Champions of Kamigawa

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

When a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, flip this creature.

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

"Our own actions built the prisons that now hold us. Our hands reached too far and tried to hold too much."

—Dosan the Falling Leaf

Untap all creatures you control. Samurai creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"General Takeno glared at us as if we were the enemy. 'The day is not over yet,' he shouted, 'and unless you have a nezumi's heart, you will stand and fight!'"

—Battle of Akagi River: A Survivor's Tale

Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Destroy all enchantments.

During the war, the rites of purification were still effective, but the kami, not the kitsune, chose what to cleanse.

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Deep within Eiganjo Castle lay the Palace of Infinite Halls, a seemingly endless network of corridors once guarded by a seemingly endless legion of samurai.

: Target permanent you control gains protection from white until end of turn.

: Target spell or permanent becomes white until end of turn.

"Virtue is an inner light that can prevail in every soul."

Prevent all damage that would be dealt by creatures this turn.

"Imagine a dove flying through smoke. Does the dove injure the smoke? Does the smoke impede the dove?"

—Teachings of Eight-and-a-Half-Tails

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Destroyed in one of the first battles of the Kami War, the town of Reito still grieved.

: Look at the top card of your library.

: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, untap this creature and it gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

Flying

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may exile Hikari. If you do, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Blocking creatures get +7/+7 until end of turn.

"Forgive me, Master Kami, but in the interest of my people I must halt your advance."

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life for each Shrine you control.

To the sorrow of all, its fire was turned toward those who worshipped it.

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, regenerate target creature.

In peaceful times, these beings escorted the honored kami to their new shrines. In the Kami War, they became the medics of an unstoppable army.

Flying

Soulshift 4 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

"None of you are yet samurai. Defend your homes with honor, die for your cause, and perhaps then you will be worthy of the word."

—General Takeno

, : Tap target creature.

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, untap this creature.

Her voice was light, her substance music.

The hound sniffed the air and let slip a low growl. General Takeno looked down at the faithful Isamaru and calmed him with a touch. "Alert the men. The kami are coming."

Flying

: Target creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

"Many great warriors died in the first days of the war, as the spirits of their weaponry turned against them with terrifying rage."

—Observations of the Kami War

Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target enchantment.

"Duty and law are the foundation on which civilization stands. They must not fall, for when they do, they take everything with them."

—Lord Konda

"There was a wall here. Now it is dust. A tower rose here. Now it is fallen. An army fought here. Now it is dead. A spirit was here. It is all that remains."

—Snow-Fur, kitsune poet

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, this creature gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

In ancient times, precepts of kami law were inscribed onto bridges as a gesture of respect. During the war, humans regarded them as warnings of where not to travel.

Flying, first strike

Soulshift 5 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 5 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

First strike

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Those kitsune trained in the blade preferred to fight with a blade-catching jitte in the off hand, buying them just enough time to deliver the first deadly cut.

: Tap target Spirit.

She who once led prayers honoring the kami adapted to use her influence to stay them.

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target legendary creature this turn.

At the beginning of the end step, if this creature is enchanted by two or more Auras, flip it.

Protection from Spirits and from Arcane

The wake of his passage shoved aside the influence of the kami.

Vigilance, indestructible

Bushido 5 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +5/+5 until end of turn.)

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

As long as you control a legendary Samurai, this creature gets +1/+2 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Flying

"Snuffing the light of a lantern without saying a small prayer is bad luck. Though its flame can only singe, its soul can repeatedly visit misery on one's house."

—Teachings of Eight-and-a-Half-Tails

Flash

Tapped creatures you control can block as though they were untapped.

Konda's servants dared not neglect their duties for a moment under Masako's icy gaze, knowing that what she saw, Lord Konda would hear.

Flying

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

When the night blossoms open, the wings of Eiganjo take flight.

Myojin of Cleansing Fire enters with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand.

Myojin of Cleansing Fire has indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it.

Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Cleansing Fire: Destroy all other creatures.

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Whenever Nagao attacks, Samurai creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Exile target creature. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

"The landscape shimmered and I felt a chill breeze. When my vision cleared, I found myself alone among the corpses of my fallen friends."

—Journal found in Numai

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a devotion counter on this creature. Then if a creature named Eight-and-a-Half-Tails is on the battlefield, you gain 1 life for each devotion counter on this creature.

, Remove a devotion counter from this creature: You gain 1 life.

Destroy target enchantment.

"When the Kami of Utter Silence passes, walls lose their secrets. Scrolls lose their lessons. Tapestries lose their beauty. Where there was meaning, there is only stillness."

—Sensei Hisoka

Exile target creature that dealt damage to you this turn.

"Just as the noble soul calls virtue to itself, the evil soul summons harm."

—Teachings of Eight-and-a-Half-Tails

Redistribute any number of players' life totals. (Each of those players gets one life total back.)

Worse than the years of aging was the burden of memory. The young monk lost his youth and gained a vicarious lifetime of hardship and woe.

Bushido 2 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.)

From the moment they swore their oaths, they belonged to their lord, sword and soul.

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

If a permanent would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

, : Put a training counter on target creature. That creature gains bushido 1 and becomes a Samurai in addition to its other creature types. Activate only as a sorcery.

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life for each Zubera that died this turn.

When the Honden of Cleansing Fire was abandoned, its attendants swarmed Kamigawa to erode mortal will.

Bushido 2 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.)

Each other Samurai creature you control gets +1/+1 for each point of bushido it has.

Tap up to three target creatures.

"The sun kami is terrible to behold. When its temper flares, best seek shade and pray for forgiveness."

—Sensei Golden-Tail

: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to target legendary creature you control this turn is dealt to you instead.

"My life is yours, my lord. There is no greater service than to yield it for your safety."

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)

"Put a spear in a peasant's hands, and you have an expendable troop. Put a purpose in his heart, and you win a warrior."

—Sensei Golden-Tail

Flying

When Yosei dies, target player skips their next untap step. Tap up to five target permanents that player controls.

Enchant creature

, Tap an untapped creature you control: Untap enchanted creature.

"Lies and deceit do yield results, but legitimate authority is the ultimate form of control."

—Meloku the Clouded Mirror

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Draw a card.

"Choices belong to those with the luxuries of time and distance. We have neither. I recommend we proceed with the plan to destroy all shrines of the kami."

—Lady Azami, letter to Sensei Hisoka

: Look at the top card of your library.

: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, this creature gets +1/+0 and gains flying until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Draw two cards.

"Wisdom is not the counting of all the drops in a waterfall. Wisdom is learning why the water seeks the earth."

For each Spirit, return it to its owner's hand unless that player pays .

"You cannot bar the path of gods. You can only divert their journey for a while."

—Sensei Hisoka

Target player mills four cards.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Search your library for an Arcane card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"Though in years past speculation was not encouraged about the strange ways of kami, now we must understand their motivations, if such is even possible to the mortal mind."

—Lady Azami

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

"Once we prayed to the kaijin for safe voyage. Now we only pray that we can escape their gaze."

—Hayato, master sailor

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked by Spirits.

: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

"The scholars of the Minamo School understood the veil between their world and that of the kami. Moreover, they knew how to exploit it."

—Observations of the Kami War