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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.

Where scavengers nest in hollowed-out rib cages and chittering crawlers peer from empty eye sockets, few dare to trespass.

Swarmyard

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Swamp

Squirrel

Acorn Harvest

Create two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens.
Flashback—{1}{G}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Arbor Elf

Born from the oldest red cedar, nursed on the sap of the tallest spruce, coronated under the mightiest pine.

Ayula, Queen Among Bears

Whenever another Bear you control enters, choose one —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target Bear.
• Target Bear you control fights target creature you don't control.

Beast

Beast Within

Beasties tend to be shy, kind to humans, and absolutely ruthless toward Valgavoth's monstrous spawn.

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Chatter of the Squirrel

Create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token.
Flashback {1}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Deranged Hermit

Echo {3}{G}{G} (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, create four 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens.
Squirrel creatures get +1/+1.

"How truly vast this city must be, that I have traveled so far and seen so much, yet never once found the place where the buildings fail."

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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

Fyndhorn Elves

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

Harmonize

"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.

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.

Nut Collector

"I'll call you Reginald, and you're Mimi, and you're Tank, and you're Bobo..."

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token.
Threshold — All Squirrels get +2/+2 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Overrun

Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

"There will come a time when the only prey left will be each other."
—Ulrich of Krallenhorde Pack

Parallel Lives

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Rampant Growth

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

"Nope, no monsters in the forest. Nothing in there but squirrels."
—Joskun, An-Havva constable

Ravenous Squirrel

Whenever you sacrifice an artifact or creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
{1}{B}{G}, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

"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.

Protection is woven into every vine and branch.

Shapers' Sanctuary

Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card.

Squirrel Mob

This creature gets +1/+1 for each other Squirrel on the battlefield.

Squirrel Nest

In the treetops, unseen by many, lurks chittering, skittering death.

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "{T}: Create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token."

Squirrel Wrangler

{1}{G}, Sacrifice a land: Create two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens.
{1}{G}, Sacrifice a land: Squirrel creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Saproling

City's Blessing

Tendershoot Dryad

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Saprolings you control get +2/+2 as long as you have the city's blessing.

It will come to the defense of all wild things, from the shivering wren to the towering giant.

Thorn Mammoth

Trample
Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, this creature fights up to one target creature you don't control.

"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.

Traverse the Ulvenwald

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for a creature or land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Unbound Flourishing

Whenever you cast a permanent spell with a mana cost that contains {X}, double the value of X.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell or activate an ability, if that spell's mana cost or that ability's activation cost contains {X}, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

A Golden Opportunity

Food

Gilded Goose

Flying
When this creature enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
{1}{G}, {T}: Create a Food token.
{T}, Sacrifice a Food: Add one mana of any color.

Hazel of the Rootbloom

{T}, Pay 2 life, Tap X untapped tokens you control: Add X mana in any combination of colors.
At the beginning of your end step, create a token that's a copy of target token you control. If that token is a Squirrel, instead create two tokens that are copies of it.

Ygra, Eater of All

Ward—Sacrifice a Food.
Other creatures are Food artifacts in addition to their other types and have "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this permanent: You gain 3 life."
Whenever a Food is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on Ygra.

Quina, Qu Gourmet

Frog

"World only have two things: Things you can eat and things you no can eat."

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus a 1/1 green Frog creature token are created instead.
{2}, Sacrifice a Frog: Put a +1/+1 counter on Quina.

Peregrin Took

"Sam! Get breakfast ready for half-past nine!"

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus an additional Food token are created instead. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Sacrifice three Foods: Draw a card.

Osteomancer Adept

Deathtouch
{T}: Until end of turn, you may cast creature spells from your graveyard by foraging in addition to paying their other costs. If you cast a spell this way, that creature enters with a finality counter on it. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food. If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

"It's not about finding the single best ingredient. It's about crafting that perfect blend of meat, egg, and shrimp. That harmony of flavors is key."

Instant Ramen

Flash
When this artifact enters, draw a card.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.

Chitterspitter

Euru, Acorn Scrounger

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice a token. If you do, put an acorn counter on this artifact.
Squirrels you control get +1/+1 for each acorn counter on this artifact.
{G}, {T}: Create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token.

Vinereap Mentor

When this creature enters or dies, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

The Odd Acorn Gang

Menace, trample, reach
Squirrels you control have "{T}: Target Squirrel gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery."
Whenever one or more Squirrels you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Treasure

Tireless Provisioner

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

The Earth Crystal

Green spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.
{4}{G}{G}, {T}: Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures you control.

Sphere Grid

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.
Unlock Ability — Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have reach and trample.

Chatterfang, Squirrel General

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus that many 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens are created instead.
{B}, Sacrifice X Squirrels: Target creature gets +X/-X until end of turn.

