Battlewise Valor

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

It's never good to walk into an ambush, but with the right spell you might walk out again.

Ephara's Warden

Creature - Human Cleric

: Tap target creature with power 3 or less.

"When you threaten the sanctity of the polis, you insult Ephara herself. If she doesn't smite you, I will."

Pharika's Cure

Instant

Pharika's Cure deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

"The venom cleanses the sickness from your body, but it will not be pleasant, and you may not survive. Pharika's blessings are fickle."
-Solon, acolyte of Pharika

Read the Bones

Sorcery

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Rescue from the Underworld

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Rescue from the Underworld, sacrifice a creature.

Choose target creature card in your graveyard. Return that card and the sacrificed card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of your next upkeep. Exile Rescue from the Underworld.

Returned Centaur

Creature - Zombie Centaur

When Returned Centaur enters the battlefield, target player puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Driven away by his living kin, he wanders mourning through the wilderness, seeking the dead city of Asphodel.

Returned Phalanx

Creature - Zombie Soldier

Defender

: Returned Phalanx can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.

They lived in different nations and fought in different eras, but as the Returned, they link arms as one.

Scourgemark

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Scourgemark enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+0.

To members of the cult of Erebos, gold-infused tattoos symbolize the inevitable grasp of the god of death.

Sip of Hemlock

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.

Conspirators poisoned the oracle not because her visions were wrong, but because they were right.

Thoughtseize

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

"Any dream is a robust harvest. Still, I prefer the timeworn dreams, heavy with import, that haunt the obsessive mind."

Tormented Hero

Creature - Human Warrior

Tormented Hero enters the battlefield tapped.

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Tormented Hero, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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

Evangel of Heliod

Creature - Human Cleric

When Evangel of Heliod enters the battlefield, put a number of 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield equal to your devotion to white. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.)

Whip of Erebos

Legendary Enchantment Artifact

Creatures you control have lifelink.

, : Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Akroan Crusader

Creature - Human Soldier

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Akroan Crusader, put a 1/1 red Soldier creature token with haste onto the battlefield.

An Akroan soldier's worth is measured by the number of swords raised by his battle cry.

Anger of the Gods

Sorcery

Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

There was no reason to pray. This was already an act of the gods.

Arena Athlete

Creature - Human

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Arena Athlete, target creature an opponent controls can't block this turn.

The Iroan Games award no medals. Athletes vie for a visit from Iroas, god of victory.

Borderland Minotaur

Creature - Minotaur Warrior

"You have led us to triumph over the forces of Mogis!" said Brygus the Brave, clapping the Champion on the back.
The Champion wiped the sweat and blood from her brow.
"I count eight graves," she said. "Too many to call this a victory."
-The Theriad

Boulderfall

Instant

Boulderfall deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

"Defeating the Meletians was not so difficult. I needed only to move a mountain."
-Eocles, oracle of Purphoros

Coordinated Assault

Instant

Up to two target creatures each get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn.

It's hard to shout "Shields up!" with a javelin in your chest.

Deathbellow Raider

Creature - Minotaur Berserker

Deathbellow Raider attacks each turn if able.

: Regenerate Deathbellow Raider.

"The temple has been rededicated. It belongs to Mogis now."
-Rastos, disciple of Mogis

Demolish

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

"To truly defeat a skaberen, you must destroy not the monster but the lab."
-Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

Dragon Mantle

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Dragon Mantle enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has ": This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Fabled Hero

Creature - Human Soldier

Double strike

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Fabled Hero, put a +1/+1 counter on Fabled Hero.

"You. Poet. Be sure to write this down."

Ember Swallower

Creature - Elemental

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

When Ember Swallower becomes monstrous, each player sacrifices three lands.

Fanatic of Mogis

Creature - Minotaur Shaman

When Fanatic of Mogis enters the battlefield, it deals damage to each opponent equal to your devotion to red. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to red.)

Firedrinker Satyr

Creature - Satyr Shaman

Whenever Firedrinker Satyr is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to you.

: Firedrinker Satyr gets +1/+0 until end of turn and deals 1 damage to you.

Attending a satyr revel requires a high tolerance for pain.

Flamespeaker Adept

Creature - Human Shaman

Whenever you scry, Flamespeaker Adept gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

"I see your future, mantled in ash."

Hammer of Purphoros

Legendary Enchantment Artifact

Creatures you control have haste.

, , Sacrifice a land: Put a 3/3 colorless Golem enchantment artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

All the world is Purphoros's anvil.

Ill-Tempered Cyclops

Creature - Cyclops

Trample

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

A cyclops has two moods: angry and asleep.

Labyrinth Champion

Creature - Human Warrior

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Labyrinth Champion, Labyrinth Champion deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"It used to be a lair. Now it's just a tunnel."

Lightning Strike

Instant

Lightning Strike deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

"The hand of Keranos can be seen in every rumbling storm cloud. Best not to stand where he points."
-Rakleia of Shrine Peak

Magma Jet

Instant

Magma Jet deals 2 damage to target creature or player. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Messenger's Speed

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has trample and haste.

