Rivals of Ixalan Checklist

Path of Mettle // Metzali, Tower of Triumph

Path of Mettle

When Path of Mettle enters, it deals 1 damage to each creature that doesn't have first strike, double strike, vigilance, or haste.
Whenever you attack with at least two creatures that have first strike, double strike, vigilance, and/or haste, transform Path of Mettle.

Metzali, Tower of Triumph

(Transforms from Path of Mettle.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}{R}, {T}: Metzali deals 2 damage to each opponent.
{2}{W}, {T}: Choose a creature at random that attacked this turn. Destroy that creature.

Sunhome—the stalwart shield, the towering sentinel, the seat of justice.

Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{R}{W}, {T}: Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Sacred Foundry

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

The sunlight falls pristine on the temple at Epityr, softened by the remembered shadows of angelic saviors' wings.

Clifftop Retreat

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

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

Battlefield Forge

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Hobs bury their kin far from home. They believe the dry, open ground keeps hags from stealing the bones and gwyllions from stealing the spirits.

Rugged Prairie

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

Arid Mesa

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

Safe havens amid the desert and dragonstorms, Abzan fortresses attract merchants, travelers, outcasts, and exiles.

Command Tower

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

Temple of Triumph

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Its courtyards are lit during every hour of the day so that night may never fall within its walls.

Slayers' Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}.
{R}{W}, {T}: Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains vigilance and haste until end of turn.

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.)

Plains

Mountain

Mistveil Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)
This land enters tapped.
{W}, {T}: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Activate only if you control two or more white permanents.

Forgotten Cave

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
Cycling {R} ({R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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}.

Spirit

Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

{T}: Add {R}.
Channel — {3}{R}, Discard this card: Create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens. They gain haste until end of turn. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Furycalm Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Mountain or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Boros Garrison

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

The loudest and most heartfelt cheers come from the cheap seats.

Spectator Seating

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Riders chase the fading light recklessly through the mountains, desperate for one last glimpse of day.

Sundown Pass

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

Inspiring Vantage

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

Dragonstorm chasers are not deterred by danger—they claim there is nothing like witnessing the land embracing the power of a storm.

Evolving Wilds

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

Soldier

Akroan Crusader

An Akroan soldier's worth is measured by the number of swords raised by his battle cry.

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, create a 1/1 red Soldier creature token with haste. (It can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

Elemental

Young Pyromancer

The hydrorats were soon eradicated from the monastery.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

"A hedron holds magic for a thousand years—or less, if need be."

Zada, Hedron Grinder

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets only Zada, copy that spell for each other creature you control that the spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those creatures.

Soul-Scar Mage

Prowess
If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to a creature an opponent controls, put that many -1/-1 counters on that creature instead.

Dreadhorde Arcanist

Trample
Whenever this creature attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value less than or equal to this creature's power from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

"Fire! Fire! Fire! What joy! What fire! Burn it all!"

Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Freed from their respective labs, the two weirds formed a partnership, feeding on the arcane energies of war.

Spellgorger Weird

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"Xenagos has become what he once despised: a tyrant and an oppressor."

Satyr Hoplite

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Sun Titan

Vigilance
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sunforger

Equipped creature gets +4/+0.
{R}{W}, Unattach this Equipment: Search your library for a red or white instant card with mana value 4 or less and cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then shuffle.
Equip {3}

"Even storm clouds bow to worship Avacyn."
—Elder Rimheit

Cloudshift

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

The barrier between existence and oblivion is thinner than you know.

Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Boros Charm

Choose one —
• Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
• Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Honor the gods of Theros, and they will return the favor.

Gods Willing

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything of that color.)
Scry 1.

From the storm of hellfire, the angel emerged, smiling.

Shelter

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Draw a card.

"My family was saved thanks to a single Boros soldier. It's why I joined the Legion. I will be the protector now."

Defiant Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Expedite

Target creature gains haste until end of turn.
Draw a card.

"The arc of my blade has carved a path of light for the peace that will follow."

Swords to Plowshares

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

"One last push, and then my task is done."

Titan's Strength

Target creature gets +3/+1 until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

The whispers are incomprehensible, yet cinders always hear a message of urgency.

Crimson Wisps

Target creature becomes red and gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} this turn.)
Draw a card.

