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Snapcaster Mage
Flash
When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
illus. Ryan Alexander Lee # 071/254
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse." —Lord Windgrace
illus. Jung Park # 254/254
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
This spell can’t be countered.
When you cast this spell, take an extra turn after this one.
Flying, protection from colored spells, annihilator 6
When Emrakul, the Aeons Torn is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.
illus. Mark Tedin # 004/254
Karn Liberated
+4: Target player exiles a card from their hand.
−3: Exile target permanent.
−14: Restart the game, leaving in exile all non-Aura permanent cards exiled with Karn Liberated. Then put those cards onto the battlefield under your control.
illus. Jason Chan # 005/254
Stirring Wildwood
Stirring Wildwood enters the battlefield tapped.
: Until end of turn, Stirring Wildwood becomes a 3/4 green and white Elemental creature with reach. It's still a land.
illus. Eric Deschamps # 251/254
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
When you cast this spell, draw four cards.
Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents.)
When Kozilek, Butcher of Truth is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.
illus. Michael Komarck # 006/254
Raging Ravine
: Add or .
: Until end of turn, Raging Ravine becomes a 3/3 red and green Elemental creature with "Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it." It's still a land.
illus. Todd Lockwood # 249/254
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent.
Indestructible
Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents.)
When Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.
illus. Aleksi Briclot # 007/254
Temporal Manipulation
Take an extra turn after this one.
Doing something at the last minute isn’t so bad when you can make that minute last.
illus. Franz Vohwinkel # 077/254
Bitterblossom
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.
In Lorwyn’s brief evenings, the sun pauses at the horizon long enough for a certain species of violet to bloom with the fragrance of mischief.
illus. Jesper Ejsing # 085/254
Demonic Tutor
Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
Beware the generosity of demons.
illus. Zack Stella # 093/254
Goryo's Vengeance
Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Splice onto Arcane (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.)
illus. Randy Vargas # 099/254
Lavaclaw Reaches
Lavaclaw Reaches enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add or .
: Until end of turn, Lavaclaw Reaches becomes a 2/2 black and red Elemental creature with "Variable Colorless: This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn." It's still a land.
illus. Véronique Meignaud # 245/254
Liliana of the Veil
+1: Each player discards a card.
−2: Target player sacrifices a creature.
−6: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of their choice.
illus. Steve Argyle # 104/254
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
Intimidate
Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it.
Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying 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.)
illus. Chris Rahn # 106/254
Reanimate
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost.
"You'd better be worth it." —Liliana Vess
illus. Johann Bodin # 110/254
Tasigur, the Golden Fang
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)
: Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard, then return a nonland card of an opponent’s choice from your graveyard to your hand.
illus. Igor Kieryluk # 117/254
Karakas
: Add .
: Return target legendary creature to its owner's hand.
illus. Drew Baker # 244/254
Dark Depths
Dark Depths enters the battlefield with ten ice counters on it.
: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths.
When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible named Marit Lage.
illus. Mathias Kollros # 241/254
Creeping Tar Pit
Creeping Tar Pit enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add or .
: Creeping Tar Pit becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. It's still a land.
illus. Jason Felix # 239/254
Celestial Colonnade
Celestial Colonnade enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add or .
: Until end of turn, Celestial Colonnade becomes a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature with flying and vigilance. It's still a land.
illus. Celestial Colonnade # 238/254
Cavern of Souls
As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
: Add
: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.
illus. Richard Wright # 237/254
Ancient Tomb
: Add to your mana pool. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.
There is no glory to be gained in the kingdom of the dead. —Vec tomb inscription
illus. Yeong-Hao Han # 236/254
Mana Vault
Mana Vault doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap Mana Vault.
At the beginning of your draw step, if Mana Vault is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
Tap: Add .
illus. Christine Choi # 229/254
Platinum Emperion
Your life total can't change.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death.
illus. Igor Kieryluk # 233/254
Engineered Explosives
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)
, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.
illus. Lars Grant-West # 227/254
Kitchen Finks
When Kitchen Finks enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.
Persist (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.)
Accept one favor from an ouphe, and you're doomed to accept another.
illus. Kev Walker # 216/254
Fulminator Mage
Sacrifice Fulminator Mage: Destroy target nonbasic land.
"Burn, suffer, and trouble me no more."
illus. Lucas Graciano # 215/254
Sigarda, Host of Herons
Flying, hexproof
Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause you to sacrifice permanents.
Great devotion yields great reward.
illus. Chris Rahn # 206/254
Maelstrom Pulse
Destroy target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.
During the collision of the shards, entire ways of life disappeared without a trace.
illus. John Avon # 204/254
Lord of Extinction
Lord of Extinction's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in all graveyards.
The forlorn cries of the dead combine to make its laugh.
illus. Izzy # 203/254
Leovold, Emmisary of Trest
Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn.
Whenever you or a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card.
"I'm sure we can come to an arrangement."
illus. Magali Villeneuve # 202/254
Gaddock Teeg
Noncreature spells with converted mana cost 4 or greater can't be cast.
Noncreature spells with Variable Colorless in their mana costs can't be cast.
So great is his wisdom and spirit that many who have met him say that they stood before a giant of a man and talked to the wisest of the four winds.
illus. Greg Staples # 199/254
Vengevine
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.
illus. Raymond Swanland # 189/254
Tarmogoyf
Tarmogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.
