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.)

"You can come back once you've learned some manners—and figured out how to reconstitute your physical forms."

Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

An "attacking creature" is one that has been declared as an attacker this combat, or one that was put onto the battlefield attacking this combat. Unless that creature leaves combat, it continues to be an attacking creature through the end of combat step, even if the player it was attacking has left the game, or the planeswalker it was attacking has left combat. There's no such thing as an attacking creature outside of the combat phase.

Its fickle form holds hints of a thousand former identities.

Aetherplasm

Whenever Aetherplasm blocks a creature, you may return Aetherplasm to its owner's hand. If you do, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield blocking that creature.

Aetherplasm will return to your hand before any combat damage is assigned.

If you want, you can return Aetherplasm to your hand and not put anything onto the battlefield. The attacking creature will still be considered blocked, so it won't be able to deal combat damage to you unless it has trample or a similar ability.

The creature you put onto the battlefield from your hand is blocking the attacking creature, even if the block couldn't legally be declared (for example, if that creature enters the battlefield tapped, or it can't block, or the attacking creature has protection from it).

The creature you put onto the battlefield may be the Aetherplasm you just returned to your hand. This allows it to dodge abilities like Deathgazer's.

Although the creature that enters the battlefield is blocking, it was never declared as a blocking creature for the purposes of abilities that trigger whenever a creature blocks (such as Aetherplasm's ability, for example).

"If we cannot have peace, we will have justice."
—Aurelia

Angelic Exaltation

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

A creature attacks alone if it’s the only creature declared as an attacker during the declare attackers step (including creatures controlled by your teammates, if applicable). For example, Angelic Exaltation’s ability won’t trigger if you attack with multiple creatures and all but one of them are removed from combat.

The value of X is determined only as Angelic Exaltation’s ability begins to resolve. It won’t change later in the turn if the number of creatures you control changes.

"We fight to stop a tyrant, but we also fight for the gentle creatures who have no concept of what befalls their world."
—Vivien Reid

Arboreal Grazer

Reach
When Arboreal Grazer enters the battlefield, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Arboreal Grazer’s effect doesn’t count as playing a land. It can put a land card onto the battlefield even if you’ve already played your land for the turn.

Arclight Phoenix

Flying, haste
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've cast three or more instant and sorcery spells this turn, return Arclight Phoenix from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Because the beginning of combat step is before attackers are declared, you can attack with Arclight Phoenix during the same combat it returns to the battlefield.

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.

Arrester's Zeal

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, that creature gains flying until end of turn.

Addendum abilities of instant spells apply while the spell is resolving, not immediately after casting it. If the spell is countered, you don’t get the addendum bonus. For example, if you cast Sphinx’s Insight during your main phase, you gain 2 life during its resolution, after you draw two cards.

If a spell with an addendum ability is copied, the copy won’t give you the addendum bonus. This is because the copy wasn’t cast at all.

Assemble the Legion

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a muster counter on Assemble the Legion. Then create a 1/1 red and white Soldier creature token with haste for each muster counter on Assemble the Legion.

If Assemble the Legion isn't on the battlefield when its ability resolves, use the number of muster counters it had when it was last on the battlefield to determine how many Soldier tokens to create.

Assure // Assemble

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

Create three 2/2 green and white Elf Knight creature tokens with vigilance.

Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice

Flying
Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose up to one target creature you control. Until end of turn, that creature gets +2/+0, gains trample if it's red, and gains vigilance if it's white.

Aurelia’s last ability resolves before attackers are chosen.

If the creature with mentor leaves the battlefield with mentor on the stack, use its power as that creature last existed on the battlefield to determine whether the target creature has less power.

If the target creature’s power is no longer less than the attacking creature’s power as the ability resolves, mentor doesn’t add a +1/+1 counter. For example, if two 3/3 creatures with mentor attack and both mentor triggers target the same 2/2 creature, the first to resolve puts a +1/+1 counter on it and the second does nothing.

Mentor compares the power of the creature with mentor with that of the target creature at two different times: once as the triggered ability is put onto the stack, and once as the triggered ability resolves. If you wish to raise a creature’s power so its mentor ability can target a bigger creature, the last chance you have to do so is during the beginning of combat step.

