Oath of the Gatewatch

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Overwhelming Denial
Instant

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

This spell can't be countered.

Counter target spell.

Roiling Waters
Sorcery

Return up to two target creatures your opponents control to their owners' hands. Target player draws two cards.

"The Roil may be unpredictable, but it is not uncontrollable."

—Noyan Dar, Tazeem roilmage

Sphinx of the Final Word
Creature — Sphinx

This spell can't be countered.

Flying

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant and sorcery spells you control can't be countered.

He answers questions as readily as he asks them, but his answer is always "no."

5/5
Sweep Away
Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. If that creature is attacking, you may put it on top of its owner's library instead.

The Roil takes many forms. It also takes many victims.

Umara Entangler
Creature — Merfolk Rogue Ally

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

"Sea Gate is gone, the Halimar basin empty. But rebuild the seawall and give these waters time, and they will fill the basin anew."

2/1
Unity of Purpose
Instant

Support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)

Untap each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Faced with the novel problem of inspiring an army, Jace asked himself: "What would Gideon say?"

Bearer of Silence
Creature — Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When you cast this spell, you may pay . If you do, target opponent sacrifices a creature. ( represents colorless mana.)

Flying

This creature can't block.

2/1
Dread Defiler
Creature — Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Target opponent loses life equal to the exiled card's power. ( represents colorless mana.)

It left behind an echoing emptiness more horrible than the grave.

6/8
Essence Depleter
Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

: Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. ( represents colorless mana.)

When Kozilek emerged at Sea Gate, his brood lineage swarmed to the surface.

2/3
Flaying Tendrils
Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If a creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Only one Eldrazi stood against them, yet the defenders were outnumbered.

Havoc Sower
Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn. ( represents colorless mana.)

It grew with a terrible swiftness.

3/3
Inverter of Truth
Creature — Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flying

When this creature enters, exile all cards from your library face down, then shuffle all cards from your graveyard into your library.

In its shadow, everything changed.

6/6
Kozilek's Shrieker
Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

: This creature gets +1/+0 and gains menace until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures. represents colorless mana.)

Listen to the sound of defeat.

3/2
Kozilek's Translator
Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Pay 1 life: Add . Activate only once each turn. ( represents colorless mana.)

From nothingness, sustenance.

3/5
Oblivion Strike
Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Exile target creature.

It's bad enough to be torn to pieces. It's worse by far to be torn from the world itself.

Reaver Drone
Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life unless you control another colorless creature.

Kozilek's brood infiltrates and deceives. The spawn of Ulamog mindlessly consume.

2/1
Sifter of Skulls
Creature — Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add ." ( represents colorless mana.)

4/3
Sky Scourer
Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flying

Whenever you cast a colorless spell, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"The Eldrazi are nothing if not thorough."

—Jace Beleren

1/2
Slaughter Drone
Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. represents colorless mana.)

It kills what is, making way for what should not be.

2/2
Unnatural Endurance
Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Regenerate it.

"Eldrazi don't die easy. Sometimes they don't die at all."

—Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist

Visions of Brutality
Enchantment — Aura

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't block.

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, its controller loses that much life.

Witness the End
Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target opponent exiles two cards from their hand and loses 2 life.

"Ulamog stood before us at Sea Gate, ready to succumb . . . and then Kozilek arose. Whatever hope I had for our world died."

—Vandri, Kalastria emissary

Corpse Churn
Instant

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

"The distraction of your life has ended. Now your service begins."

—Kalitas, thrall of Ulamog

Drana's Chosen
Creature — Vampire Shaman Ally

Cohort , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

"Drana commands me. I command my nulls. And so her bidding is done."

2/2
Grasp of Darkness
Instant

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

"I welcome the use of even the foulest magic if it will rid us of the monstrosities that plague our world."

—Munda, ambush leader

Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
Legendary Creature — Vampire Warrior

Lifelink

If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas.

3/4
Malakir Soothsayer
Creature — Vampire Shaman Ally

Cohort , Tap an untapped Ally you control: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

"Your blood whispers secrets your mind could never comprehend."

4/4
Null Caller
Creature — Vampire Shaman

, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Zendikar's defenders include both healers and vampires. One way or another, the fallen will return to the fight.

2/4
Remorseless Punishment
Sorcery

Target opponent loses 5 life unless that player discards two cards or sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Repeat this process once.

"I have suffered a thousand lifetimes of agony on this wretched world. I've far less time to share with you, but I assure you, no less pain."

—Ob Nixilis

Tar Snare
Instant

Target creature gets -3/-2 until end of turn.

The amorphous, magically animated residue known as the Fathom Sludge lurks in the Hagra Cistern, attacking its prey with pseudopods and dragging it down to be digested.

Untamed Hunger
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"Mindlessness is not weakness. When we are lost to hunger we are unstoppable."

—Drana, Kalastria bloodchief

Vampire Envoy
Creature — Vampire Cleric Ally

Flying

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

"Zendikar will fight until it has bled its last."

