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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.

Swamp

Forest

Plains

Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Stirring Wildwood

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.
{1}{G}{W}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/4 green and white Elemental creature with reach. It's still a land.

"Multani's heart is a seed, and all of Yavimaya is its flower. There is as much life here as in the rest of Dominaria together."
—Karn

Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

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

Restless Fortress

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{2}{W}{B}: This land becomes a 1/4 white and black Nightmare creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, defending player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

"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.

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.

Those who bring nothing to the temple take nothing away.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

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.

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}.

Forbidding Watchtower

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{1}{W}: This land becomes a 1/5 white Soldier creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

Command Tower

Tower Winder

"Thus, the shattered half of the planet was
named Kavaron That Is, and the capital
was moved to Kavaron Before."
*—The Tragedy of Emperor Kavarus III*

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

Murmuring Bosk

({T}: Add {G}.)
As this land enters, you may reveal a Treefolk card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

"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}.

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.

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

"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.

"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}.

"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.)

The elf was disgusted by the bramble before him when the skies darkened, then he stepped closer to observe the wild beauty.

Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
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.

The land is ever resilient. Should it die, it will be reborn.

Evolving Wilds

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

"Log 1.7.618: Starshadow, a relic of a culture lost to calamity. Its people were eradicated in a single day—but by what?"
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Godless Shrine

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

Serra's blessing lies strongest upon Sursi, where her holy chapels are untouched even as evil encroaches.

Isolated Chapel

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

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.)

An underground paradise, bright and thriving beneath the surface of Ixalan.

Windswept Heath

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

To get to Valor's Reach, competitors must first make a name for themselves in the smaller arenas.

Undergrowth Stadium

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

"My family sheltered in her light, the dark was content to wait."
—Crovax

Angelic Protector

Flying
Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, this creature gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

After lightning struck the cliffs, the ore became iron, the iron became steel, and the steel became greaves. The lightning never left.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

They are the reflection of Rushwood's glow on the edge of a wooden sword.

Task Force

Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, it gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

Treefolk Harbinger

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Treefolk or Forest card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Deep in a murmuring bosk, where the trees' memories span centuries, the simple banner of green and copper signifies an elder whose rings number more than a faerie's days.

Bosk Banneret

Treefolk spells and Shaman spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Dauntless Dourbark

Dauntless Dourbark's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests you control plus the number of Treefolk you control.
This creature has trample as long as you control another Treefolk.

Leaf-Crowned Elder

Kinship — At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it shares a creature type with this creature, you may reveal it. If you do, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.

Sapling of Colfenor

Indestructible
Whenever Sapling of Colfenor attacks, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you gain life equal to that card's toughness, lose life equal to its power, then put it into your hand.

In his presence, an ordinary grove becomes a bastion to turn spells and break armies.

Timber Protector

Other Treefolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other Treefolk and Forests you control have indestructible.

Tree of Perdition

Defender
{T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with this creature's toughness.

Yavimaya Granger

Echo {2}{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, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Assault Formation

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
{G}: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.
{2}{G}: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

Only a worthy few are permitted within the sentient forest known as Axebane.

Axebane Guardian

Defender
{T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

It does no good to bar the gate when the enemy is already inside.

Behind the Scenes

Creatures you control have skulk. (They can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
{4}{W}: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"The Northern Beacon flared, and even before the drawbridge finished its descent, the knights charged out."
—*Legend of the Gilded Knights*

Crashing Drawbridge

Defender
{T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Door of Destinies

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on this artifact.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on this artifact.

"We will grow an army large enough to withstand the Izzet's madness."
—Trostani

Growing Ranks

At the beginning of your upkeep, populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

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

Sol Ring

"When the forest walks, it's too late to run."
—Horent, Khalni druid

Wakeroot Elemental

{G}{G}{G}{G}{G}: Untap target land you control. It becomes a 5/5 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land. (This effect lasts as long as that land remains on the battlefield.)

Soldier

Emmara, Soul of the Accord

"Whatever hatred destroys, a single act of trust can revive."

Whenever Emmara becomes tapped, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

"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

The chant was incomprehensible, but its power was unmistakable.

Cryptolith Rite

Creatures you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Emiel the Blessed

{3}: Exile another target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Whenever another creature you control enters, you may pay {G/W}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on it. If it's a Unicorn, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead. ({G/W} can be paid with either {G} or {W}.)

It harnesses the power of night in a land where daylight fears to show itself.

Umbral Mantle

Equipped creature has "{3}, {Q}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn." ({Q} is the untap symbol.)
Equip {0}

Worthy Cause

Buyback {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Triskaidekaphobia

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one —
• Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player gains 1 life.
• Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player loses 1 life.

The kor forsake roots for the winding of the path, forsake voices for the silence of the mind, forsake all else for the poverty of isolation.

Nomads en-Kor

{0}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn is dealt to target creature you control instead.

One with the Kami

Spirit

Flash
Enchant creature you control
Whenever enchanted creature or another modified creature you control dies, create X 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens, where X is that creature's power. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

"The wilds are a garden tended by divine hands."

Karametra's Acolyte

{T}: Add an amount of {G} equal to your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

Orah, Skyclave Hierophant

Lifelink
Whenever Orah or another Cleric you control dies, return target Cleric card with lesser mana value from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Many necromancers share the same last words—the ones that conclude the undeath ritual.

Doomed Necromancer

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"Unskin these impure bodies, Great Yawgmoth, that the flesh may welcome your blessings."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

"To reach my age, you must know when to bend with the winds and when to stand tall."

Colfenor, the Last Yew

Vigilance, reach
Whenever Colfenor or another creature you control dies, return up to one other target creature card with lesser toughness from your graveyard to your hand.

"Just you and me, brother. The showdown that was always meant to be."
—Azula

Destined Confrontation

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

"To Isengard with doom we come!
With doom we come, with doom we come!"

Last March of the Ents

This spell can't be countered.
Draw cards equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control, then put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Odum and Broadbark were the only beings mighty enough to challenge the giant Moran the Destroyer. Their battle lasted a hundred dawns, until Moran became so exhausted that he fell into namesleep. He awoke as Moran the Gardener."
—*The Tale of Odum and Broadbark*

Indomitable Ancients

A turtle-duckling's greatest defense comes not from their shell, but from their mother.

Turtle-Duck

{3}: Until end of turn, this creature has base power 4 and gains trample.

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.

"Ooh, nice shot! I almost felt that one."

Stoneskin

Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+10.

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.

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.

"I forget the next couple of lines, but then it goes...'Secret tunnel! Secret tunnel!"
—Chong, nomad musician

Secret Tunnel

This land can't be blocked.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Two target creatures you control that share a creature type can't be blocked this turn.

"We are all living together even if most folks don't act like it. We all have the same roots, and we are all branches of the same tree."
—Huu

Shared Roots

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

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