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Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

Growing Rites of Itlimoc

When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.

Though the Sun Empire and the River Heralds once came together to plant the sacred forest, its roots have been tended by the mycoids ever since.

Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

(Transforms from Growing Rites of Itlimoc.)
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Arch of Orazca

City's Blessing

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Forest

Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

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.)

For all its traps and defenses, Yavimaya has its havens, too.

Yavimaya Hollow

{T}: Add {C}.
{G}, {T}: Regenerate target creature.

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}.

Maze of Ith

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

Lair of the Hydra

If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{X}{G}: Until end of turn, this land becomes an X/X green Hydra creature. It's still a land. X can't be 0.

Start Your Engines! // Max Speed

Amonkhet Raceway

Stage 2: The sands and waters of Amonkhet.

Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
{T}: Add {C}.
Max speed — {T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Without Garenbrig's strength, the realm would succumb to the wilds.

Castle Garenbrig

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
{2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.

There is a sanctuary that reveals itself only to those graced by the *eludha*—the mystical connection between bonder and monster.

Bonders' Enclave

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

When the last scrap of flesh is scoured away, the Curse of Wandering ends. Then the dead may sleep.

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Blighted Woodland

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Myriad Landscape

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

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

Urza's Cave

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Snow-Covered Forest

Talon Gates of Madara

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out.
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.
{4}: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: 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.

Pit of Offerings

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile up to three target cards from graveyards.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled cards' colors.

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.

This city, Cocoon's capital, shares its name with its fal'Cie patron.

Eden, Seat of the Sanctum

{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}: Mill two cards. Then you may sacrifice this land. When you do, return another target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

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.

Tranquil Thicket

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

Desert of the Indomitable

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Cycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"My skills are wasted here."
—Juruk, Kalonian tracker

Pathbreaker Ibex

Whenever this creature attacks, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Sun Empire commanders are well versed in advanced martial strategy. Still, the correct maneuver is usually to deploy the giant, implacable death lizard.

Carnage Tyrant

This spell can't be countered.
Trample, hexproof

Regal Behemoth

The Monarch

Trample
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever you tap a land for mana while you're the monarch, add an additional one mana of any color.

Copy

Polyraptor

An innumerable pack is concealed in a single reflection.

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

"Control the Great Conduit? You might as well try to divert a river with your hands."

Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Return of the Wildspeaker

Choose one —
• Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control.
• Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

"There's wisdom to be gained in death—whether it be one's own or someone else's."
—Jarad, Golgari Lich-Lord

Greater Good

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

"Wherever the strong would harm the weak, I will be there."
—Ajani Goldmane

Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

"Give up these unnatural weapons, these scrolls. Heart and mind and fist are enough."
—Zyd, Kamahlite druid

Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"Animals commune with their environment without the need for language. Theirs is a fundamental connection that surpasses flimsy words."
—Vivien Reid

Harmonize

"Aether is the soul of Kaladesh, and all souls should be free."

Rishkar, Peema Renegade

When Rishkar enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.
Each creature you control with a counter on it has "{T}: Add {G}."

"Life grows everywhere. My kin merely find those places where it grows strongest."
—Nissa Revane

Elvish Mystic

Llanowar Elves

Marwyn's Kindred

The elves of the Llanowar forest have defended it for generations. It is their sacred duty to keep outside influences from corrupting their ancestral home.

"We could no more abandon the forest than the stars could abandon the night sky."

Fyndhorn Elves

Arbor Elf

"All of us, from the tiny leaf-mite to the towering baloth, are vital threads in the weave of life."

Worldly Tutor

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.

As the green sun crowned, Phyrexian prophecies glowed on the Tree of Tales.

Green Sun's Zenith

Search your library for a green creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it."
—Dosan the Falling Leaf

Kodama's Reach

"Flowstone spreads, but new life spreads faster."

Skyshroud Claim

Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"By the time you've seen it all, all have already changed."
—Wandering treant, name unknown

Traverse the Outlands

Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. Put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"You cannot imagine what eyes you may look through tomorrow."
—Aerona, elder druid

Reincarnation

Choose target creature. When that creature dies this turn, return a creature card from its owner's graveyard to the battlefield under the control of that creature's owner.

"On a good day, I am not Fangkeeper, war hero, or sibsig, but a farmer again."
—Kotis, the Fangkeeper

Life from the Loam

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Nissa, Who Shakes the World

Nissa, Who Shakes the World Emblem

Whenever you tap a Forest for mana, add an additional {G}.
+1: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target noncreature land you control. Untap it. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with vigilance and haste that's still a land.
−8: You get an emblem with "Lands you control have indestructible." Search your library for any number of Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The Great Henge

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
{T}: Add {G}{G}. You gain 2 life.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.

Zendikar Resurgent

Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced. (The types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless.)
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

Whenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power.
{G}, {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Nylea, God of the Hunt

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)
Other creatures you control have trample.
{3}{G}: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Elder Gargaroth

Beast

Vigilance, reach, trample
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, choose one —
• Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
• You gain 3 life.
• Draw a card.

"Some days, you wish you were fighting a dragon."
—Eshki Dragonclaw

Craterhoof Behemoth

Haste
When this creature enters, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

The Temur see themselves as a pack, their bonds more primal than the Abzan's.

Temur Sabertooth

{1}{G}: You may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

There were no tombstones in orochi territory. Slain warriors were buried with a tree sapling, so they would become a part of the forest after death.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Yavimaya Elder

When this creature dies, you may search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Clue

Tireless Tracker

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Freyalise, Skyshroud Partisan

Regal Force

It rarely moves, standing stock still in its clearing. When it does stir, ravens stop their cawing and crickets their chirping. All of nature watches in awed silence.

When this creature enters, draw a card for each green creature you control.

It's there when a seed sprouts, when gourds ripen on the vines, and when the reapers cut the grains under the Harvest Moon.

Soul of the Harvest

Trample
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, you may draw a card.

The only way to finish the Trial of Strength is with a basilisk scale in hand.

Champion of Rhonas

You may exert this creature as it attacks. When you do, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)

"Ixalli's fertile rays enliven us all. Each of us is a testament to the sun's strength and love."
—Chitlati, Lightning Rider

Verdant Sun's Avatar

Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Wild Pair

Whenever a creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, you may search your library for a creature card with the same total power and toughness, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

In nature, not a single bone or scrap of flesh goes to waste.

Scavenging Ooze

{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

"Gaea sings with the voice of nature rampant: a thousand howls, chitters, and cries, and none of them can be ignored."

Gaea's Herald

"Llanowar remembers the Ice Age, the Phyrexian Invasion, and the Rift Era. So long as we draw breath, we will ensure such disasters never threaten our world again."

Llanowar Tribe

"What was once formed by masons, shaped by smiths, or given life by mages, I will return to the embrace of the earth."

Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"Peace will come to Innistrad, but only after all abominations have been dealt with, one by one."

Ulvenwald Tracker

{1}{G}, {T}: Target creature you control fights another target creature.

The Sun Empire's most sacred sites are protected by more than prayers.

Runic Armasaur

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a creature or land that isn't a mana ability, you may draw a card.

"The tiniest mouse speaks louder to me than all the festival crowds on Tin Street."

Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Titania rewards all who honor the forest by making them a living part of it.

Priest of Titania

{T}: Add {G} for each Elf on the battlefield.

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