Thornvault Forager

{T}: Add {G}.
{T}, Forage: Add two mana in any combination of colors. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.)
{3}{G}, {T}: Search your library for a Squirrel card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Swarmyard Massacre

"Life and death are a cycle, and it is I who keeps it spinning."
—Decai, squirrelfolk rotmaster

Create two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens. Then each creature that isn't an Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each creature you control that's an Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel.

Honored Dreyleader

Trample
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Squirrel and/or Food you control.
Whenever another Squirrel or Food you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Toski, Bearer of Secrets

This spell can't be countered.
Indestructible
Toski attacks each combat if able.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

For rule of the Aldering Forest, Numstail stole the acorn from Nestwind, who stole it from Brankie, who stole it from Lightroot, who stole it from Leafpaw, who stole it from Darkfur . . .

Squirrel Sovereign

Hazel's Brewmaster

Menace
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, exile up to one target card from a graveyard and create a Food token.
Foods you control have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with this creature.

Clue

Academy Manufactor

Automated systems at the Tolarian Academy sort new acquisitions for optimal use, determining which should be studied, eaten, or sold.

If you would create a Clue, Food, or Treasure token, instead create one of each.

We all share one life and one death.
—Rotcaller saying

Valley Rotcaller

Menace
Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of other Squirrels, Bats, Lizards, and Rats you control.

"You'd better be worth it."
—Liliana Vess

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Animal Friend

"I scratch their back, they scratch you."

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature attacks, create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token. Put a +1/+1 counter on that token for each Aura and Equipment attached to this creature other than Animal Friend."

"There is no path to the Root Maze's center. Bard, sing a song while I create one."

Valley Mightcaller

Trample
Whenever another Frog, Rabbit, Raccoon, or Squirrel you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Squirrel Sanctuary

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you may pay {1}. If you do, return this enchantment to its owner's hand.

"Blor's defenses are impervious!"
—Blor the Impervious

Overprotect

Target creature you control gets +3/+3 and gains trample, hexproof, and indestructible until end of turn.

Coiling Rebirth

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Then if the gift was promised and that creature isn't legendary, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1.

Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

The Underworld Cookbook

{T}, Discard a card: Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Scurry Oak

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, you may create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token.

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.

"Not just any floriculturist can grow this caliber of nightbloom. We're looking for a rooftop hothouse with quite particular conditions."
—Dr. A of the Foundway Associates

Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Utopia Sprawl

Enchant Forest
As this Aura enters, choose a color.
Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of the chosen color.

Beastmaster Ascension

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment.
As long as this enchantment has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Depending on your point of view, the seal represents a proud guardian of the natural cycle or one who has sold her soul to darkness for eternal life.

Golgari Signet

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

When Titania offered peace, Urza merely turned her down. Mishra made her people pay for the insult.

Go for the Throat

On Innistrad, one person's windfall usually starts with another person lying face down in the mud.

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Bonecache Overseer

{T}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card. Activate only if three or more cards left your graveyard this turn or if you've sacrificed a Food this turn.

Camellia, the Seedmiser

Menace
Other Squirrels you control have menace.
Whenever you sacrifice one or more Foods, create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token.
{2}, Forage: Put a +1/+1 counter on each other Squirrel you control. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.)

Klothys, God of Destiny

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to red and green is less than seven, Klothys isn't a creature.
At the beginning of your first main phase, exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a land card, add {R} or {G}. Otherwise, you gain 2 life and Klothys deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Brazen Boarding

Admiral Beckett Brass

"You and your ship will make a fine addition to my fleet."

Other Pirates you control get +1/+1.
At the beginning of your end step, gain control of target nonland permanent controlled by a player who was dealt combat damage by three or more Pirates this turn.

Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

Xantcha enters under the control of an opponent of your choice.
Xantcha attacks each combat if able and can't attack its owner or planeswalkers its owner controls.
{3}: Xantcha's controller loses 2 life and you draw a card. Any player may activate this ability.

Gerrard's final act ensured his legacy would never die.

Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero

First strike
When Gerrard dies, exile it and return to the battlefield all artifact and creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

His enemies wondered if the lich king's brutal death and unnatural rebirth had been his plan all along.

Nekusar, the Mindrazer

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, Nekusar deals 1 damage to that player.

Edgar Markov

Vampire

Eminence — Whenever you cast another Vampire spell, if Edgar is in the command zone or on the battlefield, create a 1/1 black Vampire creature token.
First strike, haste
Whenever Edgar attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep

Copy

Runo Stromkirk

Flying
When Runo enters, put up to one target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card. If a creature card with mana value 6 or greater is revealed this way, transform Runo.

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