"A slayer gets by on wits and reflexes."
—Higa, slayer-captain of Gatstaf

Aim High

Untap target creature. It gets +2/+2 and gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Aim High can target a creature that’s already untapped.

Untapping an attacking creature doesn’t cause it to be removed from combat.

Bitter vengeance never glowed so bright nor sang so sweet.

Angel of Retribution

The harmony of the glorious is a dirge to the wicked.

Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Angelic Chorus does not trigger when creatures phase in or change controllers.

This does not trigger on a permanent being turned into a creature. That is just a permanent changing type, not something entering.

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Angelic Gift

Enchant creature
When Angelic Gift enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Enchanted creature has flying.

If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Angelic Gift tries to resolve, it doesn't resolve. It won't enter the battlefield, so its enters-the-battlefield ability won't trigger.

Enchant creature
When Angelic Gift enters, draw a card.
Enchanted creature has flying.

Apocalypse Hydra

Apocalypse Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, it enters the battlefield with an additional X +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}{R}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Apocalypse Hydra: Apocalypse Hydra deals 1 damage to any target.

For example, if X is 4, Apocalypse Hydra enters with four +1/+1 counters on it, but if X is 5, it enters with ten +1/+1 counters on it.

The first ability checks the number you chose for X, not the amount of mana you actually spent.

Apocalypse Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, it enters with an additional X +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}{R}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Apocalypse Hydra: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Arcane Artisan

{2}{U}, {T}: Target player draws a card, then exiles a card from their hand. If a creature card is exiled this way, that player creates a token that's a copy of that card.
When Arcane Artisan leaves the battlefield, exile all tokens created with it at the beginning of the next end step.

If Arcane Artisan leaves the battlefield before its activated ability has resolved, the token that ability creates will still be exiled at the beginning of the next end step.

If a card in exile has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

If an effect such as that of Doubling Season causes Arcane Artisan’s first ability to create two tokens, its last ability will exile both of those tokens. However, if something becomes a copy of the token or creates a copy of that token later (such as Evil Twin or Cackling Counterpart), that copy won’t be exiled.

If any of those tokens have an ability that triggers at the beginning of the end step, that ability will trigger and resolve even if the token is exiled during the end step before that ability resolves.

If multiple Arcane Artisans are creating tokens, each will exile only the ones it created.

If the card copied by the token had any “when [this permanent] enters the battlefield” abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it’s created. Similarly, any “as [this permanent] enters the battlefield” or “[this permanent] enters the battlefield with” abilities that the token has copied will also work.

Archfiend of Despair

Flying
Your opponents can't gain life.
At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Archfiend of Despair’s last ability counts only how much life was lost. It doesn’t care whether a player also gained life.

In a Two-Headed Giant game, damage and life loss happen to each player individually. If each player on a team is dealt 2 damage, each of those players loses 2 life and the team’s life total goes down by 4. When Archfiend of Despair’s ability resolves, each of those players again loses 2 life and the team’s life total goes down again by 4; they don’t each lose 4 life.

The amount of life to lose is determined only as Archfiend of Despair’s triggered ability resolves. For example, if you control two of them and an opponent lost 3 life earlier in the turn, the first ability to resolve would have that player lose 3 life, and the second would have that player lose 6 life.

Archon of Valor's Reach

Flying, vigilance, trample
As Archon of Valor's Reach enters the battlefield, choose artifact, enchantment, instant, sorcery, or planeswalker.
Players can't cast spells of the chosen type.

The enters-the-battlefield effect of Archon of Valor’s Reach is a replacement effect that doesn’t use the stack. No player can cast spells or activate abilities after it has entered the battlefield but before you choose a card type.

Whether it’s legal to cast a spell is determined before its costs are paid. This means that if Archon of Valor’s Reach has sorcery as the chosen type, you can’t cast Morbid Curiosity, even if you wish to sacrifice Archon of Valor’s Reach to do so.

Flying, vigilance, trample
As Archon of Valor's Reach enters, choose artifact, enchantment, instant, sorcery, or planeswalker.
Players can't cast spells of the chosen type.

"I see something special in you—a bright ember that yearns to dance among the stars."

