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.

Island

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}.

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.

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

Sol Ring

"Is the inevitable any less miraculous?"
—Veldka, wandering sage

Future Sight

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.

Sometimes it's useful to take a break from existence.

Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Emry, Lurker of the Loch

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.
When Emry, Lurker of the Loch enters the battlefield, mill four cards.
{T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Accurate information is a precious commodity in times of war.

Mirran Spy

Flying
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may untap target creature.

It takes off with a roar of superheated wind, startling wild pterons as they survey the ground below.

Thermal Navigator

Sacrifice an artifact: Thermal Navigator gains flying until end of turn.

"It's a beautiful vision. Discarded debris is reborn as a singular entity."
—Urabrask the Hidden

Rusted Slasher

Sacrifice an artifact: Regenerate Rusted Slasher.

It's easy to believe you're a god when you're twice as powerful as everyone else.

Illusionist's Bracers

Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Equip {3}

Aphetto Alchemist

Morph

{T}: Untap target artifact or creature.
Morph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

It feeds on metal filings suspended in the water, sieving flecks of precious ore through magnetic baleen.

Steelfin Whale

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, untap Steelfin Whale.

Suddenly he realized that everything was connected by invisible strings, strings that could be pulled—or cut.

Banishing Knack

Until end of turn, target creature gains "{T}: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand."

Tidespout Tyrant

Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Codex Shredder

{T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice Codex Shredder: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Hullbreaker Horror

Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Everflowing Chalice enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.
{T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on Everflowing Chalice.

Those gifted with the sight have one eye in the present and the other in the future.

Magus of the Future

Shriekhorn

Shriekhorn enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.
{T}, Remove a charge counter from Shriekhorn: Target player mills two cards.

Scourge of Fleets

When Scourge of Fleets enters the battlefield, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Drownyard Behemoth

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Emerge {7}{U} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
Drownyard Behemoth has hexproof as long as it entered the battlefield this turn.

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Deep-Sea Kraken

Deep-Sea Kraken can't be blocked.
Suspend 9—{2}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{U} and exile it with nine time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if Deep-Sea Kraken is suspended, remove a time counter from it.

"I can see why this appeals to Thassa."
—Kiora

Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

"It's contemplative, resourceful, and original. Everything else aside, it's the perfect student."
—Naban, dean of iteration

Tolarian Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}. When you do, you may tap or untap target creature.

The more deadly the lake monster, the shorter the tale.

Isleback Spawn

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Isleback Spawn gets +4/+8 as long as a library has twenty or fewer cards in it.

Ominous Seas

Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on Ominous Seas.
Remove eight foreshadow counters from Ominous Seas: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Voracious Greatshark

Flash
When Voracious Greatshark enters the battlefield, counter target artifact or creature spell.

"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}.

Shipbreaker Kraken

{6}{U}{U}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
When Shipbreaker Kraken becomes monstrous, tap up to four target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps for as long as you control Shipbreaker Kraken.

Octopus

Crush of Tentacles

Surge {3}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If this spell's surge cost was paid, create an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.

Thassa felt no need to punish the sailors for their folly in crossing the straits. The kraken would do it for her.

Kraken of the Straits

Creatures with power less than the number of Islands you control can't block Kraken of the Straits.

Zendikar's seas are deeper than anyone can fathom.

Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix, the Raging Isle cost {2} more to cast.
{3}: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Its collection is vast, yet each ship has a special place in its heart.

Gearseeker Serpent

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.
{5}{U}: Gearseeker Serpent can't be blocked this turn.

Tromokratis

Tromokratis has hexproof unless it's attacking or blocking.
Tromokratis can't be blocked unless all creatures defending player controls block it. (If any creature that player controls doesn't block this creature, it can't be blocked.)

"The worthy shall cultivate a nimble mind to perceive the glorious wonders that await them."
—Monument inscription

Kefnet's Monument

Blue creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, target creature an opponent controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Most see krakens as wantonly violent, failing to notice their meticulous attention to detail when dismantling a vessel.

Stormsurge Kraken

Hexproof
Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, Stormsurge Kraken gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever Stormsurge Kraken becomes blocked, you may draw two cards."

"The treasure in my mind is greater than any worldly glory."

Concentrate

Cancel

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

"Do not think the sand or the sun will hold back the breath of winter."

Icy Blast

Tap X target creatures.
Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

The denizens of the Luxa River woke angry on the currents of blood.

