"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 sylex blast marked not only the end of the war, but the end of Dominaria as most knew it."
—*The Antiquities War*

Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

After years of silence, the caves once again echo with the grisly sounds of Phyrexians preparing for war.

Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

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}.

"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}.

Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{G}.

Selesnya Sanctuary

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{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.

Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

On Otaria, peace and harmony are rare. Places that provide both are cherished.

Sungrass Prairie

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}.

Field of the Dead

Zombie

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

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.

Godless Shrine

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

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}.

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}.

Blooming Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Concealed Courtyard

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

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.

Marsh Flats

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

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 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 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}.

"Those who fail to escape Malakir become part of the city's defense."
—Doros, expedition guide

Malakir Rebirth

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

"Getting into Malakir isn't difficult. It's getting out that's the hard part."
—Doros, expedition guide

Malakir Mire

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

"I gazed once into that light. Now it burns in my mind, forever denying me rest."
—Riku of Two Reflections

Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

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.)

Gale stared into the pool and saw a stranger. The similarities were uncanny, but it was not him.

Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

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.

Diamond Valley

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

Ixalan Checklist

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.

Swamp

Forest

Plains

"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.

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.

"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.)

"What tribute have you for our dragonlord?"

Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper

Menace
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

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.

Saproling

Ghave, Guru of Spores

Ghave enters with five +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

The Abzan turn to this spell only as a last resort, for its inevitable result is what they most dread: to be alone.

Duneblast

Choose up to one creature. Destroy the rest.

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.

Tymna the Weaver

Lifelink
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, you may pay X life, where X is the number of opponents that were dealt combat damage this turn. If you do, draw X cards.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
Creatures your opponents control without flying or reach can't block creatures with power 2 or less.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

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.

Darksteel Pendant

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.)
{1}, {T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Vile Requiem

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on this enchantment.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy up to X target nonblack creatures, where X is the number of verse counters on this enchantment. They can't be regenerated.

Sylvan Library

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.

"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.

Mardu blacksmiths can distill the technology of any clan and make it their own. Whether or not they should is another question.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

"The land grows only where the kami will it."
—Dosan the Falling Leaf

Kodama's Reach

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.

"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.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Cultivate

Abzan Banner

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

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

Sol Ring

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

The sigil holds different meanings depending on its form and presentation. While some wear it as a sign of status, others wear it as a sign of debt.

Orzhov Signet

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

Selesnya Signet

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Darksteel Hydra

Darksteel Ingot

"It reflects the purity of Mirrodin-that-was."
—Koth of the Hammer

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

The Izzet quickly suspended their policy of lifetime guarantees.

Abrupt Decay

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.

"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.

Vindicate

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

Mortify

For a razorkin, painless dissolution is a far worse fate than agonizing death.

Utter End

"Yawgmoth," Freyalise whispered as she set the bomb, "now you will pay for your treachery."

Pernicious Deed

{X}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy each artifact, creature, and enchantment with mana value X or less.

Gaea forged her soldiers into self-wielding weapons that struck down all impurities.

Aura Shards

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I take no pleasure in your suffering, but it is necessary. Once you accept your fate you'll find eternity more tolerable."

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

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.

Sorin had created Avacyn, so it was a cruelty beyond imagining, a pain beyond description, that it fell upon him to end her forever.

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

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