Academy Raider

Creature - Human Warrior

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Whenever Academy Raider deals combat damage to a player, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Accorder's Shield

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)

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

An Auriok shield is polished to a mirror finish even on the inside, enabling its bearer to watch foes ahead and behind.

Accursed Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Many have heard the slither of dragging armor and the soft squelch of its voice. But only its victims ever meet its icy gaze.

Act of Treason

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

"Rage courses in every heart, yearning to betray its rational prison."
-Sarkhan Vol

Advocate of the Beast

Creature - Elf Shaman

At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on target Beast creature you control.

"I am neither their drover nor their leader. To these majestic beasts, I am simply their herdmate and nothing more."

Air Servant

Creature - Elemental

Flying

: Tap target creature with flying.

"Wind is forceful, yet ephemeral. It can knock a dragon out of the sky, yet pass through the smallest crack unhindered."
-Jestus Dreya, Of Elements and Eternity

Ajani's Chosen

Creature - Cat Soldier

Whenever an enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, put a 2/2 white Cat creature token onto the battlefield. If that enchantment is an Aura, you may attach it to the token.

"United, our roar will level mountains."

Ajani, Caller of the Pride

Planeswalker - Ajani (Loyalty: 4)

+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature.

−3: Target creature gains flying and double strike until end of turn.

−8: Put X 2/2 white Cat creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is your life total.

Altar's Reap

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Altar's Reap, sacrifice a creature.

Draw two cards.

"The demons don't care if we mutter niceties and act out ceremonies. Just kill him."
-Bishop Volpaig, servant of Griselbrand

Angelic Accord

Enchantment

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 4 or more life this turn, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

As demons are drawn to suffering, angels are drawn to acts of benevolence.

Angelic Wall

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Flying

"The air stirred as if fanned by angels' wings, and the enemy was turned aside."
-Tales of Ikarov the Voyager

Archaeomancer

Creature - Human Wizard

When Archaeomancer enters the battlefield, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Words of power never disappear. They sleep, awaiting those with the will to rouse them."

Archangel of Thune

Creature - Angel

Flying

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

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Even the wicked have nightmares.

Armored Cancrix

Creature - Crab

Creatures displaced from time still turn up every year, stranded by the temporal disaster that once swept across Dominaria.

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

Auramancer

Creature - Human Wizard

When Auramancer enters the battlefield, you may return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

"In memories, we can find our deepest reserves of strength."

Awaken the Ancient

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant Mountain

Enchanted Mountain is a 7/7 red Giant creature with haste. It's still a land.

Some days you stand to greet the horizon. Other days the horizon stands to greet you.

Banisher Priest

Creature - Human Cleric

When Banisher Priest enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until Banisher Priest leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

"Oathbreaker, I cast you out!"

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.

Battle Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control get +2/+0.

"One emitted a strange series of buzzing clicks and guttural commands, then clawed arms emerged from all of them. Is there no limit to their adaptations?"-Hastric, Thunian scout

Blessing

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

: Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Blightcaster

Creature - Human Wizard

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may have target creature get -2/-2 until end of turn.

"Your flesh is unprepared for my gifts."

Blood Bairn

Creature - Vampire

Sacrifice another creature: Blood Bairn gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

The travelers were warned to watch out for children on the road.

Blur Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have haste. (They can attack and as soon as they come under your control.)

They move in a synchronized swarm, turning entire squads into heaps of bloody rags and bones in an instant.

Bogbrew Witch

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Search your library for a card named Festering Newt or Bubbling Cauldron, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

"The hardest thing is finding the right ingredients."

Bonescythe Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have double strike. (They deal both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

"Their appendages are sharper than our swords and quicker than our bows."-Hastric, Thunian scout

Bramblecrush

Sorcery

Destroy target noncreature permanent.

"Civilization is fertilizer."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

Brave the Elements

Instant

Choose a color. White creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn. (They can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything of that color.)

"Trust me, your lost fingers and toes are nothing compared to the lost treasures of Sejiri."
-Zahr Gada, Halimar expedition leader

Briarpack Alpha

Creature - Wolf

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

When Briarpack Alpha enters the battlefield, target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"The wolves turned on us and a chill swept over me. The pack had a new leader."
-Alena, trapper of Kessig

Brindle Boar

Creature - Boar

Sacrifice Brindle Boar: You gain 4 life.

"Tell the cooks to prepare the fires. Tonight we feast!"
-Tolar Wolfbrother, Krosan tracker

Bubbling Cauldron

Artifact

, , Sacrifice a creature: You gain 4 life.

, , Sacrifice a creature named Festering Newt: Each opponent loses 4 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Burning Earth

Enchantment

Whenever a player taps a nonbasic land for mana, Burning Earth deals 1 damage to that player.

