When defeat is near and guidance is scarce, all eyes look in one direction.

Command Tower

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

None can tell how many vessels are tangled up on the sea floor—or how much treasure remains unclaimed.

Drowned Catacomb

Drowned Catacomb enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Watery Grave

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

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

Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Sunken Hollow enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Choked Estuary

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

"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}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Fetid Pools enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Bojuka Bog

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

"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.

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}.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield 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.

The Sun Empire bends nature— rivers, mountainsides, dinosaurs— to its unyielding will.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Take two steps north into the unsettled future, south into the unquiet past, east into the present day, or west into the great unknown.

Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Dimir Aqueduct

Dimir Aqueduct enters the battlefield tapped.
When Dimir Aqueduct enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}{B}.

Temple of Deceit

Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

The Invasion Tree's branches snaked through the streets of Otawara, turning Kamigawa's soaring city into a clouded nightmare.

Dismal Backwater

Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield tapped.
When Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

"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

Submerged Boneyard enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

In the cold corridors of the undercity, misinformation unfurls from Duskmantle like a spreading stain.

Dimir Guildgate

Dimir Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

"Now caged in Winter's bitter chill,
Our people cry, their voices shrill—
Eternal cold breaks down their will."
—*The Dynasty of Winter Kings*

Frost Marsh

Frost Marsh enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Only death breeds in stagnant water.
—Urborg saying

Salt Marsh

Salt Marsh enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

"The Westfolk wept, and their tears wore winding rivers into the cheek of the world."
—Glem the Lonebard, "Origins of Kholon"

River of Tears

{T}: Add {U}. If you played a land this turn, add {B} instead.

Tainted Isle

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Island

Swamp

Etrata, the Silencer

Etrata, the Silencer can't be blocked.
Whenever Etrata deals combat damage to a player, exile target creature that player controls and put a hit counter on that card. That player loses the game if they own three or more exiled cards with hit counters on them. Etrata's owner shuffles Etrata into their library.

Murderous Rider

Lifelink
When Murderous Rider dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

Swift End

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Murderous Rider // Swift End

Lost to time is the artificer's art of trapping light from a distant star in a ring of purest gold.

Sol Ring

An emblem of a secret guild, the Dimir insignia is seen only by its own members—and the doomed.

Dimir Signet

Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

The pyromancer summoned up her mightiest onslaught of fire and rage. Jace feigned interest.

Counterspell

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Dangerous to recognize. Deadly not to."
—Lazav

Dimir Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target sorcery spell.
• Destroy target creature with power 2 or less.
• Look at the top three cards of target player's library. Put one back and the rest into that player's graveyard.

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

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

Go for the Throat

Laughter and conversation trailed off as the revelers gathered around Zegana's body. Three things quickly became clear: it was a murder, the killer was likely among them, and Teysa's party was definitely over.

Murder

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.)

"The academy educates; I employ. It's a perfect arrangement."
—Gatha, Tolarian renegade

Treachery

Enchant creature
When Treachery enters the battlefield, untap up to five lands.
You control enchanted creature.

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.")

"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.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Nightmare

Ashiok, Nightmare Muse

+1: Create a 2/3 blue and black Nightmare creature token with "Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, each opponent exiles the top two cards of their library."
−3: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand, then that player exiles a card from their hand.
−7: You may cast up to three spells from among face-up cards your opponents own from exile without paying their mana costs.

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.

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Zombie

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Tainted Pact

Exile the top card of your library. You may put that card into your hand unless it has the same name as another card exiled this way. Repeat this process until you put a card into your hand or you exile two cards with the same name, whichever comes first.

Gix pierced his disciples' minds and savored their experiences as he took in their knowledge.

Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

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.

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.)

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.

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

Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch
When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Deadeye Navigator

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Deadeye Navigator is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "{1}{U}: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control."

Thada Adel, Acquisitor

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Thada Adel, Acquisitor deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

Hostage Taker

When Hostage Taker enters the battlefield, exile another target creature or artifact until Hostage Taker leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Spiteful geists rise from the muck of the Farbogs, eager to lure travelers to their doom.

Farbog Revenant

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

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

Vampire Nighthawk

Dire Fleet Poisoner

Flash
Deathtouch
When Dire Fleet Poisoner enters the battlefield, target attacking Pirate you control gets +1/+1 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Oona's Blackguard

Flying
Each other Rogue creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Stinkdrinker Bandit

Prowl {1}{B} (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Goblin or Rogue.)
Whenever a Rogue you control attacks and isn't blocked, it gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

Nightshade Assassin

First strike
When Nightshade Assassin enters the battlefield, you may reveal X black cards in your hand. If you do, target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

His victims don't have time to feel despair.

Nekrataal

First strike
When Nekrataal enters the battlefield, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

Silent as a serpent, twisted as a lone bog tree, evil as Tojira's heart.

Prowling Nightstalker

Prowling Nightstalker can't be blocked except by black creatures.

Trained in the arts of stealth, royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

Royal Assassin

Consuming Aberration

Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards.
Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

It would be unfortunate if the key fell into the wrong hands.

Key to the City

{T}, Discard a card: Up to one target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever Key to the City becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When Isochron Scepter enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand.
{2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Despite the magic that sustains Gonti's life, the crime lord is often described as heartless.

Gonti's Aether Heart

Whenever Gonti's Aether Heart or another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters).
Pay {E}{E}{E}{E}{E}{E}{E}{E}, Exile Gonti's Aether Heart: Take an extra turn after this one.

"A basilisk's gaze is effective, but disposing of physical remains is a tiresome task. It's far more discreet to dissolve one's victim entirely."
—Szadek

Seal of Doom

Sacrifice Seal of Doom: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Quietus Spike

Equipped creature has deathtouch.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.
Equip {3}

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}

"There is great wisdom in rushing headlong into combat . . . if you're prepared."
—Kenjek, captain of the Thousand Swords

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

"Careless, like a child with fire, so was I with time."
—Teferi

Vanishing

Enchant creature
{U}{U}: Enchanted creature phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Mimic Vat

Copy

Imprint — Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with Mimic Vat to its owner's graveyard.
{3}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of a card exiled with Mimic Vat. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

"Tomorrow wears yesterday's face."
—Kordel the Cryptic

Conjurer's Closet

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Warlock Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, each opponent loses 1 life.
{1}{B}: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
{6}{B}: Level 3
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Sarkhan wandered into a tomb and back in time.

Nexus of Fate

Take an extra turn after this one.
If Nexus of Fate would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Nexus of Fate and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

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.

Treasure

Deadly Dispute

"That's a pretty ring! Trade you my knife for it."

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Clue

Food

Academy Manufactor

Automated systems at the Tolarian Academy sort new acquisitions for optimal use, determining which should be studied, eaten, or sold.

If you would create a Clue, Food, or Treasure token, instead create one of each.

Most clocks measure time, but a few measure everything.

Clock of Omens

Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Untap target artifact.

Sakashima of a Thousand Faces

You may have Sakashima of a Thousand Faces enter the battlefield as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Sakashima of a Thousand Faces's other abilities.
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

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