"Always have a backup plan."
—Doral, Bala Ged guide

Bala Ged Recovery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I know it's around here somewhere."
—Doral, Bala Ged guide

Bala Ged Sanctuary

Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary

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.

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.

Temple Garden

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

The continent of Murasa lies beneath a blanket of dense vegetation, its enormous branches tangled so thickly that some inhabitants never see the ground.

Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

To the Sun Empire, any place where daylight brightens the jungle floor is sacred ground.

Sunpetal Grove

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

Selesnya Sanctuary

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

Where evolution meets austerity, primal might bucks against the yoke of hierarchy.

Razorverge Thicket

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

Stirring Wildwood

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.
{1}{G}{W}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/4 green and white Elemental creature with reach. It's still a land.

Enter and rejoice! The Conclave stands united, open to one and all.

Selesnya Guildgate

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

Kabira Crossroads

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

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.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Forest

Plains

"Multani's heart is a seed, and all of Yavimaya is its flower. There is as much life here as in the rest of Dominaria together."
—Karn

Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Tranquil Thicket

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

Secluded Steppe

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

Saltcrusted Steppe

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land.
{1}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of {G} and/or {W}.

Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

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.)

A few weed-choked gourd patches are all that remain of the proud, thriving farms that once blanketed the province.

Overgrown Farmland

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

Servants tend the gardens meticulously, ensuring that Upper City residents aren't bothered by the messier parts of nature.

Bountiful Promenade

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

Fortified Village

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

Krosan Verge

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest card and a Plains card, put them 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

"It's rare to see Temur so far from their own lands. I see no reason to interfere, but keep an eye on them nonetheless."
—Hamza of House Fenzala

Blossoming Sands

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

Temple of Plenty

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 {W}.

Regal Caracal

Oketra's closest viziers are known as her chosen, though others may have a better claim to that moniker.

Other Cats you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink. (Damage dealt by those creatures also causes you to gain that much life.)
When this creature enters, create two 1/1 white Cat creature tokens with lifelink.

The viziers serving Rhonas, the god of strength, maintain the menagerie of animals employed during his trial.

Prowling Serpopard

This spell can't be countered.
Creature spells you control can't be countered.

Leonin Relic-Warder

When this creature enters, you may exile target artifact or enchantment.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist

First strike
Whenever Mirri attacks, each opponent can't block with more than one creature this combat.
As long as Mirri is tapped, no more than one creature can attack you each combat.

Brimaz, King of Oreskos

Cat Soldier

Vigilance
Whenever Brimaz attacks, create a 1/1 white Cat Soldier creature token with vigilance that's attacking.
Whenever Brimaz blocks a creature, create a 1/1 white Cat Soldier creature token with vigilance that's blocking that creature.

Seht's Tiger

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When this creature enters, you gain protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything of the chosen color.)

Pride Sovereign

This creature gets +1/+1 for each other Cat you control.
{W}, {T}, Exert this creature: Create two 1/1 white Cat creature tokens with lifelink. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)

Pridemalkin

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

All things will crumble, whether by time or by force.

Qasali Slingers

Reach
Whenever this creature or another Cat you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Poison Counter

Lost Leonin

Mirrans were broken down and rebuilt, made to be loyal servants of the force they had fought.

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Adorned Pouncer

Double strike
Eternalize {3}{W}{W} ({3}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Cat with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Ferocious Pup

Wolf

The strongest pack has the fiercest pups.

When this creature enters, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token.

Felidars that make it through their first year of life can easily live to see a hundred years more.

Felidar Cub

Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target enchantment.

Some Ravnicans consider carrying a sword to be beneath them, preferring instead a tooth-and-claw escort.

Trained Caracal

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

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

Felidar Guardian

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

It surveys the withering landscape, waiting for a victory only it can see.

Felidar Sovereign

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 40 or more life, you win the game.