Arena Rector

When Arena Rector dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for a planeswalker card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

If Arena Rector leaves your graveyard before its triggered ability resolves, perhaps because it’s a token and ceased to exist, you can’t exile it and won’t be able to search your library for a planeswalker card.

When Arena Rector dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for a planeswalker card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

When Selesnya missionaries moved into the Shanav Quarter, they faced scorn, ridicule, and ultimately martyrdom.

Assassin's Strike

Destroy target creature. Its controller discards a card.

If the creature is an illegal target when Assassin’s Strike tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. Its controller won’t discard a card.

You must be able to target a creature to cast Assassin’s Strike.

If Assassin’s Strike resolves but the creature isn’t destroyed (perhaps because it regenerated or has indestructible), its controller will discard a card.

"This is how wars are won—not with armies of soldiers but with a single knife blade, artfully placed."
—Yurin, royal assassin

Assassinate

"Finally, a weapon the Boros can't confiscate!"
—Juri, proprietor of the Juri Revue

Auger Spree

Target creature gets +4/-4 until end of turn.

Many combatants at Valor's Reach wield glowing weapons to distract their enemies and delight the crowd.

Aurora Champion

Whenever Aurora Champion attacks, if your team controls another Warrior, tap target creature.

"Never get too attached to a weapon. You must allow a better one to find its way to you."

Azra Bladeseeker

When Azra Bladeseeker enters the battlefield, each player on your team may discard a card, then each player who discarded a card this way draws a card.

The choice of whether to discard a card is made by each player on your team individually. You don’t need to all make the same choice.

When Azra Bladeseeker enters, each player on your team may discard a card, then each player who discarded a card this way draws a card.

"I never give odds on my own fights. Unless, of course, you want to bet *against* me . . ."

Azra Oddsmaker

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may discard a card. If you do, choose a creature. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player this turn, you draw two cards.

The scent of cooked flesh lingers in the charred landscape of Tarkir.

Bathe in Dragonfire

Bathe in Dragonfire deals 4 damage to target creature.

"There is elegance in all the Ojutai do—even their killing."
—Kirada, Silumgar enforcer

Battle Mastery

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has double strike.

If a creature loses double strike after dealing combat damage in the first combat damage step, it won’t assign combat damage in the second one.

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

"I will build no sanctuaries. The safety you seek can be won only by the sword."
—Yannash, outpost builder

Battle Rampart

Defender
{T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

The shaman rattles not to inspire a battle fury but to drown out the shrieks of those fleeing the Eldrazi.

Battle-Rattle Shaman

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have target creature get +2/+0 until end of turn.

Battle-Rattle Shaman's ability triggers when the beginning of combat step starts during each of your turns. It resolves before you declare attackers.

If a spell or ability causes your turn to have multiple combat phases, Battle Rattle Shaman's ability triggers during each of them.

"Monsters dwell in every heart. We only think civilization tames them." ―Euphemia, Nexus watcher

Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

If the permanent is still a legal target but is not destroyed (perhaps because it regenerated or has indestructible), its controller still gets the Beast token.

If the target permanent is an illegal target by the time Beast Within tries to resolve, the spell won't resolve. No player creates a Beast token. If the target is legal but not destroyed (most likely because it has indestructible), its controller does create a Beast token.

"Some fates you can see coming for you, plain as day, and there's nothing you can do about them."
—Callaphe the mariner

Benthic Giant

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

Blaring Captain

Partner with Blaring Recruiter (When this creature enters the battlefield, target player may put Blaring Recruiter into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Whenever Blaring Captain attacks, attacking Warriors get +1/+1 until end of turn.

A nonlegendary creature can’t be your commander, even if it has a “partner with” ability.

Note that the target player searches their library (which may be affected by effects such as that of Stranglehold) and that the card they find is revealed, even though these words aren’t included in the ability’s reminder text.

“Partner with [name]” represents two abilities. The first is a triggered ability: “When this permanent enters the battlefield, target player may search their library for a card named [name], reveal it, put it into their hand, then shuffle their library.”

Partner with Blaring Recruiter (When this creature enters, target player may put Blaring Recruiter into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Whenever Blaring Captain attacks, attacking Warriors get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Blaring Recruiter

Partner with Blaring Captain (When this creature enters the battlefield, target player may put Blaring Captain into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
{2}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Warrior creature token.

