Born of the Gods

BNG · 165 cards · Released

Bile Blight
Instant

Target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Not an arrow loosed, javelin thrown, nor sword raised. None were needed.

Black Oak of Odunos
Creature — Zombie Treefolk

Defender

, Tap another untapped creature you control: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Phenax promised the newly dead souls they would be spared from Erebos. In this, he did not lie.

0/5
Champion of Stray Souls
Creature — Skeleton Warrior

, , Sacrifice X other creatures: Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

: Put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.

4/4
Claim of Erebos
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ", : Target player loses 2 life."

Priests of Erebos give an occasional reminder to mortals who have forgotten their mortality.

Drown in Sorrow
Sorcery

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

"The sad truth is that the whip of Erebos is long enough to wrap around all our throats."

—Perisophia the philosopher

Eater of Hope
Creature — Demon

Flying

, Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate this creature.

, Sacrifice two other creatures: Destroy target creature.

Gods can be appeased. Demons, however . . .

6/4
Eye Gouge
Instant

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. If it's a Cyclops, destroy it.

One chance. One throw. One perfect hit.

Fate Unraveler
Enchantment Creature — Hag

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to that player.

"Never forget that the life you've built can be undone by a single loose thread."

—Perisophia the philosopher

3/4
Fated Return
Instant

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains indestructible. If it's your turn, scry 2.

Felhide Brawler
Creature — Minotaur

This creature can't block unless you control another Minotaur.

Burial rites among the Felhide minotaurs involve devouring those who fell in battle, to remove their shame from memory and to fuel the survivors' revenge.

2/2
Forlorn Pseudamma
Creature — Zombie

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may pay . If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie enchantment creature token.

"More children taken. This is an evil we will track without mercy."

—Anthousa of Setessa

2/1
Forsaken Drifters
Creature — Zombie

When this creature dies, mill four cards.

It is a terrible thing when the path of the Returned leads them back to the Underworld.

4/2
Gild
Sorcery

Exile target creature. Create a Gold token. (It's an artifact with "Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Merchants of the Underworld trade in coins of clay. Gold serves another purpose.

Grisly Transformation
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

When this Aura enters, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has intimidate. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Herald of Torment
Enchantment Creature — Demon

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has flying.

3/3
Marshmist Titan
Creature — Giant

This spell costs less to cast, where X is your devotion to black. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

A favorite of Erebos, for it has sent many to the Underworld.

4/5
Necrobite
Instant

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. Regenerate it. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

A servant of Pharika must know countless balms that heal and soothe—and countless more that do the opposite.

Nyxborn Eidolon
Enchantment Creature — Spirit

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

A body Returned, a soul still lost.

2/1
Odunos River Trawler
Creature — Zombie

When this creature enters, return target enchantment creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

, Sacrifice this creature: Return target enchantment creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

2/2
Pain Seer
Creature — Human Wizard

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Every twitching nerve and pulsing vein carries a message, discernible with the right tools.

2/2
Sanguimancy
Sorcery

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is your devotion to black. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Servant of Tymaret
Creature — Zombie

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

: Regenerate this creature.

Life is most precious to those who have already lost it.

1/3
Shrike Harpy
Creature — Harpy

Flying

Tribute 2 (As this creature enters, an opponent of your choice may put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

When this creature enters, if tribute wasn't paid, target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

2/2
Spiteful Returned
Enchantment Creature — Zombie

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)

Whenever this creature or enchanted creature attacks, defending player loses 2 life.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

1/1
Warchanter of Mogis
Creature — Minotaur Shaman

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, target creature you control gains intimidate until end of turn. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

3/3
Weight of the Underworld
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -3/-2.

Proud Alkmenos, who would not bow to Erebos in death, is now bowed by his own hubris for all eternity.

Akroan Conscriptor
Creature — Human Shaman

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, gain control of another target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

"The time to serve is now."

3/2
Archetype of Aggression
Enchantment Creature — Human Warrior

Creatures you control have trample.

Creatures your opponents control lose trample and can't have or gain trample.

"Did Purphoros bless Maikal because of his rage? Or did Maikal's rage blossom after he'd been blessed? Only the gods know."

—Eocles, oracle of Purphoros

3/2
Bolt of Keranos
Sorcery

Bolt of Keranos deals 3 damage to any target. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

The breakthroughs granted by Keranos, god of epiphany, can be surprisingly literal.

Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass
Creature — Cyclops

The Champion armed herself to face the cyclops, heedless of her companions' despair. "How will you defeat it with only one spear?" asked young Althemone. The Champion raised her weapon. "It has but one eye."

The Theriad

5/2
Epiphany Storm
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ", , Discard a card: Draw a card."

In Meletis, certain oracles are trained to be divine lightning rods, receiving countless visions in an instant.

