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, Tower of Triumph deals 2 damage to each opponent.
{2}{W}, {T}: Choose a creature at random that attacked this turn. Destroy that creature.

Boros Garrison

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

Enter with merciful hearts. Exit with battle cries.

Boros Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

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

Clifftop Retreat

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

"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.

Emeria, the Sky Ruin

Emeria, the Sky Ruin enters tapped.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more Plains, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
{T}: Add {W}.

Forgotten Cave

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

Hanweir Battlements

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Hanweir Garrison

Hanweir, the Writhing Township

{T}: Add {C}.
{R}, {T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.
{3}{R}{R}, {T}: If you both own and control Hanweir Battlements and a creature named Hanweir Garrison, exile them, then meld them into Hanweir, the Writhing Township.

Needle Spires

Needle Spires enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.
{2}{R}{W}: Needle Spires becomes a 2/1 red and white Elemental creature with double strike until end of turn. It's still a land.

New Benalia

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

Sacred Foundry

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

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}.

Wind-Scarred Crag

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Plains

Mountain

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.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

"I would see the White Tree in flower again in the courts of the kings, and Minas Tirith in peace."
—Faramir

Minas Tirith

Minas Tirith enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {W}.
{1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

"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.

Furycalm Snarl

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

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}.

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

Spectator Seating

Spectator Seating 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

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

Majesty rising above the arid sweep of land, a bulwark horizon against the mundane, a divide cleaving inspiration from stagnation.

Sunscorched Divide

Renegades find ever more creative ways to work around the Consulate's aether regulations.

Acrobatic Maneuver

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
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.)

Akroan Conscriptor

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Akroan Conscriptor, gain control of another target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

The enemies' shields are the first to shatter, and their battle line is never far behind.

Akroan Line Breaker

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Akroan Line Breaker, Akroan Line Breaker gets +2/+0 and gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Apostle's Blessing

({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)
Target artifact or creature you control gains protection from artifacts or from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Blazing Shoal

You may exile a red card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

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.

Borrowed Hostility

Escalate {3} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or both —
• Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.
• Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Free from Consulate regulations, renegade-built automatons push performance to the limit.

Built to Smash

Target attacking creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. If it's an artifact creature, it gains trample until end of turn.

Carom

The next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn is dealt to another target creature instead.
Draw a card.

Center Soul

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

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.

It is much easier to create fire than to contain it.

Collateral Damage

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Collateral Damage deals 3 damage to any target.

Commando Raid

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature that player controls."

Some protection requires a bit of finesse.

Containment Priest

Flash
If a nontoken creature would enter and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.

When its power is threatened, the council speaks with a unified voice.

Council's Judgment

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

Deflecting Palm

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. If damage is prevented this way, Deflecting Palm deals that much damage to that source's controller.

Ravnica held its breath as the hero of the resistance—their last hope—flew through the sky, his dark sword ready to strike a god.

Desperate Lunge

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

Emerge Unscathed

Expedite

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

Flickerwisp

Flying
When Flickerwisp enters, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

An infinite journey in an infinitesimal time.

Flicker of Fate

Exile target creature or enchantment, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

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.

"May the Ancestor strengthen my hand and guide my blade."
—Nomad war prayer

Guided Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.
Draw a card.

"Ashes can't be embalmed."
—Neheb, initiate of Ahn crop

Magma Spray

Magma Spray deals 2 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

For a moment they stood tall, all fear forgotten.

Make a Stand

Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

"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.

Master Warcraft

Cast this spell only before attackers are declared.
You choose which creatures attack this turn.
You choose which creatures block this turn and how those creatures block.

"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 southern fortress taken by invaders? Heh, sure . . . when elephants fly."
—Brezard Skeinbow, captain of the guard

Mighty Leap

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.

"The time of salvation is at hand. Dusk washes over the world, and the Legion will rise immortal!"

Moment of Triumph

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

"The landscape shimmered and I felt a chill breeze. When my vision cleared, I found myself alone among the corpses of my fallen friends."
—Journal found in Numai

Otherworldly Journey

Exile target creature. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

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.

His soldiers etch his words on the insides of their shields, their inspiration always in sight during battle.

Phalanx Leader

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Phalanx Leader, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Reckless Charge

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.
Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Red Elemental Blast

Choose one —
• Counter target blue spell.
• Destroy target blue permanent.

"No harm can come to me while the Worldsoul shelters me."

Rootborn Defenses

Populate. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. (To populate, create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Samut's war was intensely personal. Every hour she faced enemies she once loved as friends and horrors she once revered as gods.

Samut's Sprint

Target creature gets +2/+1 and gains haste until end of turn. Scry 1.

Seize the Day

Untap target creature. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.
Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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.

"Take a quiet moment to reflect on your sins."
—Cleph, Order of Redeemed Souls

Silence

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.

Soul's Fire

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to any target.

"Having conviction is more important than being righteous."
—Aurelia

Swift Justice

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike and lifelink.

Those who wield the power of the sun protect the Empire from darkness.

Sheltering Light

Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Scry 1. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy the creature.)

Tempered by fire and united in virtue, the knights of Ardenvale fight with a single, unbreakable will.

Silverflame Ritual

Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Adamant — If at least three white mana was spent to cast this spell, creatures you control gain vigilance until end of turn.

Stand Firm

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. 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.)

Strength of Arms

Human Soldier

"We fight not for Avacyn, but for her ideals; not for the church, but for its people."
—Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If you control an Equipment, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.

"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.)

Dominaria's most extravagant crypt nevertheless holds an empty grave.

Tormod's Crypt

{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile target player's graveyard.

"May this blade guide you on your great journey, as it did me on mine."

Venerable Knight

When Venerable Knight dies, put a +1/+1 counter on target Knight you control.

"I'm not saying I'm sure it's a trap. I'm just saying it wasn't there yesterday and I'm pretty sure I heard it whisper my name. If you're so curious, you touch it."
—Angus, survivor scout

Sol Ring

Sword of Feast and Famine

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.
Equip {2}

Sword of Hearth and Home

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from white.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target creature you own, then search your library for a basic land card. Put both cards onto the battlefield under your control, then shuffle.
Equip {2}

While the Dawnhart witches focus their magic on nature and community, other covens consort with devils and twist the elements to their will.

Ardent Elementalist

When Ardent Elementalist enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

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