"They don't move, do they?"
"Only for the wrong sort of people."
"Are *we* the wrong sort of people?"

Abbey Gargoyles

"Mystic shadow, bending near me, / Who art thou? / Whence come ye?"
—Stephen Crane, "Mystic shadow, bending near me"

Abyssal Specter

Flying
If Abyssal Specter damages any player, he or she chooses and discards a card.

Flying
Whenever Abyssal Specter deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Adarkar Wastes

oc
T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.
oc
T: Add o
W or o
U to your mana pool. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Thunder in the wind / no rain / peace mourns its passing.

Aether Storm

Summon spells cannot be played.
Any player may pay 4 life to bury Æther Storm.

This does not stop a creature card from being put directly onto the battlefield by a spell or ability.

Affects any spell with the type creature, including those with other types such as artifact or enchantment. This includes older cards with “summon” on their type line.

Creature spells can't be cast.
Pay 4 life: Destroy Aether Storm. It can't be regenerated. Any player may activate this ability.

These spirits of the air are winsome and wild and cannot be truly contained. Only marginally intelligent, they often substitute whimsy for strategy, delighting in mischief and mayhem.

Air Elemental

Akron Legionnaire

Except for Legionnaires and artifact creatures, creatures you control cannot attack.

If you have two or more Legionnaires, they can all attack.

Except for creatures named Akron Legionnaire and artifact creatures, creatures you control can't attack.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
—D'Avenant proverb

Alabaster Potion

Target player gains X life, or prevent X damage to any creature or player.

Choose one —
• Target player gains X life.
• Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

". . . [T]he magician drew a ring off his finger . . . , saying: 'It is a talisman against all evil, so long as you obey me.'"
—*The Arabian Nights*,
Junior Classics trans.

Aladdin's Ring

o8, oc
T: Aladdin's Ring deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

{8}, {T}: Aladdin's Ring deals 4 damage to any target.

"Fair fight? I'll take survival over chivalry any day!"
—Tor Wauki, Bandit King

Ambush Party

First strike
Ambush Party is unaffected by summoning sickness.

Among the first allies Urza gained were the people of Kroog. As a sign of friendship, Urza gave the healers of the city potent amulets; afterwards, thousands journeyed to Kroog in hope of healing.

Amulet of Kroog

o2, oc
T: Prevent 1 damage to any creature or player.

{2}, {T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

"Joskun and the other constables serve with passion, if not with grace."
—Devin, faerie noble

An-Havva Constable

An-Havva Constable has toughness equal to 1 plus the number of green creatures in play.

An-Havva Constable's toughness is equal to 1 plus the number of green creatures on the battlefield.

Angry Mob

Trample
During your turn, Angry Mob has power and toughness each equal to 2 plus the number of swamps all opponents control. During other turns, Angry Mob has power and toughness each equal to 2.

Trample
During your turn, Angry Mob's power and toughness are each equal to 2 plus the number of Swamps your opponents control. During turns other than yours, Angry Mob's power and toughness are each 2.

Animate Dead

When you play Animate Dead, choose target creature card in any graveyard. When Animate Dead comes into play, put that creature into play and Animate Dead becomes a creature enchantment that targets the creature. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0. If Animate Dead leaves play, bury the creature.

Abilities such as shroud and protection function only on the battlefield unless otherwise specified. A creature card with shroud may be targeted by Animate Dead, and Animate Dead will become attached to the creature that enters the battlefield.

Animate Dead is an Aura, albeit with an unusual enchant ability. You target a creature card in a graveyard when you cast it. It enters the battlefield attached to that card. Then it returns that card to the battlefield, and attaches itself to the card again (since the card is a new object on the battlefield). Animate Dead itself never moves into a graveyard during this process.

If Animate Dead isn't on the battlefield as its triggered ability resolves, none of its effects happen. The creature card won't be returned to the battlefield.

If the creature put onto the battlefield has protection from black—or if the creature can't legally be enchanted by Animate Dead for another reason—Animate Dead won't be able to attach to it. It will be put into the graveyard as a state-based action, causing its delayed triggered ability to trigger. When the trigger resolves, if the creature's still on the battlefield, its controller will sacrifice it.

Once the creature is returned to the battlefield, Animate Dead can't be attached to anything other than it (unless Animate Dead somehow manages to put a different creature onto the battlefield). Attempting to move Animate Dead to another creature won't work.

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

"When you have been bitten with fangs of granite, you start to long for the ivory sabers of tigers."
—Norin the Wary

Animate Wall

Play only on a Wall.
Enchanted creature can attack as though it were not a Wall.

This is a change from the most recent wording. As was the case in the past, Animate Wall can now enchant only a Wall.

Enchant Wall
Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Tawnos finally cracked the puzzle: the strange structures did not house Mishra's malevolent creations but were themselves among his creations.

