The Izzet quickly suspended their policy of lifetime guarantees.

Abrupt Decay

Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities.
Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.

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

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

The mana value of a token that isn't a copy of another object is 0. A token that is a copy of another object has the same mana cost as that object.

If you target a creature with ward, you may still pay the ward cost, but Abrupt Decay won't be countered even if you don't.

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.

In the towering trees of the Samok Stand and the predators that guard them, the might of the Ravnican wild has returned.

Aerial Predation

Destroy target creature with flying. You gain 2 life.

You must be able to target a creature with flying to cast Aerial Predation.

If the creature with flying is an illegal target when Aerial Predation tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't gain 2 life.

Angel of Serenity

Flying
When Angel of Serenity enters the battlefield, you may exile up to three other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards.
When Angel of Serenity leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

If Angel of Serenity leaves the battlefield before its "enters" ability has resolved, its leaves-the-battlefield ability will trigger and do nothing. Then the "enters" ability will resolve and exile the targeted creatures and/or creature cards indefinitely.

If a creature targeted by the "enters" ability dies before that ability resolves, it will become an illegal target even though it may be a creature card in a graveyard when the ability resolves. It won't be exiled.

You choose the targets as part of putting the "enters" trigger on the stack. Because that ability includes "you may," you choose whether to exile the targets when the ability resolves.

You choose up to three total targets from among other creatures on the battlefield and creature cards in graveyards. You may choose zero targets.

Flying
When Angel of Serenity enters, you may exile up to three other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards.
When Angel of Serenity leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

"The most impressive performances can be done only once."
—Mote, Rakdos madcap

Annihilating Fire

Annihilating Fire deals 3 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

A creature dealt damage by Annihilating Fire that dies this turn will be exiled even if it wasn’t the target of Annihilating Fire (say, because the damage was redirected somehow).

A creature dealt damage by Annihilating Fire will be exiled no matter why the creature would die. It could be destroyed by another spell or ability.

Annihilating Fire deals 3 damage to any target. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

In water, it's as graceful as a dolphin. On land, it darts and jerks so unpredictably that few can ride it for long.

Aquus Steed

{2}{U}, {T}: Target creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn.

Archon of the Triumvirate

The nonland permanents will be detained before blockers are chosen. Notably, a creature detained this way can’t block before it is detained.

The two nonland permanents can be controlled by the same opponent or by different opponents.

Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form “[cost]: [effect].” No one can activate any activated abilities, including mana abilities, of a detained permanent.

If a creature is already attacking or blocking when it’s detained, it won’t be removed from combat. It will continue to attack or block.

If a noncreature permanent is detained and later turns into a creature, it won’t be able to attack or block.

If a permanent’s activated ability is on the stack when that permanent is detained, the ability will be unaffected.

The static abilities of a detained permanent still apply. The triggered abilities of a detained permanent can still trigger.

When a player leaves a multiplayer game, any continuous effects with durations that last until that player’s next turn or until a specific point in that turn will last until that turn would have begun. They neither expire immediately nor last indefinitely.

Flying
Whenever Archon of the Triumvirate attacks, detain up to two target nonland permanents your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those permanents can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

The silk of the archweavers adds structural integrity to otherwise unstable Izzet building sites.

Archweaver

Armada Wurm

Trample
When Armada Wurm enters the battlefield, put a 5/5 green Wurm creature token with trample onto the battlefield.

Trample
When Armada Wurm enters, create a 5/5 green Wurm creature token with trample.

The Dimir agents watched from the shadows. "Eight hours, and I've yet to see him blink," Nefara hissed. "I suggest we find another way in."

Armory Guard

Armory Guard has vigilance as long as you control a Gate.

Vigilance only matters when Armory Guard is being declared as an attacking creature. If Armory Guard is already attacking, losing control of your only Gate won’t cause Armory Guard to become tapped or to leave combat.