Striped Riverwinder

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.)
When Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Merfolk, Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

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.

"You've begun to understand the hedrons' true purpose," said Ugin. "The Eldrazi can be imprisoned."
"And how did that work out last time?" asked Jace.

Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Hedron Archive: Draw two cards.

The boundary between real and imaginary is as thin as the page, and just as easily torn.

Into the Story

This spell costs {3} less to cast if an opponent has seven or more cards in their graveyard.
Draw four cards.

Where an enemy once rode, not even a whisper remains.

Force Away

Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Colossal Whale

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Colossal Whale attacks, you may exile target creature defending player controls until Colossal Whale leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

Gauntlet of Power

As Gauntlet of Power enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Creatures of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a basic land is tapped for mana of the chosen color, its controller adds an additional one mana of that color.

"Before my eyes was a horrible monster, worthy to figure in the legends of the marvellous. . . . Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head . . . were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair."
—Jules Verne, *Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea*, trans. Lewis

Giant Octopus

"It is said Chimil never sees the same lands twice. So too must we expand our horizons."

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

When Lorthos emerges from his deepwater realm, the tides bow to his will and the coastline cowers in his presence.

Lorthos, the Tidemaker

Whenever Lorthos, the Tidemaker attacks, you may pay {8}. If you do, tap up to eight target permanents. Those permanents don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

The banks of the Luxa River attract all manner of predator but only the most resilient of prey.

Ancient Crab

"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.

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

"Reel it in. No, wait! Throw it back!"
—Gertrude, deep-sea angler

Frilled Sea Serpent

{5}{U}{U}: Frilled Sea Serpent can't be blocked this turn.

"The tides have begun to ignore the moon."
—Tamiyo's journal

Engulf the Shore

Return to their owners' hands all creatures with toughness less than or equal to the number of Islands you control.

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

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.

Spined Megalodon

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Whenever Spined Megalodon attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Aethersnipe

When Aethersnipe enters the battlefield, return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Evoke {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

"Into its maw went the seventh sea, never to be seen again while the world remains."
—Esper fable

Inkwell Leviathan

Trample
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"Wisdom is not the counting of all the drops in a waterfall. Wisdom is learning why the water seeks the earth."

Counsel of the Soratami

Merfolk Wayfinder

Flying
When Merfolk Wayfinder enters the battlefield, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all Island cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Stormtide Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.
Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.

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

Counterspell

Brinelin, the Moon Kraken

When Brinelin, the Moon Kraken enters the battlefield or whenever you cast a spell with mana value 6 or greater, you may return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

He has journeyed where none have been before. Now he returns to ensure that none follow.

Arcanis the Omnipotent

{T}: Draw three cards.
{2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis to its owner's hand.

He has "friends" in places both high and low, and all seem to owe him favors.

Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

To save this plane, he must forsake all others.

Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Flash
Creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield have flash.
Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.

Ms. Bumbleflower

Vigilance
Whenever you cast a spell, target opponent draws a card. Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains flying until end of turn. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, you draw two cards.

Rasputin Dreamweaver

Rasputin enters with seven dream counters on it.
Remove a dream counter from Rasputin: Add {C}.
Remove a dream counter from Rasputin: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Rasputin this turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Rasputin started the turn untapped, put a dream counter on it.
Rasputin can't have more than seven dream counters on it.

"As this conflict grows, it gets harder to prevent the city from breaking down. How much longer can we keep this machinery balanced?"

Sram, Senior Edificer

Whenever you cast an Aura, Equipment, or Vehicle spell, draw a card.

Saproling

Ghave, Guru of Spores

Ghave enters with five +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker

Flying
Whenever Mirko Vosk deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal four land cards, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Maga, Traitor to Mortals

Maga enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When Maga enters, target player loses life equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

Copy

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

"I served the Scarab in an age long past, in another form, under another name. No matter their visage, I serve."

Whenever you discard a creature card, you may pay {2}{U}. If you do, create a tapped token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.

Szadek, Lord of Secrets

Flying
If Szadek would deal combat damage to a player, instead put that many +1/+1 counters on Szadek and that player mills that many cards.

"It's not a matter of what I know. It's a matter of making it worth my while to tell you."

Delney, Streetwise Lookout

Creatures you control with power 2 or less can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.
If an ability of a creature you control with power 2 or less triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

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