Ixalan Checklist

Vampire

Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort

"I claim this land in the name of the queen."
—Adrian Adanto of Lujio

Legion's Landing

When Legion's Landing enters, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.
When you attack with three or more creatures, transform Legion's Landing.

Adanto, the First Fort

(Transforms from Legion's Landing.)
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
—Lord Windgrace

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

"It's me and Gribble's special fort. None of the bad things can get us in there."
—Toby

Command Tower

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

Blood Crypt

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

Godless Shrine

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

Sacred Foundry

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

A graveyard for conquerors and conquered alike.

Bloodstained Mire

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

Marsh Flats

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

Arid Mesa

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

"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 Mire enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Canyon Slough

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
Canyon Slough enters tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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

Cinder Barrens

Cinder Barrens enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

When the Planeswalker Angrath called dinosaurs "dragons," the name stuck in certain pirate circles.

Dragonskull Summit

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

Shambling Vent

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

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

Smoldering Marsh

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

"As Terisiare's mines ran dry, scrap metal became increasingly plentiful."
—*The Antiquities War*

Battlefield Forge

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}. Battlefield Forge deals 1 damage to you.

Since the river ran dry, travelers wander where fish once swam.

Sunbaked Canyon

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {R} or {W}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Sunbaked Canyon: Draw a card.

Isolated Chapel

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

Unclaimed Territory

As Unclaimed Territory enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry 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.

Swamp

Plains

Mountain

Bloodghast

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

Captivating Vampire

Other Vampire creatures you control get +1/+1.
Tap five untapped Vampires you control: Gain control of target creature. It becomes a Vampire in addition to its other types.

"Drench these golden streets in the blood of our enemies."

Champion of Dusk

When Champion of Dusk enters, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Vampires you control.

"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, Liberator of Malakir deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.

Forerunner of the Legion

When Forerunner of the Legion enters, you may search your library for a Vampire card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Whenever another Vampire you control enters, target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

A few aetherborn have discovered a way to sustain their own existences at the cost of an insatiable hunger for the life essence of other beings.

Gifted Aetherborn

Guul Draz Assassin

Level up {1}{B} ({1}{B}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)
LEVEL 2-3
2/2
{B}, {T}: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
LEVEL 4+
4/4
{B}, {T}: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Each of Malakir's great families boasts a contingent of nulls appropriate to its rank in society.

Kalastria Highborn

Whenever Kalastria Highborn or another Vampire you control dies, you may pay {B}. If you do, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet

{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.

Knight of the Ebon Legion

{2}{B}: Knight of the Ebon Legion gets +3/+3 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, if a player lost 4 or more life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Knight of the Ebon Legion. (Damage causes loss of life.)

"We long ago abandoned the things that make humans weak: friendship, marriage, family. All that remains is the strength of our devotion."

Legion Lieutenant

Malakir Bloodwitch

Flying, protection from white
When Malakir Bloodwitch enters, each opponent loses life equal to the number of Vampires you control. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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.

"No longer can we allow our human populations to be mindlessly slaughtered by ghouls. Slay all who trespass."
—Runo Stromkirk

Stromkirk Captain

First strike
Other Vampire creatures you control get +1/+1 and have first strike.

In matters of life and death, he trusts his gut.

Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

A-Blood Artist

Blood Artist

"Vanya Falkenrath's paintings are astonishing. How does she manage to achieve such rich crimson hues?"
—Stefan, art critic

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage

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Bloodline Keeper

Flying
{T}: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.
{B}: Transform Bloodline Keeper. Activate only if you control five or more Vampires.

Lord of Lineage

Flying
Other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+2.
{T}: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.

Patron of the Vein

Flying
When Patron of the Vein enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it and put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

As they fought the Eldrazi, many vampires learned to live among humans. Others were unable to make the adjustment.

Vampire Nighthawk

"If you're not surrounded by decadence, my question to you is—why not?"