Once Aurelia’s last ability has resolved, the creature keeps whatever bonuses it got from that ability even if its colors change.

The target creature gains trample and vigilance if it’s both red and white. It gets +2/+0 only once, even if it’s both red and white, and even if it’s neither red nor white.

Flying
Mentor
At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose up to one target creature you control. Until end of turn, that creature gets +2/+0, gains trample if it's red, and gains vigilance if it's white.

"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.)

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.

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}.

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

Azorius Guildmage

{2}{W}: Tap target creature.
{2}{U}: Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

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

"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.

The maze-like design embodies the core of Azorius law—strict structure designed to test wills and stall change.

Azorius Signet

Balustrade Spy

Flying
When Balustrade Spy enters the battlefield, target player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

If the target player has no land cards in their library, all cards from that library will be revealed and put into their graveyard.

In times of peril, the vision the ancient paruns had for their city comes into focus.

Band Together

Up to two target creatures you control each deal damage equal to their power to another target creature.

If one of the two target creatures you control is an illegal target as Band Together resolves, the other will still deal damage equal to its power.

If the last target creature is an illegal target as Band Together resolves, or if both of the first targets are illegal targets, no creature deals or is dealt damage.

Basilica Guards

Defender
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {WB}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

The amount of life you gain from extort is based on the total amount of life lost, not necessarily the number of opponents you have. For example, if your opponent’s life total can’t change (perhaps because that player controls Platinum Emperion), you won’t gain any life.

The extort ability doesn’t target any player.

You may pay {W/B} a maximum of one time for each extort triggered ability. You decide whether to pay when the ability resolves.

Defender
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Bedeck // Bedazzle

Target creature gets +3/-3 until end of turn.

You can’t cast Bedazzle without a target nonbasic land and a target opponent or planeswalker. If one of the targets is illegal when Bedazzle tries to resolve, the other is still affected as appropriate.

Destroy target nonbasic land. Bedazzle deals 2 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Long ago, birds of paradise littered the skies. Thanks to the city's sprawl, most now exist as pets of society's elite.

Birds of Paradise

Blade Juggler

Spectacle {2}{B} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
When Blade Juggler enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

A card’s spectacle cost is the same no matter how much life your opponents lost or how many opponents lost life.

Damage dealt to a player causes that player to lose that much life.

In a multiplayer game, if an opponent loses life and later that turn leaves the game, you can cast a spell for its spectacle cost. (If a player leaves the game during their turn, that turn continues without an active player.)

Spectacle doesn’t change when you can cast the card. For example, you can’t cast a sorcery with spectacle during an opponent’s turn unless another effect allows you to do so, even if that player has lost life this turn.

To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you’re paying (such as a spectacle 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.

"The pain of searing iron and razor edges pales beside the pleasure of performance."
—Judith

Bladebrand

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Draw a card.

If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Bladebrand tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You don't draw a card.

"Through the haze of battle I saw the glint of sun on golden mane, the sheen of glory clad in mail, and I dropped my sword and wept at the idiocy of war."
—Dravin, Gruul deserter

Blazing Archon

Unless some effect explicitly says otherwise, a creature that can’t attack you can still attack a planeswalker you control.

Blind Hunter

Flying
Haunt (When this creature dies, exile it haunting target creature.)
When Blind Hunter enters the battlefield or the creature it haunts dies, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

"By the time your knees have worn through your robe, you may have begun to learn your place."

Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {WB}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Extort
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Blood Crypt

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

As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield 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.

Bomber Corps

Battalion — Whenever Bomber Corps and at least two other creatures attack, Bomber Corps deals 1 damage to any target.

Once a battalion ability has triggered, it doesn’t matter how many creatures are still attacking when that ability resolves.

The effects of battalion abilities vary from card to card. Read each card carefully.

The three attacking creatures don’t have to be attacking the same player or planeswalker.

Borborygmos Enraged

Trample
Whenever Borborygmos Enraged deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Discard a land card: Borborygmos Enraged deals 3 damage to any target.

"First, you must fight among the rank and file. It is there I will discern your skills as a leader."
—Aurelia, to Gideon Jura

Boros Elite

Battalion — Whenever Boros Elite and at least two other creatures attack, Boros Elite gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Enter with merciful hearts. Exit with battle cries.