What doesn't grow, dies. And what dies grows the tarmogoyf.
illus. Filip Burburan # 187/254
Noble Hierarch
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
: Add , , or .
She protects the sacred groves from blight, drought, and the Unbeholden.
illus. Mark Zug # 174/254
Life from the Loam
Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
illus. Sung Choi # 172/254
Eternal Witness
When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.
illus. Chris Rahn # 163/254
Through the Breach
You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.
Splice onto Arcane (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.)
illus. Randy Vargas # 152/254
Balefire Dragon
Flying
Whenever Balefire Dragon deals combat damage to a player, it deals that much damage to each creature that player controls.
If it comes for you, die boldly or die swiftly—for die you will.
illus. Eric Deschamps # 124/254
Entomb
Search your library for a card and put that card into your graveyard. Then shuffle your library.
"I'll return once you've ripened." —Ghoulcaller Gisa
illus. Seb McKinnon # 84/254
Martyr of Sands
, Reveal X white cards from your hand, Sacrifice Martyr of Sands: You gain three times X life.
“Only in our vulnerability is there true power, and that power is life itself.”
illus. Randy Gallegos # 25/254
Gamble
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle your library.
"STUFF AND SUNDRIES AND MUNITIONS" - Breeches, gunner of the Belligerent
illus. Even Amunnen # 132/254
Phyrexian Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.
"Unskin these impure bodies, Great Yawgmoth, that the flesh may welcome your blessings." —Phyrexian Scriptures
illus. Yigit Koroglu # 232/254
Squee, Goblin Nabob
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return Squee, Goblin Nabob from your graveyard to your hand.
"If Yawgmoth ever meant Squee's immortality as a curse, no one ever told Squee." —Karn
illus. Greg Staples # 150/254
Fecundity
Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller may draw a card.
Life is eternal. A lifetime is ephemeral.
illus. Terese Nielsen # 165/254
Vexing Devil
When Vexing Devil enters the battlefield, any opponent may have it deal 4 damage to them. If a player does, sacrifice Vexing Devil.
It's not any fun until someone loses an eye.
illus. Lucas Graciano # 154/254
Glen Elendra Archmage
Flying
, Sacrifice Glen Elendra Archmage: Counter target noncreature spell.
Persist (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.)
illus. Karl Kopinski # 058/254
Wall of Reverence
Defender, flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.
The lives of elves are long, but their memories are longer. Even after death, they do not desert their homes.
illus. Wayne Reynolds # 41/254
Fire//Ice
Fire deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets.
Tap target permanent.
Draw a card.
illus. Dan Scott # 225/254
Eldrazi Conscription
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +10/+10 and has trample and annihilator 2. (Whenever it attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents.)
The barest taste of Eldrazi power shatters both realms and identities.
illus. Jaime Jones # 003/254
Visions of Beyond
Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.
"The past is the foundation for all that exists in the present. We merely reconstruct what our ancestors have already discovered." —Sachimir, Sage of Memories
illus. Terese Neilsen # 81/254
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker
Whenever a creature with power 1 or less is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may return that card to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step if Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker is still on the battlefield.
illus. Wayne Reynolds # 112/254
All is Dust
Each player sacrifices all colored permanents they control.
"The emergence of the Eldrazi isn't necessarily a bad thing, as long as you've already lived a fulfilling and complete life without regrets." —Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter
illus. Jason Felix # 1/254
Treasure Cruise
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)
Draw three cards.
Countless delights drift on the surface while dark schemes run below.
illus. Cythia Sheppard # 79/254
Gurmag Angler
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
If everything in the Gurmag Swamp hungers for human flesh, what bait could be more effective?
illus. Cynthia Sheppard # 102/254
Phyrexian Tower
: Add .
, Sacrifice a creature: Add
"Yawgmoth is dead, and his citadels lie empty. But there will always be some who seek power at any price." —Karn
illus. Dimitar Marinski # 248/254
Faithless Looting
Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
"Avacyn has abandoned us! We have nothing left except what we can take!"
illus. Gabor Szikszai # 128/254
Wild Mongrel
Discard a card: Wild Mongrel gets +1/+1 and becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.
It teaches you o play dead.
illus. Anthony S. Waters # 194/254
Reckless Wurm
Trample
Madness (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Bred for battle in the Grand Coliseum, these wurms annihilated whole ecosystems when released into the wild.
illus. Greg Staples # 144/254
Runed Halo
As Runed Halo enters the battlefield, choose a card name.
You have protection from the chosen name. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything with that name.)
illus. Steve Prescott # 34/254
Rune Snag
Counter target spell unless its controller pays (2) plus an additional (2) for each card named Rune Snag in each graveyard.
"Concentration is key. Without it, a mage conjures nothing but a splitting headache." —Zur the Enchanter
illus. Dave Dorman # 68/254
Seismic Assault
Discard a land card: Seismic Assault deals 2 damage to any target.
