When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target.
"This footlight's broken. Get me a stagehand!"
—Judith
During your turn, this creature has first strike.
"Hold on to your ideals. They'll be tested more than your armor or the edge of your blade."
—Tajic
Flash
When this creature enters, you may counter target spell.
"Your arrival was expected...and unwelcome."
When this creature enters, mill three cards. You may put a land card from your graveyard on top of your library. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
From death she grows living grandeur.
Hellbent — As long as you have no cards in hand, this creature gets +1/+0 and has ": Regenerate this creature." (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
Lyzolda's pet rats eat better than the average citizen. In fact, they can usually be found eating the average citizen.
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost less to cast.
When asked how much power is required, Izzet mages always answer "more."
When this creature enters, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
"We gather the past from surface dwellers and sell it right back to them."
, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
( can be paid with either or .)
, Sacrifice a land: This creature deals 2 damage to target player or planeswalker.
: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Choose one —
• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays .
• Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature.
• Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
( can be paid with either or .)
: Copy target instant spell you control with mana value 2 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.
: Copy target sorcery spell you control with mana value 2 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Flying
Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays .
"It misses nothing and it has no sense of humor."
—Barvisa, courtroom scribe
Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Karlov.
, Remove six +1/+1 counters from Karlov: Exile target creature.
"Does Teysa think me blind to her scheming? Ambition runs in our family."
[+1]: Exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard. You gain 2 life if at least one creature card was exiled this way.
[−1]: Exile target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.
[−5]: Kaya deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards that player owns in exile and you gain that much life.
Each opponent can't cast noncreature spells with mana value greater than the number of lands that player controls.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.
"I told Jace that Ravnica would fall apart if he didn't take his responsibilities seriously. I didn't want to be right."
When Lazav enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
: Lazav becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except its name is Lazav, the Multifarious, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has this ability.
Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
Though less well-known than its army of soldiers, the Boros Legion's mage-priests are as respected by the innocent as they are hated by the ghosts of the guilty.
First strike, deathtouch
This creature can only attack alone.
Whenever this creature attacks a player and isn't blocked, that player's life total becomes 1. This creature assigns no combat damage this combat.
Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.
Despite their stake in the city's survival, Rakdos cultists are loath to pass up any opportunity to sow chaos.
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When giant sinkholes opened across Ravnica, they revealed buried oceans and the merfolk, once thought to be extinct.
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may look at that player's hand. If you do, you may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.
"Touched by moroii"
—Undercity slang meaning "to grow old"
When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand.
Dimir's best agents hide from death itself.
( can be paid with either or .)
Flying
Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life.
During their ascent to spirithood, patriarchs of Orzhova shed both flesh and emotion. This earthly slag is collected and formed into thrulls.
Nicol Bolas has all loyalty abilities of all other planeswalkers on the battlefield.
[+1]: You draw a card. Each opponent exiles a card from their hand or a permanent they control.
[−3]: Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
[−8]: Each opponent who doesn't control a legendary creature or planeswalker loses the game.
Flying, deathtouch
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
"Three daggers left in an angel's back, three enforcers with memory loss, three keys stolen from my own belt—and you talk of peace?"
—Tajic, to Aurelia
This spell can't be countered.
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, you draw a card.
: Target player gains 1 life.
: Each player loses 1 life.
( can be paid with either or .)
When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, return this creature to its owner's hand.
It departs through the streets' fissures with a sound like gravel pouring into a pond.
If damage would be dealt to this creature, put that many +1/+1 counters on it instead.
"Look at this creature, so like the Conclave it serves. Cut one head and it grows two. Damage it and it flourishes."
—Veszka, Selesnya evangel
Prime Speaker Zegana enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control.
When Prime Speaker Zegana enters, draw cards equal to its power.
Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.
"All matter, animate or not, rots when exposed to time. We merely speed up the process."
—Ezoc, Golgari rot farmer
When this creature enters, it deals 2 damage to target opponent and 2 damage to up to one target creature or planeswalker.
Ever wonder why you never see an old Rakdos cultist?
( can be paid with either or .)
, Discard a card: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
: Create a 2/1 red Goblin creature token with haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
You can't cast Rakdos unless an opponent lost life this turn.
Flying, trample
Creature spells you cast cost less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.
[+1]: Tap target permanent, then untap another target permanent.
[−2]: Ral Zarek deals 3 damage to any target.
[−7]: Flip five coins. Take an extra turn after this one for each coin that comes up heads.
Creature spells you control can't be countered.
Nontoken creatures you control have riot. (They enter with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.)
Some view Domri's unlikely ascent as a sign of Ilharg the Raze-Boar's imminent return.
Whenever you sacrifice a black creature, you may pay 2 life. If you do, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Whenever you sacrifice a green creature, you may gain 2 life.
"Nature's most raw beauty is the circle: perfect in its continuance, with no break between death and life."
Bloodthirst 2 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.)
Trample
They inflict pain to forget their own and break foes to feel whole.
, , Tap an untapped creature you control: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
"The clamor of the city drowns all voices. But together we can sing a harmony that will resonate from Ravnica's tallest spires to her deepest wells."
: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
: Adapt 1. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
( can be paid with either or .)
: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto another target creature with the same controller.
: Attach target Aura attached to a permanent to another permanent with the same controller.
Flying
When this creature enters, untap all creatures you control.
Forecast — Tap two untapped white and/or blue creatures you control, Reveal this card from your hand: Draw a card. (Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)
Flying, haste
"I do not know which gives me more pride: the legions of soldiers marching in thunderous lockstep, or the cry of the skyknights riding their rocs like jagged lightning overhead."
—Razia
Scavenge (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)
"It makes better use of Uncle Dragi's head than he ever did."
—Pesha, retired blacksmith
Flying, vigilance
Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost more to cast.
Azorius sphinxes are loyal to the precepts of the law, not to any particular guildmaster—even one of their own kind.
You gain X life and draw X cards.
"Let the knowledge of absolute law inspire you to live a life of absolute order."
Flip a coin. If you win the flip, take an extra turn after this one.
Quyzl was told by his mentor to "make more time" for his studies.
This creature can't be blocked by more than one creature.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls.
"You take our wilds, we take your city."
Haste
Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control.
: Tajic gains first strike until end of turn.
Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.
[+1]: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
[−3]: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
Sacrifice three white creatures: Exile target creature.
Whenever another black creature you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
Other green creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other white creatures you control get +1/+1.
: Create Voja, a legendary 2/2 green and white Wolf creature token.
Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target player.
Vigilance
"Selesnya's soil is sacred, and you're about to meet it with your face."
Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)
"It is technically an ooze, but its lifespan measures only seconds. In that short time, its appetite for magic is extraordinary."
—Simic research notes
Flash
When this creature enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
He has a job to finish, and it's you.
( can be paid with either or .)
Sacrifice this creature: Add one mana of any color.
They are the voice of the wild, crying out with nature's fury and bringing forth its primeval might.
Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.
Create a 4/4 white and blue Sphinx creature token with flying and vigilance.