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.

"The darkness crawls with vampires and ghouls, but we are not without allies."
—Mikaeus, the Lunarch

Abbey Griffin

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

Altar's Reap

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

Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell.

You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

"Living creatures seldom impress me. But I like this one."
—Uta Falkenrath

Ambush Viper

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

If there's anything a werewolf hates, it's a collar—especially Avacyn's Collar, the symbol of her church.

Ancient Grudge

Destroy target artifact.
Flashback {G} (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.

She endures without Avacyn but secretly asks each soul she guides if it has seen her.

Angel of Flight Alabaster

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target Spirit card from your graveyard to your hand.

The Spirit card must already be in your graveyard when the ability triggers at the beginning of your upkeep. If there is no Spirit card in your graveyard when your upkeep begins, the ability will be removed from the stack with no effect.

Angelic Overseer

Flying
As long as you control a Human, Angelic Overseer has hexproof and is indestructible.

If you control a Human, and an effect tries to destroy each Human you control and Angelic Overseer simultaneously, Angelic Overseer won’t be destroyed.

If you control a Human, and lethal damage is dealt to Angelic Overseer, that damage will remain marked on it that turn. If later in the turn you no longer control a Human, Angelic Overseer will be destroyed.

Flying
As long as you control a Human, Angelic Overseer has hexproof and indestructible.

Armored Skaab

When Armored Skaab enters the battlefield, put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.

If you have fewer than four cards in your library when Armored Skaab enters, you'll put all of them into your graveyard.

When Armored Skaab enters, mill four cards.

Sometimes death comes knocking. Sometimes it tears down the walls.

Army of the Damned

Put thirteen 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens onto the battlefield tapped.
Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (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.”

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Its fiery paws make it easy to track, which is very useful when you want to go in exactly the opposite direction.

Ashmouth Hound

Whenever Ashmouth Hound blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, Ashmouth Hound deals 1 damage to that creature.

Ashmouth Hound’s ability triggers once for each creature it blocks or becomes blocked by.

"Avacyn's protection is everywhere. From the holy church to the sacred glade, all that we see is under her blessed watch."

Avacyn's Pilgrim

Moorlanders speak in awe of the priests' talent for arriving just in time to drive off the wicked things that prowl the ravished parish.

Avacynian Priest

On Innistrad, death is just a career change.

Back from the Brink

Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of that card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Although you're paying the card's mana cost, you aren't casting that card. Abilities that reduce the cost to cast a creature spell won't apply, and additional costs to cast that creature can't be paid. Alternative costs that affect what it costs to cast a creature spell, such as evoke, can't.

Any "enters" abilities of the creature will trigger when the token enters. Any "as [this creature] enters" or "[this creature] enters with" abilities of the creature will also work.

If the exiled creature card has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be zero.

If you exile a double-faced creature card this way, you'll pay the mana cost of the front face. The token will be a copy of the front face and it won't be able to transform.

Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Create a token that's a copy of that card. Activate only as a sorcery.

If it comes for you, die boldly or die swiftly—for die you will.

Balefire Dragon

Flying
Whenever Balefire Dragon deals combat damage to a player, it deals that much damage to each creature that player controls.

The damage dealt by Balefire Dragon’s triggered ability isn’t combat damage.

Not content to nudge vases and chill drawing rooms, some geists muster spectral armies to claw at the hearts of the living.

Battleground Geist

Flying
Other Spirit creatures you control get +1/+0.

Bitterheart Witch

Deathtouch
When Bitterheart Witch dies, you may search your library for a Curse card, put it onto the battlefield attached to target player, then shuffle your library.

The Curse must be legally able to enchant the player. For example, if the player has protection from red, you couldn’t put a red Curse onto the battlefield this way.

Deathtouch
When Bitterheart Witch dies, you may search your library for a Curse card, put it onto the battlefield attached to target player, then shuffle.

"Holy places are no longer sanctuary from death, and death is no longer sanctuary from anything."
—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Blasphemous Act

Blasphemous Act costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Although players may respond to Blasphemous Act once it's been cast, once it's announced, they can't respond before the cost is calculated and paid.

Blasphemous Act's ability can't reduce the total cost to cast the spell below {R}.

The total cost to cast Blasphemous Act is locked in before you pay that cost. For example, if there are three creatures on the battlefield, including one you can sacrifice to add {C}, the total cost of Blasphemous Act is {5}{R}. Then you can sacrifice the creature when you activate mana abilities just before paying the cost.

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

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Blazing Torch

Equipped creature can't be blocked by Vampires or Zombies.
Equipped creature has "{T}, Sacrifice Blazing Torch: Blazing Torch deals 2 damage to target creature or player."
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

If a Blazing Torch controlled by one player somehow winds up equipping a creature a different player controls, the damage ability can’t be activated by either player. Only the creature’s controller may activate the ability — but since that player can’t sacrifice Blazing Torch (a permanent they don’t control), the ability’s cost can’t be paid.