"In the war for survival, Dominaria itself became a weapon. The malice is gone, but the danger remains." —Jhoira
illus. Adam Paquette # 146/254
Back to Basics
Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
"A ruler wears a crown while the rest of us wear hats, but which would you rather have when it's raining?" —Barrin, Principia
illus. Terese Nielsen # 46/254
Nourishing Shoalx
You may exile a green card with converted mana cost X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
You gain X life.
illus. Greg Staples # 175/254
Become Immense
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)
Target creature gets +6/+6 until end of turn.
illus. Jaime Jones # 157/254
Nourishing Shoal
You may exile a green card with converted mana cost X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
You gain X life.
illus. Greg Staples # 175/254
Frantic Search
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
It took the banning of temporal manipulation at Tolaria West to teach its students the value of time.
illus. Frantic Search # 57/254
Golgari Grave-Troll
Golgari Grave-Troll enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Golgari Grave-Troll: Regenerate Golgari Grave-Troll.
Dredge 6
illus. Jakub Kasper # 167/254
Resurrection
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
illus. Michael Komarck # 30/254
Sigil of the New Dawn
Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return that card to your hand.
"We lay our dead to rest in a beautiful bed, in hopes that the Ancestor will think it a fit cradle for the next life." —Mystic elder
illus. Volkan Baga # 35/254
Talrand, Sky Summoner
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.
"The seas are vast, but the skies are even more so. Why be content with one kingdom when I can rule them both?"
illus. Svetlin Velinov # 76/254
Magus of the Bazaar
: Draw two cards, then discard three cards.
"Some trade in goods, some in secrets. My soul has walked the futures, and I offer the rare coin of possibility."
illus. Rob Alexander # 63/254
Circular Logic
Counter target spell unless its controller pays for each card in your graveyard.
Madness [i](If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)[/i]
illus. Anthony S. Waters # 47/254
Chainer's Edict
Target player sacrifices a creature.
Flashback 5BlackBlack (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
illus. Mark Zug # 89/254
Foil
You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.
Among wizards, poor timing is the most consistent mistake.
illus. Donato Giancola # 55/254
Fiery Temper
Fiery Temper deals 3 damage to any target.
Madness [i](If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)[/i]
"Let the flames ignore the sinless."
illus. Johannes Voss # 128/254
flagstones of Trokair
: Add .
When Flagstones of Trokair is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Dust-spiked winds eroded the stones, but the ground where they had stood holds power.
illus. Rob Alexander # 243/254
Laboratory Maniac
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
His mind whirled with grand plans, never thinking of what might happen if he were to succeed.
illus. Jason Felix # 61/254
Living Lore
As Living Lore enters the battlefield, exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard.
Living Lore's power and toughness are each equal to the exiled card's converted mana cost.
Whenever Living Lore deals combat damage, you may sacrifice it. If you do, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
illus. Jason Felix # 62/254
Firewing Pheonix
: Return Firewing Phoenix from your graveyard to your hand.
"When a phoenix nests in a volcano, we rejoice, for it means a hundred years of war." —Golmak, Keldon warlord
illus. James Paick # 130/254
Magmaw
, Sacrifice a nonland permanent: Magmaw deals 1 damage to any target.
"The purpose of existence is simple: everything is fuel for the magmaw." —Jaji, magmaw worshipper
illus. Karl Kopinski # 138/254
Hero of Leina Tower
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Hero of Leina Tower, you may pay . If you do, put X +1/+1 counters on Hero of Leina Tower.
"You cannot achieve greatness if its seed has not already been planted in your heart."
illus. Aaron Miller # 169/254
Travel Preparations
Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.
Flashback 1White (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Visiting a shrine at the start of a journey makes the traveler more likely to finish it.
illus. Vincent Proce # 188/254
Tethmos High Priest
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Tethmos High Priest, return target creature card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
"Death is tyranny. Like all tyranny, it must be opposed."
illus. Mark Zug # 40/254
Miming Slime
Create an X/X green Ooze creature token, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
:"We paid the Simic very well for this capability, but we should quickly recoup our expenses in saved wages." —Milana, Orzhov prelate
illus. Svetlin Velinov # 173/254
Slum Reaper
When Slum Reaper enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature.
It's sent into the unguilded districts by the Orzhov to collect the souls of those no one will miss.
illus. Karl Kopinski # 114/254
Dimir Guildmage
: Target player draws a card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
: Target player discards a card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
illus. Adam Rex # 213/254
Sovereigns of Lost Alara
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, you may search your library for an Aura card that could enchant that creature, put it onto the battlefield attached to that creature, then shuffle your library.
illus. Donato Giancola # 207/254
Containment Priest
Flash
If a nontoken creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
Some protection requires a bit of finesse.
illus. John Stanko # 11/254
Lava Spike
Lava Spike deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.
It's not the most subtle of incantations, but it gets the point across.
illus. Igor Kieryluk # 136/254
Sublime Archangel
Flying
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Other creatures you control have exalted. (If a creature has multiple instances of exalted, each triggers separately.)
illus. Cynthia Sheppard # 38/254
Bridge From Below
Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, if Bridge from Below is in your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
When a creature is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, if Bridge from Below is in your graveyard, exile Bridge from Below.
illus. Daarken # 87/254
Devoted Druid
: Add
Put a -1/-1 counter on Devoted Druid: Untap Devoted Druid.
"Mana lurks in all things, even in the depths of one's own heart."
illus. Kimonas Theodossiou # 162/254
Disrupting Shoal
You may exile a blue card with converted mana cost X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is X.
illus. Scott M. Fischer # 51/254
Slippery Bogle
Hexproof
"Ogle the bogle, or goggle the boggle? Doesn't matter. You weren't going to catch it anyway."
illus. Jesper Ejsing # 223/254
Daybreak Coronet
Enchant creature with another Aura attached to it
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has first strike, vigilance, and lifelink.
