Death took his humanity but not his skill with the knife.

Abattoir Ghoul

First strike
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Abattoir Ghoul this turn dies, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

You'll gain life equal to the creature's last known toughness before it died. For example, if Abattoir Ghoul deals 3 first-strike damage to a 7/7 creature and then you give the creature -5/-5 before the regular combat damage step, you'll gain 2 life.

Just as with a peach, the first bite is always the juiciest.

Appetite for Brains

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it with converted mana cost 4 or greater and exile that card.

If a card in a player’s hand has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it with mana value 4 or greater and exile that card.

"We must all make sacrifices for the good of Innistrad."
—Sorin Markov

Barter in Blood

Barter in Blood doesn’t target any creatures and may be cast even if a player controls fewer than two creatures.

If a player controls only one creature, that creature is sacrificed.

The active player chooses which creatures will be sacrificed first, then each other player in turn order does the same. Then all creatures are sacrificed simultaneously.

"What cannot be destroyed will be bound."
—Oath of Avacyn

Bonds of Faith

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 as long as it's a Human. Otherwise, it can't attack or block.

Once the enchanted creature has been declared as an attacking or blocking creature, causing it to stop being a Human won’t remove it from combat. It will lose the +2/+2 bonus, however.

Without a mind, it doesn't fear death. Without a soul, it doesn't mind killing.

Butcher Ghoul

Undying (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.)

Outside the safety of Thraben, there is little distinction between tool and weapon.

Butcher's Cleaver

Equipped creature gets +3/+0.
As long as equipped creature is a Human, it has lifelink.
Equip {3}

"I am no mere ship's captain. The north wind is my accomplice. The tide is my first mate."

Captain of the Mists

Whenever another Human enters the battlefield under your control, untap Captain of the Mists.
{1}{U}, {T}: You may tap or untap target permanent.

"Evil will soon be vanquished. What Innistrad most needs now is healing."

Cathedral Sanctifier

When Cathedral Sanctifier enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

"I stand for every cobbler, tanner, and fool in this town—and they stand for me."

Champion of the Parish

Whenever another Human enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Champion of the Parish.

Death has bound it with chains of past regrets. Forever it searches for atonement, each kindness removing a single link.

Chapel Geist

For the necro-alchemist, any puzzle can be solved with intelligence and harvested body parts.

Cobbled Wings

Equipped creature has flying.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Compelling Deterrence

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Then that player discards a card if you control a Zombie.

Compelling Deterrence targets only the nonland permanent. If that permanent becomes an illegal target, Compelling Deterrence doesn’t resolve and that player doesn’t discard a card.

If you target the only Zombie you control with Compelling Deterrence, you won’t discard a card.

The card returned to its owner’s hand may be the card they discard. If it’s the only card in that player’s hand, it must be discarded.

"Never forget our ancestors. They have not forgotten us."
—Mikaeus, the Lunarch

Dearly Departed

Flying
As long as Dearly Departed is in your graveyard, each Human creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

In most cases, when determining whether a creature entering the battlefield under your control should get a +1/+1 counter, you'll simply look at what the creature will looklike on the battlefield. You'll consider any effects affecting a creature entering the battlefield under your control.

The effect is cumulative. Human creatures you control will enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter for each Dearly Departed in your graveyard.

Though its mind has long since rotted away, it wields a sword with deadly skill.

Diregraf Captain

Deathtouch
Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.

"At least this one still has arms and legs. Well, most of its legs."
—Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Diregraf Ghoul

Diregraf Ghoul enters the battlefield tapped.

Dismal Backwater

Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield tapped.
When Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {B} to your mana pool.

Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield tapped.
When Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Doomed Traveler

When Doomed Traveler dies, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

When Doomed Traveler dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

The will to return can overpower the will to survive.

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—
Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."

A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.

If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.

To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.

You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.

You choose the target for Dread Return before paying any of its costs, so it's not possible to cast it using flashback and bring back one of the creatures you sacrifice.

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Some vampires resorted to corpse trading after cathars burned their estates and drove them from their ancestral feeding grounds.

Driver of the Dead

When Driver of the Dead dies, return target creature card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

If Driver of the Dead dies at the same time as a creature with mana value 2 or less, you can target that card and return it to the battlefield.

If a card in a player's graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

If a creature card with mana value 2 or less becomes a copy of Driver of the Dead and dies, it can be the target of its own ability.

When Driver of the Dead dies, return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

The barrier between existence and oblivion is thinner than you know.

Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Auras attached to the exiled creatures will be put into their owners’ graveyards. Equipment attached to the exiled creatures will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled creatures will cease to exist.

If a creature token is exiled, it ceases to exist. It won’t be returned to the battlefield.

If a double-faced card is exiled, it will return with its front face up.

"My greatest hope is that you will surpass me in every way, consigning my name to some forgotten corner of history."

