158 Card Expansion Set
Release Date: Feb 03rd 2012
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Archangel's Light

Archangel's Light
Archangel's Light
Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each card in your graveyard, then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

"This is the light of Avacyn. Even in her absence she offers us hope."

—Radulf, priest of Avacyn

Bar the Door

Bar the Door
Bar the Door
Instant

Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.

"It may not look like much, but it's a good old door with strong wards. It'll hold."

—Olgard of the Skiltfolk

Break of Day

Break of Day
Break of Day
Instant

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Fateful hour — If you have 5 or less life, those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Burden of Guilt

Burden of Guilt
Burden of Guilt
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

{1}: Tap enchanted creature.

"Grab an axe and defend the gate! Your despair is an extravagance we can ill afford."

—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Curse of Exhaustion

Curse of Exhaustion
Curse of Exhaustion
Enchantment — Aura Curse

Enchant player

Enchanted player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

"I do believe your heresy will prove more difficult now that you have more pressing concerns."

—Bishop Argust

Elgaud Inquisitor

Elgaud Inquisitor
Elgaud Inquisitor
Creature — Human Cleric

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

When Elgaud Inquisitor dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

"It will take more than steel alone to purge this world of evil."

2/2

Faith's Shield

Faith's Shield
Faith's Shield
Instant

Target permanent you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Fateful hour — If you have 5 or less life, instead you and each permanent you control gain protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Gather the Townsfolk

Gather the Townsfolk
Gather the Townsfolk
Sorcery

Create two 1/1 white Human creature tokens.

Fateful hour — If you have 5 or less life, create five of those tokens instead.

In the memories of those they lost lies the strength needed to defend their city.

Gavony Ironwright

Gavony Ironwright
Gavony Ironwright
Creature — Human Soldier

Fateful hour — As long as you have 5 or less life, other creatures you control get +1/+4.

"I wish my work could shelter everyone, yet I pray we are never so few that it does."

1/4

Hollowhenge Spirit

Hollowhenge Spirit
Hollowhenge Spirit
Creature — Spirit

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

Flying

When Hollowhenge Spirit enters the battlefield, remove target attacking or blocking creature from combat.

Some spirits mourn. Others terrorize.

2/2

Increasing Devotion

Increasing Devotion
Increasing Devotion
Sorcery

Create five 1/1 white Human creature tokens. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, create ten of those tokens instead.

Flashback {7}{W}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Lingering Souls

Lingering Souls
Lingering Souls
Sorcery

Create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying.

Flashback {1}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

The murdered inhabitants of Hollowhenge impart to the living the terror they felt in death.

Loyal Cathar // Unhallowed Cathar

Loyal Cathar
Unhallowed Cathar
Transform
Loyal Cathar
Creature — Human Soldier

Vigilance

When Loyal Cathar dies, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

"I trust myself to do my duty, even unto death. It's what comes after that I'm afraid of."

—Constable Visil, to Thalia

2/2
Unhallowed Cathar
Creature — Zombie Soldier

Unhallowed Cathar can't block.

"Just fight without fear. Your soul is protected by the hand of Avacyn and will never submit to evil."

—Thalia, to Constable Visil

2/1

Midnight Guard

Midnight Guard
Midnight Guard
Creature — Human Soldier

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, untap Midnight Guard.

"When you're on watch, no noise is harmless and no shadow can be ignored."

—Olgard of the Skiltfolk

2/3

Niblis of the Mist

Niblis of the Mist
Niblis of the Mist
Creature — Spirit

Flying

When Niblis of the Mist enters the battlefield, you may tap target creature.

"Not even a roaring fire could thaw the chill it put in my heart."

—Vonn, geist-trapper

2/1

Niblis of the Urn

Niblis of the Urn
Niblis of the Urn
Creature — Spirit

Flying

Whenever Niblis of the Urn attacks, you may tap target creature.

"I never had the nerve to open that bottle. I'll bet you're wishing right now you hadn't been so curious yourself."

—Old Rutstein

1/1

Ray of Revelation

Ray of Revelation
Ray of Revelation
Instant

Destroy target enchantment.

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

"May angels carry him into the Blessed Sleep with dreams of sunlit days and moonless nights."

—Tomb inscription of Saint Raban

Requiem Angel

Requiem Angel
Requiem Angel
Creature — Angel

Flying

Whenever another non-Spirit creature you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

When angels despair, what hope can remain for mortals?

5/5

Sanctuary Cat

Sanctuary Cat
Sanctuary Cat
Creature — Cat

Cats prowl the corridors of Avacyn's churches in search of devils or signs of their mischief.

1/2

Séance

Séance
Séance
Enchantment

At the beginning of each upkeep, you may exile target creature card from your graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a Spirit in addition to its other types. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Silverclaw Griffin

Silverclaw Griffin
Silverclaw Griffin
Creature — Griffin

Flying, first strike

It patrols the grafs for miles around Thraben, ensuring that the unhallowed do not wake for long.

3/2

Skillful Lunge

Skillful Lunge
Skillful Lunge
Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

"Valor is a currency of the living that serves us well."

—Cosper Lowe of the Silbern Guard

Sudden Disappearance

Sudden Disappearance
Sudden Disappearance
Sorcery

Exile all nonland permanents target player controls. Return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

First strike

Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

"Thraben is our home and I will not see it fall to this unhallowed horde."

2/1

Thraben Doomsayer

Thraben Doomsayer
Thraben Doomsayer
Creature — Human Cleric

{T}: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Fateful hour — As long as you have 5 or less life, other creatures you control get +2/+2.

"Swarms of the unhallowed claw at Thraben's gates! Do you still deny the end approaches?"

2/2

Thraben Heretic

Thraben Heretic
Thraben Heretic
Creature — Human Wizard

{T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard.

"Let them decry me for burning the dead. I'm not giving those ghoulcallers any more fuel for their madness."

2/2

Artful Dodge

Artful Dodge
Artful Dodge
Sorcery

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

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

Those who know the alleys and sewers of the Erdwal can disappear like smoke.

Beguiler of Wills

Beguiler of Wills
Beguiler of Wills
Creature — Human Wizard

{T}: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of creatures you control.

"Come, let me free you of the tyranny of thought."

1/1

Bone to Ash

Bone to Ash
Bone to Ash
Instant

Counter target creature spell.

Draw a card.

"I can think of worse ways to go. On second thought, maybe not."

—Ludevic, necro-alchemist

Call to the Kindred

Call to the Kindred
Call to the Kindred
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top five cards of your library. If you do, you may put a creature card that shares a creature type with enchanted creature from among them onto the battlefield, then you put the rest of those cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Chant of the Skifsang

Chant of the Skifsang
Chant of the Skifsang
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -13/-0.

The skifsang, seafarers of Nephalia, craft spells like other sailors craft nets—making them strong enough to snare even the deadliest catch.

Chill of Foreboding

Chill of Foreboding
Chill of Foreboding
Sorcery

Each player mills five cards.

Flashback {7}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"Wait . . . did you fellows hear something?"

Counterlash

Counterlash
Counterlash
Instant

Counter target spell. You may cast a spell that shares a card type with it from your hand without paying its mana cost.

"Pathetic. Let me show you how it's done."

Curse of Echoes

Curse of Echoes
Curse of Echoes
Enchantment — Aura Curse

Enchant player

Whenever enchanted player casts an instant or sorcery spell, each other player may copy that spell and may choose new targets for the copy they control.

Divination

Divination
Divination
Sorcery

Draw two cards.

Even the House of Galan, who takes the most scholarly approach to the mystic traditions, has resorted to exploring more primitive methods in Avacyn's absence.

Dungeon Geists

Dungeon Geists
Dungeon Geists
Creature — Spirit

Flying

When Dungeon Geists enters the battlefield, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control Dungeon Geists.

3/3

Geralf's Mindcrusher

Geralf's Mindcrusher
Geralf's Mindcrusher
Creature — Zombie Horror

When Geralf's Mindcrusher enters the battlefield, target player mills five cards.

Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

5/5

Griptide

Griptide
Griptide
Instant

Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

"Beware the seagrafs just off the shore. These waters are filled with hungry geists looking for an easy meal."

—Captain Eberhart

Havengul Runebinder

Havengul Runebinder
Havengul Runebinder
Creature — Human Wizard

{2}{U}, {T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Zombie creature you control.

"So many corpses, so little time."

2/2

Headless Skaab

Headless Skaab
Headless Skaab
Creature — Zombie Warrior

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard.

Headless Skaab enters the battlefield tapped.

A head is a needless encumbrance when muscle is all that's required.

3/6

Increasing Confusion

Increasing Confusion
Increasing Confusion
Sorcery

Target player mills X cards. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, that player mills twice that many cards instead.

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

Mystic Retrieval

Mystic Retrieval
Mystic Retrieval
Sorcery

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Nephalia Seakite

Nephalia Seakite
Nephalia Seakite
Creature — Bird

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

Flying

"Keep one eye on the cliff road or you may fall to your death. Keep one eye on the sky or your death may fall on you."

—Manfried Ulmach, Elgaud Master-at-Arms

2/3

Niblis of the Breath

Niblis of the Breath
Niblis of the Breath
Creature — Spirit

Flying

{U}, {T}: You may tap or untap target creature.

"Why do the dead remain among us? Where is Flight Alabaster to lead them home? Where is Avacyn?"

—Eruth of Lambholt

2/1

Relentless Skaabs

Relentless Skaabs
Relentless Skaabs
Creature — Zombie

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard.

Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

4/4

Saving Grasp

Saving Grasp
Saving Grasp
Instant

Return target creature you own to your hand.

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

Nothing's more valuable than perfect timing.

Screeching Skaab

Screeching Skaab
Screeching Skaab
Creature — Zombie

When Screeching Skaab enters the battlefield, mill two cards.

Its screeching is the sound of you losing your mind.

2/1

Secrets of the Dead

Secrets of the Dead
Secrets of the Dead
Enchantment

Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, draw a card.

"The veil between the living and the dead is so very thin that the whispers of the ancients can finally be heard."

—Amalric of Midvast Hall

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