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.

Simic Growth Chamber

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

Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Breeding Pool

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

"Our ancestors brought down a Phyrexian portal ship, then built our town on its hull. We're pretty proud of that."
—Alene of Riverspan

Hinterland Harbor

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

As magnigoth trees expanded across the sea into Almaaz and New Argive, it became clear Yavimaya's borders were never confined by its coastline.

Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Once guarded by the Knights of the Reliquary, the tower stands now protected only by its own remoteness, its dusty treasures open to plunder by anyone.

Reliquary Tower

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

The House's geography constantly warps and twists, fields melting into floorboards and walls opening into hungry maws.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Dragonstorm chasers are not deterred by danger—they claim there is nothing like witnessing the land embracing the power of a storm.

Evolving Wilds

Myriad Landscape

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

Llanowar Reborn

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Graft 1 (This land enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this land onto it.)

Persecuted alchemists fled deep into Kessig's wilds, seeking solitude to continue their ghoulish craft.

Alchemist's Refuge

{T}: Add {C}.
{G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

By morning the only evidence of conflict between Temur hunters and Sultai scouts were abandoned banners in the freshly fallen snow.

Thornwood Falls

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

Temple of Mystery

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 {G} or {U}.

Waterways carve their routes through the land to reflect the paths the aether streams cut through the clouds.

Woodland Stream

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Enter and comprehend the perfection of orchestrated life.

Simic Guildgate

Island

Forest

"I can't protect everyone here. But those I can, I will."
—Karn

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Restless Vinestalk

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{3}{G}{U}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 5/5 green and blue Plant creature with trample. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, up to one other target creature has base power and toughness 3/3 until end of turn.

When they're done pummeling each other, the fighters relax companionably in the springs, warming their sore muscles.

Rejuvenating Springs

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Soothing whispers invite travelers to step closer, closer, closer . . . until they vanish soundlessly beneath the surface.

Dreamroot Cascade

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

At full moon, the river seeps over its banks and crawls through the woods like a blanket of serpents.

Flooded Grove

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

"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.

"How truly vast this city must be, that I have traveled so far and seen so much, yet never once found the place where the buildings fail."

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

As the Simic released more of their krasis experiments, they required new habitats, always at the expense of the locals.

Urban Evolution

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

The first explorers found Argoth a storehouse of natural wealth—towering forests grown over rich veins of ore.

Exploration

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Oracle of Mul Daya

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands from the top of your library.

Courser of Kruphix

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands from the top of your library.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

"I do not miss Jukai Forest. It is not my home. My home is Kamigawa, its people my family. Wherever I set my pack and rest my head, I am home."

Azusa, Lost but Seeking

You may play two additional lands on each of your turns.

"Scouts of the Sakura Tribe spent two years wandering the forest to learn every leaf and tree. That knowledge was called upon during the Kami War to ensure the orochi's survival."
—*The History of Kamigawa*

Sakura-Tribe Scout

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Crafted by lullmages and bound to the land, it alters itself to match the tumultuous terrain.

Walking Atlas

Prime Speaker Zegana

Prime Speaker Zegana enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control.
When Prime Speaker Zegana enters, draw cards equal to its power.

"Your arrival was expected...and unwelcome."

Frilled Mystic

Flash
When this creature enters, you may counter target spell.

Snaking remnants of nature directed by a body of thought and progress, the oracles embody all that is Simic.

Coiling Oracle

When this creature enters, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

"The enlightenment I never found in etherium I have found traced in the coatl's scales."
—Ranalus, vedalken heretic

Lorescale Coatl

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner

Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
−1: Untap target permanent.

To save this plane, he must forsake all others.

Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Flash
Creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield have flash.
Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.

"Is it not the embodiment of our aspirations?"
—Prokopios, astronomer of Meletis

Archetype of Imagination

Creatures you control have flying.
Creatures your opponents control lose flying and can't have or gain flying.

"Our revered ancestor Seshiro gave us wisdom greater than poison and fangs."

Kaseto, Orochi Archmage

{G}{U}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn. If that creature is a Snake, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Thaumaturges of Theros have learned to weave their magic into the world around them, but it can be pulled apart strand by strand.

