The List

Flying

This creature can block only creatures with flying.

Clouds are the soil, dreams are the crop.

—Kor saying

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Draw a card.

Mirri leapt quickly and silently. The guard died likewise.

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever this creature blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.

"Many have been lost to pity."

—Karn, silver golem

: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Merfolk tell their young of Dandân, humans of Rag Man. Dal tell tales of the Dauthi, and they are far worse.

Flying

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

A sickness stirs in its eyes, a nightmare born in darkened wails.

Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put that card on top of your library.

"Think of them not as failures but as works in progress."

—Volrath

, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"There are terrors lurking in the unseen corners of us all."

—Crovax

, : This creature loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay to end this effect.

Enchanted creature can't block.

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Fanning the Flames deals X damage to any target.

Flame Wave deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

"I hear the roaring of a wave whose waters are red and whose mists are black."

—Oracle en-Vec

Haste

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

Volrath leaves no stone untrained.

All creatures block each combat if able.

The attacking player chooses how each creature blocks each combat.

Gerrard studied the globe as Mirri kept watch. Suddenly, his eyes widened. "This is Dominaria!"

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Stand clear if he gets an itch.

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

Explosive Welcome deals 5 damage to any target and 3 damage to any other target. Add .

Rowan and Will were a natural fit in Prismari College, the school of outrageous elemental arts.

Whenever a creature you control enters this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it gains haste until end of turn.

Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

A captured elemental makes for a potent, albeit unstable, power source.

Trample

When this creature enters, you gain 3 life and draw a card.

: Put this card from your graveyard into your library third from the top.

It takes "devouring a book in one sitting" to a frightening extreme.

Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"What a move! Lorehold gets caught flat-footed, and Witherbloom barrels ahead."

—Cremik, Mage Tower commentator

You gain 2 life. Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

"If a seedling can push through solid stone, there's no limit to what I could do."

Whenever an opponent attacks one or more planeswalkers you control, put a loyalty counter on each planeswalker you control.

Whenever a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card.

, Discard a card: Draw a card.

, : Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonlegendary, nonland card with mana value 3 or less. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put all revealed cards not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Flying, vigilance

: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

"You are so much stronger than you know."

Menace, lifelink

If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, you may pay . If you do, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

, Sacrifice another creature: Dina gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.

"Your defiance is amusing, little mage. It's time you learn how fragile you really are."

—Extus Narr

Spirits you control get +1/+0.

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.

"Every life has a story to tell. I won't let them be forgotten."

Return up to one target artifact card, up to one target enchantment card, up to one target instant card, up to one target sorcery card, and up to one target planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.

Exile Reconstruct History.

, Return Rootha to its owner's hand: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"Art is never finished. Merely abandoned."

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"All we are—every feeling, every action—powered by a single, delicate little organ. Life is so terrifyingly, beautifully fragile."

Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.

"Do not flinch from studying the horrors of the past. History's most important lessons are cloaked in terror and tragedy."

—Augusta, Lorehold dean

: Add one mana of any color.

, , Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

The letter unfolded, inviting the twins to Strixhaven. Will saw a chance for arcane study. Rowan saw a chance for power.

You and target opponent each draw three cards.

Strixhaven's five colleges encourage natural rivalries among the students, but some bonds transcend all barriers.

This land enters tapped.

When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay .

: Add one mana of any color.

Vigilance

Whenever this creature attacks, it gains flying until end of turn if you control a creature with flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, indestructible, lifelink, menace, and trample.

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Some emeritus professors return from their wanderings periodically to share tales of the mystical wonders of Arcavios.

Return target spell or permanent with mana value 1 or greater to its owner's hand.

Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

"Misery. Inadequacy. Failure. The common denominator is you."

Flying

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

The most important skill in a Mage Tower match is keeping one's cool.

: Untap another target permanent you control.

: Tap target permanent. Activate only if you control eight or more lands.

Kelpies are drawn to paradoxes, making them ideal companions for Quandrix mages.

Create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is one plus the total number of instant and sorcery cards you own in exile and in your graveyard.

"Math bites."

—Bim, Lorehold mage-student

You may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

If the cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.

Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Choose one —

• Return target planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

• Remove twice X loyalty counters from target planeswalker an opponent controls.

"Why, Gideon? Of all people, why save me?"

Target player discards two cards. Then exile that player's graveyard.

The only feeling worse than not knowing the answer is the certainty that you once did.

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

"The strongest shadow spells come from disdain for someone else, not frustration with yourself."

—Embrose, Silverquill dean

Menace

Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.)

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Dragon's Approach deals 3 damage to each opponent. You may exile this spell and four cards named Dragon's Approach from your graveyard. If you do, search your library for a Dragon creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

A deck can have any number of cards named Dragon's Approach.

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

, Sacrifice a creature: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Phyrexia's spiral of consumption grows ever wider and darker.

Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on this artifact.

, Remove two charge counters from this artifact: Create a 2/2 colorless Spawn artifact creature token.

Lifelink

Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card.

Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

When this creature enters, create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

Whether trained, ridden, or eaten, few goblin military innovations have rivaled the bug.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

"Fire! Fire! Fire! What joy! What fire! Burn it all!"

Haste

Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. That token gains haste until end of turn.

Those with knowledge are wise to listen to those with imagination.

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Whenever enchanted creature attacks, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Flying

Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

The hydrorats were soon eradicated from the monastery.

: Add .

, , Sacrifice this creature: It deals 6 damage to target creature with flying.

"Help the villagers to safety! I will hold the gate!"

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

Harmonize (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its harmonize cost. You may tap a creature you control to reduce that cost by , where X is its power. Then exile this spell.)

Reach, vigilance, deathtouch

During Dromoka's reign, Qatros Karst City was a haven for the Abzan rebellion. Its current residents have not lost their proficiency against their former foes.

Flying

When this creature enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment.