Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield 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.)

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.)

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}.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Terrain Generator

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Island

Archway of Innovation

Archway of Innovation enters the battlefield 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}.)

Its secrets once wrought the greatest artifice ever known. Now crabs loot the rubble to decorate their shells.

Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Lumengrid, site of the Knowledge Pool, source of vedalken arcana.

Seat of the Synod

Working with the best of intentions, its researchers unwittingly unleashed a plague of troubles upon Dominaria.

Riptide Laboratory

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.

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

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

The Planar Bridge opened over the Chamber of the Guildpact, reducing the symbol of Ravnica's endurance to rubble.

Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Emergence Zone: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Unlike previous conflicts, the war between Urza and Mishra made Dominaria itself a casualty of war.

Strip Mine

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Strip Mine: Destroy target land.

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Gemstone Caverns

If Gemstone Caverns is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand.
{T}: Add {C}. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.

There is beauty in the uncertainty of potential.

Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

No matter how deep Urza delved, he couldn't escape his regrets.

Urza's Cave

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Urza's Cave: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Demolition Field: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Mystic Sanctuary

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

Lonely Sandbar

Lonely Sandbar enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Cephalid Coliseum

{T}: Add {U}. Cephalid Coliseum deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {U}, {T}, Sacrifice Cephalid Coliseum: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Without Vantress's knowledge, the realm would lose itself in darkness.

Castle Vantress

Castle Vantress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Halimar Depths

Halimar Depths enters the battlefield tapped.
When Halimar Depths enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Add {U}.

"When gods become apathetic, the people will worship anyone who answers their pleas."
—Kiora

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Some worlds possess a hidden core where life's essence constantly surges.

Mutavault

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mutavault becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.

Some emeritus professors return from their wanderings periodically to share tales of the mystical wonders of Arcavios.

Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

"There is no age at which you stop learning."

Barrin, Tolarian Archmage

When Barrin, Tolarian Archmage enters the battlefield, return up to one other target creature or planeswalker to its owner's hand.
At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent was put into your hand from the battlefield this turn, draw a card.

Aspiring wizards must demonstrate basic levels of willpower and mental discipline to even be considered for an apprenticeship.

Apprentice Wizard

Glen Elendra Archmage

Flying
{U}, Sacrifice Glen Elendra Archmage: Counter target noncreature spell.
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.)

Eldritch Moon Checklist

Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration

Human Wizard

The time had come for him to share his findings.

Docent of Perfection

Flying
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Human Wizard creature token. Then if you control three or more Wizards, transform Docent of Perfection.

Final Iteration

Flying
Wizards you control get +2/+1 and have flying.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Human Wizard creature token.

"A riddle is nothing more than a trap for small minds, baited with the promise of understanding."

Sphinx of Magosi

Flying
{2}{U}: Draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on Sphinx of Magosi.

"Knowledge is no more expensive than ignorance, and at least as satisfying."
—Barrin, master wizard

Barrin, Master Wizard

{2}, Sacrifice a permanent: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

"He's a living library. He remembers everything our band of explorers has seen, and we can use that to our advantage."
—Zahr Gada, Halimar expedition leader

Sea Gate Loremaster

{T}: Draw a card for each Ally you control.

"Even a dragon is humble as a kitten if it thinks itself a slave."

Serendib Sorcerer

{T}: Target creature other than Serendib Sorcerer has base power and toughness 0/2 until end of turn.

"The reflection is true. It is you who are distorted and false."

Sigil Tracer

{1}{U}, Tap two untapped Wizards you control: Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Vendilion Clique

Flash
Flying
When Vendilion Clique enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of their library, then draws a card.

Patron Wizard

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Snapcaster Mage

Flash
When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Magic Origins Checklist

Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound

Jace, Telepath Unbound Emblem

"People's thoughts just come to me. Sometimes I don't know if it's them or me thinking."

Jace, Vryn's Prodigy

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are five or more cards in your graveyard, exile Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.

Jace, Telepath Unbound

+1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-0 until your next turn.
−3: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
−9: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, target opponent mills five cards."

Master of Waves

Elemental

Protection from red
Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1.
When Master of Waves enters the battlefield, create a number of 1/0 blue Elemental creature tokens equal to your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Naru Meha, Master Wizard

Flash
When Naru Meha, Master Wizard enters the battlefield, copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Other Wizards you control get +1/+1.

Drake

Talrand, Sky Summoner

"The seas are vast, but the skies are even more so. Why be content with one kingdom when I can rule them both?"

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

"Let the land dwellers know the coast is no longer the border between our realms. A new age of empire has begun."

Master of the Pearl Trident

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1 and have islandwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Sage of Fables

Each other Wizard creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
{2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.

They ride on waves of aether, washing out anything that might pollute the Merrow Lanes.

Surgespanner

Whenever Surgespanner becomes tapped, you may pay {1}{U}. If you do, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Archmage's Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

"The Origin Query will wait. We must ensure we survive to return to it."
—Pelyus, vedalken ordinar

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

The pyromancer summoned up her mightiest onslaught of fire and rage. Jace feigned interest.

Counterspell

"How easily your flames are quenched."
—Baral, Chief of Compliance

Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

"Slimefoot, I know I said I wanted to grow our repository of knowledge, but this isn't what I had in mind."

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

"There's a hole in your plan."
—Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Construct

Metallurgic Summonings

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create an X/X colorless Construct artifact creature token, where X is that spell's mana value.
{3}{U}{U}, Exile Metallurgic Summonings: Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you control six or more artifacts.

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

Commandeer

You may exile two blue cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker, the permanent enters the battlefield under your control.)

Echo of Eons

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards.
Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

The fae are so quick and their life spans so short that it's difficult to get retribution for their pranks.

Faerie Trickery

Counter target non-Faerie spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Cryptic Command

Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.

"In the disarray of battle, an enemy's attack may be your most convenient weapon."
—Narset

Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Rapid Hybridization

Frog Lizard

"We've merged your life essence with that of several creatures at once. You're welcome."
—Speaker Trifon

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

The mizzium-sphere array drove her mind deep into the thought field, where only the rarest motes of genius may be plucked.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

It took the banning of temporal manipulation at Tolaria West to teach its students the value of time.

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Serum Visions

"Sometimes the hardest choice is between two wonders."
—Gadwick, the Wizened

"My flesh holds no secrets, monster. The spirit of Mirrodin will fight on."
—Vy Covalt, Mirran resistance

Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.

"Close the walls! Retract the docks! The homarids are coming!"
—Benson, Argivian sentry

High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

When the great vault fell, it scattered its wonders across Thunder Junction.

Sol Ring

Made from trout scales and crawfish whiskers, merrows' shimmering banners flash in the water like lightning.

Stonybrook Banneret

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Merfolk spells and Wizard spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

He's the calm that hides the coming storm.

Siren Stormtamer

Flying
{U}, Sacrifice Siren Stormtamer: Counter target spell or ability that targets you or a creature you control.

It is the glimpse of a new horizon beyond the hills, the briny taste of salt spray off a ship's hull, and the whisper of pages turning in a new book. It is discovery.

Sapphire Medallion

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

"Nobody asked you to butt in, Jace. But thanks."
—Chandra Nalaar

Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

She's always willing to lend a hand. It just won't be her own.

Triskaidekaphile

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game.
{3}{U}: Draw a card.

Lost in the Maze

Flash
When Lost in the Maze enters the battlefield, tap X target creatures. Put a stun counter on each of those creatures you don't control. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Tapped creatures you control have hexproof.

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