Unravel the Aether

Choose target artifact or enchantment. Its owner shuffles it into their library.

Counterspell

Delay

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Swan Song

Bird

"The most enlightened mages create beauty from violence."
—Medomai the Ageless

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

Rapid Hybridization

Frog Lizard

"From the day we are born, we do our best to survive. We fight. We run. We fear. But we cannot protect ourselves from change."
—Ark, lizardfolk blacksmith

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Reality Shift

Manifest

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

"Everything serves a purpose. Even you."
—Vorel of the Hull Clade

Plasm Capture

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next first main phase, add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is that spell's mana value.

Overrun

Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

"A regression to ancient forms? A glimpse of future evolutions? Or a fleeting alteration of the present?"
—Vorel of the Hull Clade

Biomass Mutation

Creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X until end of turn.

"Hop away now, little Eternal. Go eat some flies."
—Kasmina

Kasmina's Transmutation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1.

Few who encounter the strange, human-like grove leave once the lilting chorus of the dryads reaches their ears.

Song of the Dryads

Enchant permanent
Enchanted permanent is a colorless Forest land.

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

The militia formed up in the central plaza awaiting the onslaught, but the giants never quite made it.

Aether Gale

Return six target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

"Animals commune with their environment without the need for language. Theirs is a fundamental connection that surpasses flimsy words."
—Vivien Reid

Harmonize

"Control the Great Conduit? You might as well try to divert a river with your hands."

Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Fragments of thought refract and multiply, surging in a geyser of dizzying insight.

Mind Spring

"I don't like to think of myself as a pirate. I'm more like a stimulator of the local economy."

Coastal Piracy

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

The wills of mortals shift as the tide ebbs and flows.

Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
{1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

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 this artifact: Draw a card.

Simic symbols are among the most intricate and fragile, yet few vandalize them for fear of the strange lifeforms that might be released.

Simic Cluestone

{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{G}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

"Like our guild itself, this locket can stand for many things. You must discern what it means for you."
—Vannifar

Simic Locket

{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{G/U}{G/U}{G/U}{G/U}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

The Simic soon discovered that the sky offered as few constraints on size as the sea.

Nimbus Swimmer

Flying
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Scourge of Fleets

When this creature enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Colossal Whale

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever this creature attacks, you may exile target creature defending player controls until this creature leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

Shipbreaker Kraken

{6}{U}{U}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
When this creature becomes monstrous, tap up to four target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps for as long as you control this creature.

These waters remain uncharted, but not for lack of trying.

Breaching Leviathan

When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, tap all nonblue creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

Tromokratis

Tromokratis has hexproof unless it's attacking or blocking.
Tromokratis can't be blocked unless all creatures defending player controls block it. (If any creature that player controls doesn't block this creature, it can't be blocked.)

When Lorthos emerges from his deepwater realm, the tides bow to his will and the coastline cowers in his presence.

Lorthos, the Tidemaker

Whenever Lorthos attacks, you may pay {8}. If you do, tap up to eight target permanents. Those permanents don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

The pull of the tide star holds eternal sway.

Keiga, the Tide Star

Flying
When Keiga dies, gain control of target creature.

"I can see why this appeals to Thassa."
—Kiora

Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Quest for Ula's Temple

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you may reveal it and put a quest counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of each end step, if there are three or more quest counters on this enchantment, you may put a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

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Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror

Thing in the Ice

Defender
This creature enters with four ice counters on it.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, remove an ice counter from this creature. Then if it has no ice counters on it, transform it.

"It serves as evidence of the ancient power of the deep, a reminder that the sea is the only thing worthy of reverence."
—Runo Stromkirk

Awoken Horror

When this creature transforms into Awoken Horror, return all non-Horror creatures to their owners' hands.

"Into its maw went the seventh sea, never to be seen again while the world remains."
—Esper fable

Inkwell Leviathan

Trample
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Most inhabitants of Zendikar have given up on the idea of an accurate map.

Spreading Seas

Enchant land
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
Enchanted land is an Island.

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