"We will prove your guilt. We don't arrest the innocent, you know."
—Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Arrest

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.

"Smarter than death? Let's see you outsmart my mace, necromancer!"

Ash Zealot

First strike, haste
Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, Ash Zealot deals 3 damage to that player.

Ash Zealot’s ability doesn’t allow any player to cast cards from a graveyard. Such cards need another way to be cast, such as the flashback ability.

Ash Zealot’s ability doesn’t trigger if you put a card onto the battlefield from a graveyard (using Grave Betrayal’s ability, for example).

Ash Zealot’s triggered ability will resolve before that spell resolves.

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.

"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.

"Forgive the theft. Punish the deception."
—Alcarus, Selesnya archer

Avenging Arrow

Destroy target creature that dealt damage this turn.

Avenging Arrow doesn’t affect the damage the creature dealt. It isn’t retroactively prevented.

It doesn’t matter what the creature dealt damage to. If the creature dealt damage to another creature or a planeswalker, it doesn’t matter whether that creature or planeswalker is still on the battlefield.

Only a worthy few are permitted within the sentient forest known as Axebane.

Axebane Guardian

Defender
{T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool, where X is the number of creatures with defender you control.

Axebane Guardian’s activated ability is a mana ability. It doesn’t use the stack and can’t be responded to. The number of creatures with defender you control is counted, and the color(s) of mana produced chosen, immediately after the ability is activated when the ability resolves.

Defender
{T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

"When the spires have burned and the cobblestones are dust, he will take his rightful place as king of the wilds."
—Kirce, Axebane guardian

Axebane Stag

Azor's Elocutors

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a filibuster counter on Azor's Elocutors. Then if Azor's Elocutors has five or more filibuster counters on it, you win the game.
Whenever a source deals damage to you, remove a filibuster counter from Azor's Elocutors.

The second ability of Azor’s Elocutors removes one filibuster counter per source, no matter how much damage that source dealt. For example, if two attacking creatures deal damage to you at the same time, two filibuster counters will be removed.

You’ll only win the game if Azor’s Elocutors has five or more filibuster counters on it when the first ability resolves. For example, if Azor’s Elocutors has four filibuster counters on it and you somehow add another during your main phase, you won’t win the game immediately.

"You have the right to remain silent. Mostly because I tire of your excuses."

Azorius Arrester

When Azorius Arrester enters the battlefield, detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

When Azorius Arrester enters, detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

"The rules of logic and order have already made the choice for you."
—Isperia

Azorius Charm

Choose one — Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn; or draw a card; or put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.

Choose one —
• Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
• Draw a card.
• Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

Enter the Senate, the seat of justice and the foundation of Ravnican society.

Azorius Guildgate

Azorius Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U} to your mana pool.

The subtype Gate has no special rules significance, but other spells and abilities may refer to it.

Azorius Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

"Your potential to commit a crime warrants further investigation."

Azorius Justiciar

When Azorius Justiciar enters the battlefield, detain up to two target creatures your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those creatures can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

The two creatures can be controlled by the same opponent or by different opponents.

When Azorius Justiciar enters, detain up to two target creatures your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those creatures can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

"The higher the mind soars, the greater its understanding of the law."
—Isperia

Azorius Keyrune

{T}: Add {W} or {U} to your mana pool.
{W}{U}: Azorius Keyrune becomes a 2/2 white and blue Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

Activating the ability that turns the Keyrune into a creature while it’s already a creature will override any effects that set its power and/or toughness to another number, but effects that modify power and/or toughness without directly setting them will still apply.

Until the ability that turns the Keyrune into a creature resolves, the Keyrune is colorless.

{T}: Add {W} or {U}.
{W}{U}: Azorius Keyrune becomes a 2/2 white and blue Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

Novice shopkeeps spend hours deciding how best to display their wares. Veterans focus on portability.

Batterhorn

When Batterhorn enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact.

When Batterhorn enters, you may destroy target artifact.

