Scars of Mirrodin

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Abuna Acolyte
Creature — Cat Cleric

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

: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target artifact creature this turn.

"You can break nothing I cannot mend."

1/1
Arrest
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Bladehold houses a rogues' gallery filled with the living "statues" of the worst enemies of the Auriok.

Auriok Edgewright
Creature — Human Soldier

Metalcraft — This creature has double strike as long as you control three or more artifacts.

Auriok soldiers craft their own weapons, forging a connection to the steel with each blow of the hammer.

2/2
Auriok Sunchaser
Creature — Human Soldier

Metalcraft — As long as you control three or more artifacts, this creature gets +2/+2 and has flying.

"Grant me loft. Grant me light. Grant me the accuracy I need to kill all who threaten Bladehold."

—Prayer to the Whitesun

1/1
Dispense Justice
Instant

Target player sacrifices an attacking creature of their choice.

Metalcraft — That player sacrifices two attacking creatures of their choice instead if you control three or more artifacts.

The Accorders never strike first, but they always strike back.

Elspeth Tirel
Legendary Planeswalker — Elspeth

[+2]: You gain 1 life for each creature you control.

[−2]: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

[−5]: Destroy all other permanents except for lands and tokens.

Loyalty: 4
Fulgent Distraction
Instant

Choose two target creatures. Tap those creatures, then unattach all Equipment from them.

"Channeling the white-hot power of all five suns creates a pretty good diversion."

—Yavash of the Accorders

Ghalma's Warden
Creature — Elephant Soldier

Metalcraft — This creature gets +2/+2 as long as you control three or more artifacts.

A special unit guards the loxodon artificer known as Ghalma the Shaper. They are armed and armored in her finest works of silver and steel.

2/4
Glimmerpoint Stag
Creature — Elk

Vigilance

When this creature enters, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

3/3
Glint Hawk
Creature — Bird

Flying

When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you return an artifact you control to its owner's hand.

Its eyes burned nearly blind by the Whitesun, it hunts by metallic gleam.

2/2
Indomitable Archangel
Creature — Angel

Flying

Metalcraft — Artifacts you control have shroud as long as you control three or more artifacts. (An artifact with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"Every sword drawn to defend is an angelic blade, guided to justice by an angelic hand."

—Auriok proverb

4/4
Kemba, Kha Regent
Legendary Creature — Cat Cleric

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 2/2 white Cat creature token for each Equipment attached to Kemba.

"I am not Raksha. I never will be. But I refuse to be the kha who watched her pride be torn asunder."

2/4
Kemba's Skyguard
Creature — Cat Knight

Flying

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.

"We're now to dispense aid to any Mirran we see battling anything . . . 'strange.' Regent's orders."

—Ranya, skyhunter captain

2/2
Leonin Arbiter
Creature — Cat Cleric

Players can't search libraries. Any player may pay for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.

"Our people are torn by infighting. Until the two sides reconcile, our laws can carry no meaning."

2/2
Loxodon Wayfarer
Creature — Elephant Monk

The Mirran elders vanished with Memnarch, leaving behind a generation of wayward orphans.

1/5
Myrsmith
Creature — Human Artificer

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay . If you do, create a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.

The Auriok see the artificer as a conduit, beckoning new creations into the world.

2/1
Razor Hippogriff
Creature — Hippogriff

Flying

When this creature enters, return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain life equal to that card's mana value.

She incubates her eggs in gold and mana.

3/3
Revoke Existence
Sorcery

Exile target artifact or enchantment.

"No half measures, no regrets. We'll tell no stories of this day. It will be as if it never existed at all."

—Ganedor, loxodon mystic

Salvage Scout
Creature — Human Scout

, Sacrifice this creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I'm not saying it's dangerous work. I'm just saying don't sign up if you have plans for your seventieth birthday."

1/1
Seize the Initiative
Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains first strike until end of turn.

The time between spotting a leonin shikari and feeling its claws is just time enough to draw your last breath.

Soul Parry
Instant

Prevent all damage one or two target creatures would deal this turn.

"I was called to this world of steel, and it will be my steel that answers."

—Elspeth Tirel

Sunblast Angel
Creature — Angel

Flying

When this creature enters, destroy all tapped creatures.

There may exist powers even greater than Phyrexia.

4/5
Sunspear Shikari
Creature — Cat Soldier

As long as this creature is equipped, it has first strike and lifelink. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike. Damage dealt by it also causes you to gain that much life.)

Left without their leader Raksha, the leonin split into two prides: one side supported the regent kha, while the other rebelled in fury.

2/2
Tempered Steel
Enchantment

Artifact creatures you control get +2/+2.

"Death shall prevail as long as our will falls to rust. May necessity anneal our resolve."

—Ghalma the Shaper

True Conviction
Enchantment

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

Dozens of spells known only to the Auriok elders were lost, but the next generation, galvanized by war, devised even more potent magic.

Vigil for the Lost
Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay . If you do, you gain X life.

"As she grew cold in my arms, I swore an oath that her funeral pyre would be dwarfed by a bonfire of our enemies."

Whitesun's Passage
Instant

You gain 5 life.

All over the Razor Fields, Whitesun is celebrated. Even the followers of the rebel Juryan, far from the Cave of Light, bow their heads in reverence.

Argent Sphinx
Creature — Sphinx

Flying

Metalcraft : Exile this creature. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

A great mirage, a dream of wings and silver.