"Your world is formed from the same power that wraps my burning hand around your throat."-Shrazik, lavamancer

Cancel

Instant

Counter target spell.

Canyon Minotaur

Creature - Minotaur Warrior

"We'll scale these cliffs, traverse Brittle Bridge, and then fight our way down the volcanic slopes on the other side."
"Isn't the shortest route through the canyon?"
"Yes."
"So shouldn't we-"
"No."

Capashen Knight

Creature - Human Knight

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

: Capashen Knight gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Few warriors dare to challenge a knight of Capashen. Should one do so, there is one fewer.

Celestial Flare

Instant

Target player sacrifices an attacking or blocking creature.

"You were defeated the moment you declared your aggression."-Gideon Jura

Chandra's Outrage

Instant

Chandra's Outrage deals 4 damage to target creature and 2 damage to that creature's controller.

Chandra never believed in using her "inside voice."

Chandra's Phoenix

Creature - Phoenix

Flying

Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

Whenever an opponent is dealt damage by a red instant or sorcery spell you control or by a red planeswalker you control, return Chandra's Phoenix from your graveyard to your hand.

Chandra, Pyromaster

Planeswalker - Chandra (Loyalty: 4)

+1: Chandra, Pyromaster deals 1 damage to target player and 1 damage to up to one target creature that player controls. That creature can't block this turn.

0: Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn.

−7: Exile the top ten cards of your library. Choose an instant or sorcery card exiled this way and copy it three times. You may cast the copies without paying their mana costs.

Charging Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

Whenever Charging Griffin attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Four claws, two wings, one beak, no fear.

Child of Night

Creature - Vampire

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

Sins that would be too gruesome in the light of day are made more pleasing in the dark of night.

Claustrophobia

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Claustrophobia enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Six feet of earth muffled his cries.

Clone

Creature - Shapeshifter

You may have Clone enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

One face, two minds.

Colossal Whale

Creature - Whale

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Whenever Colossal Whale attacks, you may exile target creature defending player controls until Colossal Whale leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

Congregate

Instant

Target player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield.

"In the gathering there is strength for all who founder, renewal for all who languish, love for all who sing."
-Song of All, canto 642

Coral Merfolk

Creature - Merfolk

Merfolk are best known for their subtle magic. But those who try to fight them in their own territory quickly realize that merfolk are hardly defenseless on the field of battle.

Corpse Hauler

Creature - Human Rogue

, Sacrifice Corpse Hauler: Return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"He expects a reward, but the only piece of silver he'll get from me is my blade in his gut."-Shelac, necromancer

Corrupt

Sorcery

Corrupt deals damage equal to the number of Swamps you control to target creature or player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

The power of the fens sleeps lightly, and always awakens hungry.

Cyclops Tyrant

Creature - Cyclops

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Cyclops Tyrant can't block creatures with power 2 or less.

A single eye, blinded by rage.

Dark Favor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Dark Favor enters the battlefield, you lose 1 life.

Enchanted creature gets +3/+1.

When he began to curse what he held holy, his strength grew unrivaled.

Dark Prophecy

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

When the bog ran short on small animals, Ekri turned to the surrounding farmlands.

Darksteel Forge

Artifact

Artifacts you control have indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them. Artifact creatures with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

"Did it have this shape upon Mirrodin's creation, or did some inconceivable force shape the unshapable?"
-Pontifex, elder researcher

Darksteel Ingot

Artifact

Indestructible

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

Dawnstrike Paladin

Creature - Human Knight

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

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

She crushes darkness beneath her charger's hooves.

Deadly Recluse

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

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

Even dragons fear its silken strands.

Deathgaze Cockatrice

Creature - Cockatrice

Flying

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

"Sometimes I come across a stone finger or foot and I know I'm in cockatrice territory."-Rulak, bog guide

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

Devout Invocation

Sorcery

Tap any number of untapped creatures you control. Put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield for each creature tapped this way.

A prayer to bring demons to their knees.

Diabolic Tutor

Sorcery

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

Dismiss into Dream

Enchantment

Each creature your opponents control is an Illusion in addition to its other types and has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

"You trust in the shadows of a breeze."-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Disperse

Instant

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Most casualties of the power struggle between vedalken and Neurok didn't die on the field of battle; they merely disappeared.

Divination

Sorcery

Draw two cards.

"The key to unlocking this puzzle is within you."
-Doriel, mentor of Mistral Isle

Divine Favor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Divine Favor enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.

With an armory of light, even the squire may champion her people.

Domestication

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

At the beginning of your end step, if enchanted creature's power is 4 or greater, sacrifice Domestication.

Doom Blade

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Door of Destinies

Artifact

As Door of Destinies enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on Door of Destinies.

Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on Door of Destinies.

