Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison

Rivals of Ixalan Checklist

Golem

Golden Guardian

Defender
{2}: Golden Guardian fights another target creature you control. When Golden Guardian dies this turn, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

An army of living gold for the golden city.

Gold-Forge Garrison

(Transforms from Golden Guardian.)
{T}: Add two mana of any one color.
{4}, {T}: Create a 4/4 colorless Golem artifact creature token.

Rupture Spire

Rupture Spire enters tapped.
When Rupture Spire enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

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

Seaside Citadel enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

"It's me and Gribble's special fort. None of the bad things can get us in there."
—Toby

Command Tower

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

The land is ever resilient. Should it die, it will be reborn.

Evolving Wilds

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

Sejiri Steppe

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

Selesnya Sanctuary

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

Simic Growth Chamber

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

Thornwood Falls

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

Tranquil Cove

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

Despite the chaos of the Roil and the devastation of the Eldrazi, Zendikar is a world of breathtaking beauty.

Tranquil Expanse

Tranquil Expanse enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Azorius Chancery

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

Blossoming Sands

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

"Who will stay the Tyrant's hand,
As ice and woe both grip our land?
The helpless feel his frozen brand."
—*The Dynasty of Winter Kings*

Boreal Shelf

Boreal Shelf enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Forest

Island

Plains

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.

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}.

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.

Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Oriq agents stick to the dark corners of Arcavios, unseen yet ever-present.

Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

The continent of Ondu is a vast plateau crisscrossed by deep trenches and meandering rivers.

Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Prairie Stream enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

"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.

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}.)
Canopy Vista enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Ships blown north in their voyage across the Stormwreck Sea become trapped in the unmelting ice.

Glacial Fortress

Glacial Fortress enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

To most, the Nido Sanctuary is an office complex. To the Brokers, it's a vault of secrets.

Spara's Headquarters

({T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.)
Spara's Headquarters enters tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

In places where the sea meets the trees, it's easy to forget the darkness that rules most of Innistrad.

Hinterland Harbor

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

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

Sunpetal Grove

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

Tranquil Landscape

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Tranquil Landscape: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling {G}{W}{U} ({G}{W}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.

"Tread upon the meek, and they shall wound your feet and make you crawl."
—Asmira, Holy Avenger

Retribution of the Meek

Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater. They can't be regenerated.

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.

"Where metal is tainted and wood is scarce, we are best armed by faith."
—Tavalus, acolyte of Korlis

Fortify

Choose one —
• Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.
• Creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

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

Rolling Stones

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

"Life is fleeting, and so is death. Only the oath is eternal."

Stoic Ephemera

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
When Stoic Ephemera blocks, sacrifice it at end of combat.

"We've been practicing for this all our lives. This is the final test!"
—Korun Nar, Rubblebelt hunter

Tower Defense

Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.

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.)

The blinding barrier served Benalia better than a hundred shields.

Wall of Glare

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

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

Wall of Omens

Defender
When Wall of Omens enters, draw a card.

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.)

"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.

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

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.

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.

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 Carven Caryatid 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.

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, Konda's Yojimbo instead.
{1}{W}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Opal-Eye this turn.

The executioner's tree in Thraben Cathedral holds the power to absolve more than the souls of the hanged.

Tree of Redemption

Defender
{T}: Exchange your life total with Tree of Redemption's toughness.

Wall of Resurgence

Defender
When Wall of Resurgence 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.

"Her voice is justice, clear and relentless."
—Akroma, angelic avenger

Windborn Muse

Flying
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Neither its appearance nor its temperature varies as the years pass, an eternal testament to the forces that shaped Dominaria.

Amaranthine Wall

Defender
{2}: Amaranthine Wall gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Colossus of Akros

Defender, indestructible
{10}: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As long as Colossus of Akros is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

After reading the final words, it turns back to the first page and begins again.

Geist of the Archives

Defender
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

As whispers and rumors increased, so did the demand for fail-safe barriers.

Hover Barrier

"Ya can eat it or ya can weave it, but ya can't fight in it."
—Zeki, reef pirate

Wall of Kelp

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{U}{U}, {T}: Create a 0/1 blue Plant Wall creature token with defender named Kelp.

Those who intrude upon the Dimir seldom remember that they have done so.

Wall of Lost Thoughts

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When Wall of Lost Thoughts enters, target player mills four cards. (They put the top four cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Hornet Nest

Insect

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Hornet Nest is dealt damage, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

The flicker of candlelight and the echo of hymns told the villagers that the monastery wasn't truly abandoned.

Geist of the Lonely Vigil

Defender, flying
Delirium — Geist of the Lonely Vigil can attack as though it didn't have defender as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Jeskai Barricade

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Defender
When Jeskai Barricade enters, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

One man's trash is another man's troller.

Junktroller

Defender
{T}: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

Wall of Nets

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

Brimaz, King of Oreskos

Cat Soldier

Vigilance
Whenever Brimaz, King of Oreskos 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.

Its assistance is unnervingly similar to its hunting technique.

Imperial Aerosaur

Flying
When Imperial Aerosaur enters, another target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn.

Only in mirrors do heroes find their equal.

Mirror Gallery

The Orzhov care not for repentance, only repayment.

Orzhov Advokist

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player may put two +1/+1 counters on a creature they control. If a player does, creatures that player controls can't attack you or planeswalkers you control until your next turn.

Skullwinder

Deathtouch
When Skullwinder enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand, then choose an opponent. That player returns a card from their graveyard to their hand.

"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 Wall of Roots: Add {G}. Activate only once each turn.

Small aeronaut societies like the Wind-Kin had little to lose by siding with the renegades, and much to gain.

Wind-Kin Raiders

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Flying

Chord of Calling

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Morph

Defender of the Order

Morph {W}{W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When Defender of the Order is turned face up, creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

Hundred-Handed One

Vigilance
{3}{W}{W}{W}: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As long as Hundred-Handed One is monstrous, it has reach and can block an additional ninety-nine creatures each combat.

"If not for the wizard, we'd all be dead now. 'Course, it was him that started all this in the first place."
—Onean veteran

Shield Wall

Creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

"I see you, shiny soldiers, but you won't see me."

Blinding Fog

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures this turn. Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

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