Boros Guildgate

Boros Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Boros Guildmage

{1}{R}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.
{1}{W}: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"Have you ever held a Boros signet? There's a weight to it that belies its size—a weight of strength and of pride."
—Agrus Kos

Boros Signet

Bottled Cloister

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, exile all cards from your hand face down.
At the beginning of your upkeep, return all cards you own exiled with Bottled Cloister to your hand, then draw a card.

Errata’d to make it clear that only the cards you own go into your hand, so if you somehow gain control of the Cloister, your opponent’s cards won’t go to your hand.

Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Bruvac the Grandiloquent

If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill twice that many cards instead.

Because Bruvac is legendary, it’s unlikely that one player will control two. However, if that happens, each opponent mills four times as many cards as originally instructed. If they control three, their opponents mill eight times as many, and so on.

If a player is instructed to put a card into their graveyard without using the word “mill,” Bruvac’s ability doesn’t apply.

Many cards printed before the Core Set 2021 release have received errata to instruct a player to mill cards rather than to put the top cards of their library into their graveyard. Use the Oracle™ card reference at Gatherer.Wizards.com to determine whether a specific card has received such errata. As a rule of thumb, if an effect instructs a player to look at or reveal a card before it’s put into its owner’s graveyard, it’s unlikely to have received errata.

If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill twice that many cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

"Where did *she* come from? More importantly, are there more like her?"
—Gideon Jura

Bulwark Giant

When Bulwark Giant enters the battlefield, you gain 5 life.

"Even rats hoard their treasures. Are your precious things so different?"
—Izoni

Burglar Rat

When Burglar Rat enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

"From a great bonfire at the dawn of time, the first Gruul kindled their rage. The same flame burns in you."
—Kroshkar, Gruul shaman

Burn Bright

Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

"This day will end in death, but not the one you hoped for. This day will end in victory, but not the one you expected."

Burning Prophet

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Burning Prophet gets +1/+0 until end of turn, then scry 1.

Burning Prophet’s ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.

The ostentatious splendor of the Orzhov church was just asking to be smashed.

Burning-Tree Vandal

Riot (This creature enters the battlefield with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.)
Whenever Burning-Tree Vandal attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

If a creature entering the battlefield has riot but can’t have a +1/+1 counter put onto it, it gains haste.

If you choose for the creature to gain haste, it gains haste indefinitely. It won’t lose it as the turn ends or as another player gains control of it.

Riot is a replacement effect. Players can’t respond to your choice of +1/+1 counter or haste, and they can’t take actions while the creature is on the battlefield without one or the other.

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

Call of the Conclave

Create a 3/3 green Centaur creature token.

Carom

The next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn is dealt to another target creature instead.
Draw a card.

Carom’s controller draws a card when Carom resolves, not when the damage is redirected.

If either target has left the battlefield before the damage would be dealt, that damage isn’t redirected.

"Your life serves a higher purpose now: ensuring the continuation of my own."

Cartel Aristocrat

Sacrifice another creature: Cartel Aristocrat gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

You choose the color when the ability resolves.

"About the sphinx, I have mixed feelings. Their wisdom I crave, but their secrecy I can't tolerate."
—Szadek

Cerulean Sphinx

Flying
{U}: Cerulean Sphinx's owner shuffles it into their library.

Chord of Calling

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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

If a creature you control has a mana ability with {T} in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with convoke will result in the creature being tapped before you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for convoke. Similarly, if you sacrifice a creature to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with convoke, that creature won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for convoke.

When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Convoke applies after the total cost is calculated. Convoke doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.

When using convoke to cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost, first choose the value for X. That choice, plus any cost increases or decreases, will determine the spell's total cost. Then you can tap creatures you control to help pay that cost. For example, if you cast Chord of Calling (a spell with convoke and mana cost {X}{G}{G}{G}) and choose X to be 3, the total cost is {3}{G}{G}{G}. If you tap two green creatures and two red creatures, you'll have to pay {1}{G}.

You can tap any untapped creature you control to convoke a spell, even one you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.

Convoke
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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."
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

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