"Let the deception of the gods yield to the pure light of day." —Brimaz, king of Oreskos
illus. Johannes Voss # 14/254
Hyena Umbra
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has first strike.
Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)
illus. Howard Lyon # 21/254
Heliod's Pilgrim
When Heliod's Pilgrim enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Aura card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
The blessings of Heliod are apparent for all to see.
illus. Izzy # 19/254
Angel of Despair
Flying
When Angel of Despair enters the battlefield, destroy target permanent.
"I feel in them a sense of duty and commitment, yet I can feel nothing else. It is as if their duty is to an empty void." —Razia, Boros archangel
illus. Todd Lockwood # 196/254
Dig Through Time
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
illus. Ryan Yee # 50/254
Spoils of the Vault
Choose a card name. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with that name, then put that card into your hand. Exile all other cards revealed this way, and you lose 1 life for each of the exiled cards.
illus. Steven Belledin # 116/254
Apprentice Necromancer
, , Sacrifice Apprentice Necromancer: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.
A mage willing to dedicate his life to his craft.
illus. Randy Vargas # 84/254
Reya Dawnbringer
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
"You have not died until I consent."
illus. Matthew D Wilson # 33/254
Fauna Shaman
, , Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
She wears the talismans of every creature she can evoke.
illus. Steve Prescott # 164/254
Thespian's Stage
: Add .
, : Thespian's Stage becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.
Amid rumors of war, the third act of *The Absolution of the Guildpact* was quickly rewritten as a tragedy.
illus. John Avon # 253/254
Reveillark
Flying
When Reveillark leaves the battlefield, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)
illus. Jim Murray # 31/254
Woodfall Primus
Trample
When Woodfall Primus enters the battlefield, destroy target noncreature permanent.
Persist (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.)
illus. Adam Rex # 195/254
Pattern of Rebirth
Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller may search their library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield. If that player does, they shuffle their library.
illus. Terese Nielsen # 176/254
Spider Umbra
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)
Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)
illus. Christopher Moeller # 184/254
Seize the Day
Untap target creature. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
illus. Greg Staples # 147/254
Desperate Ritual
Add RRR to your mana Pool
Splice onto Arcane 1R (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.)
illus. Wayne Reynolds # 127/254
Conflagrate
Conflagrate deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.
Flashback—, Discard X cards. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
illus. Warren Mahy # 126/254
Dakmor Salvage
Dakmor Salvage enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add .
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly two cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
illus. John Avon # 240/254
Ancestor's Chosen
First strike
When Ancestor's Chosen enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life for each card in your graveyard.
"The will of all, by my hand done."
illus. Pete Venters # 9/254
Angelic Renewal
Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may sacrifice Angelic Renewal. If you do, return that card to the battlefield.
Angels watch over mortals with heavy hearts, knowing what fate awaits them in the end.
illus. Rebecca Guay # 10/254
Conviction
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.
: Return Conviction to its owner's hand.
"There is no greater coward than one who believes in nothing."
illus. John Stanko # 12/254
Dawn Charm
Choose one —
• Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
• Regenerate target creature.
• Counter target spell that targets you.
illus. John Avon # 13/254
Emancipation Angel
Flying
When Emancipation Angel enters the battlefield, return a permanent you control to its owner's hand.
"You have done your best. I give you leave to rest."
illus. Scott Chou # 15/254
Faith's Fetters
Enchant permanent
When Faith's Fetters enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life.
Enchanted permanent can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.
illus. Kev Walker # 16/254
Fiend Hunter
When Fiend Hunter enters the battlefield, you may exile another target creature.
When Fiend Hunter leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
illus. Wayne Reynolds # 17/254
Gods Willing
Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Scry 1.
Honor the gods of Theros, and they will return the favor.
illus. Mark Winters # 18/254
Hero of Ioras
Aura spells you cast cost less to cast.
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Hero of Iroas, put a +1/+1 counter on Hero of Iroas.
"My left has felled a cyclops. My right has slain a giant. I bring both to every fight."
illus. William Murai # 20/254
Aethersnipe
When Aethersnipe enters the battlefield, return target nonland permanent to its owner’s hand.
Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it’s sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)
illus. Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai # 044/254
Archaeomancer
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.”
illus. Zoltan Boros # 045/254
Defy Gravity
Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
On every plane in the Multiverse, there is magic, and someone is using it to fly.
illus. Ben Thompson # 048/254
Icatian Crier
, , Discard a card: Create two 1/1 white Citizen creature tokens.
A thousand years removed from her home, her news of war had lost its context, but not its relevance.
illus. Michael Phillippi # 22/254
Deranged Assistant
, Put the top card of your library into your graveyard: Add .
“Garl, adjust the slurry dispensers. Garl, fetch more corpses. Garl, quit crying and give me your brain tissue. If he doesn’t stop being so rude, I’m quitting.”
illus. Nils Hamm # 049/254
Lotus-Eye Mystics
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
When Lotus-Eye Mystics enters the battlefield, return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.
Every action has a foreseen purpose.
illus. Dan Scott # 23/254
Dreamscape Artist
, , Discard a card, Sacrifice a land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.
He's mastered the art of sleight of land.
illus. Jim Murray # 052/254
Eel Umbra
Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)
illus. Howard Lyon # 053/254
Flight of Fancy
Enchant creature
When Flight of Fancy enters the battlefield, draw two cards.
Enchanted creature has flying.
The view from above is an inspiration to the newly winged.
illus. Glen Angus # 054/254
Mammoth Umbra
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has vigilance.
Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)
illus. Howard Lyon # 24/254
Forbidden Alchemy
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
illus. David Rapoza # 056/254
Miraculous Recovery
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter on it.
"I am the rock of the polis. Death only strengthens me."
illus. Mark Winters # 26/254
Phalanx Leader
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Phalanx Leader, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
His soldiers etch his words on the insides of their shields, their inspiration always in sight during battle.
illus. David Palumbo # 27/254
Rally the Peasants
Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
"If you must go out at night, bring a mob." —Master of the Elgaud Cathars
illus. Jaime Jones # 28/254
Repel the Darkness
Tap up to two target creatures.
Draw a card.
A boon to those who cannot see in the dark. A bane to those who live in it.
illus. Scott Chou # 29/254
Ronom Unicorn
Sacrifice Ronom Unicorn: Destroy target enchantment.
The aberrant magic of the Rimewind drew the unicorns back from the northern wastes to do battle once again.
illus. Carl Critchlow # 33/254
Skyspear Cavalry
Flying, double strike.
Pray her spear reaches you first. Her griffin is less kind.
illus. Wayne Reynolds # 36/254
Spirit Cairn
Whenever a player discards a card, you may pay . If you do, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
The most beautiful souls shine even in death.
illus. Noah Bradley # 37/254
Swift Reckoning
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, you may cast Swift Reckoning as though it had flash.
Destroy target tapped creature.
illus. Chris Rahn # 39/254
Iridescent Drake
Flying
When Iridescent Drake enters the battlefield, put target Aura card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control attached to Iridescent Drake.
illus. Donato Giancola # 059/254
Wandering Champion
Whenever Wandering Champion deals combat damage to a player, if you control a blue or red permanent, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
"Learn from your enemies, but do not tolerate them."
illus. William Murai # 42/254
Just the Wind
Return target creature to its owner’s hand.
Madness (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
"There's nothing to worry about."
illus. Christopher Moeller # 060/254
Mahamoti Djinn
Flying
Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.
illus. Greg Staples # 064/254
Wingsteed Rider
Flying
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Wingsteed Rider, put a +1/+1 counter on Wingsteed Rider.
Trust is the only bridle a pegasus will accept.
illus. Cynthia Sheppard # 43/254
Marang River Prowler
Marang River Prowler can’t block and can’t be blocked.
You may cast Marang River Prowler from your graveyard as long as you control a black or green permanent.
The currents of the Marang wash away both tracks and blood.
illus. Yefim Kligerman # 065/254
Mystic Retrieval
Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
illus. Scott Chou # 066/254
Rise from the Tides
Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
“Dear brother, it’s sweet that you have chosen to share your toys with Ludevic, but I too have found some new playmates.” —Ghoulcaller Gisa
illus. Dave Kendall # 067/254
Appetite for Brains
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it with converted mana cost 4 or greater and exile that card.
Just as with a peach, the first bite is always the juiciest.
illus. Michael C. Hayes # 83/254
Skywing Aven
Flying
Discard a card: Return Skywing Aven to its owner's hand.
“I am as the wind that bears me: harsh yet gentle, fleeting yet ever-present. Together we fly beyond imagination.”
illus. Matt Cavotta # 069/254
Sleight of Hand
Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.
“Gambling with mages never is.” —Remin, venerable monk
illus. Jim Murray # 070/254
Bloodflow Connoisseur
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodflow Connoisseur.
"Death not for survival but for vanity and pleasure? This is the decadence I sought to curb." —Sorin Markov
illus. Slawomir Maniak # 86/254
Stitched Drake
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard.
Flying
“The best skaabs are more powerful and more beautiful than the sum of their parts.” —Stitcher Geralf
illus. Chris Rahn # 072/254
Stitcher's Apprentice
, : Create a 2/2 blue Homunculus creature token, then sacrifice a creature.
“Oglor create life, Oglor take it away. Oglor god! … until Master return.”
illus. Johann Bodin # 073/254
Stream of Consciousness
Target player shuffles up to four target cards from their graveyard into their library.
“All things return to their beginnings. The waters that spill across the Kamitaki Falls flow to sea, only to be returned to her as the rain that joins the mighty river.” —Dosan the Falling Leaf
illus. John Avon # 074/254
Buried Alive
Search your library for up to three creature cards and put them into your graveyard. Then shuffle your library.
The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.
illus. Greg Staples # 88/254
Sultai Skullkeeper
When Sultai Skullkeeper enters the battlefield, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.
A skullkeeper is the first to arrive after the palace archers strike down intruders, probing their brains for choice bits of knowledge.
illus. Ryan Barger # 075/254
Think Twice
Draw a card.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
“Either I know just the spell I need, or I’m about to.”
illus. Anthony Francisco # 078/254
Crow of Dark Tidings
Flying
When Crow of Dark Tidings enters the battlefield or dies, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.
illus. Tianhua X # 90/254
Unstable Mutation
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature’s controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.
illus. Slawomir Maniak # 080/254
Whirlwind Adept
Hexproof
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
The Flowing Staff technique does not differentiate between offense and defense.
illus. Steve Argyle # 082/254
Dark Dabbling
Regenerate target creature. Draw a card.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, also regenerate each other creature you control.
illus. Bastien L. Deharme # 91/254
Akroan Crusader
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Akroan Crusader, create a 1/1 red Soldier creature token with haste.