In a world devoid of sun, illumination comes from cheerless fires or the wandering spirits of the dead.

Niveous Wisps

Target creature becomes white until end of turn. Tap that creature.
Draw a card.

Ajani's Presence

Strive — This spell costs {2}{W} more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Any number of target creatures each get +1/+1 and gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Launch the Fleet

Strive — This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Until end of turn, any number of target creatures each gain "Whenever this creature attacks, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token that's tapped and attacking."

Twinflame

Copy

Strive — This spell costs {2}{R} more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Choose any number of target creatures you control. For each of them, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it has haste. Exile those tokens at the beginning of the next end step.

"Yes, Boros tactics are unparalleled. But when your comrades are dying around you, inner strength must carry the day."
—Gideon Jura, to Aurelia

Martial Glory

Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.
Target creature gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

Anax, Hardened in the Forge

Satyr

Anax's power is equal to your devotion to red. (Each {R} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to red.)
Whenever Anax or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 red Satyr creature token with "This token can't block." If the creature had power 4 or greater, create two of those tokens instead.

"In these halls there is no pass or fail. Your true test comes with the first full moon."

Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

"The Gitaxians whisper among themselves of other worlds. If they exist, we must bring Phyrexia's magnificence to them."

Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Vigilance
Other creatures you control get +2/+2.
Creatures your opponents control get -2/-2.

Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice

Flying
Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose up to one target creature you control. Until end of turn, that creature gets +2/+0, gains trample if it's red, and gains vigilance if it's white.

"Imagine a thunderstorm that's also a tactical genius. That's him."
—Dars Gostok, Firefist captain

Boros Reckoner

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to any target.
{R/W}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"Thraben belongs to the living. I will not rest until it is cleansed."

Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

First strike
Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

Legion Warboss

Goblin

Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token. That token gains haste until end of turn and attacks this combat if able.

Tajic, Legion's Edge

Haste
Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control.
{R}{W}: Tajic gains first strike until end of turn.

"Why listen to the mumblings of wizards when the lash speaks true?"

Basandra, Battle Seraph

Flying
Players can't cast spells during combat.
{R}: Target creature attacks this turn if able.

Wear

Destroy target artifact.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Tear

Destroy target enchantment.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Wear // Tear

"Too much friction on your bearings, your countersinking is inconsistent, and there are lines in your casting. Dispose of it, and begin again."
—Dovin Baan

Fragmentize

Destroy target artifact or enchantment with mana value 4 or less.

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Some timelines forever fray, branch, and intermingle. Others end abruptly.

Return to Dust

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Carved high into stone, the signet requires all to look up at it—whether with fear or admiration.

Boros Signet

Mardu lightning fences are the ingenious synthesis of blacksmith skill and stormsinger magic, protecting their dalkovans from even the most fearsome dragonstorms.

Sol Ring

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Mardu blacksmiths can distill the technology of any clan and make it their own. Whether or not they should is another question.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

"We pass these along to our fellow soldiers to recognize deeds of valor. It won't stay with you for long."
—Alovnek, Boros guildmage

Boros Locket

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

"In case of fire, treachery, citywide riot, political upheaval, or worldwide societal collapse, break glass."
—Cluestone inscription

Boros Cluestone

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

Outpost Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons.
• Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card.
• Dragons — Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, this enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Elspeth, Sun's Champion Emblem

+1: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
−3: Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater.
−7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."

"Water and bone tell many tales, but fire is fickle. It would rather consume than reveal."
—Rielle, the Everwise

Fire Prophecy

Fire Prophecy deals 3 damage to target creature. You may put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library. If you do, draw a card.

The Hekma may repel storms and monsters, but nothing holds back the heat of the suns.

Sweltering Suns

Sweltering Suns deals 3 damage to each creature.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

In the first moments, the gate to the afterlife opened, and the people were prostrate in the light of the God-Pharaoh.

Hour of Revelation

This spell costs {3} less to cast if there are ten or more nonland permanents on the battlefield.
Destroy all nonland permanents.

Felidar Umbra

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has lifelink.
{1}{W}: Attach this Aura to target creature you control.
Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Break of Day

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
Fateful hour — If you have 5 or less life, those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

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