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.

So long as the Halo keeps flowing, the festivities never end.

Cabaretti Courtyard

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Mountain, Forest, or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Forest

Mountain

Plains

Those who bring nothing to the temple take nothing away.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

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.

Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

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.

Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

"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 this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

When a werewolf changes for the first time, that first howl is said to echo through the wilds till moonset.

Kessig Wolf Run

{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

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}.

"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.

Without Garenbrig's strength, the realm would succumb to the wilds.

Castle Garenbrig

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
{2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.

Command Tower

Tower Winder

"The Path of Flame is a flamekin's most personal journey. You must walk it for yourself, but you'll never walk alone."
—Zasharua, Brighthearth mentor

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

Path of Ancestry

This land 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.)

On Naya, ambition and treachery are scarce, hunted nearly to extinction by the awe owed to terrestrial gods.

Jungle Shrine

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

On the volcanic continent of Akoum, bizarre vegetation clusters around gas vents, and jagged mountain peaks rise high into the air.

Cinder Glade

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

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.

Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

"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.

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}.

"Log 2.5.325: A newborn moon, Aqqat still churns with the fires of creation. I'm eager to see what it will become!"
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Stomping Ground

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

Cliffs echo and branches quake at the roar of life.

Rootbound Crag

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

The kithkin was admiring the flowers when the skies darkened, then they ripped up the roots for the next season.

Temple Garden

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

The parklike Cabaretti grounds offer rest, food, and the perfect place to shake off a tail.

Jetmir's Garden

({T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"Log 2.2.119: Kiln, known for its blazing forges and ancient lava seeps. The footing may be treacherous, but the metallurgy is grand!"
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Sacred Foundry

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

Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

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}.

Secluded Courtyard

As this land enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

"I don't think we're going to make it back in time for Introduction to Prophecy."
—Tam, Strixhaven first-year

Evolving Wilds

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

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.

Home and hunting ground for Kaldheim's fearsome trolls.

Wooded Foothills

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

Zacama, Primal Calamity

Vigilance, reach, trample
When Zacama enters, if you cast it, untap all lands you control.
{2}{R}: Zacama deals 3 damage to target creature.
{2}{G}: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
{2}{W}: You gain 3 life.

Etali, Primal Storm

Whenever Etali attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

The sky takes flight and the earth trembles.

Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Flying, double strike, vigilance, trample, indestructible

Regisaur Alpha

Dinosaur

"Seeing a pack of these monsters hunt together, I'm at a loss to imagine the size of their prey."
—Adrian Adanto of Lujio

Other Dinosaurs you control have haste.
When this creature enters, create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.

"I knew I should have stayed with the boat. Always stay with the boat!"

Charging Monstrosaur

They cover their territory like a tide of teeth and claws.

Ranging Raptors

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Raptors are clever enough to tear away a hard metal shell to get at the tasty morsel inside.

Ripjaw Raptor

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, draw a card.

It cares more about preserving the herd's territory than about preserving itself.

Thrashing Brontodon

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Thunderherd Migration

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Dinosaur card from your hand or pay {1}.
Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Savage Stomp

Wingbane Vantasaur

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a Dinosaur you control.
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then that creature fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Commune with Dinosaurs

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a Dinosaur or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"I do not lead. They do not follow. We walk together."

Drover of the Mighty

This creature gets +2/+2 as long as you control a Dinosaur.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

The people of the Sun Empire worship the sun in three aspects. Kinjalli is the Wakening Sun, who created humans from clay and baked them in the sun's warmth.

Kinjalli's Caller

Dinosaur spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

"There are moments when I feel I could fly like the sunwing. Far away I would soar, but always a golden gale pushes me back."
—Huatli

Kinjalli's Sunwing

Flying
Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

To a siegehorn, there is no such thing as a dead end.

Siegehorn Ceratops

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, put two +1/+1 counters on it. (It must survive the damage to get the counters.)

"I would advise you not to struggle."
—Huatli

Trapjaw Tyrant

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, exile target creature an opponent controls until this creature leaves the battlefield.

Copy

Polyraptor

An innumerable pack is concealed in a single reflection.

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

The Sun Empire's most sacred sites are protected by more than prayers.

Runic Armasaur

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a creature or land that isn't a mana ability, you may draw a card.

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

His arrows are fletched with feathers from the greatest of the winged dinosaurs.

Atzocan Archer

Reach
When this creature enters, you may have it fight another target creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Knight of the Stampede

Dinosaur spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.

"Pterodons tolerate no intrusion into their skies. Even the clouds must ask permission."
—Mahuiz, Sun Empire archer

Sun-Crested Pterodon

Flying
This creature has vigilance as long as you control another Dinosaur.

Forerunner of the Empire

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Dinosaur card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Whenever a Dinosaur you control enters, you may have this creature deal 1 damage to each creature.

From the eyes up, it's solid bone and stubbornness.

Territorial Hammerskull

Whenever this creature attacks, tap target creature an opponent controls.

It hatches with its ferocity fully grown.

Needletooth Raptor

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals 5 damage to target creature an opponent controls.

All raptors are aggressive, but ferocidons seem to enjoy their prey's pain.

Rampaging Ferocidon

Menace
Players can't gain life.
Whenever another creature enters, this creature deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.

Huatli, Dinosaur Knight

Sun-Blessed Mount

When Huatli chooses a mount, its eyes glow with the flames of the sun.

When this creature enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Huatli, Dinosaur Knight, reveal it, then put it into your hand. If you searched your library this way, shuffle.

Raptor Hatchling

"Every little hatchling has a parent's claws to guard it."
—Sun Empire saying

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.

"Kinjalli's encompassing rays herald new life in the moment of the sun's dawning."
—Chitlati, Lightning Rider

Wakening Sun's Avatar

When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all non-Dinosaur creatures.

Its breath is a gale. Its roar is a volcano. Its anger tears soul from flesh.

Raging Regisaur

Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 1 damage to any target.

Settle the Wreckage

Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Grow from the Ashes

Kicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell.)
Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If this spell was kicked, instead search your library for two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Shake the Foundations

Shake the Foundations deals 1 damage to each creature without flying.
Draw a card.

"Might doesn't just build empires. It protects them."
—Inti, Sun Empire knight

Colossal Majesty

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.

If you're in the way of a ceratops charge and you're made of mere flesh and bone, then you're not really in the way.

Dinosaur Stampede

Attacking creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn. Dinosaurs you control gain trample until end of turn.

Sunder Shaman

This creature can't be blocked by more than one creature.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls.

Its roaring challenge is punctuated by the slam of its tail on the earth, rousing the herds of the plains.

Bellowing Aegisaur

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.

+2: Put two +1/+1 counters on up to one target Dinosaur you control.
−3: Target Dinosaur you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.
−7: Dinosaurs you control get +4/+4 until end of turn.

"Follow her footsteps and she will show you the way."
—Itzama the Crested

Goring Ceratops

Double strike
Whenever this creature attacks, other creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn.

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