The Hauler's Collective wields great influence over the Ravnican merchant class. Without it, little moves in the city.

Bazaar Krovod

Whenever Bazaar Krovod attacks, another target attacking creature gets +0/+2 until end of turn. Untap that creature.

Bazaar Krovod’s ability can target an attacking creature that’s untapped (such as one with vigilance).

Untapping an attacking creature doesn’t cause it to stop attacking or remove it from combat.

As the price of wood and coal rose, smiths found creative ways to keep their forges burning.

Bellows Lizard

{1}{R}: Bellows Lizard gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Azorius lawmages would like to outlaw the creation of weirds, but first they'd have to settle their long-standing debate on how to classify them.

Blistercoil Weird

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Blistercoil Weird gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap it.

Blistercoil Weird will get +1/+1 and untap before that instant or sorcery spell resolves.

Blistercoil Weird will get +1/+1 even if the instant or sorcery spell is countered or if Blistercoil Weird is untapped when its ability resolves.

If you copy an instant or sorcery spell on the stack (using Nivix Guildmage’s second ability, for example), the copy isn’t cast. Blistercoil Weird’s ability won’t trigger.

Where the dead serve as diversion, decor, and dessert.

Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R} to your mana pool.)
As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Blood Crypt enters the battlefield tapped.

If an effect puts this land onto the battlefield tapped, you may pay 2 life, but it still enters tapped.

Unlike most dual lands, this land has two basic land types. It's not basic, so cards such as District Guide can't find it, but it does have the appropriate land types for effects such as that of Drowned Catacomb (from the Ixalan set).

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
As Blood Crypt enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

The star performer of the Juri Revue, his shows have fans and blood spilling into the street.

Bloodfray Giant

Trample
Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

A creature with unleash can’t block if it has any +1/+1 counter on it, not just one put on it by the unleash ability.

Putting a +1/+1 counter on a creature with unleash that’s already blocking won’t remove it from combat. It will continue to block.

The unleash ability applies no matter where the creature is entering the battlefield from.

You make the choice to have the creature with unleash enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter or not as it’s entering the battlefield. At that point, it’s too late for a player to respond to the creature spell by trying to counter it, for example.

Trample
Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Weather is more predictable than the Izzet.

Blustersquall

Tap target creature you don't control.
Overload {3}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Because a spell with overload doesn't target when its overload cost is paid, it may affect permanents with hexproof or with protection from the appropriate color.

If you are instructed to cast a spell with overload "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to pay its overload cost instead.

If you don't pay the overload cost of a spell with overload, that spell will have a single target. If you pay the overload cost, the spell won't have any targets.

To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an overload cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

Tap target creature you don't control.
Overload {3}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Magistrate Ludy agreed to designate land for the brushstriders only after several broken windows and dozens of missing blini-cakes.

Brushstrider

Centaurs are sent to evangelize in Gruul territories where words of war speak louder than prayers of peace.

Call of the Conclave

Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.

Create a 3/3 green Centaur creature token.

"It is forbidden. Asking why is irrelevant."
—Sergiu, Opal Lake magistrate

Cancel

Its favorite treats are candied hands and sweet hearts.

Carnival Hellsteed

First strike, haste
Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

First strike, haste
Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

"The entire murder scene was covered in dripping, oozing slime. No need for a soothsayer to solve that one."
—Pel Javya, Wojek investigator

Catacomb Slug

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.

The farther they go from Vitu-Ghazi, the less willing the crowd is to part for them.

Centaur's Herald

{2}{G}, Sacrifice Centaur's Herald: Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.

Once you activate the ability of Centaur’s Herald, it’s too late for a player to respond by trying to destroy it or otherwise stop you from sacrificing it.

You can only sacrifice Centaur’s Herald once, so it’s not possible to activate its ability more than once.

{2}{G}, Sacrifice Centaur's Herald: Create a 3/3 green Centaur creature token.

