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.

Ixalan Checklist

Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

Growing Rites of Itlimoc

When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.

Though the Sun Empire and the River Heralds once came together to plant the sacred forest, its roots have been tended by the mycoids ever since.

Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

(Transforms from Growing Rites of Itlimoc.)
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

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}.

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}.

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.

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}.

Enter with merciful hearts. Exit with battle cries.

Boros Guildgate

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

Enter and leave the shackles of society behind.

Gruul Guildgate

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

Enter and rejoice! The Conclave stands united, open to one and all.

Selesnya Guildgate

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

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}.

Temple of Abandon

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 {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}.

Since the river ran dry, travelers wander where fish once swam.

Sunbaked Canyon

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {R} or {W}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Occupancy of the den changes from night to night as boggart gangs fight for control of a place they aren't willing to simply eat.

Fire-Lit Thicket

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

Where evolution meets austerity, primal might bucks against the yoke of hierarchy.

Razorverge Thicket

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

Scattered Groves

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Temple Garden

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

Stomping Ground

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

Sacred Foundry

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

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 elves of Wilt-Leaf Wood continually expand the palisade surrounding the sanctuary. They hope to one day enclose the entire forest within its walls.

Wooded Bastion

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

Krosan Verge

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest card and a Plains card, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The House's geography constantly warps and twists, fields melting into floorboards and walls opening into hungry maws.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

"Our world is vast, but Thraben is its heart. The cathedral must stand even if the hinterlands are lost."
—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Evolving Wilds

"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.

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.)

Forest

Mountain

Plains

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.

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.

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.

"Stand still and try not to look like prey!"
—Skerk Hobnett, wilderness guide

Marauding Raptor

Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals 2 damage to it. If a Dinosaur is dealt damage this way, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

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.

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.

"Forward! Let the Burning Sun's light guide you to deserving prey!"

Otepec Huntmaster

Dinosaur spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{T}: Target Dinosaur gains haste until end of turn.

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.

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

Thrashing Brontodon

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

Streams of gold and bright feathers flash in the orb, visions of past and future.

Atzocan Seer

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Sacrifice this creature: Return target Dinosaur card from your graveyard to your hand.

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.

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.

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

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.

"Control them? No. I gird them in armor and let them loose."
—Yacha, Otepec huntmaster

Silverclad Ferocidons

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, each opponent sacrifices a permanent of their choice.

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

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.

"Tilonalli's searing rays carry the spark of life's eventual destruction as all light fades."
—Chitlati, Lightning Rider

Burning Sun's Avatar

When this creature enters, it deals 3 damage to target opponent or planeswalker and 3 damage to up to one target creature.

"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.

"Ixalli's fertile rays enliven us all. Each of us is a testament to the sun's strength and love."
—Chitlati, Lightning Rider

Verdant Sun's Avatar

Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

The sky takes flight and the earth trembles.

Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Flying, double strike, vigilance, trample, indestructible

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.

"Kinjalli sculpted humans from clay, but the dinosaurs were carved from unyielding stone."
—Itzama the Crested

Temple Altisaur

If a source would deal damage to another Dinosaur you control, prevent all but 1 of that damage.

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.

Lurking beneath the murky waters of Ixalan's rivers, sailbacks can rip a meal off the shore in the blink of an eye.

Snapping Sailback

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

"To rise like the sun—there is no greater feeling."

Pterodon Knight

This creature has flying as long as you control a Dinosaur.

Forerunner of the Heralds

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Merfolk card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Whenever another Merfolk you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"No good will come from what you seek. Turn back now or suffer an ignoble death far from your home."

Deeproot Champion

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

A daggertooth's triumphant roar makes all the sounds of jungle life fall silent.

Ravenous Daggertooth

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you gain 2 life.

Its assistance is unnervingly similar to its hunting technique.

Imperial Aerosaur

Flying
When this creature enters, another target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn.

"Wherever the Threefold Sun shines, great wings may go."
—Emperor Apatzec Intli III

Sky Terror

Often found browsing on the upper canopies of Ixalan's jungles, whiptails are known to absently bat away anything foolish enough to interrupt their meal.

Grazing Whiptail

They glide through the undergrowth, drawn to sounds of disturbance. They attack in unison and all share in the kill. And then they move on.

Thrash of Raptors

As long as you control another Dinosaur, this creature gets +2/+0 and has trample.

Queen's Commission

Vampire

"Let the blood of the impure flow through you. Only the blessings of the golden city will purge its acrid taste from your mouth."
—High Marshal Arguel

Create two 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink.

Knight of the Stampede

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

Priest of the Wakening Sun

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may reveal a Dinosaur card from your hand. If you do, you gain 2 life.
{3}{W}{W}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a Dinosaur card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sunbird's Invocation

Whenever you cast a spell from your hand, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from among cards revealed this way without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

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.

The enormous can still be at the mercy of the small.

Rile

Rile deals 1 damage to target creature you control. That creature gains trample until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Vanquisher's Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Pillar of Origins

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

"Have you ever held a Boros signet? There's a weight to it that belies its size—a weight of strength and of pride."
—Agrus Kos

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