"The most important part of a stronghold isn't its armaments or its walls. It's the reason people have to defend it."
—Gvar Barzeel, krumar captain

Sandsteppe Citadel

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.

Long-standing disagreements between the Sultai and Abzan about how to honor their dead have led to rare but fierce skirmishes.

Jungle Hollow

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Swamp

Forest

Plains

History is not delicately woven. It is hammered with fire.

Forge of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Choose target commander that entered this turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and a loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.

Shambling Vent

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{1}{W}{B}: This land becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink until end of turn. It's still a land.

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
—Lord Windgrace

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Llanowar Reborn

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Graft 1 (This land enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this land onto it.)

"I can't protect everyone here. But those I can, I will."
—Karn

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Oran-Rief, the Vastwood

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each green creature that entered this turn.

"For centuries my creation kept this world in balance. Now only her shadow remains."
—Sorin Markov

Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

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.

Safe havens amid the desert and dragonstorms, Abzan fortresses attract merchants, travelers, outcasts, and exiles.

Command Tower

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

Dragonstorm chasers are not deterred by danger—they claim there is nothing like witnessing the land embracing the power of a storm.

Evolving Wilds

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

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them."
—Pulan, Bant orchardist

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

The continent of Murasa lies beneath a blanket of dense vegetation, its enormous branches tangled so thickly that some inhabitants never see the ground.

Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Temple Garden

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

"It's rare to see Temur so far from their own lands. I see no reason to interfere, but keep an eye on them nonetheless."
—Hamza of House Fenzala

Blossoming Sands

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Overgrown Tomb

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

"They never found the body of young Josu, or that of his murderous sister."
—"The Fall of the House of Vess"

Woodland Cemetery

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

To the Sun Empire, any place where daylight brightens the jungle floor is sacred ground.

Sunpetal Grove

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Godless Shrine

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

By the codes of Mardu and Abzan alike, both sides allowed their enemies time to grieve after a battle.

Scoured Barrens

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

"These lowlands were formed thousands of years ago by the behemoth Indath—its final footsteps before vanishing into the sea."
—*Tales of the Ozolith*

Indatha Triome

({T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Deceptive Landscape

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Swamp, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling {W}{B}{G} ({W}{B}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Temple of Silence

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Temple of Plenty

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

"Wherever I walk, the ancestors walk too."

Abzan Battle Priest

Outlast {W} ({W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has lifelink.

The fastest way across the dunes is above.

Abzan Falconer

Outlast {W} ({W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.

Abzan Guide

Morph

"These roads are desolate and changeable. Follow me, or die in the wastes."

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Morph {2}{W}{B}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Martyred for worshipping her ancestors, she now walks among them.

Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Warden of the First Tree

{1}{W/B}: This creature becomes a Human Warrior with base power and toughness 3/3.
{2}{W/B}{W/B}: If this creature is a Warrior, it becomes a Human Spirit Warrior with trample and lifelink.
{3}{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}: If this creature is a Spirit, put five +1/+1 counters on it.

Abzan Banner

{T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.
{W}{B}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Abzan Charm

Choose one —
• Exile target creature with power 3 or greater.
• You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
• Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures.

Abzan Runemark

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.
Enchanted creature has vigilance as long as you control a black or green permanent.

Dromoka's Command

Choose two —
• Prevent all damage target instant or sorcery spell would deal this turn.
• Target player sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.

"We fight not out of fear, but for honor."

Dromoka Captain

First strike
Whenever this creature attacks, bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

"I will be the ancestor my descendants call upon for aid. On that day I will take up my sword for my family once more."

Fruit of the First Tree

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, you gain X life and draw X cards, where X is its toughness.

Spirit

Sandsteppe Outcast

When this creature enters, choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
• Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Call the Crash

Siege Rhino

The mere approach of an Abzan war beast is enough to send enemies fleeing in panic.

Trample
When this creature enters, each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

"To survive, you must seize every opportunity."
—Daghatar the Adamant

Abzan Advantage

Target player sacrifices an enchantment of their choice. Bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Abzan Ascendancy

When this enchantment enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

"A tempest is coming. Turn your faces toward the wind!"

Abzan Skycaptain

Flying
When this creature dies, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

Zombie Horror

Corpseweft

{1}{B}, Exile one or more creature cards from your graveyard: Create a tapped X/X black Zombie Horror creature token, where X is twice the number of cards exiled this way.

Abzan soldiers march to war confident that their Houses march with them.

