature on top of its owner's library.

"I crept up on him, quiet as a guttermouse. And then suddenly I found myself facedown in a latrine pit behind Tin Street Market."
-Sirislav, Dimir spy

Vedalken Engineer

Creature - Vedalken Artificer

: Add two mana of any one color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.

Art is unknown to the vedalken-for them, all creations must serve a purpose.

Vedalken Entrancer

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, : Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Don't get any ideas."

Vedalken Ghoul

Creature - Vedalken Zombie

Whenever Vedalken Ghoul becomes blocked, defending player loses 4 life.

For four nights following Ennor's death and the reclaiming of his etherium, its recipients were found slain, the etherium ripped from their bodies.

Vedalken Heretic

Creature - Vedalken Rogue

Whenever Vedalken Heretic deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

"Etherium clouded my eyes, clogged my ears, desensitized my skin. Now that I can feel, I can begin to learn."

Vedalken Infuser

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on target artifact.

"All plans begin as dreams. I intend to awaken them."

Vedalken Mastermind

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, : Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand.

The vedalken see other beings from a cold distance, as either experimental subjects or objects of study.

Vedalken Orrery

Artifact

You may cast nonland cards as though they had flash.

The model incorporated the fifth sun effortlessly, as if it had always known.

Vedalken Outlander

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Scout

Protection from red

The Seekers of Carmot searched across the unknown lands for the mystical red stone that could reforge Esper in ethereal perfection.

Vedalken Plotter

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

When Vedalken Plotter enters the battlefield, exchange control of target land you control and target land an opponent controls.

"Fair? At what point in our negotiations did you convince yourself my goal was to be fair?"

Vedalken Shackles

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Vedalken Shackles during your untap step.

, : Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of Islands you control for as long as Vedalken Shackles remains tapped.

Veil of Secrecy

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gains shroud until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

Splice onto Arcane-Return a blue creature you control to its owner's hand. (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.)

Veilborn Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

Veilborn Ghoul can't block.

Whenever a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, you may return Veilborn Ghoul from your graveyard to your hand.

Liliana's voice carries far, reaching beyond the cold pall of death.

Veiling Oddity

Creature - Illusion

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.)

When the last time counter is removed from Veiling Oddity while it's exiled, creatures are unblockable this turn.

Veilstone Amulet

Artifact

Whenever you cast a spell, creatures you control can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn.

Sometimes it's ostentatious to go unseen.

Vein Drinker

Creature - Vampire

Flying

, : Vein Drinker deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to Vein Drinker.

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Vein Drinker this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Vein Drinker.

Veinfire Borderpost

Artifact

You may pay and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay Veinfire Borderpost's mana cost.

Veinfire Borderpost enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Vela the Night-Clad

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Intimidate

Other creatures you control have intimidate.

Whenever Vela the Night-Clad or another creature you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Vela snuffs out every trace of Krond's reign, leaving pure nightfall in her wake.

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.

Vendetta

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

"Consider my debt to your kin paid in full."
-Idrol, Guul Draz assassin

Vendilion Clique

Legendary Creature - Faerie Wizard

Flash

Flying

When Vendilion Clique enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of his or her library, then draws a card.

Venerable Kumo

Creature - Spirit

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Soulshift 4 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with converted mana cost 4 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Venerable Lammasu

Creature - Lammasu

Flying

Lammasu are the enigmatic travelers of Tarkir, soaring high above all lands in all seasons. None know their true purpose, but they often arrive on the eve of great conflicts or turning points in history.

Venerable Monk

Creature - Human Monk Cleric

When Venerable Monk enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.

Age wears the flesh but galvanizes the soul.

Venerated Teacher

Creature - Human Wizard

When Venerated Teacher enters the battlefield, put two level counters on each creature you control with level up.

"The unfathomable is upon us, students. I have no doubt you will rise to the occasion."

Vengeful Archon

Creature - Archon

Flying

: Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to you this turn. If damage is prevented this way, Vengeful Archon deals that much damage to target player.

Vengeful Firebrand

Creature - Elemental Warrior

Vengeful Firebrand has haste as long as a Warrior card is in your graveyard.

: Vengeful Firebrand gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

The flame of a warrior is never extinguished.

Vengeful Pharaoh

Creature - Zombie

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

Whenever combat damage is dealt to you or a planeswalker you control, if Vengeful Pharaoh is in your graveyard, destroy target attacking creature, then put Vengeful Pharaoh on top of your library.

Vengeful Rebirth

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. If you return a nonland card to your hand this way, Vengeful Rebirth deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to target creature or player.

Exile Vengeful Rebirth.

Vengeful Vampire

Creature - Vampire

Flying

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.)

He wields the full power of wrath unfettered by the sympathies of a soul.

Vengevine

Creature - Elemental

Haste

Whenever you cast a spell, if it's the second creature spell you cast this turn, you may return Vengevine from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Leave but a shred of root and it will return, bursting with vigor.

Venom Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

"We attacked with arrows dipped in poison. The slivers that did not die began to change."
-Hastric, Thunian scout

Venser's Diffusion

Instant

Return target nonland permanent or suspended card to its owner's hand.

"Each reality is but the dream of another, and each sleeper a god unknowing."

Venser's Journal

Artifact

You have no maximum hand size.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

A Planeswalker's chronicle spans worlds and civilizations, each page a lifetime.

Venser's Sliver

Artifact Creature - Sliver

Venser admired his handiwork and smiled. His first prototype had joined with the hive mind all too well, running with the brood and becoming a predator itself. This one, he thought, would be accepted into the hive but still obey his commands.

Venser, Shaper Savant

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

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

When Venser, Shaper Savant enters the battlefield, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

His marvels of artifice pale in comparison to the developing machinery of his mind.

Venser, the Sojourner

Planeswalker - Venser (Loyalty: 3)

+2: Exile target permanent you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

-1: Creatures are unblockable this turn.

-8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, exile target permanent."

Vent Sentinel

Creature - Elemental

Defender

, : Vent Sentinel deals damage to target player equal to the number of creatures with defender you control.

"Zendikar fortifies itself against the Great Threat, making sentries of sky, sea, and stone."
-The War Diaries

Verdant Catacombs

Land

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Verdant Catacombs: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Verdant Eidolon

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice Verdant Eidolon: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool.

Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, you may return Verdant Eidolon from your graveyard to your hand.

Verdant Embrace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has "At the beginning of each upkeep, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield."

Verdant Force

Creature - Elemental

At the beginning of each upkeep, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

Left to itself, nature overflows any container, overthrows any restriction, and overreaches any boundary.

Verdant Haven

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

When Verdant Haven enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.

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

Verdeloth the Ancient

Legendary Creature - Treefolk

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

Saproling creatures and other Treefolk creatures get +1/+1.

When Verdeloth the Ancient enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Verduran Enchantress

Creature - Human Druid

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card.

"Graceful? Yes. Beautiful? Absolutely. Harmless? Definitely not."
-Fyndhorn elder

Vermiculos

Creature - Horror

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield, Vermiculos gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Mirrodin's artificial environment requires its own predators, scavengers, and senseless forces of nature.