Ruination Guide

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of his or her library.)

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

Spell Shrivel

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Halimar Tidecaller

Creature - Human Wizard Ally

When Halimar Tidecaller enters the battlefield, you may return target card with awaken from your graveyard to your hand.

Land creatures you control have flying.

"Quiet the waves? Why would I want to do that?"

Retreat to Coralhelm

Enchantment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, choose one -

• You may tap or untap target creature.

• Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Scatter to the Winds

Instant

Counter target spell.

Awaken 3- (If you cast this spell for , also put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Complete Disregard

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Exile target creature with power 3 or less.

"We returned to the field and found poor Len, every detail of his final moment perfectly cast in that awful dust."-Javad Nasrin, outrider captain

Dominator Drone

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of his or her library.)

When Dominator Drone enters the battlefield, if you control another colorless creature, each opponent loses 2 life.

Grave Birthing

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target opponent exiles a card from his or her graveyard. You put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Draw a card.

Swarm Surge

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. Colorless creatures you control also gain first strike until end of turn.

The Eldrazi rampaged across Zendikar in a tide of chittering, heaving flesh.

Wasteland Strangler

Creature - Eldrazi Processor

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When Wasteland Strangler enters the battlefield, you may put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard. If you do, target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

Drana, Liberator of Malakir

Legendary Creature - Vampire Ally

Flying, first strike

Whenever Drana, Liberator of Malakir deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.

"I will not live as a slave. If you would be free, then fight alongside me."

Hagra Sharpshooter

Creature - Human Assassin Ally

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

"It's hard to find their weak points, but I very much enjoy the discovery process."

Malakir Familiar

Creature - Bat

Flying, deathtouch

Whenever you gain life, Malakir Familiar gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"They are deadly, and they are loyal. We can spare them a little blood."-Harak, Malakir bloodwitch

Nirkana Assassin

Creature - Vampire Assassin Ally

Whenever you gain life, Nirkana Assassin gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Nirkana assassins craft incurable concoctions by mixing basilisk marrow and deathwillow sap with the vital fluids of a dozen other poisonous species.

Painful Truths

Sorcery

Converge - You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast Painful Truths.

As the Eldrazi spread, no secret that could give Zendikar's defenders an advantage was considered too dangerous to seek.

Retreat to Hagra

Enchantment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, choose one -

• Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

• Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Ruinous Path

Sorcery

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Awaken 4- (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Voracious Null

Creature - Zombie

, Sacrifice another creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on Voracious Null. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

"These days, there's no shortage of food for the nulls of Guul Draz."-Drana, Kalastria bloodchief

Molten Nursery

Enchantment

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Whenever you cast a colorless spell, Molten Nursery deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

"Some detours just aren't worth it."-Raff Slugeater, goblin shortcutter

Nettle Drone

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

: Nettle Drone deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Whenever you cast a colorless spell, untap Nettle Drone.

Touch of the Void

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Touch of the Void deals 3 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Some wounds never heal.

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.)

Firemantle Mage

Creature - Human Shaman Ally

Rally - Whenever Firemantle Mage or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, creatures you control gain menace until end of turn. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"Come on, you twisted things! Don't you want to get acquainted?"

Radiant Flames

Sorcery

Converge - Radiant Flames deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast Radiant Flames.

The fires of Zendikar are always hungry, and there is much on which they can feed.

Retreat to Valakut

Enchantment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, choose one -

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

• Target creature can't block this turn.

Tunneling Geopede

Creature - Insect

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Tunneling Geopede deals 1 damage to each opponent.

As Ulamog's brood reduces the earth to dust, geopedes burst from their tunnels in search of solid ground.

Valakut Invoker

Creature - Human Shaman

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

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

Valakut Predator

Creature - Elemental

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

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

Call the Scions

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Put two 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Ulamog's progeny swarm the land, draining Zendikar's mana to feed the titan's insatiable hunger.

Unnatural Aggression

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

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

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

Void Attendant

Creature - Eldrazi Processor

Devoid (This card has no color.)

, Put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard: Put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

The Eldrazi don't merely extinguish life-they supplant it.

Lifespring Druid

Creature - Elf Druid

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

"The land is not dead, merely sick. I will nurse it back to health."

Natural Connection

Instant

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

"Zendikar will not surrender, and neither can we."

Retreat to Kazandu

Enchantment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, choose one -

• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

• You gain 2 life.

Tajuru Stalwart

Creature - Elf Scout Ally

Converge - Tajuru Stalwart enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.

"In its time of hardship, all of Zendikar cries out in pain. Are you listening?"

Undergrowth Champion

Creature - Elemental

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

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

Catacomb Sifter

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When Catacomb Sifter enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Whenever another creature you control dies, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Herald of Kozilek

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Colorless spells you cast cost less to cast.

"Some Eldrazi, their purpose is obvious: suck the life out of the land, birth new Eldrazi. Others aren't so obvious, and those are the ones that make me really nervous."-Chadir the Navigator

Drana's Emissary

Creature - Vampire Cleric Ally

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"The taste of freedom is sweeter than blood."

Roil Spout

Sorcery

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

Awaken 4- (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)