Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison

Rivals of Ixalan Checklist

Golem

Golden Guardian

Defender
{2}: This creature fights another target creature you control. When this creature 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.

Swamp

Mountain

Island

Kuldotha, wellspring of molten metal, temple of the goblin horde.

Great Furnace

Urza's Saga

Construct

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink."
—The Tenth Doctor

Ominous Cemetery

{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}, Exile this land: Target creature's owner shuffles it into their library.

Lavaclaw Reaches

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
{1}{B}{R}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/2 black and red Elemental creature with "{X}: This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn." It's still a land.

Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

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.

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Ish Sah, den of the warlord Geth, commander of countless nim.

Vault of Whispers

Robot

Secluded Starforge

The heat of a sun condensed into a forge.

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Tap X untapped artifacts you control: Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
{5}, {T}: Create a 2/2 colorless Robot artifact creature token.

Archway of Innovation

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Command Tower

Tower Winder

"Thus, the shattered half of the planet was
named Kavaron That Is, and the capital
was moved to Kavaron Before."
*—The Tragedy of Emperor Kavarus III*

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

"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.

It's said the spirits of the drowned dead hang their lights from the shattered figureheads.

Crumbling Necropolis

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Frequent, violent storms shape the Nephalia coastline, sculpting cliffs and caves where monsters often lurk.

Stormcarved Coast

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

The bones of doomed ships jut out from the muck while the bones of their sailors molder below.

Shipwreck Marsh

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

Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

None can tell how many vessels are tangled up on the sea floor—or how much treasure remains unclaimed.

Drowned Catacomb

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

Swirling eddies of ash hide crumbling cliffs, treacherous drops, and the slavering maws of unknown evils.

Haunted Ridge

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

On the continent of Tazeem, rushing waters plunge through narrow canyons into mist-cloaked lakes.

Sunken Hollow

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

Maestros agents can lie low in high style at the opulent Shadow Hostel.

Xander's Lounge

({T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The continent of Guul Draz is a geothermal swampland reeking of heat and decay.

Smoldering Marsh

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

"Log 2.9.089: Lammuat, the cemetery moon of salvage and secrets. Could be profitable for those brave enough to plumb its recesses."
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Watery Grave

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

The flamekin was drawn toward warm laughter when the skies darkened, then she turned back to the lonely peak.

Steam Vents

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

The boggart was playfully prodding a critter when the skies darkened, then he gobbled it down with glee.

Blood Crypt

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

The path to knowledge is forged in hunger.

Mistvault Bridge

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

Between matches, combatants practice to stay in peak mental and physical form.

Training Center

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

"We have inherited the mysteries of the Thran, but few of the answers."
—Jhoira

Sulfur Falls

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

No one really knows how deep the waters go beneath Undercity, nor what amorphous horrors lurk within.

Morphic Pool

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

Murky Otarian tides hide the forgotten treacheries of the Phyrexian war.

Darkwater Catacombs

The path to genius is forged in creativity.

Silverbluff Bridge

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

"All creation in a single point, the point of all creation in all."
—Sunstar loop-mantra

Sol Ring

"An ordered Sothera is a peaceful Sothera. Join the Strategic Corps today and proudly turn the gears of progress!"
—Pinnacle recruitment ad

Arcane Signet

Thopter Engineer

Thopter

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
Artifact creatures you control have haste. (They can attack and {T} as soon as they come under your control.)

Pia and Kiran Nalaar

When Pia and Kiran Nalaar enters, create two 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying.
{2}{R}, Sacrifice an artifact: Pia and Kiran Nalaar deals 2 damage to any target.

Sharding Sphinx

Whether mechanical or biological, life finds a way to propagate itself.

Flying
Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Metalwork Colossus

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total mana value of noncreature artifacts you control.
Sacrifice two artifacts: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge

Creature and planeswalker spells you cast have affinity for artifacts. (They cost {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
+2: Tezzeret deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of artifacts you control. You gain X life.
−3: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
−8: Exile the top ten cards of your library. Put all artifact cards from among them onto the battlefield.

"I wrecked your metal guy, boss. But look! I made you an ashtray."

