A-Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Seen through Rakdos eyes, a cruel betrayal is a hilarious stunt.

Act of Treason

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Act of Treason can target any creature, even one that's untapped or one you already control.

Gaining control of a creature doesn't cause you to gain control of any Auras or Equipment attached to it.

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} this turn.)

"The endurance of the ancient turtles in a land so harsh makes a strong case for patience, tranquility, and composure."
—Gavi, nest warden

Aegis Turtle

Inner strength is never seen until it makes all the difference.

Aegis of the Heavens

Target creature gets +1/+7 until end of turn.

"Oh, you must be mistaken. Hawks are solitary hunters, you see."
—Bunder Diedreck, ornithologist

Aerial Assault

Destroy target tapped creature. You gain 1 life for each creature you control with flying.

Any abilities that trigger as the target creature is destroyed won't resolve until after you've gained life.

If any creatures were exiled "until" the target creature left the battlefield, those creatures will return before you gain life.

If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Aerial Assault tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You won't gain life. If the target is legal but is not destroyed (most likely because it has indestructible), you will gain life.

"Release that which was never caged."
—Spellbomb inscription

Aether Spellbomb

{U}, Sacrifice Aether Spellbomb: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
{1}, Sacrifice Aether Spellbomb: Draw a card.

Once a welcoming hub for explorers, Affa became a place of guarded tongues and quick defenses.

Affa Guard Hound

Flash
When Affa Guard Hound enters the battlefield, target creature gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When Affa Guard Hound enters, target creature gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

The problem isn't the indrik's enthusiasm, it's Ravnica's lack of guardrails.

Affectionate Indrik

When Affectionate Indrik enters the battlefield, you may have it fight target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

If the target creature is an illegal target when Affectionate Indrik’s ability tries to resolve, the ability doesn’t resolve. If Affectionate Indrik is no longer on the battlefield, the target creature won’t deal or be dealt damage.

You choose the target of the triggered ability as it goes on the stack, but you choose whether the creatures fight as that ability resolves.

When Affectionate Indrik enters, you may have it fight target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

The power of the wild, concentrated in a single charge.

Aggressive Urge

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Draw a card.

If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Aggressive Urge tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t draw a card.

"Your death will take a mere moment, but it will feel like an eternity."
—Vilis, Broker of Blood

Agonizing Syphon

Agonizing Syphon deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

If the chosen target becomes an illegal target for Agonizing Syphon, the spell won’t resolve. You won’t gain life.

Ajani's Chosen

Whenever an enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, create a 2/2 white Cat creature token. If that enchantment is an Aura, you may attach it to the token.

If you cast an Aura targeting an opponent or a permanent controlled by an opponent, you control that Aura when it enters the battlefield. The ability of Ajani's Chosen will trigger.

The ability doesn't trigger until the enchantment enters the battlefield. This means that, for example, you can't cast an Aura with enchant creature if there are no legal targets available, hoping to enchant the Cat token. Ajani's Chosen itself, however, may be a legal target for the Aura.

You may attach the Aura to the Cat token only if the Aura and the token are both on the battlefield when the triggered ability resolves. If the Aura leaves the battlefield before the ability resolves, it won't become attached to the token. If the token leaves the battlefield before the ability resolves, the Aura won't move.

You may attach the Aura to the token only if it can legally enchant that token. For example, if the enchantment that entered the battlefield is an Aura with "enchant land," it won't move.

Whenever an enchantment you control enters, create a 2/2 white Cat creature token. If that enchantment is an Aura, you may attach it to the token.

"We hold sacred the powers of light and life. Truth and honor are our greatest weapons."
—Alabaster creed

Alabaster Mage

{1}{W}: Target creature you control gains lifelink until end of turn.

Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.

{1}{W}: Target creature you control gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Allosaurus Shepherd

Allosaurus Shepherd can't be countered.
Green spells you control can't be countered.
{4}{G}{G}: Until end of turn, each Elf creature you control has base power and toughness 5/5 and becomes a Dinosaur in addition to its other creature types.

A spell or ability that counters spells can still target spells that can’t be countered. When that spell or ability resolves, the uncounterable spell won’t be countered, but any additional effects of the countering spell or ability will still happen.

Allosaurus Shepherd’s last ability overwrites all previous effects that set the affected creatures’ power and/or toughness to specific values. Other effects that set these characteristics to specific values that start to apply after the ability resolves will overwrite that part of the effect.

Effects that modify an affected creature’s power or toughness without setting it will apply no matter when they started to take effect. The same is true for counters that change the creature’s power or toughness.

The affected creatures don’t lose any abilities when they become Dinosaurs.