Elder Cathar

When Elder Cathar dies, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. If that creature is a Human, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.

"You have done your best. I give you leave to rest."

Emancipation Angel

Flying
When Emancipation Angel enters the battlefield, return a permanent you control to its owner's hand.

For Emancipation Angel’s triggered ability, the permanent to return is chosen as the ability resolves. No player may take actions between the time you choose the permanent and the time it’s returned to its owner’s hand.

If Emancipation Angel is still on the battlefield as its triggered ability resolves, you may return Emancipation Angel itself.

"I often think on how excited they must feel to be chosen as my prey."

Falkenrath Noble

Flying
Whenever Falkenrath Noble or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

If Falkenrath Noble and another creature die at the same time, Falkenrath Noble's triggered ability will trigger for each of them.

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.

If Fiend Hunter leaves the battlefield before its first ability has resolved, its second ability will trigger and do nothing. Then its first ability will resolve and exile the target creature indefinitely. This is different from abilities on other cards that exile a permanent "until" something happens.

If a token is exiled this way, it won't return to the battlefield.

In a multiplayer game, if you lose the game, the creature exiled with Fiend Hunter remains exiled indefinitely. This is also different from abilities on other cards that exile a permanent "until" something happens.

Once the exiled creature returns, it's considered a new object with no relation to the object that it was. Auras attached to the exiled creature will be put into their owners' graveyards. Equipment attached to the exiled creature will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled creature will cease to exist.

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 {6}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

If you have fewer than four cards in your library, you'll look at all the cards there and put one into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

In the memories of those they lost lies the strength needed to defend their city.

Gather the Townsfolk

Put two 1/1 white Human creature tokens onto the battlefield.
Fateful hour — If you have 5 or less life, put five of those tokens onto the battlefield instead.

Create two 1/1 white Human creature tokens.
Fateful hour — If you have 5 or less life, create five of those tokens instead.

Geist of Saint Traft

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Whenever Geist of Saint Traft attacks, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat.

Geist of Saint Traft is banned as a commander in Duel Commander format, but it may be part of your deck.

Although the Angel is an attacking creature, it was never declared as an attacking creature. This means that abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks won't trigger when it enters the battlefield attacking.

Any effects that say that the Angel can't attack (such as that of Propaganda) affect only the declaration of attackers. They won't stop the Angel token from entering the battlefield attacking.

If you create more than one Angel token (most likely due to Doubling Season), both are exiled at end of combat. On the other hand, if something else becomes a copy of the Angel token, the copy isn't exiled.

You choose which player or planeswalker the Angel token is attacking. It doesn't have to be attacking the same player or planeswalker that Geist of Saint Traft is attacking.

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Whenever Geist of Saint Traft attacks, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying that's tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat.

"Come. Bring your brothers. Tonight, you feast on living flesh."
—Jadar, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Ghoulraiser

When Ghoulraiser enters the battlefield, return a Zombie card at random from your graveyard to your hand.

The Host sings of Avacyn's return without a single verse about its own suffering.

Goldnight Redeemer

Flying
When Goldnight Redeemer enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life for each other creature you control.

The amount of life you gain is based on the number of other creatures you control when the ability resolves.

"Innistrad's ghoulcallers are talented enough, but let me show you what someone with real power can create."
—Liliana Vess

Gravecrawler

Gravecrawler can't block.
You may cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Gravecrawler’s ability doesn’t change when you could cast it.

Once you’ve cast Gravecrawler and it’s on the stack, it doesn’t matter if you lose control of the other Zombie.

"Ghouls smashed the door, but I heard the call of the gryffs and knew we were saved."
—Ekka, shopkeeper of Hanweir

Gryff Vanguard

Flying
When Gryff Vanguard enters the battlefield, draw a card.

"He is judge, jury, and executioner because he killed them all."
—Bishop Cawle of Elgaud

Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

If another nontoken creature dies at the same time as Harvester of Souls, its ability triggers for that creature.

Havengul Runebinder

{2}{U}, {T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Zombie creature you control.

Although players may respond to the activated ability, they can't respond to the paying of its costs. The creature card will already be exiled by the time any player could respond.

The Zombie creature token you put onto the battlefield will also get a +1/+1 counter.

{2}{U}, {T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Zombie creature you control.

"I have seen a hundred mortal families rise and fall. I shall outlast a thousand more."
—Olivia Voldaren

Human Frailty

Increasing Devotion

Put five 1/1 white Human creature tokens onto the battlefield. If Increasing Devotion was cast from a graveyard, put ten of those tokens onto the battlefield instead.
Flashback {7}{W}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Create five 1/1 white Human creature tokens. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, create ten of those tokens instead.
Flashback {7}{W}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Island

"It always amazes me what perfectly good things people throw away."
—Ludevic, necro-alchemist

Makeshift Mauler

As an additional cost to cast Makeshift Mauler, exile a creature card from your graveyard.

Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to otherwise remove the creature card you exiled in order to prevent you from casting this spell.

You must exile exactly one creature card from your graveyard to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without exiling a creature card, and you cannot exile additional creature cards.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard.

Mindwrack Demon

Flying, trample
When Mindwrack Demon enters the battlefield, put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.
Delirium — At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 4 life unless there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Because you consider only the characteristics of a double-faced card’s front face while it’s not on the battlefield, the types of its back face won’t be counted for delirium.

In some rare cases, you can have a token or a copy of a spell in your graveyard at the moment that an object’s delirium ability counts the card types among cards in your graveyard, before that token or copy ceases to exist. Because tokens and copies of spells are not cards, even if they are copies of cards, their types will never be counted.

Mindwrack Demon’s delirium triggered ability does not include an intervening “if” clause. This ability triggers at the beginning of your upkeep regardless of the number of types in your graveyard, and it checks that number as it resolves to determine whether you lose 4 life or not.

The card types in Magic are artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal (a card type that appears on some older cards). Supertypes (such as legendary and basic) and subtypes (such as Human and Equipment) are not counted.

The number of card types matters, not the number of cards. For example, Wicker Witch (an artifact creature) along with Catalog (an instant) and Chaplain’s Blessing (a sorcery) will enable delirium.

Flying, trample
When Mindwrack Demon enters the battlefield, mill four cards.
Delirium — At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 4 life unless there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

"When you see a raven, head for the hills. It knows when the ghost-tide is headed in."
—Sved, fisherman of Nephalia

Mist Raven

Flying
When Mist Raven enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand.

Mist Raven’s ability is mandatory. If Mist Raven is the only creature on the battlefield when its ability triggers, you must choose it as the target.

For a ghoul, every village is a buffet and every disaster is a reunion.

Moan of the Unhallowed

Put two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens onto the battlefield.
Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Momentary Blink

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Flashback {3}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won't return to the battlefield.

When the card returns to the battlefield, it will be a new object with no connection to the card that was exiled. Auras attached to the exiled creature will be put into their owners' graveyards. Any Equipment will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled creature will cease to exist.

Inquisitors are taught scripture, philosophy, and the fine art of sharpening an axe.

Moorland Inquisitor

{2}{W}: Moorland Inquisitor gains first strike until end of turn.

Multiple instances of first strike on the same creature are redundant.

{2}{W}: Moorland Inquisitor gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"My drivers are trustworthy. I removed their tongues myself. Any other questions?"

Nephalia Smuggler

{3}{U}, {T}: Exile another target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Plains

"'I'm certain that the fate of Markov Manor is connected to these cryptoliths . . .' This Tamiyo was on to something."

Pore Over the Pages

Draw three cards, untap up to two lands, then discard a card.

You choose which lands to untap after you have drawn three cards. Lands controlled by any player may be untapped this way.

"No one chooses to be stitched together into a skaab. If it could speak, it would beg for its own destruction."
—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Rebuke

Relentless Skaabs

As an additional cost to cast Relentless Skaabs, exile a creature card from your graveyard.
Undying (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.)

When Relentless Skaabs returns to the battlefield because of its undying ability, it’s not being cast. You won’t exile a creature card from your graveyard.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard.
Undying (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.)

"The cathars killed my skaabs down below. Let's see how high their swords can reach."
—Ludevic, necro-alchemist

Scrapskin Drake

Flying
Scrapskin Drake can block only creatures with flying.

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

Its screeching is the sound of you losing your mind.

Screeching Skaab

When Screeching Skaab enters the battlefield, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.

When Screeching Skaab enters the battlefield, mill two cards.

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Appetite for Brains	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Barter in Blood	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Bonds of Faith	Enchantment	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Butcher Ghoul	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Butcher's Cleaver	Artifact	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Captain of the Mists	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cathedral Sanctifier	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Champion of the Parish	Creature	$0.75 ^(0.00)
Chapel Geist	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Cobbled Wings	Artifact	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Compelling Deterrence	Instant	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Dearly Departed	Creature	$0.10 ^(0.00)
Diregraf Captain	Creature	$0.05 ^(0.00)
Diregraf Ghoul	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Dismal Backwater	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Doomed Traveler	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Dread Return	Sorcery	$0.05 ^(0.00)
Driver of the Dead	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
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Elder Cathar	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Falkenrath Noble	Creature	$0.05 ^(0.00)
Fiend Hunter	Creature	$0.05 ^(0.00)
Forbidden Alchemy	Instant	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Gather the Townsfolk	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Geist of Saint Traft	Creature	$0.10 ^(0.00)
Ghoulraiser	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Goldnight Redeemer	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Gravecrawler	Creature	$4.00 ^(0.00)
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Harvester of Souls	Creature	$0.50 ^(0.00)
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Island	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Island	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Island	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Island	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Island	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Island	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Plains	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)

Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed