Core Set 2020

M20 · 345 cards · Released

Frilled Sea Serpent
Creature — Serpent

: This creature can't be blocked this turn.

"Reel it in. No, wait! Throw it back!"

—Gertrude, deep-sea angler

4/6
Frost Lynx
Creature — Elemental Cat

When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

It readily attacks much larger prey, knowing retaliation is impossible.

2/2
Hard Cover
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and has ": Draw a card, then discard a card."

A good book is a refuge, but a great book is a fortress.

Leyline of Anticipation
Enchantment

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Masterful Replication
Instant

Choose one —

• Create two 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature tokens.

• Choose target artifact you control. Each other artifact you control becomes a copy of that artifact until end of turn.

Metropolis Sprite
Creature — Faerie Rogue

Flying

: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

"Well, if that goblin didn't want his tongue pierced, he shouldn't have stuck it out at me."

1/2
Moat Piranhas
Creature — Fish

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

"Come on, it's not even that deep!"

—Gorin the Brazen

3/3
Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer
Legendary Planeswalker — Yanling

[+2]: Until your next turn, up to one target creature gets -2/-0 and loses flying.

[−3]: Create a 4/4 blue Elemental Bird creature token with flying.

[−8]: You get an emblem with "Islands you control have ': Draw a card.'"

Loyalty: 2
Negate
Instant

Counter target noncreature spell.

"As one, nature lifts its voice to tell you this: 'No.'"

Octoprophet
Creature — Octopus

When this creature enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

In every swirl of the tide, it sees the awakening of things yet to come.

3/3
Portal of Sanctuary
Artifact

, : Return target creature you control and each Aura attached to it to their owners' hands. Activate only during your turn.

"If you need to disappear for a while, I know a place."

—Bilivus, master archivist

Renowned Weaponsmith
Creature — Human Artificer

: Add . Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.

, : Search your library for a card named Heart-Piercer Bow or Vial of Dragonfire, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

1/3
Sage's Row Denizen
Creature — Vedalken Wizard

Whenever another blue creature you control enters, target player mills two cards.

"Forget what you have learned from other teachers. I bring you the truth."

2/3
Scholar of the Ages
Creature — Human Wizard

When this creature enters, return up to two target instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand.

"I study the past to find hope for the future."

3/3
Sleep Paralysis
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature.

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Sleep doesn't always mean rest.

Spectral Sailor
Creature — Spirit Pirate

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

Flying

: Draw a card.

"Any ship that sails on these mean seas for long is bound to pick up a ghost or two."

—Admiral Beckett Brass

1/1
Tale's End
Instant

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

"When you are gone, will anyone remember your story?"

—Unknown

Unsummon
Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

"Don't you have somewhere else to be?"

—Sharuum the Hegemon

Warden of Evos Isle
Creature — Bird Wizard

Flying

Creature spells with flying you cast cost less to cast.

On Evos Isle, the swift and formidable aven enforce the will of the ruling sphinxes.

2/2
Winged Words
Sorcery

This spell costs less to cast if you control a creature with flying.

Draw two cards.

Magic written across the sky falls like rain on thirsty ground, bringing forth wisdom in its season.

Yarok's Wavecrasher
Creature — Elemental

When this creature enters, return another creature you control to its owner's hand.

"Yarok's waters rush and rage

Where armies bled into the sand."

Lament for Bala Ged, stanza 2

4/4
Zephyr Charge
Enchantment

: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"The knights charged forward on wings of wind, and the necromancer's horde roared in helpless rage."

—Krinnea, Siege of the Bone Spire

Agonizing Syphon
Sorcery

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

"Your death will take a mere moment, but it will feel like an eternity."

—Vilis, Broker of Blood

Audacious Thief
Creature — Human Rogue

Whenever this creature attacks, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

"Skill, imagination, smarts: none of it matters unless you have the nerve to use it."

2/2
Barony Vampire
Creature — Vampire

"Poor little sun-dweller out past curfew. And to think, you might have survived if it wasn't so close to suppertime."

3/2
Bladebrand
Instant

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"One knife, two knives, three knives, four—which will drop you to the floor?"

Blightbeetle
Creature — Insect

Protection from green (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything green.)

Creatures your opponents control can't have +1/+1 counters put on them.

Leaf and soul alike wither at its touch.

1/1
Blood Burglar
Creature — Vampire Rogue

During your turn, this creature has lifelink.(Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

"You've heard that a vampire can't enter a home without an invitation? A lie meant to help you sleep at night."

—Kerin, watch sergeant

2/2
Blood for Bones
Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.

Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then return another creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Bloodsoaked Altar
Artifact

, Pay 2 life, Discard a card, Sacrifice a creature: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. Activate only as a sorcery.

Blood seeps into the stone, and darkness emerges.

Bloodthirsty Aerialist
Creature — Vampire Rogue

Flying

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

A circus acrobat in life, she kills with such fluid grace that even her victims are awed by her performance.

2/3
Bone Splinters
Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.

Destroy target creature.

"I will make your bones into a weapon that will lay even the mighty low."

—Modriss of Zargoth Fen

Boneclad Necromancer
Creature — Human Wizard

When this creature enters, you may exile target creature card from a graveyard. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

"Living or dead, everyone responds to the proper motivation."

3/3
Cavalier of Night
Creature — Elemental Knight

Lifelink

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

When this creature dies, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

4/5
Disfigure
Instant

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

"Let this serve as a reminder of your failure."

—Exdratha, bog witch

Dread Presence
Creature — Nightmare

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —

• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

• This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

It beckons silently, waiting in the darkness.

3/3
Duress
Sorcery

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Resistance is unthinkable.

Embodiment of Agonies
Creature — Demon

Flying, deathtouch

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each different mana cost among nonland cards in your graveyard. (For example, and are different mana costs.)

"I feel your pain. It's exquisite."

0/0
Epicure of Blood
Creature — Vampire

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

"Fleshy, with just a hint of leather. A fine vintage."

4/4
Fathom Fleet Cutthroat
Creature — Human Pirate

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn.

"It was a bad evening for you, mate. Now it's chow time for the sharks."

3/3
Feral Abomination
Creature — Thrull

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

"If you manage to get to the heart of the bog, you'll find things there that make zombies seem downright lovable."

—Byaras, backwoods guide

5/5
Gorging Vulture
Creature — Bird

Flying

When this creature enters, mill four cards. You gain 1 life for each creature card milled this way. (To mill four cards, put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.)

2/2
Gravedigger
Creature — Zombie

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

In Amonkhet's ever-shifting sands, nothing stays buried for long.

2/2
Gruesome Scourger
Creature — Orc Warrior

When this creature enters, it deals damage to target opponent or planeswalker equal to the number of creatures you control.

His whips twist and tremble like living things, moved by the fury of the horde he commands.

3/3
Knight of the Ebon Legion
Creature — Vampire Knight

: This creature gets +3/+3 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

At the beginning of your end step, if a player lost 4 or more life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (Damage causes loss of life.)

1/2
Legion's End
Sorcery

Exile target creature an opponent controls with mana value 2 or less and all other creatures that player controls with the same name as that creature. Then that player reveals their hand and exiles all cards with that name from their hand and graveyard.

"With a single word, they were unmade."

—Krinnea, Siege of the Bone Spire

Leyline of the Void
Enchantment

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.

If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Mind Rot
Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

Many an inventor has collapsed under the pressure to create a flawless design.

Murder
Instant

Destroy target creature.

"By fate or by will, every reign must come to an end."

—Kethis, the Hidden Hand

Noxious Grasp
Instant

Destroy target creature or planeswalker that's green or white. You gain 1 life.

"The bog doesn't give a stinking bubble about your title, wealth, or piety. It's just hungry."

—Byaras, backwoods guide

Rotting Regisaur
Creature — Zombie Dinosaur

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card.

"Now, that's a zombie!"

—Modriss of Zargoth Fen

7/6
Sanitarium Skeleton
Creature — Skeleton

: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

His mind was lost long before his flesh.

1/2
Scheming Symmetry
Sorcery

Choose two target players. Each of them searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top.

"One for you, one for me. What could be more fair?"

—Kethis, the Hidden Hand

Sorcerer of the Fang
Creature — Human Wizard Sorcerer

, : This creature deals 2 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

"The Great Serpent slumbers now, but all warmbloods will grovel in the dirt at its awakening!"

1/3
Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord
Legendary Planeswalker — Sorin

[+1]: Target creature you control gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. If it's a Vampire, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

[+1]: You may sacrifice a Vampire. When you do, Sorin deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

[−3]: You may put a Vampire creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Loyalty: 4
Soul Salvage
Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

The first mistake the Grimnant knights made was bullying the owner of an Urborg corpse shop. Their second mistake was dying.

Thought Distortion
Sorcery

This spell can't be countered.

Target opponent reveals their hand. Exile all noncreature, nonland cards from that player's hand and graveyard.

"The skull is rigid, but the mind is so deliciously supple."

—Eromena the Mind Render

Undead Servant
Creature — Zombie

When this creature enters, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each card named Undead Servant in your graveyard.

"There are always more like you."

—Modriss of Zargoth Fen

3/2
Unholy Indenture
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

"Don't think of it as selling your soul. It's more like you're bequeathing it to me."

—Vilis, Broker of Blood

Vampire of the Dire Moon
Creature — Vampire

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

"This place suits me: craven authorities and plentiful prey."

1/1