The source of the damage is Blazing Torch, not the equipped creature. However, the equipped creature’s ability is what targets the permanent or player. If Blazing Torch is equipped to a red creature, for example, the ability couldn’t target a creature with protection from red. It could target a creature with protection from artifacts, but all the damage would be prevented.

Equipped creature can't be blocked by Vampires or Zombies.
Equipped creature has "{T}, Sacrifice Blazing Torch: Blazing Torch deals 2 damage to any target."
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

While elder vampires select their meals with care, the newly sired frenzy at the first whiff.

Bloodcrazed Neonate

Bloodcrazed Neonate attacks each turn if able.
Whenever Bloodcrazed Neonate deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Bloodcrazed Neonate attacks each combat if able.
Whenever Bloodcrazed Neonate deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

He relishes the devotion of his Skirsdag puppets and their belief that it will earn them immortality.

Bloodgift Demon

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage

Flying
Other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+2.
{T}: Put a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

For more information on double-faced cards, see the Shadows over Innistrad mechanics article (http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/shadows-over-innistrad-mechanics).

Flying
Other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+2.
{T}: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.

Flying
{T}: Put a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
{B}: Transform Bloodline Keeper. Activate this ability only if you control five or more Vampires.

Flying
{T}: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.
{B}: Transform Bloodline Keeper. Activate only if you control five or more Vampires.

"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.

The only thing it likes more than discovering a pit of bones is adding to it.

Boneyard Wurm

Boneyard Wurm's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

The ability that defines Boneyard Wurm’s power and toughness works in all zones, not just the battlefield. If Boneyard Wurm is in your graveyard, it will count itself.

Brain Weevil

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Sacrifice Brain Weevil: Target player discards two cards. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

If you cast this as normal during your main phase, it will enter the battlefield and you’ll receive priority. If no abilities trigger because of this, you can activate its ability immediately, before any other player has a chance to remove it from the battlefield.

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Sacrifice Brain Weevil: Target player discards two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

"Civilization is fertilizer."
—Garruk Wildspeaker

Bramblecrush

Brimstone Volley

Brimstone Volley deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
Morbid — Brimstone Volley deals 5 damage to that creature or player instead if a creature died this turn.

Brimstone Volley deals 3 damage to any target.
Morbid — Brimstone Volley deals 5 damage instead if a creature died this turn.

It's not just the wind. It's not all in your head. And it's *definitely* something to worry about.

Bump in the Night

Target opponent loses 3 life.
Flashback {5}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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 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.

Mist is the geists' sorrow. Wind is their pain. Fire is their vengeance.

Burning Vengeance

Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, Burning Vengeance deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Although flashback and retrace are the most common ways to cast a spell from your graveyard, Burning Vengeance will trigger whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard through any means.

Burning Vengeance doesn’t trigger when you activate an ability of a card in your graveyard, such as unearth or the ability of Reassembling Skeleton.

Burning Vengeance’s triggered ability will resolve before the spell you cast from your graveyard.

Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, Burning Vengeance deals 2 damage to any target.

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}

Cackling Counterpart

Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of target creature you control.
Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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 chosen creature will also work.

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

If the copied creature is a token, the token that's created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created the token.

If the copied creature is copying something else (for example, if the copied creature is an Evil Twin), then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.

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

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Caravan Vigil

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
Morbid — You may put that card onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand if a creature died this turn.

You can choose to put the basic land card into your hand even if a creature died the turn you cast Caravan Vigil.

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Morbid — You may put that card onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand if a creature died this turn.

As if anyone needed another reason to avoid dark, dank cellars.

Cellar Door

{3}, {T}: Target player puts the bottom card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If it's a creature card, you put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

{3}, {T}: Target player puts the bottom card of their library into their graveyard. If it's a creature card, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

"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.

Whenever another Human enters 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

Charmbreaker Devils

At the beginning of your upkeep, return an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Charmbreaker Devils gets +4/+0 until end of turn.

All players get to see which card you chose at random as it’s returned to your hand.

Because the first ability doesn’t target the instant or sorcery card, any instants or sorceries put into your graveyard in response to that ability may be returned to your hand.

The instant or sorcery card returned to your hand is chosen at random as Charmbreaker Devils’s first ability resolves. If any player responds to the ability, that player won’t yet know what card will be returned.

For a moment his basest desires run free, unshackled by reason or conscience.

Civilized Scholar // Homicidal Brute

At the beginning of your end step, if Homicidal Brute didn't attack this turn, tap Homicidal Brute, then transform it.

If Civilized Scholar attacks, and later in the turn (but before the beginning of your end step), it transforms, Homicidal Brute’s last ability won’t trigger. This is because the creature attacked that turn, even if had its other face up at the time.

You don’t have priority between untapping Civilized Scholar and transforming it. You can’t activate the draw-and-discard ability again, for example.

You’ll tap and transform Homicidal Brute even if it couldn’t attack.

"Me, angry? Of course not. Thanks to my research, I'm above such petty emotions now."

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If a creature card is discarded this way, untap Civilized Scholar, then transform it.

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.

Where cathars learn to fight not only demons and vampires, but ignorance as well.

Clifftop Retreat

Clifftop Retreat enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains.
{T}: Add {R} or {W} to your mana pool.

