"For centuries my creation kept this world in balance. Now only her shadow remains."
—Sorin Markov

Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Godless Shrine

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

Serra's blessing lies strongest upon Sursi, where her holy chapels are untouched even as the Cabal encroaches.

Isolated Chapel

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

Orzhov Basilica

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

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 of Silence

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} or {B}.

Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"Do not linger in such places, child. There the gwyllions dance. If they find you, you will join in their revels for eternity."
—Talara, elvish safewright

Fetid Heath

{T}: Add {C}.
{W/B}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{B}, or {B}{B}.

The expedition's end began the marsh's story.

Silent Clearing

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {W} or {B}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

After years of silence, the caves once again echo with the grisly sounds of Phyrexians preparing for war.

Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

"A cursed silhouette to look upon. Even if the halls stand empty, its vile shadows blight the land. I shudder to think of the evils that it held."
—Koth

Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

There is no glory to be gained in the kingdom of the dead.
—Vec tomb inscription

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Deep within the Cabal's vault, the Mirari pulsed like a dead sun—and its darkness radiated across Otaria.

Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Plains

Swamp

The seat of Belzenlok's power, the Stronghold serves as the gathering place for the Cabal as their dark influence spreads from Urborg.

Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Human

Castle Ardenvale

Without Ardenvale's loyalty, the realm would greedily devour itself.

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.

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}.

Emeria, the Sky Ruin

This land enters tapped.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more Plains, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
{T}: Add {W}.

Enter to find wealth, security, and eternal life . . . for just a small price up front.

Orzhov Guildgate

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

Shambling Vent

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{1}{W}{B}: This land becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink until end of turn. It's still a land.

Tainted Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Barren Moor

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

Outrider en-Kor

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
{0}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn is dealt to target creature you control instead.

They are the reflection of Rushwood's glow on the edge of a wooden sword.

Task Force

Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, it gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

"One does not question the size or shape of the grains of sand in an hourglass. Nor do I question the temperament of the souls under my guidance."

Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

In truth, her own faith was gone, trodden in Ulamog's wake. She pantomimed the blessing in the hope that it would inspire others to continue to struggle.

Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

"Only in our vulnerability is there true power, and that power is life itself."

Martyr of Sands

{1}, Reveal X white cards from your hand, Sacrifice this creature: You gain three times X life.

"All I require is faith, loyalty, obedience, trust, and complete and utter devotion."

High Priest of Penance

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you may destroy target nonland permanent.

"We have faced horrors of war and terrors beyond imagining. We will overcome the uncertainties of this new life."

Ancestor's Prophet

Tap five untapped Clerics you control: You gain 10 life.

Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

"Eldrazi? Ha! Try walking through Zulaport at night with your pockets full. Now *that's* dangerous."

Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Suture Priest

Whenever another creature you control enters, you may gain 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

A-Blood Artist

Blood Artist

"Vanya Falkenrath's paintings are astonishing. How does she manage to achieve such rich crimson hues?"
—Stefan, art critic

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"You serve Phyrexia. Your pieces would better serve Phyrexia elsewhere."
—Azax-Azog, the Demon Thane

Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

"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.

Sorin had created Avacyn, so it was a cruelty beyond imagining, a pain beyond description, that it fell upon him to end her forever.

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Vindicate

For a razorkin, painless dissolution is a far worse fate than agonizing death.

Utter End

The queen sent her champion to defeat the necromancer threat. His helmet was returned the next day, warped and stained with blood.

Mortify

Merciless Eviction

Choose one —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all planeswalkers.

Teysa, Orzhov Scion

Spirit

Sacrifice three white creatures: Exile target creature.
Whenever another black creature you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter

Flying, lifelink
Sacrifice a creature: Put X +1/+1 counters on Vish Kal, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
Remove all +1/+1 counters from Vish Kal: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each +1/+1 counter removed this way.

Serra Ascendant

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
As long as you have 30 or more life, this creature gets +5/+5 and has flying.

Seraph of the Scales

Flying
{W}: This creature gains vigilance until end of turn.
{B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Afterlife 2 (When this creature dies, create two 1/1 white and black Spirit creature tokens with flying.)

Darksteel Hydra

Darksteel Plate

"If there can be no victory, then I will fight forever."
—Koth of the Hammer

Indestructible
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip {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}

Mardu blacksmiths can distill the technology of any clan and make it their own. Whether or not they should is another question.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

The sigil holds different meanings depending on its form and presentation. While some wear it as a sign of status, others wear it as a sign of debt.

Orzhov Signet

Mardu lightning fences are the ingenious synthesis of blacksmith skill and stormsinger magic, protecting their dalkovans from even the most fearsome dragonstorms.

Sol Ring

A spark of resistance against a tide of corruption.

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

Diabolic Tutor

"Organization is often undervalued but rarely unjustified."
—Frasio, royal archivist

Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Those who hear her go mad with inspiration.

Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.)
Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Idyllic Tutor

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

"Once Avacyn returned, I hoped I'd never need these things again. I didn't think I'd be dusting them off to use against angels."

Open the Armory

Search your library for an Aura or Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Weathered Wayfarer

{W}, {T}: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if an opponent controls more lands than you.

Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Smothering Tithe

Treasure

"I await your donation."
—Dasha, Orzhov priest

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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.

Karmic Guide

Flying, protection from black
Echo {3}{W}{W} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Reveillark

Flying
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Evoke {5}{W} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Angel of Serenity

Flying
When this creature enters, you may exile up to three other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

"Unskin these impure bodies, Great Yawgmoth, that the flesh may welcome your blessings."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Dimir mages put the lanterns to good use, creating shapeshifters and sleeper agents from mana foreign to them.

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

The cube's surface is pockmarked with jagged runes that seem to shift when unobserved.

Doubling Cube

{3}, {T}: Double the amount of each type of unspent mana you have.

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back."
—Ashnod, to Tawnos

Ashnod's Altar

"The secrets of Phyrexia are expensive. You will pay in brass and bone, steel and sinew."
—Kaervek

Phyrexian Vault

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

"I use maps to find out where explorers have already been. Then I go the other way."
—Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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

"It looks expensive, doesn't it? You have no idea..."
—Milana, Orzhov prelate

Orzhov Locket

{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

A symbol of power and wealth, the only commodities that matter to the Orzhov.

Orzhov Cluestone

{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{W}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

You only need to wield it once to appreciate the power of control.

Orzhov Keyrune

{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{W}{B}: This artifact becomes a 1/4 white and black Thrull artifact creature with lifelink until end of turn.

Giada, Font of Hope

Flying, vigilance
Each other Angel you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it for each Angel you already control.
{T}: Add {W}. Spend this mana only to cast an Angel spell.

Twilight Shepherd

Flying, vigilance
When this creature enters, return to your hand all cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Some Strixhaven study groups are more welcoming than others.

Veinwitch Coven

Menace
Whenever you gain life, you may pay {B}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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