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 deals 2 damage to each opponent.
{2}{W}, {T}: Choose a creature at random that attacked this turn. Destroy that creature.

"Center of the Sea, Eye of the World, Shrine of Enlightenment. Seek it for answers. Seek it for healing. Seek it and return transformed."
—Scroll fragment from the ruins of Minamo

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card.

Those who bring nothing to the temple take nothing away.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

"All peoples treasure a place where the weary traveler may drink in peace."
—Ajani Goldmane

Radiant Fountain

When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

"The wind whispers, 'come home,' but I cannot."
—Teferi

Zhalfirin Void

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

Temple of Silence

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 {B}.

Temple of Triumph

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 {R} or {W}.

Temple of Malice

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 {B} or {R}.

"The Mardu breathe life into what was lost under the dragonlords. If the Abzan are upset, it should be at themselves."
—Tersa Lightshatter

Nomad Outpost

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.

Orzhov Basilica

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {W}{B}.

Rakdos Carnarium

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{R}.

Boros Garrison

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {R}{W}.

Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

"These caves hide beasts above and below their waters. For safe passage, the Sultai agree a small cargo trade is fair for risking our necks."
—Samor, Mardu border guard

Bloodfell Caves

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Team Cloudspire burns with the pride and passion typical of competitors on Kylem. As the reigning champions of the Ghirapur Grand Prix, they have no intention of losing their title.

Wind-Scarred Crag

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

By the codes of Mardu and Abzan alike, both sides allowed their enemies time to grieve after a battle.

Scoured Barrens

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Swamp

Mountain

Plains

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Dalkovan Encampment

Warrior

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}, {T}: Whenever you attack this turn, create two 1/1 red Warrior creature tokens that are tapped and attacking. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.

Safe havens amid the desert and dragonstorms, Abzan fortresses attract merchants, travelers, outcasts, and exiles.

Command Tower

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

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them."
—Pulan, Bant orchardist

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Godless Shrine

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

After years of silence, the caves once again echo with the grisly sounds of Phyrexians preparing for war.

Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Every time he returns from battle unscathed, he feels a tinge of disappointment.

Battle Brawler

As long as you control a red or white permanent, this creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike.

"We are as brutal as our dragonlord. We strike like wild lightning and feast on human flesh."

Blood-Chin Fanatic

{1}{B}, Sacrifice another Warrior creature: Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Kolaghan blades rarely stay clean for long.

Blood-Chin Rager

Whenever this creature attacks, Warrior creatures you control gain menace until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Brutal Hordechief

Whenever a creature you control attacks, defending player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{3}{R/W}{R/W}: Creatures your opponents control block this turn if able, and you choose how those creatures block.

"We are the swift, the strong, the blade's sharp shriek! Fear nothing, and strike!"

Chief of the Edge

Other Warrior creatures you control get +1/+0.

"We are the shield unbroken. If we fall today, we will die well, and our trees will bear our names in honor."

Chief of the Scale

Other Warrior creatures you control get +0/+1.

The foundries of Kaladesh run like clockwork under the supervision of their formidable overseers.

Chief of the Foundry

Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

"There may be little honor in my tactics, but there is no honor in losing."

Mardu Hateblade

{B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Mardu Hordechief

Raid — When this creature enters, if you attacked this turn, create a 1/1 white Warrior creature token.

Mardu Skullhunter

This creature enters tapped.
Raid — When this creature enters, if you attacked this turn, target opponent discards a card.

"Those who died in battle deserve their rest."

Mardu Woe-Reaper

Whenever this creature or another Warrior you control enters, you may exile target creature card from a graveyard. If you do, you gain 1 life.

"I would gladly give my life if it would inspire my clan to victory."

Arashin Foremost

Double strike
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, another target Warrior creature you control gains double strike until end of turn.

The trumpeters of Arashin are ever alert in their watch over the Great Aerie.

Herald of Dromoka

Vigilance
Other Warrior creatures you control have vigilance.

Hidden Dragonslayer

Morph

Lifelink
Megamorph {2}{W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When this creature is turned face up, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater an opponent controls.

"The greatest gift Dromoka gives is the ability to fly without wings."
—Urdnan, Dromoka warrior

Lightwalker

This creature has flying as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.

"Dromoka has taught me the secrets of her kind, that I might use them in her service."

Dragon Hunter

Protection from Dragons
This creature can block Dragons as though it had reach.

Duergar Hedge-Mage

When this creature enters, if you control two or more Mountains, you may destroy target artifact.
When this creature enters, if you control two or more Plains, you may destroy target enchantment.