Goblin Welder

{T}: Choose target artifact a player controls and target artifact card in that player's graveyard. If both targets are still legal as this ability resolves, that player simultaneously sacrifices the artifact and returns the artifact card to the battlefield.

Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Wurm

Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink
When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Hellkite Tyrant

Flying, trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

Karn, the Great Creator

Activated abilities of artifacts your opponents control can't be activated.
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.
−2: You may reveal an artifact card you own from outside the game or choose a face-up artifact card you own in exile. Put that card into your hand.

Her poppets bring joy to the truly depraved.

Scarecrone

{1}, Sacrifice a Scarecrow: Draw a card.
{4}, {T}: Return target artifact creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Automaton inspectors ensure that the Consulate's stringent standards for mass production are upheld.

Foundry Inspector

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Saheeli, Sublime Artificer

Servo

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.
−2: Target artifact you control becomes a copy of another target artifact or creature you control until end of turn, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

The indigo dragon gladly traded a bit of its hoard for everlasting moonlight.

Shimmer Dragon

Flying
As long as you control four or more artifacts, this creature has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Draw a card.

Duplicant

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature.
As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.

Padeem, Consul of Innovation

Artifacts you control have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control the artifact with the greatest mana value or tied for the greatest mana value, draw a card.

Helm of Possession

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Gain control of target creature for as long as you control this artifact and this artifact remains tapped.

He watches in silence as the shadows shift, bringing Amonkhet ever nearer to the Hour of Revelation.

Sphinx of the Second Sun

Flying
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, there is an additional beginning phase after this phase. (The beginning phase includes the untap, upkeep, and draw steps.)

Molten Primordial

Haste
When this creature enters, for each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn.

Phyrexian Scriptures

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.
II — Destroy all nonartifact creatures.
III — Exile all opponents' graveyards.

As Glissa searches for the truth about Memnarch, Bosh searches to unearth the secrets of his past.

Bosh, Iron Golem

Trample
{3}{R}, Sacrifice an artifact: Bosh deals damage equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value to any target.

Only the Eldrazi mind thinks in the warped paths required to open the hedrons and tap the power within.

Dreamstone Hedron

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw three cards.

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

"Some Eldrazi, their purpose is obvious: suck the life out of the land, birth new Eldrazi. Others aren't so obvious, and those are the ones that make me really nervous."
—Chadir the Navigator

Herald of Kozilek

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Colorless spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Saheeli Rai

Copy

+1: Scry 1. Saheeli Rai deals 1 damage to each opponent.
−2: Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
−7: Search your library for up to three artifact cards with different names, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Geode Golem

Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast your commander from the command zone without paying its mana cost. (You still pay any additional costs.)

Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature.
Other creatures you control have haste.
{2}{R}: You may put a red creature card or an artifact creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

"The partisans have unearthed a strange artifact. None know its origin, but it gives them hope of a life beyond."
—Elspeth's journal

Unwinding Clock

Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

"The secret to invention is to see something in your mind, then find where it hides in the world."

Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

All who listen hear their own song, a unique melody played just for them.

Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

The portal opens not to the past, but from it. Those who step through discover an unimaginable future.

Thran Temporal Gateway

{4}, {T}: You may put a historic permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Saheeli's Directive

Improvise (Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of artifact cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.

Mephidross gives up treasure easily . . . as long as you take its place.

Myr Retriever

When this creature dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sometimes the smallest things make the biggest difference.

Workshop Assistant

Trading Post

Goat

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: You gain 4 life.
{1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Grand Architect

Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.
{U}: Target artifact creature becomes blue until end of turn.
Tap an untapped blue creature you control: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.

Hellkite Igniter

Flying, haste
{1}{R}: This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of artifacts you control.

"Finally! It was worth the price to never have to fiddle with lockpicks ever again."
—Davvry Mineshadow, thief

Manifold Key

{1}, {T}: Untap another target artifact.
{3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Pia Nalaar

When Pia Nalaar enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
{1}{R}: Target artifact creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
{1}, Sacrifice an artifact: Target creature can't block this turn.

Relentless Assault

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

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