MTG keywords & mechanics
Every Magic: The Gathering keyword and mechanic — and the best cards for each, ranked by popularity.
Keyword abilities
- Absorb
- Affinity
- Afflict
- Afterlife
- Aftermath
- Amplify
- Annihilator
- Ascend
- Assist
- Augment
- Aura Swap
- Awaken
- Backup
- Banding
- Bargain
- Basic landcycling
- Battle Cry
- Bestow
- Blitz
- Bloodthirst
- Boast
- Bushido
- Buyback
- Cascade
- Casualty
- Champion
- Changeling
- Cipher
- Cleave
- Commander ninjutsu
- Companion
- Compleated
- Conspire
- Convoke
- Craft
- Crew
- Cumulative upkeep
- Cycling
- Dash
- Daybound
- Deathtouch
- Decayed
- Defender
- Delve
- Demonstrate
- Desertwalk
- Dethrone
- Devoid
- Devour
- Disguise
- Disturb
- Double strike
- Dredge
- Echo
- Embalm
- Emerge
- Enchant
- Encore
- Enlist
- Entwine
- Epic
- Equip
- Escalate
- Escape
- Eternalize
- Evoke
- Evolve
- Exalted
- Exhaust
- Exploit
- Extort
- Fabricate
- Fading
- Fear
- First strike
- Flanking
- Flash
- Flashback
- Flying
- Forecast
- Forestcycling
- Forestwalk
- Foretell
- Fortify
- Freerunning
- Frenzy
- Friends forever
- Fuse
- Gift
- Graft
- Gravestorm
- Harmonize
- Haste
- Haunt
- Hexproof
- Hexproof from
- Hideaway
- Horsemanship
- Impending
- Improvise
- Indestructible
- Infect
- Ingest
- Intensity
- Intimidate
- Islandcycling
- Islandwalk
- Jump-start
- Kicker
- Landcycling
- Landwalk
- Legendary landwalk
- Level Up
- Lifelink
- Living metal
- Living weapon
- Madness
- Max speed
- Megamorph
- Melee
- Menace
- Mentor
- Miracle
- Mobilize
- Modular
- Morph
- Mountaincycling
- Mountainwalk
- Multikicker
- Mutate
- Myriad
- Nightbound
- Ninjutsu
- Nonbasic landwalk
- Offering
- Offspring
- Outlast
- Overload
- Partner
- Partner with
- Persist
- Phasing
- Plainscycling
- Plainswalk
- Poisonous
- Protection
- Prototype
- Provoke
- Prowess
- Prowl
- Rampage
- Ravenous
- Reach
- Read Ahead
- Rebound
- Reconfigure
- Recover
- Reinforce
- Renown
- Replicate
- Retrace
- Riot
- Ripple
- Saddle
- Scavenge
- Shadow
- Shroud
- Skulk
- Slivercycling
- Soulbond
- Soulshift
- Specialize
- Spectacle
- Splice
- Split second
- Spree
- Squad
- Station
- Storm
- Sunburst
- Surge
- Suspend
- Swampcycling
- Swampwalk
- Toxic
- Training
- Trample
- Transfigure
- Transmute
- Tribute
- Typecycling
- Umbra armor
- Undaunted
- Undying
- Unearth
- Unleash
- Vanishing
- Vigilance
- Ward
- Warp
- Wither
- Wizardcycling
Keyword actions
Ability words
- Adamant
- Addendum
- Alliance
- Battalion
- Bloodrush
- Celebration
- Channel
- Chroma
- Cohort
- Constellation
- Converge
- Corrupted
- Coven
- Delirium
- Descend
- Disappear
- Domain
- Eerie
- Eminence
- Enrage
- Fateful hour
- Fathomless descent
- Ferocious
- Flurry
- Formidable
- Grandeur
- Hellbent
- Heroic
- Hero's Reward
- Imprint
- Infusion
- Inspired
- Join forces
- Kinfall
- Kinship
- Landfall
- Landship
- Legacy
- Lieutenant
- Magecraft
- Metalcraft
- Morbid
- Pack tactics
- Paradox
- Parley
- Radiance
- Raid
- Rally
- Renew
- Revolt
- Spell mastery
- Strive
- Survival
- Sweep
- Tempting offer
- Threshold
- Underdog
- Undergrowth
- Valiant
- Vivid
- Void