An Akroan soldier’s worth is measured by the number of swords raised by his battle cry.
illus. Johann Bodin # 121/254
Anger
Haste
As long as Anger is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.
“Molten earth has no anger of its own. Only by infusing it with your own rage can the magma seethe and take shape.” —Koth of the Hammer
illus. Svetlin Velinov # 122/254
Arena Athlete
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.
illus. Jason Chan # 123/254
Death Denied
Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Takenuma was filled with a chorus of moans, shrieks, and wails. Some came from the living, some from the dying, and some, most horribly, from the dead.
illus. James Paick # 92/254
Brazen Scourge
Haste
Driven by an insatiable hunger, gremlins never cease feeding. They can destroy a lifetime of work in just a few moments.
illus. Kev Walker # 125/254
Fume Spitter
Sacrifice Fume Spitter: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
"Our archers made sport of it as it fumbled its way up the slag ridge. As it collapsed we thought ourselves safe, but the foul thing carried more than necrogen." —Adaran, Tangle hunter
illus. Nils Hamm # 95/254
Ghoulcaller's Accomplice
, Exile Ghoulcaller's Accomplice from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
"Once in the box, we're all the same."
illus. Dave Kendall # 96/254
Furnace Celebration
Whenever you sacrifice another permanent, you may pay . If you do, Furnace Celebration deals 2 damage to any target.
Nothing impresses goblins more than something that’s bound to kill them.
illus. Svetlin Velinov # 131/254
Generator Servant
, Sacrifice Generator Servant: Add . If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn.
Infinite potential given finite form.
illus. Mathias Kollros # 133/254
Ghoulsteed
, Discard two cards: Return Ghoulsteed from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
It once served a cathar roadwatcher, patrolling the crossways between villages. Its hooves still carry it along the same path.
illus. Jason Kang # 97/254
Hissing Iguanar
Whenever another creature dies, you may have Hissing Iguanar deal 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
It’s pretty cute—from a distance.
illus. Zoltan Boros # 134/254
Ingot Chewer
When Ingot Chewer enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact.
Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it’s sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)
Elementals are ideas given form. This one is the idea of “smashitude.”
illus. Kev Walker # 135/254
Golgari Thug
When Golgari Thug dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly four cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
illus. Johann Bodin # 98/254
Mad Prophet
Haste
, Discard a card: Draw a card.
“I have seen it. Seen the end, seen the beginning, the beginning of the end. Not death, no, no. Transcendence!”
illus. Iain McCaig # 137/254
Malevolent Whispers
Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gets +2/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.
Madness (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
illus. Greg Staples # 139/254
Molten Birth
Create two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens. Then flip a coin. If you win the flip, return Molten Birth to its owner’s hand.
“Few can coax the creatures within the magma to be cooled and take form.” —Koth of the Hammer
illus. Jaime Jones # 140/254
Grave Scrabbler
Madness (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
When Grave Scrabbler enters the battlefield, if its madness cost was paid, you may return target creature card from a graveyard to its owner's hand.
illus. Livia Prima # 100/254
Nightbird's Clutches
Up to two target creatures can’t block this turn.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Shiny polished silver can ward off many creatures, but it attracts others.
illus. Jason A. Engle # 141/254
Grave Strength
Choose target creature. Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard, then put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each creature card in your graveyard.
So long as death follows life, the supply lines of the Sultai will never be cut.
illus. Jeff Simpson # 101/254
Raid Bombardment
Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less attacks, Raid Bombardment deals 1 damage to the player or planeswalker that creature is attacking.
Goblins in the first wave of a fire raid always bemoan the aim of everyone else.
illus. Matt Cavotta # 142/254
Reckless Charge
Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
illus. Steve Argyle # 143/254
Last Gasp
Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
Takedowns in Valor's Reach are never meant to be lethal, but that doesn't mean they won't be incredibly painful.
illus. Jason A. Engle # 103/254
Rolling Temblor
Rolling Temblor deals 2 damage to each creature without flying.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
When demons open a path to your front door, it’s time to move.
illus. Cliff Childs # 145/254
Soul's Fire
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to any target.
An avatar he sculpts of anger and flame.
illus. Wayne Reynolds # 148/254
Sparkspitter
, , Discard a card: Create a 3/1 red Elemental creature token named Spark Elemental. It has trample, haste, and “At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Spark Elemental.”
illus. Dan Scott # 149/254
Mark of the Vampire
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has lifelink.
"My ‘condition' is a trial. The weak are consumed by it. The strong transcend it."—Sorin Markov
illus. Winona Nelson # 105/254
Thermo-Alchemist
Defender
: Thermo-Alchemist deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, untap Thermo-Alchemist.
“Madness can’t touch a mind ignited by genius.”
illus. Raymond Swanland # 151/254
Moan of the Unhallowed
Create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback 5BlackBlack (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
For a ghoul, every village is a buffet and every disaster is a reunion.
illus. Nils Hamm # 107/254
Undying Rage
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and can’t block.
When Undying Rage is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Undying Rage to its owner’s hand.
illus. Scott M. Fischer # 153/254
Young Pyromancer
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.
