Rivals of Ixalan Checklist

Path of Mettle // Metzali, Tower of Triumph

Path of Mettle

When Path of Mettle enters, it deals 1 damage to each creature that doesn't have first strike, double strike, vigilance, or haste.
Whenever you attack with at least two creatures that have first strike, double strike, vigilance, and/or haste, transform Path of Mettle.

Metzali, Tower of Triumph

(Transforms from Path of Mettle.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}{R}, {T}: Metzali deals 2 damage to each opponent.
{2}{W}, {T}: Choose a creature at random that attacked this turn. Destroy that creature.

Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Mistveil Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)
This land enters tapped.
{W}, {T}: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Activate only if you control two or more white permanents.

"Log 2.2.119: Kiln, known for its blazing forges and ancient lava seeps. The footing may be treacherous, but the metallurgy is grand!"
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Sacred Foundry

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

The kithkin was admiring the flowers when the skies darkened, then they ripped up the roots for the next season.

Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Plains

Mountain

Forest

"Here sprouted the first seedling of Argoth. Here the last tree will fall."
—Gamelen, Citanul elder

Gaea's Cradle

{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"All creation in a single point, the point of all creation in all."
—Sunstar loop-mantra

Sol Ring

Carved high into stone, the signet requires all to look up at it—whether with fear or admiration.

Boros Signet

The symbol of the Conclave is one of unity, with tree supporting sun and sun feeding tree.

Selesnya Signet

Gruul territorial markings need not be legible. The blood, snot, and muck used to smear them are unmistakably Gruul.

Gruul Signet

Sword of Feast and Famine

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.
Equip {2}

Sword of Fire and Ice

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, this Equipment deals 2 damage to any target and you draw a card.
Equip {2}

Sword of Truth and Justice

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Equip {2}

Sword of Sinew and Steel

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from red.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy up to one target planeswalker and up to one target artifact.
Equip {2}

Sword of War and Peace

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from white.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, this Equipment deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in their hand and you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.
Equip {2}

Sword of Light and Shadow

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from black.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 3 life and you may return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Equip {2}

Wolf

Sword of Body and Mind

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token and that player mills ten cards.
Equip {2}

The blade glows only for Zendikar's chosen.

Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip {2}

Sword of Kaldra

Helm of Kaldra

Shield of Kaldra

Equipped creature gets +5/+5.
Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a creature, exile that creature. (Exile it only if it's still on the battlefield.)
Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Sword of the Meek

Equipped creature gets +1/+2.
Equip {2}
Whenever a 1/1 creature you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then attach it to that creature.

Sword of the Chosen

{T}: Target legendary creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Sword of the Ages

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}, Sacrifice this artifact and any number of creatures you control: This artifact deals X damage to any target, where X is the total power of the creatures sacrificed this way, then exile this artifact and those creature cards.

Sword of the Paruns

As long as equipped creature is tapped, tapped creatures you control get +2/+0.
As long as equipped creature is untapped, untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.
{3}: You may tap or untap equipped creature.
Equip {3}

Umezawa's Jitte

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte.
Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one —
• Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
• Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• You gain 2 life.
Equip {2}

"It puts an end to what ails you."
—Jeorg, Valla battlemaster

Bonesplitter

Phyrexian Germ

Batterskull

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink.
{3}: Return this Equipment to its owner's hand.
Equip {5}

Darksteel Hydra

Darksteel Plate

"If there can be no victory, then I will fight forever."
—Koth of the Hammer

Indestructible
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip {2}

Godo, Bandit Warlord

When Godo enters, you may search your library for an Equipment card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Whenever Godo attacks for the first time each turn, untap it and all Samurai you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

Stoneforge Mystic

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{1}{W}, {T}: You may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Puresteel Paladin

Whenever an Equipment you control enters, you may draw a card.
Metalcraft — Equipment you control have equip {0} as long as you control three or more artifacts.

"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.

"No matter how strong, an unarmed fighter is no more than a fool."

Stonehewer Giant

Vigilance
{1}{W}, {T}: Search your library for an Equipment card, put it onto the battlefield, attach it to a creature you control, then shuffle.

"I will protect the less fortunate. I will love bravely. I will face despair and fight on. As a Capashen, I can do no less."

Danitha Capashen, Paragon

First strike, vigilance, lifelink
Aura and Equipment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

"I admire it. Few pull off pluck and subservience at the same time."
—Ezuri, renegade leader

Brass Squire

{T}: Attach target Equipment you control to target creature you control.

"What weapon will you bear against one who's mastered them all?"

Balan, Wandering Knight

First strike
Balan has double strike as long as two or more Equipment are attached to it.
{1}{W}: Attach all Equipment you control to Balan.

