Island

Plains

The maze-like design embodies the core of Azorius law—strict structure designed to test wills and stall change.

Azorius Signet

"Words of power never disappear. They sleep, awaiting those with the will to rouse them."

Archaeomancer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Reflector Mage

When this creature enters, return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. That creature's owner can't cast spells with the same name as that creature until your next turn.

"Have your dreams of a better society become an obsession?"
—Watnik, master glassblower

Skycloud Egg

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add {W}{U}. Draw a card.

"The secret to invention is to see something in your mind, then find where it hides in the world."

Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Supreme Will

Choose one —
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Cryptic Command

Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.

Swan Song

Bird

In the end, the dying Illvoi clung to neither secrecy nor protocol. She cloudsculpted wings that she might live on in a spark of creativity.

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

"We have confiscated your spells as evidence. Once we conclude our investigation, you may petition to have them returned."

Render Silent

Counter target spell. Its controller can't cast spells this turn.

"Let the knowledge of absolute law inspire you to live a life of absolute order."

Sphinx's Revelation

"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.

Settle the Wreckage

Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

In their final moments, the demons gazed upon grace in its purest form.

Cleansing Nova

Choose one —
• Destroy all creatures.
• Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Legend speaks of the lost coastal polis of Olantin, whose inhabitants' hubris enraged the sun god Heliod.

Wrath of God

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

"The Origin Query will wait. We must ensure we survive to return to it."
—Pelyus, vedalken ordinar

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Cryptic Annelid

When this creature enters, scry 1, then scry 2, then scry 3. (To scry X, look at the top X cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Jace, the Mind Sculptor

+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library.
0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
−1: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles their hand into their library.

The student searches the world for meaning. The master finds worlds of meaning in the search.

Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Long-Term Plans

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card third from the top.

"No doubt the arbiters would put you away, after all the documents are signed. But I will have justice now."
—Alovnek, Boros guildmage

Condemn

Put target attacking creature on the bottom of its owner's library. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.

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.

The divine light of the Palatinate could be so cold. As she laid down her sword, she felt the sun's warmth in a different way.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Reality Shift

Manifest

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Pongify

Some spellcrafting mistakes go on to become spells of their own.

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Rapid Hybridization

Frog Lizard

"From the day we are born, we do our best to survive. We fight. We run. We fear. But we cannot protect ourselves from change."
—Ark, lizardfolk blacksmith

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Counterspell

"As one, nature lifts its voice to tell you this: 'No.'"

Negate

"I see you've learned nothing, Chandra. You'd still put a match to something rather than understand it."

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Absorb

Dovin ticked the Planeswalkers off on his fingers: himself, Domri, Kaya, Ral, Vraska . . . and Bolas made an even six.

Dovin's Acuity

When this enchantment enters, you gain 2 life and draw a card.
Whenever you cast an instant spell during your main phase, you may return this enchantment to its owner's hand.

Detention Sphere

When this enchantment enters, you may exile target nonland permanent not named Detention Sphere and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

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.

The god Kruphix was born when mortals first looked to the horizon and wondered what lay beyond.

Dictate of Kruphix

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

It contains the totality of Alhammarret's notes, theories, and ponderings.

Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enlightenment is not gained by striking the bell or hearing its toll. It's found in the silence that follows.

Temple Bell

The mine's riches never end, nor do the moans of the spirits doomed to haunt them.

Howling Mine

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

"You should try to clear your mind of idle thoughts. And if you can't, I will."

Jace's Erasure

Whenever you draw a card, you may have target player mill a card.

Spider-Woman, Stunning Savior

Flying
Venom Blast — Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

"For all our lofty talk of keeping watch, we had no idea what we were getting into."
—Jace Beleren

Jace's Sanctum

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.

"It's easy to anticipate Captain Storm's orders: take the more dangerous route."

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

Mystic Speculation

Buyback {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Exalted Sunborn

Flying, lifelink
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.
Warp {1}{W} (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)

As the supervoid's photon collar washed over them, time stopped. Their souls would experience the grandeur of their demise for eternity.

Beyond the Quiet

"For the lost and forgotten, I will keep watch."

Oath of Teferi

When Oath of Teferi enters, exile another target permanent you control. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
You may activate the loyalty abilities of planeswalkers you control twice each turn rather than only once.

Serum Visions

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (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.)

Each configuration reveals a potential future.

Netherese Puzzle-Ward

Focus Beam — At the beginning of your upkeep, roll a d4. Scry X, where X is the result.
Perfect Illumination — Whenever you roll a die's highest natural result, draw a card.

Tamiyo wished only to observe the war, but she soon realized neutrality was not an option.

Tamiyo's Epiphany

Wind time's watch, and watch time unwind.

Foresee

Copy

Moonlit Meditation

"All is the hand that weaves the Fabric of Being. The Fabric of Being is All."
—*Drix Codex*, line 1

Enchant artifact or creature you control
The first time you would create one or more tokens each turn, you may instead create that many tokens that are copies of enchanted permanent.