Ivorytusk Fortress

Untap each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it during each other player's untap step.

It stares through the empty, pain-twisted faces of those it has drained.

Kheru Bloodsucker

Whenever a creature you control with toughness 4 or greater dies, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Spirit Warrior

Kin-Tree Invocation

The passing years add new rings to the tree's trunk, bolstering the spirits that dwell within.

Create an X/X black and green Spirit Warrior creature token, where X is the greatest toughness among creatures you control.

"They were your friends, your family, your clan. They want only to welcome you."
—Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Sibsig Host

When this creature enters, each player mills three cards.

Temur Runemark

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.
Enchanted creature has trample as long as you control a blue or red permanent.

Ainok Guide

When this creature enters, choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
• Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

"Sad what passes for a dragon among the Silumgar."

Sandsteppe Scavenger

When this creature enters, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

"You've let yourself grow old, and your light is dimming. Shall we talk one last time, or must I slay you now?"
—Mishra, to Urza

Epic Confrontation

Target creature you control gets +1/+2 until end of turn. It fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Scaleguard Sentinels

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it if you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell.

Herdchaser Dragon

Flying, trample
Megamorph {5}{G}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When this creature is turned face up, put a +1/+1 counter on each other Dragon creature you control.

Hidden Dragonslayer

Lifelink
Megamorph {2}{W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When this creature is turned face up, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater an opponent controls.

Even the humblest guard of Ojutai's strongholds ponders the puzzles of the Great Teacher's lessons.

Dragon's Eye Sentry

The Shifting Wastes provide refuge to those who know where to look for it.

Harsh Sustenance

Harsh Sustenance deals X damage to any target and you gain X life, where X is the number of creatures you control.

A single battle affects countless others.

Ruthless Instincts

Choose one —
• Target nonattacking creature gains reach and deathtouch until end of turn. Untap it.
• Target attacking creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.

"The horizon is the perpetual ideal, the constant promise of hope."
—Nissa Revane

Seek the Horizon

Search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Acid-Spewer Dragon

Flying, deathtouch
Megamorph {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When this creature is turned face up, put a +1/+1 counter on each other Dragon creature you control.

Qarsi High Priest

Manifest

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Manifest the top card of your library. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

The aven are admired, for they are able to fly with the dragons.

Aven Tactician

Flying
When this creature enters, bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Rarely at rest on the Amber Throne, Anafenza always leads the Abzan Houses to battle.

Anafenza, the Foremost

Whenever Anafenza attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on another target tapped creature you control.
If a nontoken creature an opponent owns would die or a creature card not on the battlefield would be put into an opponent's graveyard, exile that card instead.

Enduring the most desolate and dangerous conditions, Abzan sentries unfailingly guard the stronghold gates.

Brave the Sands

Creatures you control have vigilance.
Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.

Mer-Ek Nightblade

Outlast {B} ({B}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has deathtouch.

"Dromoka has taught me the secrets of her kind, that I might use them in her service."

Dragon Hunter

Protection from Dragons
This creature can block Dragons as though it had reach.

His beasts move the great siege towers of the Abzan across the endless sands.

Abzan Beastmaster

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you control the creature with the greatest toughness or tied for the greatest toughness.

The dragon who eats the last head in the basket is entitled to the servant's.

Dutiful Attendant

When this creature dies, return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The invader hoped he could survive the beast's jaws and emerge through its rotting skin.

Grim Contest

Choose target creature you control and target creature an opponent controls. Each of those creatures deals damage equal to its toughness to the other.

The defenses of the Abzan extend well beyond the walls of their fortresses.

Ancestral Vengeance

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-1.

Ugin's whispered summons led Sarkhan Vol to the moment that would echo down the centuries and seal Tarkir's fate: the primal battle between Ugin and Nicol Bolas.

Crux of Fate

Choose one —
• Destroy all Dragon creatures.
• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Display of Dominance

Choose one —
• Destroy target blue or black noncreature permanent.
• Permanents you control can't be the targets of blue or black spells your opponents control this turn.

Palace Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons.
• Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Dragons — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Obscuring Aether

Face-down creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{1}{G}: Turn this enchantment face down. (It becomes a 2/2 creature.)

The glittering scales in the Abzan vaults represent mighty deeds of the past and protection for generations to come.

Cached Defenses

Bolster 3. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

The mage awakened the statue in hopes of learning the lost lore of her clan, but the statue was interested only in war.

Ancestral Statue

When this creature enters, return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand.

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