Immolation is the sincerest form of flattery.
illus. Cynthia Sheppard # 155/254
Offalsnout
Flash
When Offalsnout leaves the battlefield, exile target card from a graveyard.
Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)
illus. Lars Grant-West # 108/254
Basking Rootwalla
: Basking Rootwalla gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.
Madness (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
illus. Heather Hudson # 156/254
Olivia's Dragoon
Discard a card: Olivia's Dragoon gains flying until end of turn.
Displays of Voldaren bloodlust are not restricted to glamorous banquets and lavish parties.
illus. Chris Rallis # 109/254
Boar Umbra
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.
Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)
"From in here, everything looks like dinner."
illus. Christopher Moeller # 158/254
Sanitarium Skeleton
: Return Sanitarium Skeleton from your graveyard to your hand.
His mind was gone long before his flesh.
illus. Kev Walker # 111/254
Boneyard Wurm
Boneyard Wurm’s power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
The only thing it likes more than discovering a pit of bones is adding to it.
illus. Jaime Jones # 159/254
Brawn
Trample
As long as Brawn is in your graveyard and you control a Forest, creatures you control have trample.
“‘I have arrived,’ bellowed Brawn, and the plane shuddered.” —Scroll of Beginnings
illus. Matt Cavotta # 160/254
Shriekmaw
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When Shriekmaw enters the battlefield, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)
illus. Steve Prescott # 113/254
Songs of the Damned
Add for each creature card in your graveyard.
Not wind, but the breath of the dead.
illus. Robbie Trevino # 115/254
Crushing Canopy
Choose one —
• Destroy target creature with flying.
• Destroy target enchantment.
“Do not mistake your lofty vantage point for safety.” —Shaper Tuvasa
illus. Tomasz Jedruszek # 161/254
Golgari Brownscale
When Golgari Brownscale is put into your hand from your graveyard, you gain 2 life.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly two cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
illus. Carl Critchlow # 166/254
Groundskeeper
: Return target basic land card from your graveyard to your hand.
“While the church thinks in terms of legacies, others think in terms of eternities.”
illus. Anthony Palumbo # 168/254
Hooting Mandrills
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)
Trample
Interlopers in Sultai territory usually end up as crocodile chow or baboon bait.
illus. Mike Bierek # 170/254
Twins of Maurer Estate
Madness (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
"Children, where are your parents?" —Reig, wandering monk, last words
illus. Darek Zabrocki # 118/254
Kodama's Reach
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
“The land grows only where the kami will it.” —Dosan the Falling Leaf
illus. John Avon # 171/254
Unburial Rites
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
All crave the Blessed Sleep. Few receive it.
illus. Ryan Pancoast # 119/254
Penumbra Wurm
Trample
When Penumbra Wurm dies, create a 6/6 black Wurm creature token with trample.
Its ferocity cannot be contained in one lifetime.
illus. Daarken # 177/254
Unholy Hunger
Destroy target creature.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, you gain 2 life.
Liliana viewed the attention of the angels as a testament to her power. Even so, they were an annoyance.
illus. Lius Lasahido # 120/254
Prey Upon
Target creature you control fights target creature you don’t control.
“You don’t find many old werewolf hunters.” —Paulin, trapper of Somberwald
illus. Dave Kendall # 178/254
Pulse of Murasa
Return target creature or land card from a graveyard to its owner’s hand. You gain 6 life.
“Little flower twirl and bloom, arise from this your rocky tomb. Little warrior slash and brawl, be born again to free us all.”
illus. Matt Stewart # 179/254
Satyr Wayfinder
When Satyr Wayfinder enters the battlefield, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.
The first satyr to wake after a revel must search for the site of the next one.
illus. Steve Prescott # 180/254
Shed Weakness
Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You may remove a -1/-1 counter from it.
To prepare for the Trial of Strength, nagas shed their old skin—and with it their scars, their doubts, and their fears.
illus. Christine Choi # 181/254
Snake Umbra
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has “Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.”
Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)
illus. Christopher Moeller # 182/254
Spider Spawning
Create a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach for each creature card in your graveyard.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
illus. Daniel Ljunggren # 183/254
Staunch-Hearted 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.
illus. Greg Staples # 185/254
Stingerfling Spider
Reach
When Stingerfling Spider enters the battlefield, you may destroy target creature with flying.
The juiciest prey is that which grows lazy, thinking itself beyond the reach of danger.
illus. Dave Allsop # 186/254
Verdant Eidolon
, Sacrifice Verdant Eidolon: Add three mana of any one color.
Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, you may return Verdant Eidolon from your graveyard to your hand.
illus. Howard Lyon # 190/254
Walker of the Grove
When Walker of the Grove leaves the battlefield, create a 4/4 green Elemental creature token.
Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it’s sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)
illus. Todd Lockwood # 191/254
Wickerbough Elder
Wickerbough Elder enters the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
, Remove a -1/-1 counter from Wickerbough Elder: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
“Living scarecrows make a mockery of the natural order. Dead ones make fine hats.”
illus. Jesper Ejsing # 192/254
Desolate Lighthouse
: Add
, : Draw a card, then discard a card.