Jace, Mirror Mage

Kicker {2}
When Jace enters, if Jace was kicked, create a token that's a copy of Jace, except it's not legendary and its starting loyalty is 1.
+1: Scry 2.
0: Draw a card and reveal it. Remove a number of loyalty counters equal to that card's mana value from Jace.

Consult the Star Charts

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.)
Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of lands you control. Put one of those cards into your hand. If this spell was kicked, put two of those cards into your hand instead. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

"I can't see all that the future holds, but I can keep us one step ahead of death."

Deliberate

Pegasus

Storm Herd

"When you hear thunder on a cloudless day, take cover and brace for the coming of the storm herd."
—Skotov, Tin Street basket vendor

Create X 1/1 white Pegasus creature tokens with flying, where X is your life total.

Past, present, and future surged through the wizard's mind, bringing a flood of possibilities.

Mnemonic Deluge

Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Copy that card three times. You may cast the copies without paying their mana costs. Exile Mnemonic Deluge.

The mizzium-sphere array drove her mind deep into the thought field, where only the rarest motes of genius may be plucked.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"You speak to me of the threat of Ulamog. But do not forget: they came as three."
—Ugin, to Jace Beleren

Ugin's Insight

Scry X, where X is the greatest mana value among permanents you control, then draw three cards.

"I will take the Ring to Mordor, though I do not know the way."
—Frodo

Council's Deliberation

Draw a card.
Whenever you scry, if you control an Island, you may exile this card from your graveyard. If you do, draw a card.

"My whims dictate the fate of nations. Your pitiful mortal magic is no more significant than a gnat buzzing in my ear."

Bane's Contingency

Counter target spell. If that spell targets a commander you control, instead counter that spell, scry 2, then draw a card.

In the Cosmos, secrets swirl and spark like windborne embers, and only Alrund can capture them.

Brainsurge

Draw four cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

A thousand riddles, each with a single answer: "The glory of Phyrexia."

Serum Sovereign

Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on this creature.
{U}, Remove an oil counter from this creature: Draw a card, then scry 2.

Faerie Dragon

Elminster

Whenever you scry, the next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs {X} less to cast, where X is the number of cards looked at while scrying this way.
+2: Draw a card, then scry 2.
−3: Exile the top card of your library. Create a number of 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying equal to that card's mana value.
Elminster can be your commander.

"Why would I chase the storm? Does a cloud chase the rain? Does the sun chase the light?"

Alania, Divergent Storm

Whenever you cast a spell, if it's the first instant spell, the first sorcery spell, or the first Otter spell other than Alania you've cast this turn, you may have target opponent draw a card. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

They called her unique insight a "gift." Then she saw the truth, and suddenly it was a "threat."

Narset, Enlightened Exile

Creatures you control have prowess.
Whenever Narset attacks, exile target noncreature, nonland card with mana value less than Narset's power from a graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

"Take up the quill, and feel your future flow into the runes."

Rubinia Soulsinger

You may choose not to untap Rubinia Soulsinger during your untap step.
{T}: Gain control of target creature for as long as you control Rubinia Soulsinger and Rubinia Soulsinger remains tapped.

Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom

Okaun, Eye of Chaos

Partner with Okaun, Eye of Chaos (When this creature enters, target player may put Okaun into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, flip a coin until you lose a flip.
Whenever a player wins a coin flip, draw a card.

Toothy, Imaginary Friend

Pir, Imaginative Rascal

Partner with Pir, Imaginative Rascal (When this creature enters, target player may put Pir into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Toothy.
When Toothy leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Kemba, Kha Regent

"We must rebuild Taj-Nar. Not for Raksha, not for the Vanished Ones, but for those who still remain."

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 2/2 white Cat creature token for each Equipment attached to Kemba.

Bane, Lord of Darkness

As long as your life total is less than or equal to half your starting life total, Bane has indestructible.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, target opponent may have you draw a card. If they don't, you may put a creature card with equal or lesser toughness from your hand onto the battlefield.

Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor

Whenever you draw your first or second card each turn, put an ingenuity counter on Lady Octopus.
{T}: You may cast an artifact spell from your hand with mana value less than or equal to the number of ingenuity counters on Lady Octopus without paying its mana cost.

Kotis, the Fangkeeper

Indestructible
Whenever Kotis deals combat damage to a player, exile the top X cards of their library, where X is the amount of damage dealt. You may cast any number of spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.

A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last.

Avacyn, Angel of Hope

Flying, vigilance, indestructible
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Sisters of Stone Death

{G}: Target creature blocks Sisters of Stone Death this turn if able.
{B}{G}: Exile target creature blocking or blocked by Sisters of Stone Death.
{2}{B}: Put a creature card exiled with Sisters of Stone Death onto the battlefield under your control.

Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Deathtouch
When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

"It's not a matter of deserving. It's a matter of strength. The power to hold versus the power to take."

Sygg, River Cutthroat

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn, you may draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Orc Army

The Ring // The Ring Tempts You

Sauron, the Dark Lord

Ward—Sacrifice a legendary artifact or legendary creature.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, amass Orcs 1.
Whenever an Army you control deals combat damage to a player, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever the Ring tempts you, you may discard your hand. If you do, draw four cards.

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