4/3
Bonds of Quicksilver
Enchantment — Aura

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

Enchant creature

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

The sea's reach extends beyond its shores.

Darkslick Drake
Creature — Phyrexian Drake

Flying

When this creature dies, draw a card.

At the edge of the Mephidross, Phyrexia's influence seeps into life and land.

2/4
Disperse
Instant

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Most casualties of the power struggle between vedalken and Neurok didn't die on the field of battle; they merely disappeared.

Dissipation Field
Enchantment

Whenever a permanent deals damage to you, return it to its owner's hand.

"Strike me once, shame on you. Strike me twice . . . Well, let's just see if you can."

—Kara Vrist, Neurok agent

Grand Architect
Creature — Vedalken Artificer

Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.

: Target artifact creature becomes blue until end of turn.

Tap an untapped blue creature you control: Add . Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.

1/3
Halt Order
Instant

Counter target artifact spell.

Draw a card.

An artificer's least favorite mind-missive may be "I regret to inform you that the funding for your project has been cut."

Inexorable Tide
Enchantment

Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"See how gratefully this world accepts our blessings."

—Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Lumengrid Drake
Creature — Drake

Flying

Metalcraft — When this creature enters, if you control three or more artifacts, return target creature to its owner's hand.

Properly outfitted, drakes made perfect sentries for vedalken strongholds.

2/2
Neurok Invisimancer
Creature — Human Wizard

This creature can't be blocked.

When this creature enters, target creature can't be blocked this turn.

"They won't see your shadow or hear your breath, but they will feel your blade."

2/1
Plated Seastrider
Creature — Beast

The Neurok buried entangling cables just under the Quicksilver Sea. One seastrider harvest can provide an army's worth of armor and shields.

1/4
Quicksilver Gargantuan
Creature — Shapeshifter

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's 7/7.

"You know you have achieved true power if the sea itself seeks to emulate your greatness."

—Vy Covalt, Neurok agent

7/7
Riddlesmith
Creature — Human Artificer

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

The Neurok see the artificer as an archaeologist, clearing away falsehoods to see the truth hidden beneath.

2/1
Scrapdiver Serpent
Creature — Serpent

This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an artifact.

Smart artificers clean up after themselves.

5/5
Screeching Silcaw
Creature — Bird

Flying

Metalcraft — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if you control three or more artifacts, that player mills four cards.

It's adaptively deaf to its own cries.

1/2
Shape Anew
Sorcery

The controller of target artifact sacrifices it, then reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal an artifact card. That player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles all other cards revealed this way into their library.

Sky-Eel School
Creature — Fish

Flying

When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.

They swim on tides few can see, away from a threat few yet understand.

3/3
Steady Progress
Instant

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

Draw a card.

"More of that strange oil . . . It's probably nothing."

Stoic Rebuttal
Instant

Metalcraft — This spell costs less to cast if you control three or more artifacts.

Counter target spell.

Obsessed with the pursuit of knowledge above all else, vedalken can appear to be cold and emotionless.

Thrummingbird
Creature — Phyrexian Bird Horror

Flying

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

1/1
Trinket Mage
Creature — Human Wizard

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

2/2
Turn Aside
Instant

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

"It's not my job to ask our leaders about their experiments at the Knowledge Pool. It's my job to make sure they can continue performing them."

Twisted Image
Instant

Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"True strength is in the mind, for the body is too malleable a form."

—Politus, vedalken emisar

Vault Skyward
Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Untap it.

"The edges of the Quicksilver Sea run dark with the spread of the Mephidross. Two more aerial passes before I can be sure what I'm seeing . . ."

—Lafarius, Neurok sky agent

Vedalken Certarch
Creature — Vedalken Wizard

Metalcraft : Tap target artifact, creature, or land. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

"An appropriately detailed model is indistinguishable from reality, and much easier to control."

1/1
Volition Reins
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant permanent

When this Aura enters, if enchanted permanent is tapped, untap it.

You control enchanted permanent.

"Glorifying the will is a mistake. It is simply one more force to be mastered."

Blackcleave Goblin
Creature — Phyrexian Goblin Zombie

Haste

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

"Bitten? Save time, amputate now."

—Lephar, loxodon surgeon

2/1
Bleak Coven Vampires
Creature — Vampire Warrior

Metalcraft — When this creature enters, if you control three or more artifacts, target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

As the shadow of the Mephidross spread over the Tangle, the vampires' territory expanded.

4/3
Blistergrub
Creature — Phyrexian Horror

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

When this creature dies, each opponent loses 2 life.

"The sooner you join Phyrexia, the sooner you'll forget your painful rebirth."

—Sheoldred, Whispering One

2/2
Carnifex Demon
Creature — Phyrexian Demon

Flying

This creature enters with two -1/-1 counters on it.

, Remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on each other creature.

Every contagion has a host.

6/6
Contagious Nim
Creature — Phyrexian Zombie

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

"This species has grown to be my preferred receptacle for our divine message."

—Sheoldred, Whispering One

2/2
Corrupted Harvester
Creature — Phyrexian Horror

, Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature.

"Before the blessed assault begins, we must seek specimens that are well-adapted to our way of . . . life."

—Sheoldred, Whispering One

6/3
Dross Hopper
Creature — Phyrexian Insect Horror

Sacrifice a creature: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Bred in the vicious Mephidross, dross hoppers learned to eat quickly and escape faster.

2/1