Partner with Blaring Captain (When this creature enters, target player may put Blaring Captain into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
{2}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Warrior creature token.

Blaze

Succession is a matter of blood, and by blood it is often decided.

Blood Feud

Target creature fights another target creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Blood Feud can target two creatures with the same controller.

The ring plays host to some combatants that the spectators love to hate.

Bloodborn Scoundrels

Assist (Another player can pay up to {5} of this spell's cost.)
When Bloodborn Scoundrels enters the battlefield, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Assist allows another player to pay for any amount of generic mana. If an effect changes the cost of the spell, the amount that player may pay will be more or less than the amount in the spell’s reminder text.

If an effect allows a player to cast a spell spending mana “as though it were mana of any color” or “of any type,” that player must still pay for the colored mana in that spell’s total cost. That cost doesn’t become generic.

Only the generic mana portion of a spell’s cost can be paid with assist. Any colored mana costs must be paid by the spell’s controller, even if the assisting player paid mana of that color.

You may reveal a card with assist and discuss how to pay for it before you begin to cast the spell. Targets are chosen for that spell before you choose another player to help you pay for it and before that player has committed any mana to doing so.

Assist (Another player can pay up to {5} of this spell's cost.)
When Bloodborn Scoundrels enters, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Boldwyr Intimidator

Cowards can't block Warriors.
{R}: Target creature becomes a Coward until end of turn.
{2}{R}: Target creature becomes a Warrior until end of turn.

Each of the activated abilities replaces all creature types the affected creature may have had.

Note that the exact wording of this card has changed since it was printed in the _Future Sight_(TM) set, but its functionality is the same.

When the twin-spell bonus round begins, the crowd rises to its feet in anticipation of incredible combinations.

Bonus Round

Until end of turn, whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, that player copies it and may choose new targets for the copy.

A copy is created even if the spell that caused Bonus Round’s ability to trigger has been countered by the time that ability resolves. The copy resolves before the original spell.

Bonus Round’s ability will copy any instant or sorcery spell, not just one with targets.

If the spell that’s copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast, the copy has the same value of X.

If the spell that’s copied is modal (that is, it says “Choose one —” or the like), the copy will have the same mode. Its controller can’t choose a different one.

The controller of the copy can’t choose to pay any additional costs for the copy. However, effects based on any additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy too.

The controller of the spell that caused Bonus Round’s ability to trigger also controls the copy.

The copy that Bonus Round’s ability creates is created on the stack, so it’s not “cast.” Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell (like Bonus Round’s ability itself) won’t trigger.

The copy will have the same targets as the spell it’s copying unless its controller chooses new ones. That player may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. The new targets must be legal.

Though she is rightly feared, there are relatively few tales of her deeds in battle, for few survive her raids.

Borderland Marauder

Whenever Borderland Marauder attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

No pilgrimage to Valor's Reach is complete without a stroll through its celebrated shopping district.

Bountiful Promenade

Bountiful Promenade enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

If you began the game with two or more opponents but now only have one opponent left, these lands enter the battlefield tapped.

Bountiful Promenade enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Bramble Sovereign

Whenever another nontoken creature enters the battlefield, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, that creature's controller creates a token that's a copy of that creature.

Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any “As [this creature] enters the battlefield” or “[This creature] enters the battlefield with” abilities of the copied creature will also work.

If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.

If the copied creature is copying something else, the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature is copying.

If the entering creature leaves the battlefield before Bramble Sovereign's ability resolves, use that creature's last known existence on the battlefield to determine the token's characteristics.

The token copies exactly what is printed on the creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and/or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.

While resolving the triggered ability of Bramble Sovereign, you can't pay {1}{G} multiple times to have a player create more tokens.

Whenever another nontoken creature enters, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, that creature's controller creates a token that's a copy of that creature.

Brightling

{W}: Brightling gains vigilance until end of turn.
{W}: Brightling gains lifelink until end of turn.
{W}: Return Brightling to its owner's hand.
{1}: Brightling gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

If you activate Brightling’s last ability, you don’t choose whether Brightling gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until that ability resolves.

Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.

"Big, wicked, and not too smart. Poor thing never stood a chance against us, dear."
—Regna, to Krav

Bring Down

Assist (Another player can pay up to {3} of this spell's cost.)
Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.

There will always be a spot at Valor's Reach for headlong violence.

Bull-Rush Bruiser

Whenever Bull-Rush Bruiser attacks, if your team controls another Warrior, Bull-Rush Bruiser gains first strike until end of turn.

Whether your team controls another Warrior is checked as Bull-Rush Bruiser’s triggered ability triggers and again as it resolves. Once it gains first strike this way, it won’t lose it, even if your team loses its other Warriors.

On Bant, a sigil is both a prize of honor and a bond of duty. The one who bears it may be called to fulfill that charge at any moment.

Call to Heel

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller draws a card.

If the targeted creature becomes an illegal target before Call to Heel resolves, Call to Heel doesn’t resolve. No one draws a card.

The player who draws a card is the player who controls the creature when Call to Heel resolves. This may not be the player whose hand the creature is put into.

It keeps the upper reaches of the forest free of every menace . . . except for the spider itself.

Canopy Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

This card now uses the Reach keyword ability to enable the blocking of flying creatures. This works because a creature with flying can only be blocked by creatures with flying or reach.

Instructors at the Kasarna training grounds are capable healers in case their students fail to grasp the subtleties of combat.

Centaur Healer

When Centaur Healer enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

When Centaur Healer enters, you gain 3 life.

Chain Lightning

Chain Lightning deals 3 damage to any target. Then that player or that permanent's controller may pay {R}{R}. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

As Chain Lightning resolves, either the original or one of the copies, the targeted player or the controller of the targeted permanent may copy it. The copy has the same text, target, and color as the resolving spell, though the player creating the copy may choose a new target for it. Once that copy is created (or not), the Chain Lightning finishes resolving and leaves the stack.

If the targeted player or permanent is an illegal target as Chain Lightning tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve and none of its effects happen. It can’t be copied.

The copy of Chain Lightning is created on the stack, so it’s not cast. Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won’t trigger. Players may respond to that spell before it resolves.

The player putting the copy of the spell on the stack controls that copy.

Chakram Retriever

Partner with Chakram Slinger (When this creature enters the battlefield, target player may put Chakram Slinger into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Whenever you cast a spell during your turn, untap target creature.

Chakram Retriever’s last ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger.

Players can cast spells and activate abilities after Chakram Retriever’s last ability resolves but before the spell that caused it to trigger does.

Partner with Chakram Slinger (When this creature enters, target player may put Chakram Slinger into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Whenever you cast a spell during your turn, untap target creature.

Chakram Slinger

Partner with Chakram Retriever (When this creature enters the battlefield, target player may put Chakram Retriever into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
{R}, {T}: Chakram Slinger deals 2 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Partner with Chakram Retriever (When this creature enters, target player may put Chakram Retriever into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
{R}, {T}: Chakram Slinger deals 2 damage to target player or planeswalker.

"The blood of Dromoka and the blood of my veins are the same."

Champion of Arashin

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

Arena beasts are bred for flashiness and foul temper. An extra head addresses both requirements.

Charging Binox

Assist (Another player can pay up to {7} of this spell's cost.)
Trample

The knights of Troinir Keep took the rhino as their emblem due to its intense focus when charging down a perceived threat—a trait they discovered on a hunting excursion.

Charging Rhino

Charging Rhino can't be blocked by more than one creature.

"Punch 'em, kick 'em, bite 'em, beat 'em! Burn 'em all and we'll defeat 'em!"

Cheering Fanatic

Whenever Cheering Fanatic attacks, choose a card name. Spells with the chosen name cost {1} less to cast this turn.

Effects that reduce the generic mana cost of a spell can’t reduce that spell’s colored mana requirements.

You don’t need to choose the name of a card anyone intends to cast this turn. You also don’t need to choose the name of a card that can have its cost reduced. For example, some Cheering Fanatics are enthusiastic about Shock or Mountain.

Claustrophobia

Enchant creature
When Claustrophobia enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Claustrophobia can target and enchant a tapped or untapped creature.

The enchanted creature can still be untapped in other ways. Claustrophobia will remain attached, and the creature will continue to not untap during its controller’s untap step.

Enchant creature
When Claustrophobia enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

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