"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.

"I gazed once into that light. Now it burns in my mind, forever denying me rest."
—Riku of Two Reflections

Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Command Beacon: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

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.)

Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Island

Treasure

Fountainport

Fish

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a token: Draw a card.
{3}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token.
{4}, {T}: Create a Treasure token.

A figure is moved on a map, and the tide of war changes.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Sunken Palace

Sunken Palace enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}, Exile seven cards from your graveyard: Add {U}. When you spend this mana to cast a spell or activate an ability, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Mana abilities can't be copied.)

Archway of Innovation

Archway of Innovation enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Dappled coats become armored hides. Soft jaws become razor tusks. Nestling play becomes the fight for survival.

Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

"Were I to go where my heart dwells, I would now be wandering in the fair valley of Rivendell."
—Aragorn

Rivendell

Rivendell enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Myriad Landscape

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

Talon Gates of Madara

When Talon Gates of Madara enters, up to one target creature phases out.
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.
{4}: Put Talon Gates of Madara from your hand onto the battlefield.

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Demolition Field: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Horizon of Progress

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
{3}, {T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Horizon of Progress: Draw a card.

No matter how deep Urza delved, he couldn't escape his regrets.

Urza's Cave

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Urza's Cave: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Gemstone Caverns

If Gemstone Caverns is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand.
{T}: Add {C}. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.

Its students graduate the school and enter history.

Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

There is a sanctuary that reveals itself only to those graced by the *eludha*—the mystical connection between bonder and monster.

Bonders' Enclave

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

When the last scrap of flesh is scoured away, the Curse of Wandering ends. Then the dead may sleep.

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

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}.

Cephalid Coliseum

{T}: Add {U}. Cephalid Coliseum deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {U}, {T}, Sacrifice Cephalid Coliseum: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Lonely Sandbar

Lonely Sandbar enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Without Vantress's knowledge, the realm would lose itself in darkness.

Castle Vantress

Castle Vantress enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

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.)

Sometimes safety is a place. Sometimes it's a person. Sometimes it's a tangible reminder that even in darkness, hope persists.

Arcane Signet

Thwart

You may return three Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

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.

Counterspell

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.

"Slimefoot, I know I said I wanted to grow our repository of knowledge, but this isn't what I had in mind."

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Cryptic Command

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

Copy

Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.)
Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

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.

The sea filled the villagers' nets until the day it cast its own.

Coastal Breach

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.)
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Deep-Sea Kraken

Deep-Sea Kraken can't be blocked.
Suspend 9—{2}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{U} and exile it with nine time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if Deep-Sea Kraken is suspended, remove a time counter from it.

Even the clouds bend themselves to Memnarch's will, eager to swallow those who oppose him.

Qumulox

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Flying

Warkite Marauder

Flying
Whenever Warkite Marauder attacks, target creature defending player controls loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 0/1 until end of turn.

"Taniwha rolls in its sleep, and the land is awash with the waves."
—Poetics of Hanan

Taniwha

Trample
Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, all lands you control phase out. (They phase in before you untap during your next untap step.)

Shipbreaker Kraken

{6}{U}{U}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
When Shipbreaker Kraken becomes monstrous, tap up to four target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps for as long as you control Shipbreaker Kraken.

Scourge of Fleets

When Scourge of Fleets enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Stormtide Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.
Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.

When Lorthos emerges from his deepwater realm, the tides bow to his will and the coastline cowers in his presence.

Lorthos, the Tidemaker

Whenever Lorthos, the Tidemaker attacks, you may pay {8}. If you do, tap up to eight target permanents. Those permanents don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

"I can see why this appeals to Thassa."
—Kiora

Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

"As a great whale dies, it flips onto its back. And so an island is born."
—Mariners' legend

Great Whale

When Great Whale enters, untap up to seven lands.

Tromokratis

Tromokratis has hexproof unless it's attacking or blocking.
Tromokratis can't be blocked unless all creatures defending player controls block it. (If any creature that player controls doesn't block this creature, it can't be blocked.)

"Captain, I think that island is following us."

Fleet Swallower

Whenever Fleet Swallower attacks, target player mills half their library, rounded up.

Seasinger

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Seasinger.
You may choose not to untap Seasinger during your untap step.
{T}: Gain control of target creature whose controller controls an Island for as long as you control Seasinger and Seasinger remains tapped.

Tidal Control

Cumulative upkeep {2} (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.)
Pay 2 life or {2}: Counter target red or green spell. Any player may activate this ability.

"Be like the sea: flow around that which is unmovable; for everything else, crash into it unrelentingly."

Merfolk Sovereign

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
{T}: Target Merfolk creature can't be blocked this turn.

"Currents are currents, whether in sea or sky."

Wind Strider

Drake

Talrand, Sky Summoner

"The seas are vast, but the skies are even more so. Why be content with one kingdom when I can rule them both?"

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Rayne, Academy Chancellor

Whenever you or a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card. You may draw an additional card if Rayne, Academy Chancellor is enchanted.

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

Silver Myr

Most mirrors show your reflection. Others show your potential.

Mirage Mirror

{2}: Mirage Mirror becomes a copy of target artifact, creature, enchantment, or land until end of turn.

Sphinx of Uthuun

Flying
When Sphinx of Uthuun enters, reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

He knows your strengths, your weaknesses, and the shape of that unfortunate birthmark on your backside.

Clone

You may have Clone enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

Phyrexian Ingester

Imprint — When Phyrexian Ingester enters, you may exile target nontoken creature.
Phyrexian Ingester gets +X/+Y, where X is the exiled creature card's power and Y is its toughness.

Trading Post

Goat

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: You gain 4 life.
{1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination

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Ludevic's Test Subject

Defender
{1}{U}: Put a hatchling counter on Ludevic's Test Subject. Then if there are five or more hatchling counters on it, remove all of them and transform it.

After several frustrating experiments, the visionary Ludevic realized he needed to create a monster that fed on torch-wielding mobs.

Ludevic's Abomination

Lost at sea doesn't have to mean lost forever.

Shipwreck Dowser

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
When Shipwreck Dowser enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Who's the crazy one now!?"
—Torgle, mountaintop boatmaker

Sea's Claim

Enchant land (Target a land as you cast this. This card enters attached to that land.)
Enchanted land is an Island.

Rapid Hybridization

Frog Lizard

"We've merged your life essence with that of several creatures at once. You're welcome."
—Speaker Trifon

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

"Phyrexians pollute everything they touch, so the solution is simple: don't let them touch anything."
—Teferi

Essence Scatter

"I said we should destroy the Eldrazi. Ugin wanted to return them to stasis. Ugin's arguments were . . . unconvincing."
—Jace Beleren

Dispel

Teferi gave them time. Karn gave them a chance. But it was Melira who paid the ultimate price to free Ajani from Phyrexia's grasp.

Negate

The militia formed up in the central plaza awaiting the onslaught, but the giants never quite made it.

Aether Gale

Return six target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

"Close the walls! Retract the docks! The homarids are coming!"
—Benson, Argivian sentry

High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

"Four parts molten bronze, yes ... one part frozen mercury, yes, yes ... but then what?"

Compulsive Research

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.

Pondering Mage

When Pondering Mage enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Kefnet the Mindful

Flying, indestructible
Kefnet the Mindful can't attack or block unless you have seven or more cards in hand.
{3}{U}: Draw a card, then you may return a land you control to its owner's hand.

"Day 31: I finally succeeded in my time reversal experiment!
"Day 30: I might have a problem here."
—Journal of the Prime Izmagnus

Inspiration

Trench Gorger

Trample
When Trench Gorger enters, you may search your library for any number of land cards, exile them, then shuffle. If you do, Trench Gorger has base power and base toughness each equal to the number of cards exiled this way.

Octopus

Crush of Tentacles

Surge {3}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If this spell's surge cost was paid, create an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Jace tumbled down the waterfall and plunged deep into his past.

Flood of Recollection

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Flood of Recollection.

"It was big. Really, really, big. No, bigger than that. It was big!"
—Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

Polar Kraken

Trample
Polar Kraken enters tapped.
Cumulative upkeep—Sacrifice a land. (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.)

"I bring a flood that nothing can withstand."

Thassa's Intervention

Choose one —
• Look at the top X cards of your library. Put up to two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays twice {X}.

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