Structures built from darksteel yield to neither assault nor age.

Darksteel Citadel

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

Evolving Wilds

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

Azorius Chancery

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

Selesnya Sanctuary

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

Command Tower

Tower Winder

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

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

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.)

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}.

"Abzan vintages are nice, but the sorghum wine made in Riverwheel Village is beyond compare."
—Iramaz, Abzan trader

Tranquil Cove

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

"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}.

For wisdom's sake, it was built high to gaze on all things. For glory's sake, it was built high as a testament of power. For strength's sake, it was built high to repel all attacks.

Seaside Citadel

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

Bant's hearts are as pure as its air and as bright as its skies.

Bant Panorama

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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}.

Enter the Senate, the seat of justice and the foundation of Ravnican society.

Azorius Guildgate

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

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

Selesnya Guildgate

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

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.

"Callaphe gazed on the coastline,
certain her destiny called her
here, where the mist-shrouded rocks sang,
promising glories undreamed of."
—*The Callapheia*

Unknown Shores

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

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.

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.

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}.

Sejiri Steppe

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
{T}: Add {W}.

Sequestered Stash

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Mill five cards. Then you may put an artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Windbrisk Heights

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{W}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if you attacked with three or more creatures this turn.

Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Desert

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: This land deals 1 damage to target attacking creature. Activate only during the end of combat step.

"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}.

Springjack Pasture

Goat

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
{T}, Sacrifice X Goats: Add X mana of any one color. You gain X life.

"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.

Plains

Island

Forest

It provides what every discerning mage requires—time to think.

Wall of Denial

Defender, flying
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"I search for a vision of Zendikar that does not include the Eldrazi."
—Expedition journal entry

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Nature twists knots stronger than any rope.

Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{T}: Add {G}.

"Our enemy is nothing less than the end of all life. We shall not want for allies."
—*The War Diaries*

Overgrown Battlement

Defender
{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control with defender.

"Mana grows and changes like the roots of a plant. Like a plant, it must be nurtured."
—Nissa Revane

Wall of Roots

Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add {G}. Activate only once each turn.

Assault Formation

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
{G}: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.
{2}{G}: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

The Kin-Tree of Anafenza Mevak was the first recovered after Dromoka's reign, and it stands as a symbol of the Abzan's revival.

Tree of Redemption

Defender
{T}: Exchange your life total with this creature's toughness.

So-called "old wood" is rare in deforested Ravnica. Statues carved from it are said to house the last of the ancient nature spirits.

Carven Caryatid

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.

"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.

"My ancestor Toshiro used to say, 'Life is a series of choices between bad and worse.' I'm a master of making great bad choices."

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Huatli, the Sun's Heart

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
−3: You gain life equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control.

Enduring the most desolate and dangerous conditions, Abzan sentries unfailingly guard the stronghold gates.

Brave the Sands

Creatures you control have vigilance.
Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.

"I welcome it. The pasture is cleared of weeds and the wolves are frozen solid."
—Lumi, goatherd

Wall of Frost

Defender
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Wall of Shards

Defender, flying
Cumulative upkeep—An opponent gains 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Urza saw the wall and realized that even if he tore every Phyrexian to pieces, they would still resist him.

Wall of Junk

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature blocks, return it to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Only a worthy few are permitted within the sentient forest known as Axebane.

Axebane Guardian

Defender
{T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

Wall

Teyo, the Shieldmage

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
−2: Create a 0/3 white Wall creature token with defender.

High Alert

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Creatures you control can attack as though they didn't have defender.
{2}{W}{U}: Untap target creature.

Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination

Innistrad Checklist

Ludevic's Test Subject

Defender
{1}{U}: Put a hatchling counter on this creature. Then if there are five or more hatchling counters on it, remove all of them and transform it.

After several frustrating experiments, the visionary Ludevic realized he needed to create a monster that fed on torch-wielding mobs.

Ludevic's Abomination

"Trust me—the walls have more than just ears."
—Orcish spy

Rolling Stones

Wall creatures can attack as though they didn't have defender.

Mulch is the fabric of life in the forest. Plants live in it, they die in it, and then they become part of it, feeding countless generations to come.

Wall of Mulch

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{G}, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.

It lingers near the outposts of the Makindi Trenches, inadvertently granting another layer of defense.

Guard Gomazoa

Defender, flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature.

Glyph Keeper

Flying
Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability.
Embalm {5}{U}{U} ({5}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Sphinx with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

Wall of Resurgence

Defender
When this creature enters, you may put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control. If you do, that land becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste that's still a land.

Darksteel Myr

Indestructible (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.)

Rootlike fibers travel far from Mirrodin's metallic forests, emerging from the crust to drink in the mana-infused sunlight.

Wall of Tanglecord

Defender
{G}: This creature gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Wall of Blossoms

"Many have been lost to pity."
—Karn, silver golem

Wall of Tears

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.

"We stand between the jaws of chaos and the mantle of order."

Perimeter Captain

Defender
Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.

Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Other Elf creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever Dwynen attacks, you gain 1 life for each attacking Elf you control.

Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{T}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage this turn, that damage is dealt to Opal-Eye instead.
{1}{W}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Opal-Eye this turn.

Its pulsating cry shatters bonds of iron, granite, and servitude.

Wakestone Gargoyle

Defender, flying
{1}{W}: Creatures you control with defender can attack this turn as though they didn't have defender.

Mistcutter Hydra

This spell can't be countered.
Haste, protection from blue
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Duskwatch Recruiter // Krallenhorde Howler

Shadows Over Innistrad Checklist 1

Duskwatch Recruiter

{2}{G}: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform this creature.

Krallenhorde Howler

Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
At the beginning of each upkeep, if a player cast two or more spells last turn, transform this creature.

"The air stirred as if fanned by angels' wings, and the enemy was turned aside."
—Tales of Ikarov the Voyager

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

They wondered at the size of it. It wondered which to eat first.

Wall of Wonder

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{2}{U}{U}: This creature gets +4/-4 until end of turn and can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.

The blinding barrier served Benalia better than a hundred shields.

Wall of Glare

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
This creature can block any number of creatures.

Mercadian soldiers excel at finding things to stand behind.

Crenellated Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{T}: Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.

"When I said we needed more swords to protect the realm, this was not quite what I had in mind."
—Olander, tactician of the Northern Verge

Wall of Swords

Enlightenment is not gained by striking the bell or hearing its toll. It's found in the silence that follows.

Temple Bell

When no falcons fly, beware the sky.
—Femeref aphorism

Wall of Air

Defender, flying (This creature can't attack, and it can block creatures with flying.)

Wall of Nets

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
At end of combat, exile all creatures blocked by this creature.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You may cast spells as though they had flash.

The barrier between existence and oblivion is thinner than you know.

Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Star Compass

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

The maze-like design embodies the core of Azorius law—strict structure designed to test wills and stall change.

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