Like the city, weakest at its foundation.

Tower of the Magistrate

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Target creature gains protection from artifacts until end of turn.

Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Emeria, the Sky Ruin

Emeria, the Sky Ruin 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}.

Arid Mesa

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Arid Mesa: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sacred Foundry

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

Plateau

Mistveil Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)
Mistveil Plains enters tapped.
{W}, {T}: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Activate only if you control two or more white permanents.

"It's me and Gribble's special fort. None of the bad things can get us in there."
—Toby

Command Tower

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

"As Terisiare's mines ran dry, scrap metal became increasingly plentiful."
—*The Antiquities War*

Battlefield Forge

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}. Battlefield Forge deals 1 damage to you.

The sunlight falls pristine on the temple at Epityr, softened by the remembered shadows of angelic saviors' wings.

Clifftop Retreat

Clifftop Retreat enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Hobs bury their kin far from home. They believe the dry, open ground keeps hags from stealing the bones and gwyllions from stealing the spirits.

Rugged Prairie

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

Temple of Triumph

Temple of Triumph enters tapped.
When Temple of Triumph enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Arch of Orazca

City's Blessing

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Once a center for knowledge, Sea Gate now serves as a reminder of what was lost.

Sea Gate Wreckage

{T}: Add {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.)
{2}{C}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have no cards in hand.

Terrain Generator

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

"We move because the earth does."
—Bruse Tarl, Goma Fada nomad

Tectonic Edge

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Tectonic Edge: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.

Ghost Quarter

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

Unlike previous conflicts, the war between Urza and Mishra made Dominaria itself a casualty of war.

Strip Mine

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Strip Mine: Destroy target land.

Some worlds possess a hidden core where life's essence constantly surges.

Mutavault

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mutavault becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.

Mishra's Factory

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mishra's Factory becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"The land promises nothing and keeps its promise."
—Oracle *en*-Vec

Wasteland

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Wasteland: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Rivals of Ixalan Checklist

Path of Mettle // Metzali, Tower of Triumph

Path of Mettle

When Path of Mettle enters, it deals 1 damage to each creature that doesn't have first strike, double strike, vigilance, or haste.
Whenever you attack with at least two creatures that have first strike, double strike, vigilance, and/or haste, transform Path of Mettle.

Metzali, Tower of Triumph

(Transforms from Path of Mettle.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}{R}, {T}: Metzali, Tower of Triumph deals 2 damage to each opponent.
{2}{W}, {T}: Choose a creature at random that attacked this turn. Destroy that creature.

Plains

Mountain

Chrome Mox

Imprint — When Chrome Mox enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.
{T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

"I'm not saying I'm sure it's a trap. I'm just saying it wasn't there yesterday and I'm pretty sure I heard it whisper my name. If you're so curious, you touch it."
—Angus, survivor scout

Sol Ring

Sometimes safety is a place. Sometimes it's a person. Sometimes it's a tangible reminder that even in darkness, hope persists.

Arcane Signet

"We have barely begun to learn the secrets of the Fourth People. Every remnant of their presence, however cryptic, is a gift."
—Akal Pakal, First Steward of Oteclan

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

It bends not light but mana, aligning its chaotic currents into the sharp angles necessary for the mystic's purposes.

Prismatic Lens

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

"Finally! It was worth the price to never have to fiddle with lockpicks ever again."
—Davvry Mineshadow, thief

Manifold Key

{1}, {T}: Untap another target artifact.
{3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

When you spend most of your time running for your life, it pays to invest in quality footwear.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Mask of Memory

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Stoneforge Mystic

When Stoneforge Mystic enters, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{1}{W}, {T}: You may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Weathered Wayfarer

{W}, {T}: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if an opponent controls more lands than you.

"Your superstitions and mumblings are useless chaff before my righteousness."

Grand Abolisher

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

Aven Mindcensor

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

"The noble work of our order is to infuse all life on Esper with etherium. Our goal will be reached more rapidly if new life is . . . suppressed."

Ethersworn Canonist

Each player who has cast a nonartifact spell this turn can't cast additional nonartifact spells.

Angel

Luminarch Ascension

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if you didn't lose life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Luminarch Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.)
{1}{W}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if Luminarch Ascension has four or more quest counters on it.

Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Tithe

Search your library for a Plains card. If target opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for an additional Plains card. Reveal those cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Some timelines forever fray, branch, and intermingle. Others end abruptly.

Return to Dust

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Wear

Destroy target artifact.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Tear

Destroy target enchantment.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Wear // Tear

Elephant

Generous Gift

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

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.