Paladin of Prahv

Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life.
Forecast — {1}{W}, Reveal this card from your hand: Whenever target creature deals damage this turn, you gain that much life. (Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

"Glorious, to walk again across the savannah with my beloved."
—"Love Song of Night and Day"

King of the Pride

"There is no justice when some profit and others go without."

Alms Collector

Flash
If an opponent would draw two or more cards, instead you and that player each draw a card.

Fleecemane Lion

{3}{G}{W}: Monstrosity 1. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As long as this creature is monstrous, it has hexproof and indestructible.

Kaheera, the Orphanguard

Companion — Each creature card in your starting deck is a Cat, Elemental, Nightmare, Dinosaur, or Beast card. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
Vigilance
Each other creature you control that's a Cat, Elemental, Nightmare, Dinosaur, or Beast gets +1/+1 and has vigilance.

Leonin Warleader

When one leonin hunts, many more are surely nearby.

Whenever this creature attacks, create two 1/1 white Cat creature tokens with lifelink that are tapped and attacking.

They are tasked with protecting the entrance to the embalming chambers.

Watchers of the Dead

Exile this creature: Each opponent chooses two cards in their graveyard and exiles the rest.

Coat of Arms

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

After lightning struck the cliffs, the ore became iron, the iron became steel, and the steel became greaves. The lightning never left.

Lightning Greaves

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

Quietus Spike

Equipped creature has deathtouch.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.
Equip {3}

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Heirloom Blade

Equipped creature gets +3/+1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card that shares a creature type with it. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Equip {1}

While the root remains, the tree yet lives.

Regrowth

"The predator knows the true way of the world. Life is conflict. Only the strong survive."
—Garruk Wildspeaker

Hunter's Insight

Choose target creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker this turn, draw that many cards.

Nissa's Pilgrimage

Search your library for up to two basic Forest cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, search your library for up to three basic Forest cards instead of two.

Armageddon

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

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

Harmonize

Sylvan Reclamation

Exile up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.
Basic landcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Knight

Righteous Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.
• Exile target enchantment.
• You gain 5 life.

"By the time you've seen it all, all have already changed."
—Wandering treant, name unknown

Traverse the Outlands

Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. Put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Divine Reckoning

Each player chooses a creature they control. Destroy the rest.
Flashback {5}{W}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Kamahl left the violence of his former life behind him, but he still believes in the power of muscle.

Tribal Unity

Creatures of the creature type of your choice get +X/+X until end of turn.

Felidar Retreat

Cat Beast

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Create a 2/2 white Cat Beast creature token.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn.

"There's no 'I' in 'team,' but there's a 'we' in 'weapon.'"

Catapult Master

Tap five untapped Soldiers you control: Exile target creature.

Rancor

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample.
When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Archangel of Thune

Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

In nature, not a single bone or scrap of flesh goes to waste.

Scavenging Ooze

{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

"As my kha, he is the source of my inspiration. As my brother, he is the embodiment of my aspirations."
—Ajani Goldmane

Jazal Goldmane

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
{3}{W}{W}: Attacking creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

"When the kumo attacked the monks' sacred shrine, a mournful toll for help echoed through the forest. Thus began the Battle of Silk, which would last six years."
—*Great Battles of Kamigawa*

Time of Need

Search your library for a legendary creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"The arc of my blade has carved a path of light for the peace that will follow."

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

"You can almost see it calculating—are we a tasty enough treat to risk the jump?"
—Samila, Murasa Expeditionary House

Canopy Baloth

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

"All of us, from the tiny leaf-mite to the towering baloth, are vital threads in the weave of life."

Worldly Tutor

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.

Ravnica's defenders watched in horror as Oketra's shot pierced the body of the pegasus. Gideon tumbled through the air, Blackblade in hand.

Divine Arrow

Divine Arrow deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Thieves know that a snarl in the night means, "Rob another house."

Spirit of the Hearth

Flying
You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

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