"He outran arrows. He outran even the archers' insults."
-Bayma, storyteller of Lagonna Band

Favored Hoplite

Creature - Human Soldier

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Favored Hoplite, put a +1/+1 counter on Favored Hoplite and prevent all damage that would be dealt to it this turn.

Minotaur Skullcleaver

Creature - Minotaur Berserker

Haste

When Minotaur Skullcleaver enters the battlefield, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

"Their only dreams are of full stomachs."
-Kleon the Iron-Booted

Ordeal of Purphoros

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice Ordeal of Purphoros.

When you sacrifice Ordeal of Purphoros, it deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Peak Eruption

Sorcery

Destroy target Mountain. Peak Eruption deals 3 damage to that land's controller.

"Early olive buds? A good omen. Flock of crows? Not so good. Mountain exploding? Bad. Very, very bad."
-Hira, street oracle

Portent of Betrayal

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Priest of Iroas

Creature - Human Cleric

, Sacrifice Priest of Iroas: Destroy target enchantment.

"Even my last breath will be a blow struck for Iroas."

Purphoros, God of the Forge

Legendary Enchantment Creature - God

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature.

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, Purphoros deals 2 damage to each opponent.

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

Purphoros's Emissary

Enchantment Creature - Ox

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Purphoros's Emissary can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.

Rage of Purphoros

Sorcery

Rage of Purphoros deals 4 damage to target creature. It can't be regenerated this turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Rageblood Shaman

Creature - Minotaur Shaman

Trample

Other Minotaur creatures you control get +1/+1 and have trample.

"I see a spark of pure rage. Soon that spark will spread from the depths of Kragma. Soon its fire will engulf the polis."
-Hira, street oracle

Satyr Rambler

Creature - Satyr

Trample

A satyr is bound by nothing-not home, not family, not loyalty.

Gift of Immortality

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. Return Gift of Immortality to the battlefield attached to that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Spark Jolt

Instant

Spark Jolt deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Acolytes of Purphoros hammer the world until they see the sparks of change.

Spearpoint Oread

Enchantment Creature - Nymph

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

First strike

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has first strike.

Stoneshock Giant

Creature - Giant

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

When Stoneshock Giant becomes monstrous, creatures without flying your opponents control can't block this turn.

Stormbreath Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying, haste, protection from white

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

When Stormbreath Dragon becomes monstrous, it deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Titan of Eternal Fire

Creature - Giant

Each Human creature you control has ", : This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

There is no gift more precious or more perilous than fire.

Titan's Strength

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+1 until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Two-Headed Cerberus

Creature - Hound

Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

The left head keeps the right head starved as motivation to track new prey.

Wild Celebrants

Creature - Satyr

When Wild Celebrants enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact.

"You can tell something's really valuable by the sound it makes when you slam your staff into it."

Agent of Horizons

Creature - Human Rogue

: Agent of Horizons can't be blocked this turn.

The light in the woods just before dawn reveals a glimmering network of branches, roots, and spiderwebs. The acolytes of Kruphix walk this lattice unseen.

Anthousa, Setessan Hero

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Anthousa, Setessan Hero, up to three target lands you control each become 2/2 Warrior creatures until end of turn. They're still lands.

The warriors she leads can rarely keep pace with her, and neither can the tales.

Glare of Heresy

Sorcery

Exile target white permanent.

No foe is more hated than the former friend.

Arbor Colossus

Creature - Giant

Reach

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

When Arbor Colossus becomes monstrous, destroy target creature with flying an opponent controls.

Artisan's Sorrow

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Some seers read bones or entrails. Others just like to break things.

Boon Satyr

Enchantment Creature - Satyr

Flash

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Enchanted creature gets +4/+2.

Bow of Nylea

Legendary Enchantment Artifact

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch.

, : Choose one - Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature; or Bow of Nylea deals 2 damage to target creature with flying; or you gain 3 life; or put up to four target cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library in any order.

Centaur Battlemaster

Creature - Centaur Warrior

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Centaur Battlemaster, put three +1/+1 counters on Centaur Battlemaster.

"A herd is only as strong as its weakest. Our weakest just killed his third minotaur raider-today."
-Braulios of Pheres Band

Commune with the Gods

Sorcery

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or enchantment card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

For the first time in many years, Elspeth asked for help.

Defend the Hearth

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to players this turn.

The defenders said not a word. Their shields, spears, and stances were warning enough.

Fade into Antiquity

Sorcery

Exile target artifact or enchantment.

"Are the gods angry at our discontent with what they give us, or jealous that we made a thing they cannot?"
-Kleon the Iron-Booted

Feral Invocation

Enchantment - Aura

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

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Nylea's sacred lynx guards those who honor the Nessian Wood and hunts those who don't.

Hunt the Hunter

Sorcery

Target green creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn. It fights target green creature an opponent controls.

"A grudge is a tattoo worn on the inside."
-Setessan warrior saying

Gods Willing

Instant

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Honor the gods of Theros, and they will return the favor.