Everflame Eidolon
Enchantment Creature — Spirit

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)

: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. If it's an Aura, enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn instead.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

1/1
Fall of the Hammer
Instant

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to another target creature.

It is unwise to insult the god of the forge. It is also unwise to stand near anyone else who has insulted him.

Fated Conflagration
Instant

Fated Conflagration deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If it's your turn, scry 2.

Fearsome Temper
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has ": Target creature can't block this creature this turn."

Purphoros is god of creation and destruction, which makes him the most creatively destructive god in the pantheon.

Felhide Spiritbinder
Creature — Minotaur Shaman

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may pay . If you do, create a token that's a copy of another target creature, except it's an enchantment in addition to its other types. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

3/4
Flame-Wreathed Phoenix
Creature — Phoenix

Flying

Tribute 2 (As this creature enters, an opponent of your choice may put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

When this creature enters, if tribute wasn't paid, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand."

3/3
Forgestoker Dragon
Creature — Dragon

Flying

: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature. That creature can't block this combat. Activate only if this creature is attacking.

The Akroans fashion their helms to honor the dragons, not to protect against them, as that would be of little help.

5/4
Impetuous Sunchaser
Creature — Human Soldier

Flying, haste

This creature attacks each combat if able.

"I will soar higher than the walls of Akros! Higher than the clouds! Higher than Heliod himself!"

1/1
Kragma Butcher
Creature — Minotaur Warrior

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Minotaurs go into battle hungry. The first sight of their enemies' blood sends them into a flesh-eating rage.

2/3
Lightning Volley
Instant

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain ": This creature deals 1 damage to any target."

"We are the motes of rain that join to make the thundercloud. The power of the storm god surges through us!"

Nyxborn Rollicker
Enchantment Creature — Satyr

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

1/1
Oracle of Bones
Creature — Minotaur Shaman

Haste

Tribute 2 (As this creature enters, an opponent of your choice may put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

When this creature enters, if tribute wasn't paid, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.

3/1
Pharagax Giant
Creature — Giant

Tribute 2 (As this creature enters, an opponent of your choice may put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

When this creature enters, if tribute wasn't paid, this creature deals 5 damage to each opponent.

3/3
Pinnacle of Rage
Sorcery

Pinnacle of Rage deals 3 damage to each of two targets.

Mount Sulano erupted not in magma but in anger.

Reckless Reveler
Creature — Satyr

, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact.

"The gods of Theros are born of the expectations and beliefs of mortals. If I have found godhood, what does that say about their true desires?"

—Xenagos, god of revels

2/1
Rise to the Challenge
Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

Plidius wagered that Arissa couldn't kill a chimera with her javelins alone. She proved him wrong in a way everyone could see for days to come.

Satyr Firedancer
Enchantment Creature — Satyr

Whenever an instant or sorcery spell you control deals damage to an opponent, this creature deals that much damage to target creature that player controls.

His heart, the coal; his eye, the spark; his hand, the whirling flame.

1/1
Satyr Nyx-Smith
Creature — Satyr Shaman

Haste

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may pay . If you do, create a 3/1 red Elemental enchantment creature token with haste.

2/1
Scouring Sands
Sorcery

Scouring Sands deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

When Purphoros cleans the ashes from his forge, entire cities vanish.

Searing Blood
Instant

Searing Blood deals 2 damage to target creature. When that creature dies this turn, Searing Blood deals 3 damage to the creature's controller.

Purphoros's blessing: sometimes a boon, sometimes a bane. Always ablaze.

Stormcaller of Keranos
Creature — Human Shaman

Haste

: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

A prayer answered by Keranos is clear for all to witness.

2/2
Thunder Brute
Creature — Cyclops

Trample

Tribute 3 (As this creature enters, an opponent of your choice may put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

When this creature enters, if tribute wasn't paid, it gains haste until end of turn.

5/5
Thunderous Might
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks, it gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is your devotion to red. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to red.)

Whims of the Fates
Sorcery

Starting with you, each player separates all permanents they control into three piles. Then each player chooses one of their piles at random and sacrifices those permanents. (Piles can be empty.)

Archetype of Endurance
Enchantment Creature — Boar

Creatures you control have hexproof.

Creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and can't have or gain hexproof.

Despite its fearsome stature, it is as elusive as a shadow, circling round to stalk those who presume to hunt it.

6/5
Aspect of Hydra
Instant

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is your devotion to green. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

"Even alone I outnumber you."

Charging Badger
Creature — Badger

Trample

"If the hierarchies of nature were determined by ferocity alone, the badger would be lord of the beasts."

—Anthousa of Setessa

1/1
Courser of Kruphix
Enchantment Creature — Centaur

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

You may play lands from the top of your library.

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

2/4
Culling Mark
Sorcery

Target creature blocks this turn if able.

Hunt without Nylea's leave and you may find yourself the next quarry.