"The air filled with dust and the sound of wingbeats. The mothriders had joined the fray."
—*Great Battles of Kamigawa*

Eiganjo Free-Riders

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, return a white creature you control to its owner's hand.

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Brisela, Voice of Nightmares

Bruna, the Fading Light

Gisela, the Broken Blade

Flying, first strike, lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, if you both own and control Gisela and a creature named Bruna, the Fading Light, exile them, then meld them into Brisela, Voice of Nightmares.

Hidetsugu held over a dozen oni in blood oath. At his touch, rocks scorched. At his word, cities burned.

Heartless Hidetsugu

{T}: Heartless Hidetsugu deals damage to each player equal to half that player's life total, rounded down.

Tymaret, Chosen from Death

Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
{1}{B}: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.

Malakir Bloodwitch

Flying, protection from white
When this creature enters, each opponent loses life equal to the number of Vampires you control. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

"Jarad fancies himself king of the undercity, but he's merely king of rot."

Necropolis Regent

Flying
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.

Hate is an everlasting wellspring from which she is eternally sustained.

Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.
{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Patron of the Vein

Flying
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it and put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

Chasms of dueling energies course within her.

Piru, the Volatile

Flying, lifelink
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Piru unless you pay {R}{W}{B}.
When Piru dies, it deals 7 damage to each nonlegendary creature.

Rakdos the Defiler

Flying, trample
Whenever Rakdos attacks, sacrifice half the non-Demon permanents you control, rounded up.
Whenever Rakdos deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices half the non-Demon permanents they control of their choice, rounded up.

Rakdos, Lord of Riots

You can't cast Rakdos unless an opponent lost life this turn.
Flying, trample
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

"So many have died in search of that map. And now it appears in the hands of the arrogant child Chandra Nalaar."

Anowon, the Ruin Sage

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player sacrifices a non-Vampire creature of their choice.

Geth, Lord of the Vault

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
{X}{B}: Put target artifact or creature card with mana value X from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped. Then that player mills X cards.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

"On vile wings and bloody wind, the swarm will rise."
—Skyclave inscription

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

"Silumgar's mind is a dark labyrinth, full of grim secrets and subtle traps."
—Siara, the Dragon's Mouth

Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Like a carpet unrolling for their god, the scarabs poured out from the necropolis.

Torment of Scarabs

Enchant player
At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card.

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Boros Charm

Choose one —
• Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
• Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Do not fear the lightning. Fear the one it obeys.

Crackling Doom

Crackling Doom deals 2 damage to each opponent. Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.

Merciless Eviction

Choose one —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all planeswalkers.

When Lord Rakdos stirred from his slumber, everyone else's nightmare began.

Rakdos's Return

Rakdos's Return deals X damage to target opponent or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards X cards.

Teysa, Orzhov Scion

Spirit

Sacrifice three white creatures: Exile target creature.
Whenever another black creature you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Twinblade Paladin

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
As long as you have 25 or more life, this creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

The stature of the fighter matters less than the depth of the cut.

Ankle Shanker

Haste
Whenever this creature attacks, creatures you control gain first strike and deathtouch until end of turn.

The scent of cooked flesh lingers in the charred landscape of Tarkir.

Bathe in Dragonfire

Bathe in Dragonfire deals 4 damage to target creature.

When battling the Kolaghan, consider yourself lucky if lightning strikes the same place only twice.

Boltwing Marauder

Flying
Whenever another creature you control enters, target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

The Crave made Kneecleaver think she was bigger than the dragon.

Butcher's Glee

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains lifelink until end of turn. Regenerate it. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Attracting a dragon's attention may be the last mistake you make.

Thunderbreak Regent

Flying
Whenever a Dragon you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, this creature deals 3 damage to that player.

Zurgo Helmsmasher

Haste
Zurgo attacks each combat if able.
During your turn, Zurgo has indestructible.
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Zurgo this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Zurgo.

"Hold the line, for family and the fallen!"

Ainok Bond-Kin

Outlast {1}{W} ({1}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has first strike.

The idols were forged during the time of the Khanfall, when the dragons came to rule Tarkir and its people aligned themselves with the five dragonlords.

Dragonloft Idol

As long as you control a Dragon, this creature gets +1/+1 and has flying and trample.

The Orzhov care not for repentance, only repayment.

Orzhov Advokist

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player may put two +1/+1 counters on a creature they control. If a player does, creatures that player controls can't attack you or planeswalkers you control until your next turn.

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