On the continent of Tazeem, rushing waters plunge through narrow canyons into mist-cloaked lakes.

Sunken Hollow

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

"Log 2.9.089: Lammuat, the cemetery moon of salvage and secrets. Could be profitable for those brave enough to plumb its recesses."
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Watery Grave

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

Steam Vents

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

It's said the spirits of the drowned dead hang their lights from the shattered figureheads.

Crumbling Necropolis

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

"The war polluted the land, turning what had once been fruitful fields into fetid morasses of mud and rusted corpses."
—*The Antiquities War*

Underground River

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

Dragonskull Summit

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

Choked Estuary

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

The continent of Guul Draz is a geothermal swampland reeking of heat and decay.

Smoldering Marsh

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

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.

No one really knows how deep the waters go beneath Undercity, nor what amorphous horrors lurk within.

Morphic Pool

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

Spirit

Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever you tap this land for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Temple of Deceit

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 {U} or {B}.

Dimir Aqueduct

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

Rakdos Carnarium

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

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.

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}.

Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Halimar Depths

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Add {U}.

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Desert of the Glorified

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Desert of the Fervent

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
Cycling {1}{R} ({1}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Desert of the Mindful

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enter and become a mastermind of spies, lies, and deception.

Dimir Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Enter and indulge your darkest fantasies, for you may never pass this way again.

Rakdos Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Enter those with the vision to create and the daring to release their creations.

Izzet Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

"I ask only that the winds return you to me as swiftly as they bear you and the Storm Crane away."
—Samthar, Sultai merchant, to Jialing, Jeskai monk

Dismal Backwater

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

"I do as I choose with what is mine. And it is all mine."
—Nicol Bolas

Cinder Barrens

When spring melted the snow, fishers downstream of the Qadat Fire Rim learned of conflict between Temur and Jeskai from the gruesome flotsam.

Swiftwater Cliffs

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

Forgotten Cave

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
Cycling {R} ({R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"Long after the land has given up the last of its secrets, there will still be mysteries in the depths of the sea."
—Kiora

Submerged Boneyard

Jwar Isle Refuge

Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Island

Swamp

Mountain

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

Sol Ring

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}

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"An ordered Sothera is a peaceful Sothera. Join the Strategic Corps today and proudly turn the gears of progress!"
—Pinnacle recruitment ad

Arcane Signet

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

Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

Rhystic Study

Archival Whorl

Friends teach what you want to know. Enemies teach what you *need* to know.

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, draw a card.

He watches in silence as the shadows shift, bringing Amonkhet ever nearer to the Hour of Revelation.

Sphinx of the Second Sun

Flying
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, there is an additional beginning phase after this phase. (The beginning phase includes the untap, upkeep, and draw steps.)

"The more secrets you have, the more easily you become my pawn."

Agent of Treachery

When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control three or more permanents you don't own, draw three cards.

His enemies wondered if the lich king's brutal death and unnatural rebirth had been his plan all along.

Nekusar, the Mindrazer

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, Nekusar deals 1 damage to that player.

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

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Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

Flying
When Nicol Bolas enters, each opponent discards a card.
{4}{U}{B}{R}: Exile Nicol Bolas, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

+2: Draw two cards.
−3: Nicol Bolas deals 10 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
−4: Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
−12: Exile all but the bottom card of target player's library.

Copy

The Scarab God

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control.
{2}{U}{B}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

"It is not a goal, but a process—the process of creating the perfect Phyrexia."

Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Flash
At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards.
Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

A curse is just another name for an unwanted blessing.

Consecrated Sphinx

Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Despite all the differences between the Edge and the Multiverse, people still spoke the language of greed.

Tezzeret's Gambit

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Draw two cards, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Time Spiral

Exile Time Spiral. Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. You untap up to six lands.

The Izzet specialize in unnatural disaster.

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

"It's a difficult task to quarantine a plague that moves with the clouds."
—Esara, healer adept

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control.
Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

"Holy places are no longer sanctuary from death, and death is no longer sanctuary from anything."
—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

The importance of using updated Pinnacle codebooks is a lesson learned only once.

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

"Abandon ship! No, grab the treasure first!"
—Admiral Beckett Brass

Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Capsize

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Notion Thief

Flash
If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Smothering Abomination

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.

Tree of Perdition

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

Mogg Maniac

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Poison Counter

Glistening Oil

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has infect.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature.
When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

A dent marks every year of service, and it has as much rust as glory.

Battered Golem

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
Whenever an artifact enters, you may untap this creature.

Suddenly he realized that everything was connected by invisible strings, strings that could be pulled—or cut.

Banishing Knack

Until end of turn, target creature gains "{T}: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand."

Echo of Eons

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards.
Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Phyresis

"Perfection is at hand. You have been freed of weakness and made *compleat*."
—Sheoldred, Whispering One

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

"We can't quite determine what they're doing, but they seem to be doing it quite well."
—Vedalken research notes

Myr Galvanizer

Other Myr creatures you control get +1/+1.
{1}, {T}: Untap each other Myr you control.

The vedalken saw the myr as toys, unaware of the intelligence lurking behind their empty eyes.

Silver Myr

Mirrorworks

The faces of Geth's corpse-dredgers are disturbingly similar.

Whenever another nontoken artifact you control enters, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that artifact.

Cephalid Illusionist

Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, mill three cards.
{2}{U}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by target creature you control this turn.

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once."
—William Shakespeare, *Julius Caesar*

Cowardice

Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, return that creature to its owner's hand. (It won't be affected by the spell or ability.)

"Gix doesn't want a people to rule but puppets to entertain his madness."
—Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast

Priest of Gix

When this creature enters, add {B}{B}{B}.

The book shrieks horribly until its cover is opened, granting the spirit inside a moment's rest from the painful stirrings of the book's contents.

Geth's Grimoire

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

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