Stoneforged Blade

Kor Soldier

Nahiri, the Lithomancer

+2: Create a 1/1 white Kor Soldier creature token. You may attach an Equipment you control to it.
−2: You may put an Equipment card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.
−10: Create a colorless Equipment artifact token named Stoneforged Blade. It has indestructible, "Equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has double strike," and equip {0}.
Nahiri, the Lithomancer can be your commander.

Ajani's Pridemate

Ajani, Strength of the Pride

+1: You gain life equal to the number of creatures you control plus the number of planeswalkers you control.
−2: Create a 2/2 white Cat Soldier creature token named Ajani's Pridemate with "Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this token."
0: If you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, exile Ajani and each artifact and creature your opponents control.

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

After heavy casualties in the Phyrexian invasion, the Boros mage-priests trained as many rank-and-file soldiers as possible to wield the Legion's legendary battle magic.

Lightning Helix

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Wear

Destroy target artifact.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Tear

Destroy target enchantment.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Wear // Tear

The divine light of the Palatinate could be so cold. As she laid down her sword, she felt the sun's warmth in a different way.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Boros Charm

Choose one —
• Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
• Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

From the cracks in the stone, she reads stories of the past. From the swirling vines, she glimpses visions of the future.

Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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

Eumidians live to change and be changed, ever increasing the complexity of the Edge. Each new world is a new perspective.

Farseek

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

Those who love the woods only wish to spread its majesty.

Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"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.

When you've got nothing, you might as well trade it for something else.

Gamble

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle.

"Organization is often undervalued but rarely unjustified."
—Frasio, royal archivist

Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

"Once Avacyn returned, I hoped I'd never need these things again. I didn't think I'd be dusting them off to use against angels."

Open the Armory

Search your library for an Aura or Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Ironclad Slayer

When this creature enters, you may return target Aura or Equipment card from your graveyard to your hand.

"We take only what we need to survive. Believe me, you will need this."

Kor Outfitter

When this creature enters, you may attach target Equipment you control to target creature you control.

With no flesh to tire or resolve to falter, the machines soon became the Academy's preferred trainers.

Armory Automaton

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may attach any number of target Equipment to it. (Control of the Equipment doesn't change.)

They put their safety in his hands. He puts sharpened steel in theirs.

Auriok Steelshaper

Equip costs you pay cost {1} less.
As long as this creature is equipped, each creature you control that's a Soldier or a Knight gets +1/+1.

The makers and menders are the first called to battle and the last to leave.

Stone Haven Outfitter

Equipped creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever an equipped creature you control dies, draw a card.

Leonin Shikari

You may activate equip abilities any time you could cast an instant.

Taj-Nar Swordsmith

When this creature enters, you may pay {X}. If you do, search your library for an Equipment card with mana value X or less, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Acorn Catapult

Squirrel

The Kalonian word for "ammunition" is the same as the word for "bait."

{1}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target. That permanent's controller or that player creates a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token.

When a cacophodon is angry, the whole jungle knows.

Cacophodon

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, untap target permanent.

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back."
—Ashnod, to Tawnos

Ashnod's Altar

Copy

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

Haste
{T}: Create a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

"Everything comes with a price. Especially revolution."
—Grenzo, dungeon warden

Treasonous Ogre

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Pay 3 life: Add {R}.

"These storied halls are under my protection."

Dwarven Priest

When this creature enters, you gain 1 life for each creature you control.

Feed on food, you eventually rot. Feed on rot, you live forever.
—Kraul saying

Kraul Foragers

Undergrowth — When this creature enters, you gain 1 life for each creature card in your graveyard.

Its wide-reaching roots draw more than water.

Faeburrow Elder

Vigilance
This creature gets +1/+1 for each color among permanents you control.
{T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.

Ardent Electromancer

When this creature enters, add {R} for each creature in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)

"None can own the land's bounty. The gods made this world for all to share its riches. And I'm not just saying that because you caught me stealing your fruit."

Voyaging Satyr

"The Tangle reaches out to itself constantly, forming new connections. We must follow its example."

Viridian Joiner

{T}: Add an amount of {G} equal to this creature's power.

"You see, stalac-*tites* grow down from the ceiling, while stalag-*mites* reach—AAHHHHHHHHH—"

Lurking Roper

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
Whenever you gain life, untap this creature.

Sorcerer's Wand

Equipped creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. If this creature is a Wizard, it deals 2 damage instead."
Equip {3}

Truefire Captain

Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target player.

Treasure

Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER

Haste
When Cloud enters, attach up to one target Equipment you control to it.
Whenever Cloud attacks, draw a card for each equipped attacking creature you control. Then if Cloud has power 7 or greater, create two Treasure tokens.

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