1/4
Zulaport Chainmage
Creature — Human Shaman Ally

Cohort , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Target opponent loses 2 life.

The chains obey her. Everything else would do best to get out of her way.

4/2
Consuming Sinkhole
Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Choose one —

• Exile target land creature.

• Consuming Sinkhole deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker.

"What will not yield will be consumed."

—Ayli, high priest of the Eternal Pilgrims

Eldrazi Aggressor
Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

This creature has haste as long as you control another colorless creature.

"They employ a foul sort of teamwork."

—General Tazri, allied commander

2/3
Eldrazi Obligator
Creature — Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When you cast this spell, you may pay . If you do, gain control of target creature until end of turn, untap that creature, and it gains haste until end of turn. ( represents colorless mana.)

Haste

3/1
Immobilizer Eldrazi
Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

: Each creature with toughness greater than its power can't block this turn. ( represents colorless mana.)

It denied the Zendikari the chance to stand and die fighting.

2/1
Kozilek's Return
Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Kozilek's Return deals 2 damage to each creature.

Whenever you cast an Eldrazi creature spell with mana value 7 or greater, you may exile this card from your graveyard. If you do, this card deals 5 damage to each creature.

Maw of Kozilek
Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

: This creature gets +2/-2 until end of turn. ( represents colorless mana.)

"The Eldrazi make worse than ruins—they make a world where not even ruins stand."

—Gideon Jura

2/5
Reality Hemorrhage
Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Reality Hemorrhage deals 2 damage to any target.

Tarek could not tell whether he was losing his blood or his mind.

Akoum Flameseeker
Creature — Human Shaman Ally

Cohort , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

In the face of extinction, the most perilous endeavors can be cause for hope.

3/2
Boulder Salvo
Sorcery

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Boulder Salvo deals 4 damage to target creature.

"If someone claims the sky is falling, I listen."

—Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist

Brute Strength
Instant

Target creature gets +3/+1 and gains trample until end of turn. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

It's not the size of the rock. It's how badly you want to lift it.

Chandra, Flamecaller
Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra

[+1]: Create two 3/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.

[0]: Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards plus one.

[−X]: Chandra deals X damage to each creature.

Loyalty: 4
Cinder Hellion
Creature — Hellion

Trample

When this creature enters, it deals 2 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Chandra used jets of flame to lure hellions into the path of oncoming Eldrazi.

4/4
Devour in Flames
Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

Devour in Flames deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Ob Nixilis had prepared for every eventuality—except Chandra Nalaar.

Embodiment of Fury
Creature — Elemental

Trample

Land creatures you control have trample.

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have target land you control become a 3/3 Elemental creature with haste until end of turn. It's still a land.

4/3
Expedite
Instant

Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"I run, and thunder follows."

Fall of the Titans
Instant

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Fall of the Titans deals X damage to each of up to two targets.

As Gideon kept the brood lineages at bay, Chandra incinerated the bound Eldrazi titans.

Goblin Dark-Dwellers
Creature — Goblin

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

4/4
Goblin Freerunner
Creature — Goblin Warrior Ally

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

There are old goblins and ambitious goblins, but very few old, ambitious goblins.

3/2
Kazuul's Toll Collector
Creature — Ogre Warrior

: Attach target Equipment you control to this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Travelers are advised to bring extra swords, preferably shiny ones.

3/2
Oath of Chandra
Legendary Enchantment

When Oath of Chandra enters, it deals 3 damage to target creature an opponent controls.

At the beginning of each end step, if a planeswalker entered the battlefield under your control this turn, Oath of Chandra deals 2 damage to each opponent.

"If it means that people can live in freedom, yeah, I'll keep watch."

Press into Service
Sorcery

Support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Pyromancer's Assault
Enchantment

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, this enchantment deals 2 damage to any target.

Never ask a pyromancer if that's the best she's got.

Reckless Bushwhacker
Creature — Goblin Warrior Ally

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Haste

When this creature enters, if its surge cost was paid, other creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain haste until end of turn.

2/1
Sparkmage's Gambit
Sorcery

Sparkmage's Gambit deals 1 damage to each of up to two target creatures. Those creatures can't block this turn.

"A touch of lightning, and anyone can be taught to dance."

—Tobin, sparkmage

Tears of Valakut
Instant

This spell can't be countered.

Tears of Valakut deals 5 damage to target creature with flying.

When Kozilek destroyed Sea Gate, distant Valakut could not contain its grief.

Tyrant of Valakut
Creature — Dragon

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Flying

When this creature enters, if its surge cost was paid, it deals 3 damage to any target.

5/4
Zada's Commando
Creature — Goblin Archer Ally

First strike

Cohort , Tap an untapped Ally you control: This creature deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

"There's a word for someone who brings too much gear to battle: 'survivor.'"

—Zada of Slab Haven

2/1