Indulgent Aristocrat

Lifelink
{2}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

"Unskin these impure bodies, Great Yawgmoth, that the flesh may welcome your blessings."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

It *wants* to remain a mystery, banishing the curious in favor of less inquisitive company.

Cloudstone Curio

Whenever a nonartifact permanent you control enters, you may return another permanent you control that shares a permanent type with it to its owner's hand.

"My conquistadors are never slain, merely laid to rest."
—Queen Miralda the Pious

Oathsworn Vampire

Oathsworn Vampire enters tapped.
You may cast Oathsworn Vampire from your graveyard if you gained life this turn.

"The time for subtlety is over, darling."

Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni, Undying Partisan.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

"Now isn't that better?"
—Olivia Voldaren

New Blood

As an additional cost to cast this spell, tap an untapped Vampire you control.
Gain control of target creature. Change the text of that creature by replacing all instances of one creature type with Vampire.

Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord

+1: Target creature you control gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. If it's a Vampire, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
+1: You may sacrifice a Vampire. When you do, Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
−3: You may put a Vampire creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Blade of the Bloodchief

Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. If equipped creature is a Vampire, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.
Equip {1}

Metallic Mimic

As Metallic Mimic enters, choose a creature type.
Metallic Mimic is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Each other creature you control of the chosen type enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Adaptive Automaton

As Adaptive Automaton enters, choose a creature type.
Adaptive Automaton is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Door of Destinies

As Door of Destinies enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on Door of Destinies.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on Door of Destinies.

"So many have died in search of that map. And now it appears in the hands of the arrogant child Chandra Nalaar."

Anowon, the Ruin Sage

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player sacrifices a non-Vampire creature.

"Your blood is quite pleasing. A pity there's not enough for both of us."

Falkenrath Aristocrat

Flying, haste
Sacrifice a creature: Falkenrath Aristocrat gains indestructible until end of turn. If the sacrificed creature was a Human, put a +1/+1 counter on Falkenrath Aristocrat.

"Ah, this is a nice life. I can see why you were so desperate to keep it."

Dark Impostor

{4}{B}{B}: Exile target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on Dark Impostor.
Dark Impostor has all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with it.

When a paladin undertaking the Blood Fast finally gives in to hunger, the violence is sudden, explosive, and complete.

Bloodcrazed Paladin

Flash
Bloodcrazed Paladin enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature that died this turn.

"In the death of the foe lies the resurrection of the faithful."

Bishop of Rebirth

Vigilance
Whenever Bishop of Rebirth attacks, you may return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"If you're not having fun, what's the point of living forever?"

Rakish Heir

Whenever a Vampire you control deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Sanguine Soothsayer

Sanguine Bond

"Blood is constant. Every drop I drink, someone must bleed."
—Vradeen, vampire nocturnus

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Even as humans regained the upper hand, some still willingly traded their lives for a chance at immortality.

Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

"Death is merely another foe the Mardu will overcome."

Bloodsoaked Champion

Bloodsoaked Champion can't block.
Raid — {1}{B}: Return Bloodsoaked Champion from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only if you attacked this turn.

"Please, come in! Hors d'oeuvres are on the table."

Cordial Vampire

Whenever Cordial Vampire or another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle

In the rapture of his Blood Fast, he destroyed the navigator's tools and steered the ship to shore by faith alone.

Whenever one or more nontoken Vampires you control attack, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.

Eldrazi Spawn

Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever Pawn of Ulamog or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

He hopes each greedy gulp will be the one that makes him feel warm again.

Blood Seeker

Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

"Jarad fancies himself king of the undercity, but he's merely king of rot."

Necropolis Regent

Flying
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.

"The veil of death hides little from our kind."

Bloodline Necromancer

Lifelink
When Bloodline Necromancer enters, you may return target Vampire or Wizard creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Herald's Horn

As Herald's Horn enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Each cut stains his blade with fresh blood that he samples to increase his strength.

Malakir Cullblade

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Malakir Cullblade.

Vampire Nocturnus

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
As long as the top card of your library is black, Vampire Nocturnus and other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+1 and have flying.

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.

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