Vernal Bloom

Enchantment

Whenever a Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Spring breathes the magic of new life.

Vertigo Spawn

Creature - Illusion

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Vertigo Spawn blocks a creature, tap that creature. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Vesper Ghoul

Creature - Zombie Druid

, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

"Nature's exceptions remind us not to think in absolutes. Just as the orchid blossoms on blackened stone, so does the gift of mana occasionally manifest in the undead."
-Bougrat, druid of the Cult of Yore

Vessel of Endless Rest

Artifact

When Vessel of Endless Rest enters the battlefield, put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

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

Vestige of Emrakul

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Trample

Emrakul has not been seen in months. Though her brood's numbers have dwindled in her absence, each drone is still a deadly threat.

Vesuva

Land

You may have Vesuva enter the battlefield tapped as a copy of any land on the battlefield.

It is everywhere you've ever been.

Vesuvan Shapeshifter

Creature - Shapeshifter

As Vesuvan Shapeshifter enters the battlefield or is turned face up, you may choose another creature on the battlefield. If you do, until Vesuvan Shapeshifter is turned face down, it becomes a copy of that creature and gains "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may turn this creature face down."

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

Veteran Armorer

Creature - Human Soldier

Other creatures you control get +0/+1.

"Give me a sword and I'll kill a few enemies. But give me a hammer and a fiery forge, and I'll turn the tide of battle."

Veteran Armorsmith

Creature - Human Soldier

Other Soldier creatures you control get +0/+1.

"Courage is a proud and gleaming shield. It does not bend or hide from sight. To fight with courage, we must forge in steel."

Veteran Cavalier

Creature - Human Knight

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Spirit is the sword and experience the sharpening stone.
-Arabian proverb

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.

Veteran of the Depths

Creature - Merfolk Soldier

Whenever Veteran of the Depths becomes tapped, you may put a +1/+1 counter on it.

In the backwaters of the Merrow Lanes lie stones scarred with tallies of countless generations, each representing a victory of merrow soldiers.

Veteran Swordsmith

Creature - Human Soldier

Other Soldier creatures you control get +1/+0.

"Truth is a straight, keen edge. There are no soft angles or rounded edges. To fight for truth, we must forge in steel."

Veteran Warleader

Creature - Human Soldier Ally

Veteran Warleader's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.

Tap another untapped Ally you control: Veteran Warleader gains your choice of first strike, vigilance, or trample until end of turn.

Veteran's Armaments

Tribal Artifact - Soldier Equipment

Equipped creature has "Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each attacking creature."

Whenever a Soldier creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Veteran's Armaments to it.

Equip

Veteran's Reflexes

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap that creature.

"Assume everything wants to kill you. At the very least, assume everything wants what's in your pack."

Vex

Instant

Counter target spell. That spell's controller may draw a card.

"The druids would be better off if they spent more time in the lab and less time watching trees grow."
-Pontifex, elder researcher

Vexing Arcanix

Artifact

, : Target player names a card, then reveals the top card of his or her library. If it's the named card, the player puts it into his or her hand. Otherwise, the player puts it into his or her graveyard and Vexing Arcanix deals 2 damage to him or her.

Vexing Devil

Creature - Devil

When Vexing Devil enters the battlefield, any opponent may have it deal 4 damage to him or her. If a player does, sacrifice Vexing Devil.

It's not any fun until someone loses an eye.

Vexing Shusher

Creature - Goblin Shaman

Vexing Shusher can't be countered.

: Target spell can't be countered by spells or abilities.

The stench of bloodcap mushrooms on the breath is enough to ward off even the most potent magics, especially when combined with a special chant: "Hushhh."

Vexing Sphinx

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Cumulative upkeep-Discard a card. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

When Vexing Sphinx dies, draw a card for each age counter on it.

Vhati il-Dal

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

: Target creature's power or toughness becomes 1 until end of turn.

"Sir, I just thought . . . ," explained Vhati.
"Don't think," interrupted Greven. "It doesn't suit you."

Vial of Dragonfire

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Vial of Dragonfire: Vial of Dragonfire deals 2 damage to target creature.

Designed by an ancient artificer, the vials are strong enough to hold the very breath of a dragon-until it's needed.

Vial of Poison

Artifact

, Sacrifice Vial of Poison: Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

There are worse ways to die, but not many.

Viashino Bladescout

Creature - Viashino Scout

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

When Viashino Bladescout enters the battlefield, target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"Find your courage in a desperate moment, and you turn the tide of history. So sayeth the bey."

Viashino Fangtail

Creature - Viashino Warrior

: Viashino Fangtail deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

"When the bony terminus gets too large, it's shed from the tail in coinciding periods of heightened aggression and hunger."
-Simic research notes

Viashino Firstblade

Creature - Viashino Soldier

Haste

When Viashino Firstblade enters the battlefield, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"All that steel doesn't make them slower. It makes them bolder."
-Tajic, Blade of the Legion

Viashino Racketeer

Creature - Viashino Rogue

When Viashino Racketeer enters the battlefield, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

"You may call me a fool, selling this stuff on Orzhov turf. Well, you need to be a little reckless to survive."

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

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 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 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 Skeleton

Creature - Viashino Skeleton

, Discard a card: Regenerate Viashino Skeleton.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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 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

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

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."

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

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.

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."

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.

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 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.)

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."

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

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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 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 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.

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!"

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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 Trellis

Creature - Plant Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Add to your mana pool.

Nature twists knots stronger than any rope.

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.

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."

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.

Vineweft

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

: Return Vineweft from your graveyard to your hand.

Fortified by the wilds.

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 Ultimatum

Sorcery

Destroy three target permanents.

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

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.

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

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.)

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.

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."

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 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 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 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 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 Joiner

Creature - Elf Druid

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

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 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 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 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 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 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."

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

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 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 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."

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.)

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.

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.)

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

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."

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.

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."