Chaos Imps

Flying
Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Chaos Imps has trample as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.

Chaos Imps will have trample if it has any +1/+1 counter on it, not just the one put on it by the unleash ability.

Flying
Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Chaos Imps has trample as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.

Chemister's Trick

Target creature you don't control gets -2/-0 until end of turn and attacks this turn if able.
Overload {3}{U}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

If you cast Chemister's Trick with overload, only creatures you don't control that are on the battlefield when Chemister's Trick resolves are affected. Creatures that come under another player's control later in the turn are not.

If, during a player's declare attacker's step, a creature is tapped, is affected by a spell or ability that says it can't attack, or hasn't been under that player's control continuously since the turn began (and doesn't have haste), then it doesn't attack. If there's a cost associated with having a creature attack, the player isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack in that case either.

The controller of a creature that attacks if able still chooses which player or planeswalker it attacks.

Target creature you don't control gets -2/-0 until end of turn and attacks this turn if able.
Overload {3}{U}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

"In each of us is the strength of all of us."
—Trostani

Chorus of Might

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+1 for each creature you control and gains trample.

The number of creatures you control is counted only when Chorus of Might resolves.

Dimir mages put the lanterns to good use, creating shapeshifters and sleeper agents from mana foreign to them.

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."
{T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Lands you control won't lose any other abilities they had. They also won't gain or lose any land types.

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

With the Izzet occupied elsewhere, many of their public works fell into disrepair.

Chronic Flooding

Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Chronic Flooding becoming attached to a tapped land won’t cause its ability to immediately trigger. That land must go from untapped to tapped.

Chronic Flooding’s ability will trigger whenever the enchanted land becomes tapped for any reason, not just because its controller taps it for mana.

Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller mills three cards.

Those without a guild signet often display a different form of protection.

Civic Saber

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each of its colors.
Equip {1}

Civic Saber’s bonus can range from +0/+0 (for a colorless creature) to +5/+0 (for a creature that’s all five colors).

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Aerial Predation - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Angel of Serenity - 2003	Creature	$0.15 ^(5.15)
Annihilating Fire - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Aquus Steed - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Archon of the Triumvirate - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Archweaver - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.05)
Armada Wurm - 2003	Creature	$0.15 ^(1.65)
Armory Guard - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Arrest - 2003	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Ash Zealot - 2003	Creature	$0.08 ^(-0.25)
Assassin's Strike - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Auger Spree - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Avenging Arrow - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Axebane Guardian - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(2.02)
Axebane Stag - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Azor's Elocutors - 2003	Creature	$0.08 ^(2.08)
Azorius Arrester - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Azorius Charm - 2003	Instant	$0.02 ^(0.12)
Azorius Guildgate - 2003	Land	$0.02 ^(0.25)
Azorius Justiciar - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.05)
Azorius Keyrune - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.05)
Batterhorn - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bazaar Krovod - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bellows Lizard - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Blistercoil Weird - 2003	Creature	$0.05 ^(0.05)
Blood Crypt - 2003	Land	$12.00 ^(23.00)
Bloodfray Giant - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Blustersquall - 2003	Instant	$0.05 ^(4.00)
Brushstrider - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Call of the Conclave - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.05)
Cancel - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Carnival Hellsteed - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Catacomb Slug - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Centaur Healer - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Centaur's Herald - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Chaos Imps - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Chemister's Trick - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Chorus of Might - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Chronic Flooding - 2003	Enchantment	$0.02 ^(-0.10)
Civic Saber - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.05)
Cobblebrute - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Codex Shredder - 2003	Artifact	$0.02 ^(3.02)
Collective Blessing - 2003	Enchantment	$0.15 ^(1.65)
Common Bond - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Concordia Pegasus - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Conjured Currency - 2003	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Corpsejack Menace - 2003	Creature	$1.25 ^(1.40)
Counterflux - 2003	Instant	$0.08 ^(0.58)

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