This spell can't be countered.
Green spells you control can't be countered.
{4}{G}{G}: Until end of turn, each Elf creature you control has base power and toughness 5/5 and becomes a Dinosaur in addition to its other creature types.

With or without witnesses, the suns continued their prismatic dance.

Alloy Myr

Treefolk and elves share a common interest in the forests, but really the elves just feel at home with the view from above.

Ambassador Oak

When Ambassador Oak enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.

When Ambassador Oak enters, create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.

The mage awakened the statue in hopes of learning the lost lore of her clan, but the statue was interested only in war.

Ancestral Statue

When Ancestral Statue enters the battlefield, return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand.

Ancestral Statue’s ability is mandatory. If Ancestral Statue is the only nonland permanent you control when its ability resolves, you must return it to its owner’s hand.

The triggered ability doesn’t target any permanent. You choose which one to return as the ability resolves. No player can respond to this choice once the ability starts resolving.

When Ancestral Statue enters, return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand.

Every tear shed is a drop of immortality.

Angel of Mercy

Flying
When Angel of Mercy enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

Flying
When Angel of Mercy enters, you gain 3 life.

She arrived like a meteorite, and the enemy fell in a shock wave of holy vengeance.

Angel of the Dire Hour

Flash
Flying
When Angel of the Dire Hour enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, exile all attacking creatures.

Creatures that were declared as attackers or entered the battlefield attacking continue to be attacking creatures until the combat phase ends. It’s possible to exile all attacking creatures after they’ve dealt combat damage if you cast Angel of the Dire Hour during the combat damage step or end of combat step.

If a spell or ability instructs you to put Angel of the Dire Hour onto the battlefield from your hand, that means you won’t have cast it, so its triggered ability won’t trigger.

If you cast Angel of the Dire Hour outside of combat, its triggered ability will trigger but have no effect.

Flash
Flying
When Angel of the Dire Hour enters, if you cast it from your hand, exile all attacking creatures.

Angelic Arbiter

Flying
Each opponent who cast a spell this turn can't attack with creatures.
Each opponent who attacked with a creature this turn can't cast spells.

Angelic Arbiter's last ability applies if an opponent attacked with at least one creature during the current turn.

During an opponent's turn, that opponent may either cast spells or attack with creatures, but not both (assuming that Angelic Arbiter is on the battlefield for the entirety of that turn). The player may perform other actions, such as activating abilities and playing lands.

During your turn, Angelic Arbiter's abilities have no effect on the game.

If Angelic Arbiter enters during an opponent's turn, its abilities take actions that player performed earlier in the turn into account, even though it wasn't on the battlefield at the time. For example, if an opponent casts a spell, then you use Leyline of Anticipation's ability to cast Angelic Arbiter as though it had flash, that player won't be able to attack with creatures that turn.

If Angelic Arbiter leaves the battlefield during an opponent's turn, its abilities cease to affect the game. For example, if an opponent casts Doom Blade to destroy Angelic Arbiter, that player may then attack with creatures.

The Boros built a prison in the sky where Azorius statutes couldn't restrict their sense of justice.

Angelic Edict

If only every message were as perfect as its bearer.

Angelic Page

Flying
{T}: Target attacking or blocking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Llanowar's boughs are ever ready
To unleash an autumn of steel leaves."
—"Song of Freyalise"

Arbor Armament

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. That creature gains reach until end of turn.

Knowledge itself is neither good nor evil. Just as the wrong book in the wrong hands could doom all existence, the same book in the right hands could save it.

Arcane Encyclopedia

"Just as a broken relic can be mended, a shattered history can be made whole."

Archaeomender

When Archaeomender enters the battlefield, return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

When Archaeomender enters, return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Archon of Justice

Flying
When Archon of Justice dies, exile target permanent.

Until Emeria is freed, he raises his sword in her name.

Archon of Redemption

Flying
Whenever Archon of Redemption or another creature with flying enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain life equal to that creature's power.

The creature’s power is determined as the triggered ability resolves, so it will take into account any effects that modify it. If the creature has left the battlefield by the time the triggered ability resolves, its last existence on the battlefield is checked to determine its power.

Flying
Whenever Archon of Redemption or another creature you control with flying enters, you may gain life equal to that creature's power.

Archon of Sun's Grace

A constellation ability triggers whenever an enchantment enters the battlefield under your control for any reason. Enchantments with other card types, such as enchantment creatures, will also cause constellation abilities to trigger.

An Aura spell that has an illegal target when it tries to resolve doesn't resolve and is instead put into its owner's graveyard. It doesn't enter the battlefield, so constellation abilities don't trigger.

Flying, lifelink
Pegasus creatures you control have lifelink.
Constellation — Whenever an enchantment you control enters, create a 2/2 white Pegasus creature token with flying.