Clifftop Retreat enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

The fiend tormented them by recounting the girl's memories, as if some part of her remained inside that twisted shell.

Cloistered Youth // Unholy Fiend

At the beginning of your end step, you lose 1 life.

"I heard her talking in her sleep—pleading, shrieking, snarling. It was not my daughter's voice. That is not my daughter."
—Ekatrin, elder of Hanweir

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may transform Cloistered Youth.

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.)

Corpse Lunge

As an additional cost to cast Corpse Lunge, exile a creature card from your graveyard.
Corpse Lunge deals damage equal to the exiled card's power to target creature.

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.
Corpse Lunge deals damage equal to the exiled card's power to target creature.

Creeping Renaissance

Choose a permanent type. Return all cards of the chosen type from your graveyard to your hand.
Flashback {5}{G}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

The permanent types are artifact, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker.

A child's porcelain doll went missing one night, as did a pair of kitchen shears and the town magistrate.

Creepy Doll

Creepy Doll is indestructible.
Whenever Creepy Doll deals combat damage to a creature, flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy that creature.

If the combat damage Creepy Doll deals to a creature is lethal, you’ll still flip a coin. If the creature is still on the battlefield (perhaps because it regenerated), it could be destroyed a second time, depending on the coin flip.

You don’t flip the coin until the ability resolves. If you want to respond to the ability, perhaps by regenerating the damaged creature, you’ll have to do so before you know the outcome of the flip.

Indestructible
Whenever Creepy Doll deals combat damage to a creature, flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy that creature.

"Do not flatter Fate. It did not guide you into my clutches tonight. That was all my doing."

Crossway Vampire

When Crossway Vampire enters the battlefield, target creature can't block this turn.

When Crossway Vampire enters, target creature can't block this turn.

"Surely you know the joy of the hunt, my furry friend. My kind of hunt just takes a different form than yours."

Curiosity

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

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Abbey Griffin - 2003	Creature	$0.15 ^(65.67)
Altar's Reap - 2003	Instant	$0.02 ^(0.04)
Ambush Viper - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(2.02)
Ancient Grudge - 2003	Instant	$0.02 ^(2.54)
Angel of Flight Alabaster - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(2.42)
Angelic Overseer - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(5.09)
Armored Skaab - 2003	Creature	$0.50 ^(10.57)
Army of the Damned - 2003	Sorcery	$0.05 ^(10.07)
Ashmouth Hound - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(4.11)
Avacyn's Pilgrim - 2003	Creature	$1.50 ^(7.97)
Avacynian Priest - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.52)
Back from the Brink - 2003	Enchantment	$1.00 ^(14.65)
Balefire Dragon - 2003	Creature	$3.00 ^(33.75)
Battleground Geist - 2003	Creature	$2.00 ^(6.60)
Bitterheart Witch - 2003	Creature	$0.50 ^(11.59)
Blasphemous Act - 2003	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(7.29)
Blazing Torch - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.10)
Bloodcrazed Neonate - 2003	Creature	$2.50 ^(52.95)
Bloodgift Demon - 2003	Creature	$0.08 ^(4.83)
Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage - 2003	Creature	$9.00 ^(0.00)
Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage - 2003	Creature	$16.00 ^(0.00)
Bonds of Faith - 2003	Enchantment	$0.02 ^(21.04)
Boneyard Wurm - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.05)
Brain Weevil - 2003	Creature	$1.50 ^(14.50)
Bramblecrush - 2003	Sorcery	$0.08 ^(0.86)
Brimstone Volley - 2003	Instant	$15.00 ^(32.02)
Bump in the Night - 2003	Sorcery	$2.00 ^(13.57)
Burning Vengeance - 2003	Enchantment	$0.02 ^(7.04)
Butcher's Cleaver - 2003	Artifact	$0.08 ^(5.68)
Cackling Counterpart - 2003	Instant	$0.75 ^(9.80)
Caravan Vigil - 2003	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(3.26)
Cellar Door - 2003	Artifact	$0.02 ^(0.12)
Champion of the Parish - 2003	Creature	$0.75 ^(7.12)
Chapel Geist - 2003	Creature	$0.15 ^(3.45)
Charmbreaker Devils - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(7.24)
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Claustrophobia - 2003	Enchantment	$0.02 ^(0.17)
Clifftop Retreat - 2003	Land	$0.02 ^(6.02)
Cloistered Youth // Unholy Fiend - 2003	Creature	$0.08 ^(0.00)
Cloistered Youth // Unholy Fiend - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cobbled Wings - 2003	Artifact	$0.05 ^(7.52)
Corpse Lunge - 2003	Instant	$0.02 ^(4.86)
Creeping Renaissance - 2003	Sorcery	$0.15 ^(4.84)
Creepy Doll - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(5.59)
Crossway Vampire - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(1.19)
Curiosity - 2003	Enchantment	$0.02 ^(2.07)
Curse of Death's Hold - 2003	Enchantment	$0.08 ^(5.10)
Curse of Oblivion - 2003	Enchantment	$0.05 ^(0.67)