The merrow was vending her wares when the skies darkened, then she sharply raised her prices.

Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

The continent of Ondu is a vast plateau crisscrossed by deep trenches and meandering rivers.

Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Temple of Enlightenment

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Irrigated Farmland

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Nimbus Maze

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains.

Sejiri Steppe

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
{T}: Add {W}.

The gate of every kithkin doun is a cunning trap, intended to spill visitors into an oubliette from which there is no escape.

Mystic Gate

{T}: Add {C}.
{W/U}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{U}, or {U}{U}.

There is no glory to be gained in the kingdom of the dead.
—Vec tomb inscription

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Plains

Island

Ixalan Checklist

Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

The Sunken Ruin houses all the learning of a long-forgotten age.

Search for Azcanta

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

(Transforms from Search for Azcanta.)
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}, {T}: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

For many children, the wonder of their first warp is a lifelong inspiration.

Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Without Vantress's knowledge, the realm would lose itself in darkness.

Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Here the soratami wove their endless plots—graceful, artful, and deceitful, while the unwitting world moved below.

Oboro, Palace in the Clouds

{T}: Add {U}.
{1}: Return Oboro to its owner's hand.

Dust-spiked winds eroded the stones, but the ground where they had stood still holds power.

Flagstones of Trokair

{T}: Add {W}.
When Flagstones of Trokair is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Emeria, the Sky Ruin

This land enters tapped.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more Plains, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
{T}: Add {W}.

"I gazed once into that light. Now it burns in my mind, forever denying me rest."
—Riku of Two Reflections

Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

"Let your heels point you home."
—Ancient blessing

Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Settle the Wreckage

Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The divine light of the Palatinate could be so cold. As she laid down her sword, she felt the sun's warmth in a different way.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Counterspell

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Swan Song

Bird

In the end, the dying Illvoi clung to neither secrecy nor protocol. She cloudsculpted wings that she might live on in a spark of creativity.

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Cryptic Command

Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.

"I see you've learned nothing, Chandra. You'd still put a match to something rather than understand it."

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

"As one, nature lifts its voice to tell you this: 'No.'"

Negate

"How easily your flames are quenched."
—Baral, Chief of Compliance

Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Absorb

Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.

"End this. What I seek is far greater."
—Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Rout

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

The maze-like design embodies the core of Azorius law—strict structure designed to test wills and stall change.

Azorius Signet

Eirdu's adherents invoke its blessings with jingling bells and dancing feet. Where there is joy, there is the warmth of the sun.

Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Commandeer

You may exile two blue cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker, the permanent enters under your control.)

Detention Sphere

When this enchantment enters, you may exile target nonland permanent not named Detention Sphere and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn.
−2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Jace, the Mind Sculptor

+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library.
0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
−1: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles their hand into their library.

Over such beauty, wars are fought. With such power, wars are won.

Gilded Lotus

Dream Trawler

Flying, lifelink
Whenever you draw a card, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Whenever this creature attacks, draw a card.
Discard a card: This creature gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it.

Dungeon Geists

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

Those who seek to disturb the harmony of life will see their instruments taken from them.

Linvala, Keeper of Silence

Flying
Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated.

Flickerwisp

Flying
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.

A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last.

Avacyn, Angel of Hope

Flying, vigilance, indestructible
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Lyra Dawnbringer

Flying
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.

Sephara, Sky's Blade

You may pay {W} and tap four untapped creatures you control with flying rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Flying, lifelink
Other creatures you control with flying have indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Glen Elendra Archmage

Flying
{U}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target noncreature spell.
Persist (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.)

Sea Gate Oracle

When this creature enters, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

It did not escape the ambassador's notice that the sound of war drums could also marshal the city to attention.

Stonehorn Dignitary

When this creature enters, target opponent skips their next combat phase.

Sun Titan

Vigilance
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

His marvels of artifice pale in comparison to the developing machinery of his mind.

Venser, Shaper Savant

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

Deputy of Detention

When this creature enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls and all other nonland permanents that player controls with the same name as that permanent until this creature leaves the battlefield.

Aven Mindcensor

Flash
Flying
If an opponent would search a library, that player searches the top four cards of that library instead.

"Our sanctuaries must be beacons of reason and calm or else they will fall."

Drannith Magistrate

Your opponents can't cast spells from anywhere other than their hands.

"There is no justice when some profit and others go without."

Alms Collector

Flash
If an opponent would draw two or more cards, instead you and that player each draw a card.

"You think because you've mapped the land, you own the land. You own an idea, nothing more."

Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

An overwhelming sense of calm accompanies the gryffs that wheel above the roofs of Gavony.

Hushwing Gryff

Flash
Flying
Creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.

Monastery Mentor

Lam, Storm Crane Elder

Monk

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess.

Riftwing Cloudskate

Flying
When this creature enters, return target permanent to its owner's hand.
Suspend 3—{1}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{U} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Reflector Mage

When this creature enters, return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. That creature's owner can't cast spells with the same name as that creature until your next turn.

Deputy of Acquittals

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When this creature enters, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

All the aether charts in the world can't compete with the trained eye of a talented scout.

Cloudblazer

Flying
When this creature enters, you gain 2 life and draw two cards.

"I do not understand the future I see: the guilds subverted, the world at war, armies bent to a cruel conqueror's will."

Sphinx of Foresight

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, scry 3 at the beginning of your first upkeep.
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.

Torrential Gearhulk

Flash
When this creature enters, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Thassa, God of the Sea

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
{1}{U}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Elspeth, Sun's Champion Emblem

Soldier

+1: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
−3: Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater.
−7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."

Teferi, Hero of Dominaria Emblem

Teferi, Hero of Dominaria

+1: Draw a card. At the beginning of the next end step, untap up to two lands.
−3: Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library third from the top.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you draw a card, exile target permanent an opponent controls."

Teferi, Master of Time

You may activate loyalty abilities of Teferi on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant.
+1: Draw a card, then discard a card.
−3: Target creature you don't control phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)
−10: Take two extra turns after this one.

"The academy educates; I employ. It's a perfect arrangement."
—Gatha, Tolarian renegade

Treachery

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, untap up to five lands.
You control enchanted creature.

"Stygian demon! You are sentenced to ten cycles of illumination. May the light scour the shadow from your soul."

Banishing Light

When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.

Clue

Trail of Evidence

"Every answer seems to lead to a more terrifying question."
—Jace Beleren

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Rhystic Study

Archival Whorl

Friends teach what you want to know. Enemies teach what you *need* to know.

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Smothering Tithe

Treasure

"I await your donation."
—Dasha, Orzhov priest

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Shark Typhoon

Shark

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.
Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.

"Meadowlarks sing in sun-touched skies
And breezes kiss where Eirdu lies."
—Verselet of Lorwyn

Sol Ring

"Isn't she the cutest thing you've almost seen?"
—Doen, purveyor of exotic pets

Displacer Kitten

Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Mystic Speculation

Buyback {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

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