When defeat is near and guidance is scarce, all eyes look in one direction.

Command Tower

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

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.

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}.

"I gazed once into that light. Now it burns in my mind, forever denying me rest."
—Riku of Two Reflections

Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Command Beacon: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

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.

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}.

Faerie Conclave

Faerie Conclave enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}: Faerie Conclave becomes a 2/1 blue Faerie creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.

Island

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.

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.

Remote Isle

Remote Isle enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

In Jin-Gitaxias's domain, strange and terrible experiments iterate toward perfection, unbound by ethics.

The Surgical Bay

The Surgical Bay enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice The Surgical Bay: Draw a card.

Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

A figure is moved on a map, and the tide of war changes.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

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.

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.)

Desert of the Mindful

Desert of the Mindful enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.

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.

Tolaria West

Tolaria West enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with mana value 0, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Hall of Storm Giants

If you control two or more other lands, Hall of Storm Giants enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{5}{U}: Until end of turn, Hall of Storm Giants becomes a 7/7 blue Giant creature with ward {3}. It's still a land. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {3}.)

Lonely Sandbar

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

"Were I to go where my heart dwells, I would now be wandering in the fair valley of Rivendell."
—Aragorn

Rivendell

Rivendell enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Urza's Saga

Construct

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Urza's Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — Urza's Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This creature 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.

"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.

Terrain Generator

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

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.

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

Counterspell

Cryptic Command

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

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

Spell Pierce

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

Teferi gave them time. Karn gave them a chance. But it was Melira who paid the ultimate price to free Ajani from Phyrexia's grasp.

Negate

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"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.)

"The best denials are simply that: a beginning and end unchanged, a dream with no memory."

Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy.

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

What a lonely agony, the memory of memories lost.

Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

"I don't have time for you right now."
—Teferi

Exclude

Counter target creature spell.
Draw a card.

"Phyrexians pollute everything they touch, so the solution is simple: don't let them touch anything."
—Teferi

Essence Scatter

"Shame we'll never see what all the fuss was about."

Condescend

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Miscalculation

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"Well, at least all of that arm-waving and arcane babbling you did was impressive."

Remand

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it into its owner's hand instead of into that player's graveyard.
Draw a card.

"I can think of no greater punishment than answering your question in full."
—Lazav

Thought Collapse

Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.

Obsessed with the pursuit of knowledge above all else, vedalken can appear to be cold and emotionless.

Stoic Rebuttal

Metalcraft — This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control three or more artifacts.
Counter target spell.

"You thought only the gods could stop you?"

Dissolve

Counter target spell. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Void Shatter

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

In her dream, Lola gazed into a mirror. Her familiar features warped, her jaw stretching wider and wider until it cracked and her reflection pulled her into its gaping maw.

Dream Fracture

Counter target spell. Its controller draws a card.
Draw a card.

Some minds bend under pressure. Others break.

Broken Concentration

Counter target spell.
Madness {3}{U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

"I tolerate Phyrexians because the dragon requires it. But I have no patience for uninvited guests."
—Tezzeret

Psychic Barrier

Counter target creature spell. Its controller loses 1 life.

Summary Dismissal

Exile all other spells and counter all abilities.

Forbid

Buyback—Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Counter target spell.

"The second mage learned to dissipate blasts of lightning. Threat and response: thus did the study of magic progress."
—Naban, dean of iteration

Wizard's Retort

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a Wizard.
Counter target spell.

"You are hopelessly obsolete, my brothers. Come and join the Great Work."
—Rhmir, Hand of the Augur

Steel Sabotage

Choose one —
• Counter target artifact spell.
• Return target artifact to its owner's hand.

"There are tides beyond those in the sea that are driven by Innistrad's silver moon. If you learn their patterns, you can channel them in fascinating ways."
—Tamiyo

Turn Aside

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

Spell Crumple

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard. Put Spell Crumple on the bottom of its owner's library.

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.)

Vedalken Aethermage

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When Vedalken Aethermage enters the battlefield, return target Sliver to its owner's hand.
Wizardcycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

One glamer leads him far from home. The next washes away his memory that home was ever anywhere but at her side.

Sower of Temptation

Flying
When Sower of Temptation enters the battlefield, gain control of target creature for as long as Sower of Temptation remains on the battlefield.

Phantasmal Image

You may have Phantasmal Image enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

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.)

Meloku the Clouded Mirror

Illusion

He loved his cities in the clouds. When he traveled to the lands below, he brought many reminders of his home.

Flying
{1}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with flying.

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."

His marvels of artifice pale in comparison to the developing machinery of his mind.

Venser, Shaper Savant

Flash
When Venser, Shaper Savant enters the battlefield, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

It slithers through the senses, constricting consciousness and poisoning perceptions.

Cryptic Serpent

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

Shadows Over Innistrad Checklist 2

Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror

Thing in the Ice

Defender
Thing in the Ice enters the battlefield with four ice counters on it.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, remove an ice counter from Thing in the Ice. Then if it has no ice counters on it, transform it.

"It serves as evidence of the ancient power of the deep, a reminder that the sea is the only thing worthy of reverence."
—Runo Stromkirk

Awoken Horror

When this creature transforms into Awoken Horror, return all non-Horror creatures to their owners' hands.

The militia formed up in the central plaza awaiting the onslaught, but the giants never quite made it.

Aether Gale

Return six target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

"Do as I think, not as I do."
—Jace Beleren

Control Magic

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.

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.

Tamiyo, the Moon Sage Emblem

Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

+1: Tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
−2: Draw a card for each tapped creature target player controls.
−8: You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size" and "Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may return it to your hand."

A curse is just another name for an unwanted blessing.

Consecrated Sphinx

Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Caged Sun

As Caged Sun enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Friends teach what you want to know. Enemies teach what you *need* to know.

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Thopter

Tezzeret, Artifice Master Emblem

Tezzeret, Artifice Master

+1: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
0: Draw a card. If you control three or more artifacts, draw two cards instead.
−9: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, search your library for a permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle."

Jace, the Mind Sculptor

+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library.
0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
−1: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles their hand into their library.

The Izzet specialize in unnatural disaster.

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

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