Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison

Rivals of Ixalan Checklist

Golem

Golden Guardian

Defender
{2}: This creature fights another target creature you control. When this creature dies this turn, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

An army of living gold for the golden city.

Gold-Forge Garrison

(Transforms from Golden Guardian.)
{T}: Add two mana of any one color.
{4}, {T}: Create a 4/4 colorless Golem artifact creature token.

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.

"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}.

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.

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

Isolated Chapel

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

Godless Shrine

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

Temple Garden

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

Overgrown Tomb

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

"The protective wards of the church have weakened, and no one can tell us why. It's time to look to our own defenses."
—Gregel, militia leader

Gavony Township

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{G}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

"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.

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 of Malady

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 {B} or {G}.

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}.

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}.

Forest

Plains

Swamp

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Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz

High Marshal Arguel

Arguel's vision led him into the jungles of Ixalan . . .

Arguel's Blood Fast

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 5 or less life, you may transform Arguel's Blood Fast.

. . . to the lost temple of a bat-god of night, eternal enemy to the Threefold Sun.

Temple of Aclazotz

(Transforms from Arguel's Blood Fast.)
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Miren, the Moaning Well

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

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.

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}

"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.

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.

Tree of Perdition

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

Woodland geists concluded that Emrakul would be unable to warp the denizens of the forest if the geists got there first.

Permeating Mass

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, that creature becomes a copy of this creature.

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.

"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

Unstoppable Ash

Trample
Champion a Treefolk or Warrior (When this enters, sacrifice it unless you exile another Treefolk or Warrior you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.)
Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, it gets +0/+5 until end of turn.

Saproling

Verdeloth the Ancient

Kicker {X} (You may pay an additional {X} as you cast this spell.)
Saproling creatures and other Treefolk creatures get +1/+1.
When Verdeloth enters, if it was kicked, create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.

Animate Wall

Enchant Wall
Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

The gods are fascinated by innocence, perhaps because it's a quality they themselves lack.

Nyx-Fleece Ram

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life.

Skinshifter

{G}: Choose one. Activate only once each turn.
• Until end of turn, this creature becomes a Rhino with base power and toughness 4/4 and gains trample.
• Until end of turn, this creature becomes a Bird with base power and toughness 2/2 and gains flying.
• Until end of turn, this creature becomes a Plant with base power and toughness 0/8.

"We've been practicing for this all our lives. This is the final test!"
—Korun Nar, Rubblebelt hunter

Tower Defense

Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.

"Her voice is the wilderness, savage and pure."
—Kamahl, druid acolyte

Seedborn Muse

Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.

Eland Umbra

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+4.
Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

"As long as there is a single shred of life, there is hope."
—Nissa Revane

Sylvan Scrying

Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"When I said I needed a hand, I didn't mean this."
—Gerrard Capashen

Ensnaring Bridge

Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack.

"Our enemy is nothing less than the end of all life. We shall not want for allies."
—*The War Diaries*

Overgrown Battlement

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

The queen sent her champion to defeat the necromancer threat. His helmet was returned the next day, warped and stained with blood.

Mortify

"All matter, animate or not, rots when exposed to time. We merely speed up the process."
—Ezoc, Golgari rot farmer

Putrefy

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

"You serve Phyrexia. Your pieces would better serve Phyrexia elsewhere."
—Azax-Azog, the Demon Thane

Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

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

Winding Way

Choose creature or land. Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all cards of the chosen type revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

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

Harmonize

When the vaults are empty, everyone is rich.

Open the Vaults

Return all artifact and enchantment cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under their owners' control. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in graveyards.)

Clerics on both sides prayed for divine intervention to end the war. The gods didn't play favorites.

Day of Judgment

"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.

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.

Legend speaks of the lost coastal polis of Olantin, whose inhabitants' hubris enraged the sun god Heliod.

Wrath of God

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

"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.

Mardu lightning fences are the ingenious synthesis of blacksmith skill and stormsinger magic, protecting their dalkovans from even the most fearsome dragonstorms.

Sol Ring

Nearly all sets of Kor twins are trained as lancers.

Lancers en-Kor

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

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.

Ashaya, Soul of the Wild

Ashaya's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.
Nontoken creatures you control are Forest lands in addition to their other types. (They're still affected by summoning sickness.)

"Respect the earth, for it will one day be your shield and another day your blanket."
—Liefellen, Quirion exarch

Quirion Ranger

Return a Forest you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.

Outrider en-Kor

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
{0}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn is dealt to target creature you control instead.

"The animal spirits are the Ancestor's grandchildren. Remember them."
—Mystic elder

Animal Boneyard

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness."

Consuming Vapors

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

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}.)

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 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.

Shaman en-Kor

{0}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn is dealt to target creature you control instead.
{1}{W}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that damage is dealt to this creature instead.

Halsin, Emerald Archdruid

{1}: Until end of turn, target token you control becomes a green Bear creature with base power and toughness 4/4 in addition to its other colors and types.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Treasure

Pitiless Plunderer

"Shame to let good gold go to the grave."

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

"Despite being older than nearly every living thing here, Loot is still just a kid. That doesn't change what we need from him."
—Jace

Bleachbone Verge

{T}: Add {B}.
{T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control a Plains or a Swamp.

Oviya, Automech Artisan

Each creature that's attacking one of your opponents has trample.
{G}, {T}: You may put a creature or Vehicle card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you put an artifact onto the battlefield this way, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Treebeard, Gracious Host

Food

"I go my own way, but your way may go along with mine for a while."

Trample, ward {2}
When Treebeard enters, create two Food tokens.
Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on target Halfling or 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.

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.

"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.

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

Stoneskin

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

"I am an Ent. Fangorn is my name according to some, Treebeard others make it."

Fangorn, Tree Shepherd

Treefolk you control have vigilance.
Whenever one or more Treefolk you control attack, add twice that much {G}.
You don't lose unspent green mana as steps and phases end.

"I'm worried about Loot. He has great power but lacks the experience to know what dangers await him."
—Vraska

Wastewood Verge

{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Add {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Forest.

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