Were she not a judge, she'd win the division herself.

Armorcraft Judge

When Armorcraft Judge enters the battlefield, draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Armorcraft Judge's ability counts the number of creatures, not the number of counters. A creature with more than one +1/+1 counter won't cause you to draw more than one card.

The number of creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them is counted only as Armorcraft Judge's triggered ability resolves. Players may respond to the triggered ability by trying to change that number.

When Armorcraft Judge enters, draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on 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.

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.

Assault Formation

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
{G}: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.
{2}{G}: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

Assault Formation’s first ability doesn’t actually change any creature’s power. It changes only the amount of combat damage it assigns. All other rules and effects that check power or toughness use the real values. For example, Hunt the Weak won’t cause a creature to fight with its toughness.

For example, a 2/3 creature will assign 3 combat damage rather than 2.

Audacious Thief

Whenever Audacious Thief attacks, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

"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.

The druids of Mazar treat each seedcone with respect for the warrior it will become.

Awakener Druid

When Awakener Druid enters the battlefield, target Forest becomes a 4/5 green Treefolk creature for as long as Awakener Druid remains on the battlefield. It's still a land.

Awakener Druid's ability affects a land with the land type Forest, not necessarily a land with the name Forest.

Awakener Druid's ability is mandatory. When it enters, you must target a Forest (if there is one), even if you don't control that Forest.

If Awakener Druid and the Treefolk are dealt lethal damage at the same time, both will be destroyed. However, if Awakener Druid leaves the battlefield before the Treefolk is dealt damage, it will immediately revert to being just a land and thus can't be dealt damage.

If Awakener Druid leaves the battlefield before its "enters" ability resolves, nothing happens to the targeted Forest when that ability resolves. It won't become a creature.

If the targeted Forest entered this turn, it will be affected by "summoning sickness" once it becomes a Treefolk. You won't be able to attack with it or use its activated abilities that have {T} in the cost (including its mana ability).

When Awakener Druid enters, target Forest becomes a 4/5 green Treefolk creature for as long as Awakener Druid remains on the battlefield. It's still a land.

"My secret ingredient? Well, I can't tell you that. But here's a hint. It's not love."

Bake into a Pie

Destroy target creature. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures (such as Gingerbrute), it's never a creature type.

Some spells that instruct you to create a Food token have targets. You can't cast these spells without choosing all required targets, and if all of those targets become illegal targets, the spell won't resolve and you won't create any Food. If some but not all of those targets become illegal, you'll do as much as possible, including creating Food.

Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.

You can't sacrifice a Food token to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate the ability of Tempting Witch.

The most frightening storms are those not woven by nature's hand.

Ball Lightning

Trample, haste
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice 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.

Banishing Light

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

If Banishing Light leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, the target permanent won’t be exiled.

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

If an Aura is exiled this way, its owner chooses what it will enchant as it returns to the battlefield. An Aura put onto the battlefield this way doesn’t target anything (so it could be attached to a permanent with shroud, for example), but the Aura’s enchant ability restricts what it can be attached to. If the Aura can’t legally be attached to anything, it remains in exile for the rest of the game.

When Banishing Light enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until Banishing Light leaves the battlefield.

Goblin generals don't distinguish between troops and ammunition.

Barrage of Expendables

{R}, Sacrifice a creature: Barrage of Expendables deals 1 damage to any target.

Barrage of Expendables deals the damage, not the sacrificed creature. Notably, that creature having deathtouch or lifelink provides no additional benefit.

Because targets are chosen before costs are paid, it is possible to choose a creature as the target of the ability and then sacrifice that creature. The ability won’t resolve when it tries to resolve and no damage will be dealt.

"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.

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

Bathe in Dragonfire

Bathe in Dragonfire deals 4 damage to target creature.

"Welcome to the Legion. You saved a district—now let's go save the world."

Battlefield Promotion

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. That creature gains first strike until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Battlefield Promotion tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You don’t gain 2 life.

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.

Whether trained, ridden, or eaten, few goblin military innovations have rivaled the bug.

Beetleback Chief

When Beetleback Chief enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

When Beetleback Chief enters, create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

The trick to talking sense into Keldons is getting them to hold still.

Befuddle

Target creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn.
Draw a card.

If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Befuddle tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t draw a card.

Belltower Sphinx

Flying
Whenever a source deals damage to Belltower Sphinx, that source's controller mills that many cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Flying
Whenever a source deals damage to Belltower Sphinx, that source's controller mills that many cards.

Its last life is spent tormenting your dreams.

Black Cat

When Black Cat dies, target opponent discards a card at random.

Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market.
At the beginning of your precombat main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on Black Market.

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on Black Market.

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