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.

Serra's blessing lies strongest upon Sursi, where her holy chapels are untouched even as evil encroaches.

Isolated Chapel

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

Command Tower

Tower Winder

Back in the '80s, Channel 6 built their headquarters at the corner of Spectacle and Scandal.

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

Orzhov Basilica

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

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}.

Plains

Swamp

"For centuries my creation kept this world in balance. Now only her shadow remains."
—Sorin Markov

Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Spymaster's Vault

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{B}, {T}: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

Human

Castle Ardenvale

Without Ardenvale's loyalty, the realm would greedily devour itself.

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Kabira Crossroads

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {W}.

Secluded Steppe

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

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}.

Tainted Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

A flickering beacon of righteous corruption.

Shineshadow Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

"Do not linger in such places, child. There the gwyllions dance. If they find you, you will join in their revels for eternity."
—Talara, elvish safewright

Fetid Heath

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

Concealed Courtyard

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

"Yooo, Rock, check that out. A *mutant* music club?"
—Bebop

Exotic Orchard

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

Vizkopa Guildmage

{1}{W}{B}: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
{1}{W}{B}: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

"Despite their bravado, mortals are fragile. If Zendikar is to endure, its lords must save it."
—Drana, Kalastria bloodchief

Defiant Bloodlord

Flying
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

"My people are no longer slaves to the Eldrazi, beholden to the past. We will determine our own future."

Cliffhaven Vampire

Flying
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Once rejected by his pride, Ajani is now revered by countless leonin as a healer and, more importantly, a friend.

Ajani's Pridemate

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Sun Droplet

Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many charge counters on this artifact.
At the beginning of each upkeep, you may remove a charge counter from this artifact. If you do, you gain 1 life.

What is a sliver of one's soul compared to unimaginable wealth?

Greed

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.

Merciless Eviction

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

For a razorkin, painless dissolution is a far worse fate than agonizing death.

Utter End

"Ghirapur's gremlin population poses a threat to the infrastructure of the fairgrounds. Threats must be eliminated."
—Sram, senior edificer

Fumigate

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Some of Orzhov's cruelest collectors remember their debtors by taste alone.

Debt to the Deathless

Each opponent loses two times X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Soldier

Dawn of Hope

"To wage war, secure peace within yourself."
—Emmara

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.
{3}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

"I use maps to find out where explorers have already been. Then I go the other way."
—Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Forged by divine hands to wander mortal realms.

Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Healing is more art than magic. Well, there is still quite a bit of magic."

Soulmender

When you have given everything, then you have everything to gain.
—Well inscription

Well of Life

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no untapped lands, you gain 2 life.

"I didn't say I would help you find your way home. I said I would help you finish your adventure."

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Most mirrors show your reflection. Others show your potential.

Mirage Mirror

{2}: This artifact becomes a copy of target artifact, creature, enchantment, or land until end of turn.

They chase tirelessly after the bone-carts that speed along the streets of the Plague Quarter.

Carrion Howler

Pay 1 life: This creature gets +2/-1 until end of turn.

To the end, all Oketra did was for others.

Oketra's Last Mercy

Your life total becomes equal to your starting life total. Lands you control don't untap during your next untap step.

Kuro, Pitlord

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Kuro unless you pay {B}{B}{B}{B}.
Pay 1 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Revival

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Revenge

Double your life total. Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up.

Revival // Revenge

"The past is a ghost that haunts you from the moment it exists until the moment you don't."
—Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Mischievous Poltergeist

Flying
Pay 1 life: Regenerate this creature.

"If I have learned anything as a wizard it is this: never fight your own battles."
—Waffa, sorcerer of Nyomba

Ethereal Champion

Pay 1 life: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn.

"Their blood is the nectar that nourishes the Cabal."
—Phage the Untouchable

Blood Celebrant

{B}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

"You can learn a lot about a place just by asking the land how it's doing."

Hinterland Sanctifier

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Starscape Cleric

Offspring {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Flying
This creature can't block.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

"Whichever side wins, I'm sure the banquet will be superb."