Ankh of Mishra

Whenever a land comes into play, Ankh of Mishra deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

It determines the land's controller at the time the ability resolves. If the land leaves the battlefield before the ability resolves, the land's last controller before it left is used.

This triggers on any land entering. This includes playing a land or putting a land onto the battlefield using a spell or ability.

Whenever a land enters, Ankh of Mishra deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Anti-Magic Aura

Enchanted creature cannot be the target of enchantments, instants, or sorceries. This effect does not bury Anti-Magic Aura. (Other enchantments on that creature are buried because their target is now illegal.)

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be the target of spells and can't be enchanted by other Auras.

"Cloak me in mystery, hide my names from my enemies, and let me draw from the well of power."
—Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Arenson's Aura

o
W, Sacrifice an enchantment: Destroy target enchantment.
o3o
Uoo
U Counter target enchantment spell. Play this ability as an interrupt.

{W}, Sacrifice an enchantment: Destroy target enchantment.
{3}{U}{U}: Counter target enchantment spell.

Armageddon

"Keep your chain mail, warrior. I have my own form of protection."
—Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Armor of Faith

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
oo
W Enchanted creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
{W}: Enchanted creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"Kings and beggars, they end the same—
Surrounded by stench, rot, and blame."
—Aline Corralurn, "Legacy"

Ashes to Ashes

Remove two target nonartifact creatures from the game. Ashes to Ashes deals 5 damage to you.

If both of the targeted creatures are illegal targets by the time Ashes to Ashes resolves, it’s countered. It doesn’t deal 5 damage to you.

If one of the targeted creatures is an illegal target by the time Ashes to Ashes resolves, it still exiles the other one and deals 5 damage to you.

Exile two target nonartifact creatures. Ashes to Ashes deals 5 damage to you.

The Brothers' War scarred the land, but Ashnod left her mark in the bloodlines of those she tortured.

Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add two colorless mana to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.

Ashnod found few willing to trade their humanity for the power she offered.

Ashnod's Transmogrant

oc
T, Sacrifice Ashnod's Transmogrant: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonartifact creature. That creature becomes an artifact creature permanently.

It’s the ability, not the counter that makes the creature an artifact. The creature remains an artifact even if the +1/+1 counter is removed.

{T}, Sacrifice Ashnod's Transmogrant: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonartifact creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.

Aspect of Wolf

Enchanted creature gets +*/+*, where * is equal to half the number of forests you control, rounded down for power and up for toughness.

The effect is continuously updated based on the number of Forests you control at any given time.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +X/+Y, where X is half the number of Forests you control, rounded down, and Y is half the number of Forests you control, rounded up.

The bane of all artificers, the legendary atogs devoured intricate tools to further their own twisted growth.

Atog

Sacrifice an artifact: +2/+2 until end of turn

Sacrifice an artifact: Atog gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

One auroch may feed a village, but a herd will flatten it.

Aurochs

Trample
If Aurochs attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other Aurochs that attacks.

The bonus is not applied until after you check for attack legality, so it is a 2/3 creature when declaring attackers.

The ability counts the number of attacking creatures with the creature type Aurochs, not just those named Aurochs.

Trample
Whenever Aurochs attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking Aurochs.

"When one's word is law, one's whim is equally binding."
—Calmont, Aysen bureaucrat

Aysen Bureaucrats

oc
T: Tap target creature with power 2 or less.

This checks the power of the creature on activation and on resolution.

{T}: Tap target creature with power 2 or less.

Little dreamt could seem so cruel
As waiting for the wings outspread,
The jagged teeth, the burning eyes,
And dagger-claws that clench to nerves.

Azure Drake

Bad Moon

Ball Lightning

Trample
Ball Lightning is unaffected by summoning sickness.
At the end of any turn, bury Ball Lightning.

The creature is sacrificed at the end of every turn in which it is on the battlefield. There is no choice about what turn to sacrifice it.

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Ball Lightning.

Barbed Sextant

o1, oc
T, Sacrifice Barbed Sextant: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn.

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Barbed Sextant: Add one mana of any color. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

For a dozen years the cage had held Lord Ith, but as the Pretender Mairsil's power weakened, so did the bars.

Barl's Cage

o3: Target creature does not untap during its controller's next untap phase.

Does not prevent a creature from untapping at other times. It just stops the “normal” untap during the untap step.

Barl’s Cage doesn’t track the creature’s controller. If the affected creature changes controllers before its old controller’s next untap step, this ability will prevent it from being untapped during its new controller’s next untap step.

If the targeted creature is untapped at the time its controller’s next untap step begins, this ability has no effect. It won’t apply at some later time when the targeted creature is tapped.

You may target any creature with this ability. It doesn’t have to be tapped.

{3}: Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

Battering Ram

Banding when attacking
If Battering Ram is blocked by any Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.

Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.

