Angel of Mercy

Flying
When this creature enters, you gain 3 life.

"Training? Seeing my crops burnt to cinders was all the 'training' I needed."

Eager Cadet

Only the warrior who can admit mortal weakness will be bolstered by immortal strength.

Angelic Blessing

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Bitter as wormwood, sweet as mulled wine.

Vengeance

Aven Cloudchaser

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
When this creature enters, destroy target enchantment.

Some fishers like to eat eels, and some eels like to eat fishers.

Coral Eel

Just as each added feather steadies the wing, so does the flock grow stronger with each new member.

Aven Flock

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
{W}: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"Before my eyes was a horrible monster, worthy to figure in the legends of the marvellous. . . . Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head . . . were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair."
—Jules Verne, *Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea*, trans. Lewis

Giant Octopus

The perfect antidote for a tightly packed formation.

Ballista Squad

{X}{W}, {T}: This creature deals X damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

"Let's see . . . Mercadia, mercenary, merfolk . . . you know, I really need a better filing system."

Index

Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

"He spoke with the tongue of Angels; we fought with the strength of lions."
—Handel, infantry soldier

Blessed Orator

"Their eyes will shrivel and blacken before faith's true light."

Blinding Angel

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player skips their next combat phase.

A bored wizard once created a vizzerdrix out of a bunny and a piranha. He never made *that* mistake again.

Vizzerdrix

"Don't look at it! Maybe it'll go away!"
—Ib Halfheart, goblin tactician

Blinking Spirit

{0}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

He's smart for a goblin. He can do two things: hit *and* run.

Goblin Raider

"Why do we pray to the Ancestor? Because She listens."
—Mystic elder

Chastise

Destroy target attacking creature. You gain life equal to its power.

Its diet consists of fruits, plants, small woodland animals, large woodland animals, woodlands, fruit groves, fruit farmers, and small cities.

Enormous Baloth

Circle of Protection: Black

{1}: The next time a black source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

"I wouldn't stand in front of that wurm, son. 'Course, I wouldn't stand behind it neither. In fact, standing anywhere near that wurm's not much of a plan. Running, now *that's* a plan!"
—Wandering mage

Spined Wurm

Circle of Protection: Red

{1}: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

"He can split a marshfly in two from halfway across the range."
—Onean sergeant

Crossbow Infantry

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Demystify

Infantry deployment is the art of putting your troops in the wrong place at the right time.

Foot Soldiers

Gift of Estates

If an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for up to three Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Glorious Anthem

The turning of the tide always begins with one soldier's decision to head back into the fray.

Glory Seeker

"The day of Spirits; my soul's calm retreat / Which none disturb!"
—Henry Vaughan, "The Night"

Holy Day

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Such power protects the body with the strength of the soul.

Holy Strength

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Honor Guard

{W}: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"This scar? From a zombie's teeth. This scar? From a barbarian's axe. That scar? I don't talk about that one."

Infantry Veteran

{T}: Target attacking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"The hour of your redemption is here. . . . Rally to me. . . . rise and strike. Strike at every favorable opportunity. For your homes and hearths, strike!"
—General Douglas MacArthur, to the people of the Philippines

Inspirit

Untap target creature. It gets +2/+4 until end of turn.

Made from its wearer's hopes, the mask ensures that those hopes will be fulfilled.

Ivory Mask

You have shroud. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"There was a wall here. Now it is dust. A tower rose here. Now it is fallen. An army fought here. Now it is dead. A spirit was here. It is all that remains."
—Snow-Fur, kitsune poet

Kami of Old Stone

The skyhunters were born when the first leonin gazed at the heavens and wished to hunt the birds overhead.

Leonin Skyhunter

It entered the temple with all the pomp and decorum of a rock hitting a goblin's skull.

Marble Titan

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

A skilled decoy can throw your enemies off your trail. A master decoy can survive to do it again.

Master Decoy

Behind his eyes is the pain of every soldier his hands have healed.

Master Healer

{T}: Prevent the next 4 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

"I can staunch their blood, mend their flesh, and knit their bones. But I cannot restore their hope."
—Tender-Hand, kitsune healer

Mending Hands

Prevent the next 4 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

They follow the prophecy to each new prophet, guarding the future from the present.

Oracle's Attendants

{T}: All damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn by a source of your choice is dealt to this creature instead.

For the first time in his life, Grakk felt a little warm and fuzzy inside.

Pacifism

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

Paladin en-Vec

First strike, protection from black and from red (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike. It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything black or red.)

"What can a peasant get for free that an emperor can never buy?"
—Dal riddle

Peace of Mind

Pegasus Charger

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"My enemy's hatred is his weakness. My enemy's anger is my strength."
—Remin, venerable monk

Reverse Damage

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

Sometimes the greatest strength is the strength of conviction.

Righteousness

Target blocking creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

The knight knelt and prayed, first for the sanctity of his land and second for the strength to repel its invaders.

Sacred Ground

Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes a land to be put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to the battlefield.

"Over the silver mountains,
Where spring the nectar fountains,
There will I kiss
The bowl of bliss;
And drink my everlasting fill. . . ."
—Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Pilgrimage"

Sacred Nectar

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Samite Healer

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

Sanctum Guardian

Sacrifice this creature: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to any target this turn, prevent that damage.

Even the brave are scared by a lion three times: first by its tracks, again by its roar, and one last time face to face.
—Somali proverb

Savannah Lions

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat."
—Queen Victoria

Seasoned Marshal

Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap target creature.

Serra Angel

Treizeci, Sun of Serra

When she flies above the good, they consider themselves blessed. When she flies above the wicked, they consider themselves dead.

Flying
Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

"Rise, and I will show you how to run without flagging, fight without raging, and fly without wings."

Serra's Blessing

Creatures you control have vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause them to tap.)

Skyhunter Prowler

Flying, vigilance (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach, and attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

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