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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.

Forest

Mountain

Plains

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.

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

Castle Garenbrig

Castle Garenbrig 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.

Restless Ridgeline

Restless Ridgeline enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.
{2}{R}{G}: Restless Ridgeline becomes a 3/4 red and green Dinosaur creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Ridgeline attacks, another target attacking creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Untap that creature.

"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 Command Beacon: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Spinerock Knoll

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.)
Spinerock Knoll enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
{R}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if an opponent was dealt 7 or more damage this 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.

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.

Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard Boseiju, Who Endures: 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.

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}.

"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

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.)

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}.

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.

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

Jetmir's Garden

({T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.)
Jetmir's Garden enters tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.

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}.

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.

"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

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

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}.

Sacred Foundry

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

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Evolving Wilds

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

Secluded Courtyard

As Secluded Courtyard 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.

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls 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.

Sheltering Landscape

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

Cries of panic echo along Kessig's narrow ravines as howlpacks herd their prey.

Rockfall Vale

Rockfall Vale enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

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.

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

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.

Territorial Allosaurus

Kicker {2}{G} (You may pay an additional {2}{G} as you cast this spell.)
When Territorial Allosaurus enters, if it was kicked, it fights another target creature.

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 Snapping Sailback is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it. (It must survive the damage to get the counter.)

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

Drover of the Mighty

Drover of the Mighty 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.

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

Ranging Raptors

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

"The land grows only where the kami will it."
—Dosan the Falling Leaf

Kodama's Reach

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.

Torching Krosa would be pointless. It grows faster than it burns.

Explosive Vegetation

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.

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.

Copy

Polyraptor

An innumerable pack is concealed in a single reflection.

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

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

Siegehorn Ceratops

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

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

Bellowing Aegisaur

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

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, Rampaging Ferocidon deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.

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

Charging Monstrosaur

Deathgorge Scavenger

Whenever Deathgorge Scavenger enters or attacks, you may exile target card from a graveyard. If a creature card is exiled this way, you gain 2 life. If a noncreature card is exiled this way, Deathgorge Scavenger gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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.

"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.

When a cacophodon is angry, the whole jungle knows.

Cacophodon

Enrage — Whenever Cacophodon is dealt damage, untap target permanent.

Carnivorous dinosaurs developed a taste for undead flesh, tracking the vampires by the scent of blood on their breath.

Raging Swordtooth

Trample
When Raging Swordtooth enters, it deals 1 damage to each other creature.

"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.

"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.

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

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

"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.

Not even the tallest tree stands a chance against the underside of a dinosaur's foot.

Rampaging Brontodon

Trample
Whenever Rampaging Brontodon attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each land you control.

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.

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

Atzocan Archer

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

Wary of the ferocious dinosaurs, the Legion of Dusk built up the walls of their fort—just in time for the pirates to burn them down.

Fiery Cannonade

Fiery Cannonade deals 2 damage to each non-Pirate creature.

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.

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.)

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.

It doesn't hold grudges. It runs them down and impales them.

Charging Tuskodon

Trample
If Charging Tuskodon would deal combat damage to a player, it deals double that damage to that player instead.

Huatli, Radiant Champion

Huatli, Radiant Champion Emblem

+1: Put a loyalty counter on Huatli, Radiant Champion for each creature you control.
−1: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control enters, you may draw a card."

Path of Discovery

Whenever a creature you control enters, it explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on the creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

"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.

"Death lizard approaching, cap'n!"
—Brint Doobin, last words

Hunt the Weak

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.)

"Why don't we fight for what's right and let bureaucrats argue over details?"

Bond of Passion

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Bond of Passion deals 2 damage to any other target.

Despite its appearance, it's anything but defenseless.

Cherished Hatchling

When Cherished Hatchling dies, you may cast Dinosaur spells this turn as though they had flash, and whenever you cast a Dinosaur spell this turn, it gains "When this creature enters, you may have it fight another target creature."

"Approach from behind. That way, if it does charge, at least you aren't in front of it."
—Vivien Reid

Aggressive Mammoth

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Other creatures you control have trample.

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