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.

Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Grasslands

This land enters tapped.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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.

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.

Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Plains

New Benalia

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}.

Desert of the True

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
Cycling {1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.

Arid Archway

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. If another Desert was returned this way, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

In Elesh Norn's domain, the gospel of unity is the highest law.

The Fair Basilica

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{1}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Drifting Meadow

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

Karoo

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Plains you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{W}.

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

Evolving Wilds

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.)

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.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

When the last scrap of flesh is scoured away, the Curse of Wandering ends. Then the dead may sleep.

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Monumental Henge

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}{W}, {T}: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a historic card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Hidden Courtyard

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{4}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Secluded Steppe

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

Idyllic Grange

({T}: Add {W}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Plains.
When this land enters untapped, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

A paladin's steed is a celestial spirit in animal form.

Loyal Warhound

Vigilance
When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for a basic Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

He will be your loyal champion, and his pack your protectors. All he asks for is a full belly, a spot by the fire, and all the love in your heart.

Pack Leader

Other Dogs you control get +1/+1.
Whenever this creature attacks, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn to Dogs you control.

Nothing quickens the predator's blood like the unfamiliar scents of new hunting grounds and the mewling cries of new prey.

Steppe Lynx

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Its growl is a long, rumbling grind of gears and clockwork, its bark a blast of hissing steam.

Watchdog

This creature blocks each combat if able.
As long as this creature is untapped, all creatures attacking you get -1/-0.

"When we of the Northern Verge claim a mount, no peasant's nag will do. It must be as strong as our virtue, and must join us of its own will."
—Sarlena, paladin of the Northern Verge

Armored Warhorse

Attended Knight

Soldier

The virtues of knighthood are best taught in the field.

First strike
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Verge Rangers

First strike
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
As long as an opponent controls more lands than you, you may play lands from the top of your library. (You can play a land this way only if you have an available land play remaining.)

"Rally to my light, and together we will drive out this darkness!"

Luminarch Aspirant

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

The fastest way across the dunes is above.

Abzan Falconer

Outlast {W} ({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 flying.

Grateful Apparition

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Together Forever

When this enchantment enters, support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)
{1}: Choose target creature with a counter on it. When that creature dies this turn, return that card to its owner's hand.

Mikaeus, the Lunarch

Mikaeus enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mikaeus.
{T}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Mikaeus: Put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.

With Olivia distracted, Sigarda tore free from her bindings and summoned her Host of Herons.

Sigarda's Summons

Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have base power and toughness 4/4, have flying, and are Angels in addition to their other types.

"We sailed to Ixalan guided by a promise—the Age of Everflowing Blood. No machine will take that from us."

Dusk Legion Duelist

Vigilance
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

"I am no sleeper agent. I am a liberator. It is you who are asleep."

Metastatic Evangel

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Bulwark Ox

Whenever this creature attacks while saddled, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Sacrifice this creature: Creatures you control with counters on them gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Saddle 1 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.)

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.

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"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.

Elite Scaleguard

When this creature enters, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.)
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.

"In these halls there is no pass or fail. Your true test comes with the first full moon."

Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Many of the inventions built to fight the Phyrexians have since been repurposed for civilian use.

Marketback Walker

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

"Wherever I walk, the ancestors walk too."

Abzan Battle Priest

Outlast {W} ({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 lifelink.

"It's delightful, the things their owners reveal when they think no one is listening."

Rumor Gatherer

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, scry 1. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, draw a card instead.

Start Your Engines! // Max Speed

Perilous Snare

Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
When this artifact enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this artifact leaves the battlefield.
Max speed — {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or Vehicle you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Envoy of the Ancestors

Outlast {W} ({W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)
Modified creatures you control have lifelink. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

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.

Thievery requires subtlety, from the beginning of the heist to the end.

Rogue's Gloves

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"Lately I've seen the biggest bounties of my career—and for the biggest names."

Bounty Agent

Vigilance
{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target legendary permanent that's an artifact, creature, or enchantment.

"Fear holds no place in faith's battle plan."

Odric, Master Tactician

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Whenever Odric and at least three other creatures attack, you choose which creatures block this combat and how those creatures block.

Oreskos Explorer

When this creature enters, search your library for up to X Plains cards, where X is the number of players who control more lands than you. Reveal those cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Knight

Basri's Lieutenant

Vigilance, protection from multicolored
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, if it had a +1/+1 counter on it, create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.

Collective Effort

Escalate—Tap an untapped creature you control. (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature target player controls.

"No doubt the arbiters would put you away, after all the documents are signed. But I will have justice now."
—Alovnek, Boros guildmage

Condemn

Put target attacking creature on the bottom of its owner's library. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.

"When I'm done here, they'll name entire buildings after me."

Star Pupil

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
When this creature dies, put its counters on target creature you control.

Unbounded Potential

Choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.
• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Entwine {3}{W} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Marshal's Anthem

Multikicker {1}{W} (You may pay an additional {1}{W} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Creatures you control get +1/+1.
When this enchantment enters, return up to X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the number of times this enchantment was kicked.

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.

"Your bravery honors us all."
—Dromoka, translated from Draconic

Scale Blessing

Bolster 1, then put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. (To bolster 1, choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Noble Heritage

Commander creatures you own have "When this creature enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, each player may put two +1/+1 counters on a creature they control. For each opponent who does, you gain protection from that player until your next turn." (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything controlled by that player.)

"We fight not out of fear, but for honor."

Dromoka Captain

First strike
Whenever this creature attacks, bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

She formed a friendship with several playful spirits, and soon "the pack" was known as the source of much mischief in Eiganjo.

Spirited Companion

Even millennia later, some war machines from the devastating Brothers' War continue to function. Thankfully, the weapons meant to destroy them still work too.

Disenchant

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.)

"Some aspire to climb the mountain of Honor. The Benalish are born upon its peak, and from there ascend among the stars."
—*History of Benalia*

Benalish Marshal

Feat of Resistance

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything of that color.)

She'll swing a blade all her life, but never again for war.

Lay Down Arms

Exile target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of Plains you control. Its controller gains 3 life.

Heroes act without thought of glory or reward. Accolades are a consequence, not a goal.

Hall of Triumph

As Hall of Triumph enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.

"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

"The will to fight and act as one is not limited to a single world. Oketra's teachings are universal."
—Basri Ket

Basri's Solidarity

Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

The angels were determined to show a city run by demons that there was a better path.

Inspiring Overseer

Flying
When this creature enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

"You trespass on sacred ground, monster. Leave while you still can."

Your Temple Is Under Attack

Choose one —
• Pray for Protection — Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
• Strike a Deal — You and target opponent each draw two cards.

Paladin Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
Spells your opponents cast during your turn cost {1} more to cast.
{2}{W}: Level 2
Creatures you control get +1/+1.
{4}{W}: Level 3
Whenever you attack, until end of turn, target attacking creature gets +1/+1 for each other attacking creature and gains double strike.

Sometimes restoring the lost archives of the Jeskai can be as simple as the quiet ruffle of pages and the smell of fresh ink.

Arcane Signet

Even after Anafenza was executed, many secretly maintained their beliefs in the old ways.

Echoes of the Kin Tree

{2}{W}: Bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Towashi Guide-Bot

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
{4}, {T}: Draw a card. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each modified creature you control. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

"Those who seek to upset the balance must be taxed for such ambitions."
—Verithain, mesa high priest

Mana Tithe

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

No Meletian had ever laid eyes on an angel, but when protective Halo flooded the Multiverse, they knew a divine blessing was at hand.

Surge of Salvation

You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. Prevent all damage that black and/or red sources would deal to creatures you control this turn.

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