Cruel Celebrant

Whenever this creature or another creature or planeswalker you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"The vampires never had gods. We followed our bloodchiefs. Now they are gone. What is left? Destruction and death, my friends. That is enough."

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

"Getting inside will be easy. Getting to Shredder might even be doable. Getting back out? That's going to be hard."
—April O'Neil

Foot Headquarters

Daxos, Blessed by the Sun

Daxos's toughness is equal to your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.)
Whenever another creature you control enters or dies, you gain 1 life.

Snake-Eyes's gift takes others back to their worst memory. To the weak, it is a curse; to the wise, a second chance.

South Wind Avatar

Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control dies, you gain life equal to its toughness.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Case of the Uneaten Feast

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
To solve — You've gained 5 or more life this turn. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — Sacrifice this Case: Creature cards in your graveyard gain "You may cast this card from your graveyard" until end of turn.

Druids hold certain plants to be sacred and use their leaves and wood as a spellcasting focus.

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Priest of Fell Rites

{T}, Pay 3 life, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Unearth {3}{W}{B} ({3}{W}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

The sigil holds different meanings depending on its form and presentation. While some wear it as a sign of status, others wear it as a sign of debt.

Orzhov Signet

The ultimate sword, used by a legendary king. It was forged in another world.

Excalibur II

Whenever you gain life, put a charge counter on Excalibur II.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Excalibur II.
Equip {3}

Human Soldier

Bastion of Remembrance

Lives taken are lives not easily forgotten.

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Distinguished Conjurer

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
{4}{W}, {T}: Exile another target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Esika alone knows how to distill the essence of the World Tree into the Cosmos Elixir, a magical substance which grants the Skoti god-family immortality.

Revitalize

"The wisdom of the elders is just as much a weapon as a sword or spear. We must learn to wield it."
—Ushanti, leonin seer

Leonin Elder

Whenever an artifact enters, you may gain 1 life.

Spectrum Sentinel

Protection from multicolored (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything multicolored.)
Whenever a nonbasic land an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Treasure

Deadly Dispute

"That's a pretty ring! Trade you my knife for it."

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

To hear them tell it, they charged bare-handed into New Phyrexia and beat up Elesh Norn all by themselves.

Feast of the Victorious Dead

At the beginning of your end step, if one or more creatures died this turn, you gain that much life and distribute that many +1/+1 counters among any number of creatures you control.

"He hasn't returned to the Cloud Forest. But I can still sense his calming presence."
—Zaliki of Naya

Ajani's Mantra

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain 1 life.

Liliana whispered to whatever consciousness Oketra and Bontu had left. "You are the gods. He is the usurper. You know what to do."

Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Lunar Convocation

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained and lost life this turn, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Even in the relative safety of the city, there are places best left undisturbed.

Trespasser's Curse

Enchant player
Whenever a creature enchanted player controls enters, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Tithe Drinker

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Vindicate

The living fear Nethroi's whispers. The dead heed them.

Call of the Death-Dweller

Return up to two target creature cards with total mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a deathtouch counter on either of them. Then put a menace counter on either of them.

"You thought I was unarmed? Poor fool—your veins are my arsenal."

Vengeful Bloodwitch

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"Bless this sinner, who sacrificed his blood so that I may live."

Bartolomé del Presidio

Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bartolomé del Presidio.

"Tools and artisans can be destroyed, but the act of creation is inviolate."
—Elspeth Tirel

Pristine Talisman

"Into the smothering dark, Serra spoke a single word: 'Hope.'"
—*Song of All*, canto 2

Abiding Grace

At the beginning of your end step, choose one —
• You gain 1 life.
• Return target creature card with mana value 1 from your graveyard to the battlefield.

The power to draw on the wisdom of your allies at any time, from any place . . . or trade cat pics!

Arcane Signet

At Strixhaven University, learning about the past means talking to those who were there.

Raise the Past

Return all creature cards with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Griffin

When griffins started nesting atop the northern tower, the castellan worried they'd be a nuisance. Instead, they took the entire castle under their protection.

Griffin Aerie

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 white Griffin creature token with flying.

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