Without Locthwain's persistence, the realm would stagnate and die.

Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

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.

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.

Forest

Serra's blessing lies strongest upon Sursi, where her holy chapels are untouched even as the Cabal encroaches.

Isolated Chapel

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

Long-standing disagreements between the Sultai and Abzan about how to honor their dead have led to rare but fierce skirmishes.

Jungle Hollow

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

Marsh Flats

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

Overgrown Tomb

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

"A cursed silhouette to look upon. Even if the halls stand empty, its vile shadows blight the land. I shudder to think of the evils that it held."
—Koth

Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

To the Sun Empire, any place where daylight brightens the jungle floor is sacred ground.

Sunpetal Grove

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

Swamp

Tainted Wood

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

Temple Garden

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

Temple of Malady

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 {B} or {G}.

Temple of Plenty

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 {G} or {W}.

"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.

An underground paradise, bright and thriving beneath the surface of Ixalan.

Windswept Heath

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

"They never found the body of young Josu, or that of his murderous sister."
—"The Fall of the House of Vess"

Woodland Cemetery

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Plains

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

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}.

"For centuries my creation kept this world in balance. Now only her shadow remains."
—Sorin Markov

Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

"Multani's heart is a seed, and all of Yavimaya is its flower. There is as much life here as in the rest of Dominaria together."
—Karn

Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them."
—Pulan, Bant orchardist

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

A few weed-choked gourd patches are all that remain of the proud, thriving farms that once blanketed the province.

Overgrown Farmland

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

"The most important part of a stronghold isn't its armaments or its walls. It's the reason people have to defend it."
—Gvar Barzeel, krumar captain

Sandsteppe Citadel

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.

The continent of Murasa lies beneath a blanket of dense vegetation, its enormous branches tangled so thickly that some inhabitants never see the ground.

Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

As their roots soaked in a weak tea of bogwater and decay, the trees absorbed the essence of death into their living tissue.

Twilight Mire

{T}: Add {C}.
{B/G}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{G}, or {G}{G}.

Deceptive Landscape

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Swamp, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling {W}{B}{G} ({W}{B}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Fortified Village

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

Abzan Charm

Choose one —
• Exile target creature with power 3 or greater.
• You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
• Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures.

Mourning shifts seamlessly to celebration as she chooses her next suitor.

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Urza's forces tore across Argoth, and Argoth responded in kind.

Bane of Progress

When this creature enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each permanent destroyed this way.

"The tiniest mouse speaks louder to me than all the festival crowds on Tin Street."

Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

He relishes the devotion of his Skirsdag puppets and their belief that it will earn them immortality.

Bloodgift Demon

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Sun Empire commanders are well versed in advanced martial strategy. Still, the correct maneuver is usually to deploy the giant, implacable death lizard.

Carnage Tyrant

This spell can't be countered.
Trample, hexproof

Deathrite Shaman

{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color.
{B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life.
{G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.

"They say nothing lasts forever. I say everything lasts forever, just not in the form you may be accustomed to."
—Vraska

Deathsprout

Destroy target creature. Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Squirrel

Deranged Hermit

Echo {3}{G}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When this creature enters, create four 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens.
Squirrel creatures get +1/+1.

"Kroxa devours what he may—not for sustenance or pleasure, but because it is his nature. He is unending hunger given form."
—Klothys, god of destiny

Eat to Extinction

Exile target creature or planeswalker. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

"Life grows everywhere. My kin merely find those places where it grows strongest."
—Nissa Revane

Elvish Mystic

Angel

Entreat the Angels

Create X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying.
Miracle {X}{W}{W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

"How truly vast this city must be, that I have traveled so far and seen so much, yet never once found the place where the buildings fail."

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Fatal Push

Destroy target creature if it has mana value 2 or less.
Revolt — Destroy that creature if it has mana value 4 or less instead if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn.

Fertilid

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}{G}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Target player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles.

Some spells sing a quiet tune. Others roar.

Finale of Devastation

Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. If X is 10 or more, creatures you control get +X/+X and gain haste until end of turn.

"We could no more abandon the forest than the stars could abandon the night sky."

Fyndhorn Elves

Depending on your point of view, the seal represents a proud guardian of the natural cycle or one who has sold her soul to darkness for eternal life.

Golgari Signet

Golgari Thug

When this creature dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, you may mill four cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Zombie

Grave Titan

Deathtouch
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Hornet Queen

Insect

Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, create four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch.

"Death tried to uncrown me. But now I return, king of a greater realm."

Karador, Ghost Chieftain

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Once during each of your turns, you may cast a creature spell from your graveyard.

The fall of the evening star never heralds a gentle dawn.

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying
When Kokusho dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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}

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

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

Liliana, Defiant Necromancer Emblem

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Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

Liliana, Heretical Healer

Lifelink
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile Liliana, Heretical Healer, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

+2: Each player discards a card.
−X: Return target nonlegendary creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature dies, return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step."

He enjoys his work, for he sees only the worst Abzan criminals: those who betray their own kin.

Merciless Executioner

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Experience

Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter.
At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have, return it to the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

The queen sent her champion to defeat the necromancer threat. His helmet was returned the next day, warped and stained with blood.

Mortify

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.

A spark of resistance against a tide of corruption.

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

While the root remains, the tree yet lives.

Regrowth

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

There were no tombstones in orochi territory. Slain warriors were buried with a tree sapling, so they would become a part of the forest after death.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The first satyr to wake after a revel must search for the site of the next one.

Satyr Wayfinder

When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Shriekmaw

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

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

Sol Ring

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

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.

"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.

Elephant

Terastodon

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Thragtusk

Beast

"Always carry two spears."
—Mokgar, Kalonian hunter

When this creature enters, you gain 5 life.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Any dream is a robust harvest. Still, I prefer the timeworn dreams, heavy with import, that haunt the obsessive mind."

Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

Torgaar, Famine Incarnate

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each creature sacrificed this way.
When Torgaar enters, up to one target player's life total becomes half their starting life total, rounded down.

No matter how deep you bury it, some evil refuses to stay dead.

Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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