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}.

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

Custodi Lich

The Monarch

"Keeping order is a task too important to relinquish in death."
—Abrado, Custodi priest

When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever you become the monarch, target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

So-called "old wood" is rare in deforested Ravnica. Statues carved from it are said to house the last of the ancient nature spirits.

Carven Caryatid

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.

"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.

Urza saw the wall and realized that even if he tore every Phyrexian to pieces, they would still resist him.

Wall of Junk

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature blocks, return it to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

"I search for a vision of Zendikar that does not include the Eldrazi."
—Expedition journal entry

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

"Mana grows and changes like the roots of a plant. Like a plant, it must be nurtured."
—Nissa Revane

Wall of Roots

Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add {G}. Activate only once each turn.

Rootlike fibers travel far from Mirrodin's metallic forests, emerging from the crust to drink in the mana-infused sunlight.

Wall of Tanglecord

Defender
{G}: This creature gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Like all jungle plants, the vines must fight and claw for sunlight. Once their place is secured, they grow strong, sharp, and impenetrable.

Wall of Vines

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Mulch is the fabric of life in the forest. Plants live in it, they die in it, and then they become part of it, feeding countless generations to come.

Wall of Mulch

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{G}, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.

Nature twists knots stronger than any rope.

Vine Trellis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{T}: Add {G}.

"When I said we needed more swords to protect the realm, this was not quite what I had in mind."
—Olander, tactician of the Northern Verge

Wall of Swords

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

Wall of Caltrops

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, if at least one other Wall creature is blocking that creature and no non-Wall creatures are blocking that creature, this creature gains banding until end of turn. (If any creatures with banding you control are blocking a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by.)

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.

Its pulsating cry shatters bonds of iron,
granite, and servitude.

Wakestone Gargoyle

Defender, flying
{1}{W}: Creatures you control with defender can attack this turn as though they didn't have defender.

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.

"It may not look like much, but it's a good old door with strong wards. It'll hold."
—Olgard of the Skiltfolk

Bar the Door

Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.

Board the Weatherlight

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a historic card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Sheltering Word

Target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
—Benjamin Franklin

Solidarity

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

The ur-golem etchings begin by celebrating Mirrodin's creator, a golem of almost limitless power. They end by cursing its protector, a being called Memnarch.

Tower of Fortunes

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

Selesnya Signet

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.

Oblivion Ring

When this enchantment enters, exile another target nonland permanent.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

The Champion reached for a stone, and Heliod placed the sun into her hand.
—*The Theriad*

Banishing Light

When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.

A gwyllion's favorite trap is the vanity mirror. A bewitched piece of glass traps the looker's soul and does away with the body.

Unmake

"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.

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

Mortify

Some timelines forever fray, branch, and intermingle. Others end abruptly.

Return to Dust

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Merciless Eviction

Choose one —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all planeswalkers.

Planar Cleansing

Phyrexian Rebirth

Phyrexian Horror

As long as one drop of the oil exists, the joyous work continues.

Destroy all creatures, then create an X/X colorless Phyrexian Horror artifact creature token, where X is the number of creatures destroyed this way.

Her palm flared like the eye of a waking dragon. Then all was calm.

End Hostilities

Destroy all creatures and all permanents attached to creatures.

"Ghirapur's gremlin population poses a threat to the infrastructure of the fairgrounds. Threats must be eliminated."
—Sram, senior edificer

Fumigate

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

The soft creak of trees in the wind is not always cause for comfort.

Ancient Lumberknot

Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

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.

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.

"After the Rising, a treefolk's mind is as limber and green as its limbs, and is at its most receptive to our teachings."

Orchard Warden

Whenever another Treefolk creature you control enters, you may gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

"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.

Expel the Interlopers

Choose a number between 0 and 10. Destroy all creatures with power greater than or equal to the chosen number.

Virtus the Veiled

Gorm the Great

Partner with Virtus the Veiled (When this creature enters, target player may put Virtus into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Vigilance
Gorm must be blocked if able, and Gorm must be blocked by two or more creatures if able.

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Essence of Antiquity

A Mysterious Creature

In a city as old as Ravnica, history takes on a life of its own—even when you least expect it.

Disguise {2}{W} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)
When this creature is turned face up, creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn. Untap them.

An Auriok shield is polished to a mirror finish even on the inside, enabling its bearer to watch foes ahead and behind.

Accorder's Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Nethroi, Apex of Death

Mutate {4}{G/W}{B}{B} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)
Deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever this creature mutates, return any number of target creature cards with total power 10 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Woodfall Primus

Trample
When this creature enters, destroy target noncreature permanent.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

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.

"Cut the beasts out from under them and their strength is nothing."
—Vona of Iedo, Butcher of Magan

Slaughter the Strong

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

"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.

"Dragons in flight seldom expect company."
—Kadri, Dromoka warrior

Shape the Sands

Target creature gets +0/+5 and gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Fecund Greenshell

Reach
As long as you control ten or more lands, creatures you control get +2/+2.
Whenever this creature or another creature you control with toughness greater than its power enters, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Great Oak Guardian

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Reach
When this creature enters, creatures target player controls get +2/+2 until end of turn. Untap them.

"The Silumgar creep around our borders and infiltrate our aeries. We must remain ever watchful."
—Golran, Dromoka captain

Sight of the Scalelords

At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with toughness 4 or greater get +2/+2 and gain vigilance until end of turn.

Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Yedora, Grave Gardener

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may return it to the battlefield face down under its owner's control. It's a Forest land. (It has no other types or abilities.)

Many temples have strong foundations. Few are also wise.

Bedrock Tortoise

During your turn, creatures you control have hexproof.
Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

"Inspiration is found by looking outward."
—Oviya Pashiri, sage lifecrafter

Lifecrafter's Bestiary

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay {G}. If you do, draw a card.

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Liliana whispered to whatever consciousness Oketra and Bontu had left. "You are the gods. He is the usurper. You know what to do."

Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

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.

"Each year that passes rings you inwardly with memory and might. Wield your heart, and the world will tremble."

Doran, the Siege Tower

Each creature assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Giada, Font of Hope

Flying, vigilance
Each other Angel you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it for each Angel you already control.
{T}: Add {W}. Spend this mana only to cast an Angel spell.

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