Magic 2015/Changes

Cards added to Magic 2015

The following 235 cards from Magic 2015 were not printed in Magic 2014.

New Cards

The following 142 cards have never been printed before.

Act on Impulse Aeronaut Tinkerer Ætherspouts Aggressive Mining Ajani Steadfast Altac Bloodseeker Amphin Pathmage Avacyn, Guardian Angel Avarice Amulet Belligerent Sliver Blastfire Bolt Blood Host Boonweaver Giant Borderland Marauder Brawler's Plate Brood Keeper Burning Anger Carnivorous Moss-Beast Carrion Crow Chasm Skulker Chief Engineer Chronostutter Constricting Sliver Coral Barrier Covenant of Blood Crowd's Favor Cruel Sadist Dauntless River Marshal Diffusion Sliver Endless Obedience Ensoul Artifact Ephemeral Shields Eternal Thirst Feast on the Fallen Feral Incarnation Festergloom First Response Flesh to Dust Lost Lynx Garruk, Apex Predator Geist of the Moors Generator Servant Genesis Hydra Glacial Crasher Goblin Kaboomist Goblin Rabblemaster Hammerhand Heliod's Pilgrim

Hornet Nest Hot Soup Hunter's Ambush Hushwing Gryff In Garruk's Wake Indulgent Tormentor Inferno Fist Invasive Species Jace, the Living Guildpact Jalira, Master Polymorphist Jorubai Murk Lurker Kalonian Twingrove Kapsho Kitefins Kird Chieftain Krenko's Enforcer Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient Leeching Sliver Life's Legacy Living Totem Marked by Honor Master of Predicaments Meditation Puzzle Mercurial Pretender Meteorite Might Makes Right Military Intelligence Miner's Bane Necromancer's Assistant Necromancer's Stockpile Netcaster Spider Nightfire Giant Nimbus of the Isles Nissa, Worldwaker Nissa's Expedition Ob Nixilis, Unshackled Obelisk of Urd Paragon of Eternal Wilds Paragon of Fierce Defiance Paragon of Gathering Mists Paragon of New Dawns Paragon of Open Graves Perilous Vault Phytotitan Pillar of Light Polymorphist's Jest Profane Memento Quickling

Radiant Fountain Reclamation Sage Research Assistant Resolute Archangel Return to the Ranks Rogue's Gloves Rotfeaster Maggot Sacred Armory Sanctified Charge Scrapyard Mongrel Scuttling Doom Engine Seraph of the Masses Shadowcloak Vampire Shaman of Spring Shield of the Avatar Siege Dragon Sliver Hive Sliver Hivelord Soul of Innistrad Soul of New Phyrexia Soul of Ravnica Soul of Shandalar Soul of Theros Soul of Zendikar Spectra Ward Spirit Bonds Stain the Mind Statute of Denial Stoke the Flames Sunblade Elf Sungrace Pegasus The Chain Veil Triplicate Spirits Tyrant's Machine Ulcerate Undergrowth Scavenger Unmake the Graves Venom Sliver Vineweft Void Snare Wall of Limbs Warden of the Beyond Waste Not Will-Forged Golem Witch's Familiar Xathrid Slyblade Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Returning cards

These 93 cards are reprints, but were not in Magic 2014. A + after the card name indicates a card that has never been in a core set before. A ! after the card name indicates a card that hasn't been Modern legal before. A * indicates all-new artwork (list not yet updated with new artwork).

Aegis Angel Ajani's Pridemate Ancient Silverback Back to Nature Battle Mastery+ Battlefield Forge Black Cat+ Bronze Sable+ Caustic Tar+! Caves of Koilos Centaur Courser Charging Rhino+! Chord of Calling+ Circle of Flame Clear a Path+ Cone of Flame Crippling Blight Crucible of Fire Darksteel Citadel+ Devouring Light+ Dissipate+ Divine Verdict Encrust Evolving Wilds Forge Devil+ Foundry Street Denizen+ Frenzied Goblin+ Fugitive Wizard Furnace Whelp Gargoyle Sentinel Garruk's Packleader

Gather Courage+ Goblin Roughrider+ Gravedigger Grindclock+ Heat Ray+ Hoarding Dragon Hornet Queen+! Hydrosurge Illusory Angel+! Inspired Charge Into the Void+ Invisibility Jace's Ingenuity Juggernaut Kinsbaile Skirmisher+ Lightning Strike+ Liliana Vess Llanowar Wastes Mahamoti Djinn Mass Calcify+ Midnight Guard+ Mind Sculpt Necrobite+ Necrogen Scudder+ Oppressive Rays+ Oreskos Swiftclaw+ Ornithopter Overwhelm+ Peel from Reality+ Phyrexian Revoker+ Preeminent Captain+

Raise the Alarm+ Razorfoot Griffin Restock+! Roaring Primadox Rummaging Goblin Runeclaw Bear Satyr Windfinder+ Seismic Strike Selfless Cathar+ Shivan Reef Shrapnel Blast+ Siege Wurm+ Sign in Blood Stab Wound+ Stormtide Leviathan Terra Stomper+ Thundering Giant Tireless Missionaries Titanic Growth Torch Fiend Tormod's Crypt Turn to Frog Typhoid Rats+ Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth+ Walking Corpse Wall of Essence+! Wall of Fire Wall of Mulch+! Welkin Tern Yavimaya Coast Zof Shade+

Changes in rarity

The following cards changed rarity from their last printing to Magic 2015.