Flickerwisp

Flying
When Flickerwisp enters, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

The loyalty of a felidar is hard won but worth the effort.

Felidar Guardian

When Felidar Guardian enters, you may exile another target permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Sun Titan

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

Karmic Guide

Flying, protection from black
Echo {3}{W}{W} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When Karmic Guide enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Reveillark

Flying
When Reveillark leaves the battlefield, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Evoke {5}{W} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Gideon Jura

+2: During target opponent's next turn, creatures that player controls attack Gideon Jura if able.
−2: Destroy target tapped creature.
0: Until end of turn, Gideon Jura becomes a 6/6 Human Soldier creature that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.

Sword of Feast and Famine

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.
Equip {2}

Sword of Fire and Ice

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, Sword of Fire and Ice deals 2 damage to any target and you draw a card.
Equip {2}

Sword of Sinew and Steel

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from red.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy up to one target planeswalker and up to one target artifact.
Equip {2}

Sword of Truth and Justice

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Equip {2}

Umezawa's Jitte

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte.
Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one —
• Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
• Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• You gain 2 life.
Equip {2}

Puresteel Paladin

Whenever an Equipment you control enters, you may draw a card.
Metalcraft — Equipment you control have equip {0} as long as you control three or more artifacts.

"I will protect the less fortunate. I will love bravely. I will face despair and fight on. As a Capashen, I can do no less."

Danitha Capashen, Paragon

First strike, vigilance, lifelink
Aura and Equipment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Genesis Chamber

"As the experimental population grows, so do the number of myr. It's a perfect equilibrium."
—Memnarch

Whenever a nontoken creature enters, if Genesis Chamber is untapped, that creature's controller creates a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.

Cataclysmic Gearhulk

Vigilance
When Cataclysmic Gearhulk enters, each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest.

In the first moments, the gate to the afterlife opened, and the people were prostrate in the light of the God-Pharaoh.

Hour of Revelation

This spell costs {3} less to cast if there are ten or more nonland permanents on the battlefield.
Destroy all nonland permanents.

"In our war Heliod gave mortals some favor, yet other times he withheld aid. Are we still no more than game pieces to him?"
—Polyxene the Doubter

Dictate of Heliod

Urza's metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines.

Thran Dynamo

Basalt Monolith

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{3}: Untap Basalt Monolith.

Mana Vault

Mana Vault doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap Mana Vault.
At the beginning of your draw step, if Mana Vault is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Everflowing Chalice enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.
{T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on Everflowing Chalice.

"Captain, your units are the tip of our spear. There is zero room for failure."
—Jirina Kudro

Flawless Maneuver

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Water can be crushing, but it is predictable. Fire is always dynamic, its rage absolute and all-consuming.

Pyroblast

Choose one —
• Counter target spell if it's blue.
• Destroy target permanent if it's blue.

Red Elemental Blast

Choose one —
• Counter target blue spell.
• Destroy target blue permanent.

"I cannot teach you their brand of magic, but I can teach you how to defend against it."
—Tavalus, priest of Korlis

Rebuff the Wicked

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

Orim's Chant

Kicker {W} (You may pay an additional {W} as you cast this spell.)
Target player can't cast spells this turn. If this spell was kicked, creatures can't attack this turn.

Dawn Charm

Choose one —
• Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
• Regenerate target creature.
• Counter target spell that targets you.

"Every choice alters the path of fate."
—Sarkhan Vol

Valorous Stance

Choose one —
• Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
• Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater.

"I bring a dawn that no night can follow."

Heliod's Intervention

Choose one —
• Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments.
• Target player gains twice X life.

The barrier between existence and oblivion is thinner than you know.

Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

The Izzet mage knew she would neither get her thermoinverter back nor have the satisfaction of exploding it herself.

Crush Contraband

Choose one or both —
• Exile target artifact.
• Exile target enchantment.

Aura of Silence

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast.
Sacrifice Aura of Silence: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

The law is meant to ensure that people kill each other with only the utmost fairness.

Rule of Law

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

If you want to kill a lot of goblins, just make sure your defenses look like fun.

Lightmine Field

Whenever one or more creatures attack, Lightmine Field deals damage to each of those creatures equal to the number of attacking creatures.

"Salvation will not be granted by the Lunarch Council. It must be earned—at the edge of a sword, if necessary."

Thalia, Heretic Cathar

First strike
Creatures and nonbasic lands your opponents control enter tapped.

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