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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.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry 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.)

Unclaimed Territory

As Unclaimed Territory 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.

Cliffs echo and branches quake at the roar of life.

Rootbound Crag

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

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

Sunpetal Grove

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

Stomping Ground

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

Temple Garden

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

The village's name was long forgotten, its crumbling ruins a monument to the fragility of civilization.

Spire Garden

Spire Garden enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

"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.

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}.)
Cinder Glade 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}.)
Canopy Vista enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

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}.

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

Windswept Heath

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

Temple of Abandon

Temple of Abandon enters tapped.
When Temple of Abandon enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Temple of Plenty

Temple of Plenty enters tapped.
When Temple of Plenty enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Temple of Triumph

Temple of Triumph enters tapped.
When Temple of Triumph enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

"When gods become apathetic, the people will worship anyone who answers their pleas."
—Kiora

Temple of the False God

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

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

Jungle Shrine

Jungle Shrine enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.

When defeat is near and guidance is scarce, all eyes look in one direction.

Command Tower

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

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.)
Mosswort Bridge 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.

Selesnya Sanctuary

Selesnya Sanctuary enters tapped.
When Selesnya Sanctuary enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{W}.

Gruul Turf

Gruul Turf enters tapped.
When Gruul Turf enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {R}{G}.

Boros Garrison

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

"The wilds are unpredictable. Rivers change course, trees shuffle and bend, rocks split and scurry. But mark my words, traveler—the main thing that'll change out there is *you*."
—Sturwynn, Boundary Lands ranger

Evolving Wilds

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

Forest

Plains

Mountain

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

Raging Regisaur

Whenever Raging Regisaur attacks, it deals 1 damage to any target.

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

Charging Monstrosaur

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

Ripjaw Raptor

Enrage — Whenever Ripjaw Raptor is dealt damage, draw a card.

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 Regisaur Alpha enters, create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.

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

Silverclad Ferocidons

Enrage — Whenever Silverclad Ferocidons is dealt damage, each opponent sacrifices a permanent.

Zacama, Primal Calamity

Vigilance, reach, trample
When Zacama, Primal Calamity 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, Primal Storm 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.

Forerunner of the Empire

When Forerunner of the Empire 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 Forerunner of the Empire deal 1 damage to each creature.

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.

Raptor Hatchling

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

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

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

Sky Terror

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

Trapjaw Tyrant

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

"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.

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.

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.

Thundering Spineback

"It appears that nature has risen against us."
—Captain Brinely Rage

Other Dinosaurs you control get +1/+1.
{5}{G}: Create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.

"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.

The magic of the River Heralds is so great that even a single shaman can fend off a pirate landing party.

Slice in Twain

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Draw a card.

Pillar of Origins

As Pillar of Origins 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.

Vanquisher's Banner

As Vanquisher's Banner 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.

Lost to time is the artificer's art of trapping light from a distant star in a ring of purest gold.

Sol Ring

Enduring Renewal

Play with your hand revealed.
If you would draw a card, reveal the top card of your library instead. If it's a creature card, put it into your graveyard. Otherwise, draw a card.
Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return it to your hand.

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back."
—Ashnod, to Tawnos

Ashnod's Altar

"When the forest walks, it's too late to run."
—Horent, Khalni druid

Wakeroot Elemental

{G}{G}{G}{G}{G}: Untap target land you control. It becomes a 5/5 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land. (This effect lasts as long as that land remains on the battlefield.)

It *wants* to remain a mystery, banishing the curious in favor of less inquisitive company.

Cloudstone Curio

Whenever a nonartifact permanent you control enters, you may return another permanent you control that shares a permanent type with it to its owner's hand.

Blessed Sanctuary

Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to you and creatures you control.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, create a 2/2 white Unicorn creature token.

Terror of the Peaks

Flying
Spells your opponents cast that target Terror of the Peaks cost an additional 3 life to cast.
Whenever another creature you control enters, Terror of the Peaks deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target.

"Gods don't die. They merely slumber."
—Ayli, Kamsa cleric

Eldrazi Monument

Creatures you control get +1/+1 and have flying and indestructible.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. If you can't, sacrifice Eldrazi Monument.

Ghalta and Mavren

Vampire

Trample
Whenever you attack, choose one —
• Create a tapped and attacking X/X green Dinosaur creature token with trample, where X is the greatest power among other attacking creatures.
• Create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is the number of other attacking creatures.

Breath of Fury

Enchant creature you control
When enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice it and attach Breath of Fury to a creature you control. If you do, untap all creatures you control and after this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

"Arise, friend, and seize the horizon in the name of the Oak Father."

Silvanus's Invoker

Conjure Elemental — {8}: Untap target land you control. It becomes an 8/8 Elemental creature with trample and haste until end of turn. It's still a land.

Rampaging Baloths

Beast

"When the land is angry, so are they."
—Nissa Revane

Trample
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

Crafted by lullmages and bound to the land, it alters itself to match the tumultuous terrain.

Walking Atlas

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Molten earth has no anger of its own. Only by infusing it with your own rage can the magma seethe and take shape."
—Koth of the Hammer

Anger

Haste
As long as Anger is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

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

Goring Ceratops

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

"I suppose we'll just hope those ancient monoliths lost to our people for centuries weren't particularly important."
—Toxayac, Sun Empire historian

Thrashing Brontodon

{1}, Sacrifice Thrashing Brontodon: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Quartzwood Crasher

Dinosaur Beast

Trample
Whenever one or more creatures you control with trample deal combat damage to a player, create an X/X green Dinosaur Beast creature token with trample, where X is the amount of damage those creatures dealt to that player.

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Trample

One can travel all of Valley and never eat the same meal twice.

Heaped Harvest

When Heaped Harvest enters and when you sacrifice it, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Heaped Harvest: You gain 3 life.

The sky takes flight and the earth trembles.

Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Flying, double strike, vigilance, trample, indestructible

"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, Marauding Raptor deals 2 damage to it. If a Dinosaur is dealt damage this way, Marauding Raptor gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

With thistle, quill, twig, and beak, the finest artisans of each animalfolk society stitched unique quilts, patched together as a symbol of harmony.

Patchwork Banner

As Patchwork Banner enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Dawn's Truce

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.

Thickest in the Thicket

When Thickest in the Thicket enters, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's power.
At the beginning of your end step, draw two cards if you control the creature with the greatest power or tied for the greatest power.

"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 Verdant Sun's Avatar or another creature you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Whenever Pantlaza, Sun-Favored or another Dinosaur you control enters, you may discover X, where X is that creature's toughness. Do this only once each turn. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

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

Wakening Sun's Avatar

When Wakening Sun's Avatar enters, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all non-Dinosaur creatures.

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