"Now is the death-hour, just before dawn. Wake, sleepers, and haunt the living!"
—Vivias, Witch Vessel

Agadeem's Awakening

Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less.

"Here below the hedron fields, souls and secrets lie entombed."
—Vivias, Witch Vessel

Agadeem, the Undercrypt

As this land enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt

"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

Sejiri Steppe

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
{T}: Add {W}.

"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.

Snow-Covered Plains

Snow-Covered Swamp

Orzhov Basilica

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

Rivals of Ixalan Checklist

Profane Procession // Tomb of the Dusk Rose

Vona sought a conqueror. Mavren sought a savior. Both found what they sought . . .

Profane Procession

{3}{W}{B}: Exile target creature. Then if there are three or more cards exiled with Profane Procession, transform it.

. . . resting in the splendor of the dead.

Tomb of the Dusk Rose

(Transforms from Profane Procession.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Put a creature card exiled with this permanent onto the battlefield under your control.

Memorial to Folly

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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.)

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

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.

Human

Castle Ardenvale

Without Ardenvale's loyalty, the realm would greedily devour itself.

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Shambling Vent

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{1}{W}{B}: This land becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink until end of turn. It's still a land.

"Do not linger in such places, child. There the gwyllions dance. If they find you, you will join in their revels for eternity."
—Talara, elvish safewright

Fetid Heath

{T}: Add {C}.
{W/B}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Scrubland

Students from other colleges are invited to visit Witherbloom's medical facilities. Not many do.

Witch's Clinic

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.

Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Concealed Courtyard

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

Plains

Swamp

Kormus Bell

All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Fiend Hunter

When this creature enters, you may exile another target creature.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

"A keen mind wields an army as a deft hand wields a sword."

Angelic Skirmisher

Flying
At the beginning of each combat, choose first strike, vigilance, or lifelink. Creatures you control gain that ability until end of turn.

Forbidding Spirit

When this creature enters, until your next turn, creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {2} for each of those creatures.

"I feel in them a sense of duty and commitment, yet I can feel nothing else. It is as if their duty is to an empty void."
—Razia, Boros archangel

Angel of Despair

Flying
When this creature enters, destroy target permanent.

She arrived like a meteorite, and the enemy fell in a shock wave of holy vengeance.

Angel of the Dire Hour

Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, exile all attacking creatures.

"I will not live as a slave. If you would be free, then fight alongside me."

Drana, Liberator of Malakir

Flying, first strike
Whenever Drana deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.

Summoning it is easy. Controlling it is another matter.

Bloodghast

This creature can't block.
This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

The Sanctum Seekers were the first of the knightly orders to cross the sea and are still the most zealous.

Sanctum Seeker

Whenever a Vampire you control attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Serra Ascendant

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
As long as you have 30 or more life, this creature gets +5/+5 and has flying.

He relishes the devotion of his Skirsdag puppets and their belief that it will earn them immortality.

Bloodgift Demon

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

"For four hundred years, I have led armies of conquest. These lands hold nothing that can stand against me."

Vona, Butcher of Magan

Vigilance, lifelink
{T}, Pay 7 life: Destroy target nonland permanent. Activate only during your turn.

Bloodlord of Vaasgoth

Bloodthirst 3 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.)
Flying
Whenever you cast a Vampire creature spell, it gains bloodthirst 3.

Rankle, Master of Pranks

Flying, haste
Whenever Rankle deals combat damage to a player, choose any number —
• Each player discards a card.
• Each player loses 1 life and draws a card.
• Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet

Vampire

{B}{B}{B}, {T}: Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, create a black Vampire creature token. Its power is equal to that creature's power and its toughness is equal to that creature's toughness.

"Through the blood of the wicked, we shall be redeemed. Let us pray."

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

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

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

Sol Ring

A symbol of power and wealth, the only commodities that matter to the Orzhov.

Orzhov Cluestone

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

"It looks expensive, doesn't it? You have no idea..."
—Milana, Orzhov prelate

Orzhov Locket

{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Heraldic Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

A weapon of darkness for a warrior of light.

Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.
{1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip {2}

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

Mortify

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.

Vindictive Lich

When this creature dies, choose one or more. Each mode must target a different player.
• Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
• Target opponent discards two cards.
• Target opponent loses 5 life.

It shambled from the cloud of ash and bone dust, undeterred by its own extinction.

Necromantic Selection

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

Spirit

Tithe Taker

During your turn, spells your opponents cast cost {1} more to cast and abilities your opponents activate cost {1} more to activate unless they're mana abilities.
Afterlife 1 (When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.)

"We have no need for military might. We wield two of the sharpest swords ever forged: Faith in our left hand, Wealth in our right."
—Vuliev of the Ghost Council

Castigate

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.

When Titania offered peace, Urza merely turned her down. Mishra made her people pay for the insult.

Go for the Throat

Dark Ritual

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.

An old family recipe for an old family grudge.

Sinister Concoction

{B}, Pay 1 life, Mill a card, Discard a card, Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target creature.

Mournwhelk

When this creature enters, target player discards two cards.
Evoke {3}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Elspeth, Knight-Errant Emblem

Elspeth, Knight-Errant

Soldier

+1: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
+1: Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn.
−8: You get an emblem with "Artifacts, creatures, enchantments, and lands you control have indestructible."

Sorin, Solemn Visitor

Sorin, Solemn Visitor Emblem

+1: Until your next turn, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain lifelink.
−2: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.
−6: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice."

Drain Life

Spend only black mana on X.
Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Odric resisted the vampire's curse with all his strength. But after a lifetime of fighting monsters, he was doomed to become one himself.

Hero's Downfall

"We have barely begun to learn the secrets of the Fourth People. Every remnant of their presence, however cryptic, is a gift."
—Akal Pakal, First Steward of Oteclan

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, 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.

"They'll soon become accustomed to wearing skin that is not their own."
—Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Liquimetal Coating

{T}: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

"I use maps to find out where explorers have already been. Then I go the other way."
—Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Forged by divine hands to wander mortal realms.

Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Druids hold certain plants to be sacred and use their leaves and wood as a spellcasting focus.

Wayfarer's Bauble

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

"You'll never get to the top if you don't know who's already there."
—Kaya

Talisman of Hierarchy

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

"Who truly runs this city? Look to the sky on hallowed days, and see whose sigil is stamped clearly onto the heavens."
—Vuliev of the Ghost Council

Culling Sun

Destroy each creature with mana value 3 or less.

Sadistic Sacrament

Kicker {7} (You may pay an additional {7} as you cast this spell.)
Search target player's library for up to three cards, exile them, then that player shuffles. If this spell was kicked, instead search that player's library for up to fifteen cards, exile them, then that player shuffles.

Divine Reckoning

Each player chooses a creature they control. Destroy the rest.
Flashback {5}{W}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Erebos's Intervention

Choose one —
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.
• Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

"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.

Only the patrol's armor was found, so tainted with the acrid smell of sudden death that it could never be worn again.

Ritual of Soot

Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.

Winds of Abandon

Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Overload {4}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.

He has "friends" in places both high and low, and all seem to owe him favors.

Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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