If a creature with banding attacks, it can team up with any number of other attacking creatures with banding (and up to one nonbanding creature) and attack as a unit called a “band.” The band can be blocked by any creature that could block a single creature in the band. Blocking any creature in a band blocks the entire band. If a creature with banding is blocked, the attacking player chooses how the blockers’ damage is assigned.

If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it. That player can ignore the damage assignment order when making this assignment.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, Battering Ram gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)
Whenever Battering Ram becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the Hero.

Benalish Hero

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"What I want, I take."
—Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran royal mage

Binding Grasp

During your upkeep, pay o1o
U or bury Binding Grasp.
Gain control of enchanted creature. That creature gets +0/+1.

Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Binding Grasp unless you pay {1}{U}.
You control enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature gets +0/+1.

"Four things that never meet do here unite
To shed my blood and to ravage my heart,
A radiant brow and tresses that beguile
And rosy cheeks and a glittering smile."
—*The Arabian Nights*, trans. Haddawy

Bird Maiden

Birds of Paradise

Flying
oc
T: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Black Knight

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

"Out there, there are spirits, but here, there is wine."
—Blessing for the bounty of Kjeld

Blessed Wine

Gain 1 life.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn.

You gain 1 life.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Blight

If enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy it at end of turn.

Enchant land
When enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy it.

"Don't look at it! Maybe it'll go away!"
—Ib Halfheart, goblin tactician

Blinking Spirit

o0: Return Blinking Spirit to owner's hand.

{0}: Return Blinking Spirit to its owner's hand.

Blood Lust

Target creature gets +4/-4 until end of turn. If this reduces that creature's toughness to less than 1, the creature's toughness is 1.

Has changed slightly in functionality, with the old continuous nature of the toughness reduction gone away; the toughness change remains static. For example, if you have three Swamps and Nightmare on the battlefield and then cast Blood Lust on it, it will become 7/1. If one of your Swamps is subsequently destroyed, your Nightmare will become 6/0 and be put in the graveyard.

If target creature has toughness 5 or greater, it gets +4/-4 until end of turn. Otherwise, it gets +4/-X until end of turn, where X is its toughness minus 1.

On guard for larger dangers, we underestimated the power and speed of the imp's muck-crusted claws.

Bog Imp

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Their stench was vile and strong enough, but not nearly as powerful as their hunger.

Bog Rats

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave; 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

Bog Wraith

Swampwalk (If defending player controls any swamps, this creature is unblockable.)

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

"O! call back yesterday, bid time return."
—William Shakespeare,
*King Richard the Second*

Boomerang

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Bottle of Suleiman

o1, Sacrifice Bottle of Suleiman: Flip a coin; target opponent calls heads or tails while coin is in the air. If the flip ends up in opponent's favor, Bottle of Suleiman deals 5 damage to you. Otherwise, put a Djinn token into play. Treat this token as a 5/5 artifact creature with flying.

The coin is flipped on resolution and not on declaration of the ability.

{1}, Sacrifice Bottle of Suleiman: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, create a 5/5 colorless Djinn artifact creature token with flying. If you lose the flip, Bottle of Suleiman deals 5 damage to you.

Bottomless Vault

Bottomless Vault comes into play tapped.
You may choose not to untap Bottomless Vault during your untap phase and put a storage counter on it instead.
oc
T, Remove X storage counters from Bottomless Vault: Add an amount of o
B equal to X to your mana pool.

Counters are not lost if the land is changed to another land type. They wait around for the land to change back.

If the land is tapped by some external effect, no counters are removed from it.

It is only considered “tapped for mana” if you activate its mana ability and generate mana from it.

Whether or not it is tapped is checked at the beginning of upkeep. If it is not tapped, the ability does not trigger. It also checks during resolution and you only get a counter if it is still tapped then.

Bottomless Vault enters tapped.
You may choose not to untap Bottomless Vault during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Bottomless Vault is tapped, put a storage counter on it.
{T}, Remove any number of storage counters from Bottomless Vault: Add {B} for each storage counter removed this way.

"I reeled from the blow, and then suddenly, I knew exactly what to do. Within moments, victory was mine."
—Gustha Ebbasdotter,
Kjeldoran royal mage

Brainstorm

Draw three cards. Then, put any two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

You draw three cards and put two cards back all while Brainstorm is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions.

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"They're not your friends; they despise you. I'm the only one you can count on. Trust me."

Brainwash

Enchanted creature cannot attack this turn unless its controller pays an additional o3.

If there are multiple combat phases during the turn, the attack cost must be paid each time if you want to attack with the creature.

Paying this cost is not an instant or any other kind of ability, it is an additional cost on the declaration of the attacker.

This ability is paid for during the declare attackers step of the combat phase.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack unless its controller pays {3}.

"Modern Sarpadia's swarming with thrulls. It's a testament to the orcs that they've survived there so long."
—Elbieta, Argivian scholar

Brassclaw Orcs

Brassclaw Orcs cannot be assigned to block any creature with power 2 or greater.

Brassclaw Orcs can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.

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