Dragon Egg

Creature - Dragon

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

When Dragon Egg dies, put a 2/2 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield. It has ": This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Dragon birth lairs are littered with treasure to entice the young from their eggs.

Dragon Hatchling

Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Dragon Hatchling gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Those dragons grow fast. For a while they feed on squirrels and goblins and then suddenly you're missing a mammoth."
-Hurdek, Mazar mammoth trainer

Duress

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one."
-Liliana Vess

Elite Arcanist

Creature - Human Wizard

When Elite Arcanist enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant card from your hand.

, : Copy the exiled card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. X is the converted mana cost of the exiled card.

Elixir of Immortality

Artifact

, : You gain 5 life. Shuffle Elixir of Immortality and your graveyard into their owner's library.

"Bottled life. Not as tasty as I'm used to, rather stale, but it has the same effect."
-Baron Sengir

Elvish Mystic

Creature - Elf Druid

: Add to your mana pool.

"Life grows everywhere. My kin merely find those places where it grows strongest."-Nissa Revane

Encroaching Wastes

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Encroaching Wastes: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Every world is a work in progress, constantly reshaped by time, disasters, and even the powerful magic of Planeswalkers.

Enlarge

Sorcery

Target creature gets +7/+7 and gains trample until end of turn. It must be blocked this turn if able. (If a creature with trample would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

Essence Scatter

Instant

Counter target creature spell.

"What you attempt to pull from the Æther, I can spread onto the wind."
-Jace Beleren

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.

Fiendslayer Paladin

Creature - Human Knight

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

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

Fiendslayer Paladin can't be the target of black or red spells your opponents control.

Fireshrieker

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

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

Flames of the Firebrand

Sorcery

Flames of the Firebrand deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures and/or players.

"You're in luck. I brought enough to share."
-Chandra Nalaar

Fleshpulper Giant

Creature - Giant

When Fleshpulper Giant enters the battlefield, you may destroy target creature with toughness 2 or less.

He doesn't hate small folk. He just likes the squishing sound they make.

Fog

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"I fear no army or beast, but only the morning fog. Our assault can survive everything else."
-Lord Hilneth

Forest

Basic Land - Forest

(: Add to your mana pool.)

Fortify

Instant

Choose one - Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn; or creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

"Where metal is tainted and wood is scarce, we are best armed by faith."
-Tavalus, acolyte of Korlis

Frost Breath

Instant

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step.

If you have to be stuck somewhere for a while, it's better to be stuck there with a friend.

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.

Garruk's Horde

Creature - Beast

Trample

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

You may cast the top card of your library if it's a creature card. (Do this only any time you could cast that creature card. You still pay the spell's costs.)

Garruk, Caller of Beasts

Planeswalker - Garruk (Loyalty: 4)

+1: Reveal the top five cards of your library. Put all creature cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

−3: You may put a green creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may search your library for a creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library."

Giant Growth

Instant

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

"The prohibition of unnecessary tossing of the citizenry by giants shall also extend to spontaneous giants."
-Isperia's Edict, provision VII.789.2

Giant Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"The wild is always changing, but it does have a few constants."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

Gladecover Scout

Creature - Elf Scout

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

"The forest is my cover and I hold it close. In such a tight embrace, there is no room for wickedness."

Glimpse the Future

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"No simple coin toss can solve this riddle. You must think and choose wisely."-Shai Fusan, archmage

Gnawing Zombie

Creature - Zombie

, Sacrifice a creature: Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

On still nights you can hear its rotted teeth grinding tirelessly on scavenged bones.

Goblin Diplomats

Creature - Goblin

: Each creature attacks this turn if able.

When you need to convey that special kind of message.

Goblin Shortcutter

Creature - Goblin Scout

When Goblin Shortcutter enters the battlefield, target creature can't block this turn.

"Goblins are cheap, but be careful. It's a lot easier to steal from a corpse than a customer."
-Samila, Murasa Expeditionary House

Griffin Sentinel

Creature - Griffin

Flying

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

Once a griffin sentinel adopts a territory as its own, only death can force it to betray its post.

Grim Return

Instant

Choose target creature card in a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

The necromancer's touch strips away memory and loyalty, and only strength and malice remain.

Groundshaker Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have trample. (If a Sliver you control would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

Guardian of the Ages

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

When a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, if Guardian of the Ages has defender, it loses defender and gains trample.

"At my feet, invasions end."-Statue inscription

Haunted Plate Mail

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+4.

: Until end of turn, Haunted Plate Mail becomes a 4/4 Spirit artifact creature that's no longer an Equipment. Activate this ability only if you control no creatures.

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

Hive Stirrings

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 colorless Sliver creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Sliver young are sorted into clutches according to their potential and their future role. Human scholars can only guess how those are determined.