A lonely sentinel facing gales, hurricanes, and tides of homicidal spirits.
illus. Scott Chou # 242/254
Wild Hunger
Target creature gets +3/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Otto the Hunter was filled with many grand ambitions. The snake was filled only with Otto.
illus. Karl Kopinski # 193/254
Blast of Genius
Choose any target. Draw three cards, then discard a card. Blast of Genius deals damage equal to the discarded card’s converted mana cost to that permanent or player.
Ral Zarek’s brainstorms bring actual thunder and lightning.
illus. Terese Nielsen # 197/254
Countersquall
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.
Each of the twenty-three winds of Esper is named and chronicled, and every possible interaction with the flow of magic is exhaustively detailed.
illus. Anthony Francisco # 198/254
Mage-Ring Network
: Add .
, : Put a storage counter on Mage-Ring Network.
, Remove any number of storage counters from Mage-Ring Network: Add for each storage counter removed this way.
illus. Jung Park # 246/254
Garna, the Bloodflame
Flash
When Garna, the Bloodflame enters the battlefield, return to your hand all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from anywhere this turn.
Other creatures you control have haste.
illus. Winona Nelson # 200/254
Mistveil Plains
(: Add .)
Mistveil Plains enters the battlefield tapped.
, ,: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Activate this ability only if you control two or more white permanents.
illus. Ralph Horsley # 247/254
Rogue's Passage
: Add .
, : Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.
illus. Christine Choi # 250/254
Golgari Charm
Choose one —
• All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Regenerate each creature you control.
“Let the rest of Ravnica sneer. One way or another, they all end up in the undercity.” —Jarad
illus. Zoltan Boros # 201/254
Terramorphic Expanse
, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Take two steps north into the unsettled future, south into the unquiet past, east into the present day, or west into the great unknown.
illus. Dan Scott # 252/254
Reviving Vapors
Reveal the top three cards of your library and put one of them into your hand. You gain life equal to that card’s converted mana cost. Put all other cards revealed this way into your graveyard.
illus. Bastien L. Deharme # 205/254
Urban Evolution
Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.
As the Simic released more of their krasis experiments, they required new habitats, always at the expense of the locals.
illus. Eytan Zana # 208/254
Vengeful Rebirth
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 any target.
Exile Vengeful Rebirth.
illus. Seb McKinnon # 209/254
Cathodian
When Cathodion dies, add .
Instead of creating a tool that would be damaged by heat, the Thran built one that was charged by it.
illus. Izzy # 226/254
Warleader's Helix
Warleader’s Helix deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life.
“There is no time to remedy our enemies’ ignorance. Blast it out of them.” —Aurelia
illus. Wesley Burt # 210/254
Beckon Apparition
Exile target card from a graveyard. Create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.
The foyer is littered with the coins it demands but can no longer hold.
illus. Cliff Childs # 211/254
Heap Doll
Sacrifice Heap Doll: Exile target card from a graveyard.
"I know one night it won't come back. Then I'll know it's truly done its job." —Braenna, cobblesmith
illus. John Avon # 228/254
Canker Abomination
As Canker Abomination enters the battlefield, choose an opponent. Canker Abomination enters the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it for each creature that player controls.
Once the hideous disease takes hold, it spreads through both bark and mind.
illus. Brandon Kitkouski # 212/254
Double Cleave
Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.
If at first you don't succeed, hit them again.
illus. Zoltan Boros # 214/254
Myr Servitor
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Myr Servitor is on the battlefield, each player returns all cards named Myr Servitor from their graveyard to the battlefield.
The Krark Clan enjoys pulling them apart just to watch them reassemble one another.
illus. John Matson # 230/254
Murderous Redcap
When Murderous Redcap enters the battlefield, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.
Persist (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.)
illus. Dave Allsop # 217/254
Patchwork Gnomes
Discard a card: Regenerate Patchwork Gnomes
One wizard's trash is another wizard's roving gang of abominations.
illus. Filip Burburan # 231/254
Plumeveil
Flash
Defender, flying
“It was vast, a great sheet of soaring wings, and equally silent. It caught us unawares and blocked our view of the kithkin stronghold.” —Grensch, merrow cutthroat
illus. Nils Hamm # 218/254
Rakdos Shred-Freak
Haste
“If there were such a thing as a soul, I think it would be behind the gallbladder but above the kidneys.”
illus. Wayne Reynolds # 219/254
Prismatic Lens
: Add
, : Add one mana of any color
A capable mage can tune it's focus refracting mana through each disk in turn to cast any spell they desire.
illus. Scott Murphy # 234/254
Safehold Elite
Persist (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.)
Not even death will keep her from her mission.
illus. Jesper Ejsing # 220/254
Vessel of Endless Rest
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.
illus. John Avon # 235/254
Scuzzback Marauders
Trample
Persist (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.)
illus. Pete Venters # 221/254
Shielding Plax
Enchant creature
When Shielding Plax enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Enchanted creature can’t be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.
illus. Brian Hagan # 222/254
Artisan of Kozilek
When you cast this spell, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents.)
illus. Jason Felix # 2/254
Turn to Mist
Exile target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner’s control at the beginning of the next end step.
“Did you expect me to dodge? How quaint.” —Olka, mistmeadow witch
illus. Greg Staples # 224/254
Ulamog's Crusher
Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents.)
Ulamog's Crusher attacks each combat if able.
"Ulamog is dead and his brood is dying. Some of them just don't know it yet." —Nirthu, lone missionary
illus. Lucas Graciano # 8/254