• Ancient Silverback was rare in Ninth Edition, now is uncommon.
• Charging Rhino was uncommon in Tempest, now is common.
• Darksteel Citadel was common in Darksteel, now is uncommon.
• Gather Courage was common in Ravnica: City of Guilds, now is uncommon.
• Gravedigger was common in Magic 2012, now is uncommon.
• Heat Ray was common in Rise of the Eldrazi, now is uncommon.
• Invisibility was uncommon in Eighth Edition, now is common.
• Ornithopter was uncommon in Magic 2011, now is common.
• Restock was rare in Invasion, now is uncommon.
• Stab Wound was common in Return to Ravnica, now is uncommon.
• Torch Fiend was uncommon in Magic 2013, now is common.

Strictly better

• Crowd’s Favor is strictly better than Kindled Fury.
• Sungrace Pegasus is strictly better than Armored Pegasus.

Strictly worse

• Carrion Crow is strictly worse than Screeching Bat.
• Festergloom is strictly worse than Loss (Profit/Loss).
• Marked by Honor is strictly worse than Vow of Duty.
• Nimbus of the Isles is strictly worse than Phantom Monster which is strictly worse than Voyager Drake.
• Rogue’s Gloves is strictly worse than Mask of Memory.
• Statute of Denial is strictly worse than Dismiss.
• Tyrant’s Machine is strictly worse than Crown of Empires and Trip Noose.

Cards removed from Magic 2014

The following 201 cards from Magic 2014 did not get reprinted in Magic 2015. A + indicates a card that was printed for the first time in Magic 2014.

Academy Raider Accorder's Shield Act of Treason Advocate of the Beast Air Servant Ajani, Caller of the Pride Ajani's Chosen Altar's Reap Angelic Accord Angelic Wall Archaeomancer Archangel of Thune Armored Cancrix Artificer's Hex Auramancer Awaken the Ancient Banisher Priest Barrage of Expendables Battle Sliver Blessing Blightcaster Blood Bairn Blur Sliver Bogbrew Witch Bonescythe Sliver Bramblecrush Brave the Elements Briarpack Alpha Brindle Boar Bubbling Cauldron Burning Earth Canyon Minotaur Capashen Knight Celestial Flare Chandra's Outrage Chandra's Phoenix Charging Griffin Claustrophobia Clone Colossal Whale Congregate Coral Merfolk Corpse Hauler Corrupt Cyclops Tyrant Dark Favor Dark Prophecy Darksteel Forge Darksteel Ingot Dawnstrike Paladin Deadly Recluse Deathgaze Cockatrice Demolish Devout Invocation Diabolic Tutor Dismiss into Dream Disperse Domestication Doom Blade Door of Destinies Dragon Egg Dragon Hatchling Duress Elite Arcanist Elixir of Immortality Encroaching Wastes Enlarge

Essence Scatter Festering Newt Fiendslayer Paladin Fireshrieker Flames of the Firebrand Fleshpulper Giant Fog Fortify Frost Breath Galerider Sliver Garruk, Caller of Beasts Garruk's Horde Giant Growth Giant Spider Gladecover Scout Glimpse the Future Gnawing Zombie Goblin Diplomats Goblin Shortcutter Griffin Sentinel Grim Return Groundshaker Sliver Guardian of the Ages Hive Stirrings Howl of the Night Pack Illusionary Armor Imposing Sovereign Indestructibility Into the Wilds Jace, Memory Adept Jace's Mindseeker Kalonian Hydra Kalonian Tusker Lay of the Land Lifebane Zombie Lightning Talons Liliana of the Dark Realms Liliana's Reaver Liturgy of Blood Manaweft Sliver Marauding Maulhorn Mark of the Vampire Master of Diversion Megantic Sliver Merfolk Spy Messenger Drake Millstone Mindsparker Minotaur Abomination Molten Birth Mutavault Nephalia Seakite Nightwing Shade Oath of the Ancient Wood Ogre Battledriver Opportunity Pacifism Path of Bravery Pay No Heed Phantom Warrior Pillarfield Ox Pitchburn Devils Planar Cleansing Predatory Sliver Primeval Bounty Pyromancer's Gauntlet

Quag Sickness Quicken Ratchet Bomb Regathan Firecat Ring of Three Wishes Rise of the Dark Realms Rod of Ruin Rootwalla Rumbling Baloth Sanguine Bond Savage Summoning Scavenging Ooze Scourge of Valkas Scroll Thief Seacoast Drake Seismic Stomp Sensory Deprivation Sentinel Sliver Seraph of the Sword Shadowborn Apostle Shadowborn Demon Shimmering Grotto Shiv's Embrace Shock Show of Valor Shrivel Siege Mastodon Silence Sliver Construct Smelt Spell Blast Sporemound Steelform Sliver Stonehorn Chanter Striking Sliver Strionic Resonator Suntail Hawk Syphon Sliver Tenacious Dead Thorncaster Sliver Thunder Strike Tidebinder Mage Time Ebb Tome Scour Trading Post Trained Condor Traumatize Trollhide Undead Minotaur Vampire Warlord Vastwood Hydra Vial of Poison Vile Rebirth Volcanic Geyser Voracious Wurm Wall of Swords Warden of Evos Isle Water Servant Wild Guess Wild Ricochet Windreader Sphinx Windstorm Witchstalker Woodborn Behemoth Wring Flesh Xathrid Necromancer Young Pyromancer Zephyr Charge