Karametra's Acolyte

Creature - Human Druid

: Add an amount of to your mana pool equal to your devotion to green. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

"The wilds are a garden tended by divine hands."

Leafcrown Dryad

Enchantment Creature - Nymph Dryad

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Reach

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has reach.

Mistcutter Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Mistcutter Hydra can't be countered.

Haste, protection from blue

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

Nemesis of Mortals

Creature - Snake

Nemesis of Mortals costs less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.

: Monstrosity 5. This ability costs less to activate for each creature card in your graveyard. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put five +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

Nessian Asp

Creature - Snake

Reach

: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

It's not the two heads you should fear. It's the four fangs.

Nessian Courser

Creature - Centaur Warrior

Nylea, God of the Hunt

Legendary Enchantment Creature - God

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

Other creatures you control have trample.

: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Nylea's Disciple

Creature - Centaur Archer

When Nylea's Disciple enters the battlefield, you gain life equal to your devotion to green. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

Nylea's Emissary

Enchantment Creature - Cat

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Trample

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has trample.

Nylea's Presence

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

When Nylea's Presence enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted land is every basic land type in addition to its other types.

Heliod, God of the Sun

Legendary Enchantment Creature - God

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.)

Other creatures you control have vigilance.

: Put a 2/1 white Cleric enchantment creature token onto the battlefield.

Ordeal of Nylea

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice Ordeal of Nylea.

When you sacrifice Ordeal of Nylea, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Pheres-Band Centaurs

Creature - Centaur Warrior

"Poets speak of your unrivaled speed," the Champion said to the assembled centaurs, "but it is plain to see that your true strength lies in your unwavering loyalty to one another."
-The Theriad

Polukranos, World Eater

Legendary Creature - Hydra

: Monstrosity X. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put X +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

When Polukranos, World Eater becomes monstrous, it deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures your opponents control. Each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to Polukranos.

Reverent Hunter

Creature - Human Archer

When Reverent Hunter enters the battlefield, put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to your devotion to green. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

Satyr Hedonist

Creature - Satyr

, Sacrifice Satyr Hedonist: Add to your mana pool.

"Any festival you can walk away from wasn't worth attending in the first place."

Satyr Piper

Creature - Satyr Rogue

: Target creature must be blocked this turn if able.

"When I asked my commander the reward for killing that prancing nuisance, he told me, ‘None! I want to kill him myself!'"
-Phrogas, soldier of Akros

Savage Surge

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Untap that creature.

Gruul warriors never need to be stirred to battle. They need only to be shown where the battle is.

Sedge Scorpion

Creature - Scorpion

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

Thakolides the Mighty
Slayer of minotaurs
Vanquisher of giants
Killed by a scorpion
-Inscription on an Akroan grave

Shredding Winds

Instant

Shredding Winds deals 7 damage to target creature with flying.

"Enemies of the wood! Your presence here is a slap in Nylea's face. Do not be surprised if she slaps back."
-Telphe, druid of Nylea

Staunch-Hearted Warrior

Creature - Human Warrior

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Staunch-Hearted Warrior, put two +1/+1 counters on Staunch-Hearted Warrior.

As soon as she faces a monster, she begins composing its epitaph.

Heliod's Emissary

Enchantment Creature - Elk

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Whenever Heliod's Emissary or enchanted creature attacks, tap target creature an opponent controls.

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

Sylvan Caryatid

Creature - Plant

Defender, hexproof

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

Those who enter the copse never leave. They find peace there and take root, becoming part of the ever-growing grove.

Time to Feed

Sorcery

Choose target creature an opponent controls. When that creature dies this turn, you gain 3 life. Target creature you control fights that creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Voyaging Satyr

Creature - Satyr Druid

: Untap target land.

"None can own the land's bounty. The gods made this world for all to share its riches. And I'm not just saying that because you caught me stealing your fruit."

Vulpine Goliath

Creature - Fox

Trample

"With a diet of hydras, giants, and massive serpents, anything would get that big."
-Corisande, Setessan hunter

Warriors' Lesson

Instant

Until end of turn, up to two target creatures you control each gain "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

"Let each challenge make you a better warrior."
-Anthousa of Setessa

Akroan Hoplite

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever Akroan Hoplite attacks, it gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of attacking creatures you control.

"Fair fight? How could it be a fair fight? We're Akroans. They're not."

Anax and Cymede

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

First strike, vigilance

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Anax and Cymede, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn.

Akros's greatest heroes are also its royalty.

Ashen Rider

Creature - Archon

Flying

When Ashen Rider enters the battlefield or dies, exile target permanent.

One offering to appease her on her arrival. Another to celebrate her departure.

Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

Planeswalker - Ashiok (Loyalty: 3)

+2: Exile the top three cards of target opponent's library.

-X: Put a creature card with converted mana cost X exiled with Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a Nightmare in addition to its other types.

-10: Exile all cards from all opponents' hands and graveyards.

Battlewise Hoplite

Creature - Human Soldier

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Battlewise Hoplite, put a +1/+1 counter on Battlewise Hoplite, then 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.)