Swamp

Forest

Dappled coats become armored hides. Soft jaws become razor tusks. Nestling play becomes the fight for survival.

Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

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.

"I can't protect everyone here. But those I can, I will."
—Karn

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Restless Cottage

Food

Restless Cottage enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
{2}{B}{G}: Restless Cottage becomes a 4/4 black and green Horror creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Cottage attacks, create a Food token and exile up to one target card from a graveyard.

Deep within the Cabal's vault, the Mirari pulsed like a dead sun—and its darkness radiated across Otaria.

Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Ifnir Deadlands

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Barren Moor

Barren Moor enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

When the last scrap of flesh is scoured away, the Curse of Wandering ends. Then the dead may sleep.

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

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.

Farmers cut the trees and buried their dead. The dead rose up and killed the farmers. The trees grew back and strangled the dead.

Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

"The sylex blast marked not only the end of the war, but the end of Dominaria as most knew it."
—*The Antiquities War*

Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}. Llanowar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Overgrown Tomb

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

Tainted Wood

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

To get to Valor's Reach, competitors must first make a name for themselves in the smaller arenas.

Undergrowth Stadium

Undergrowth Stadium enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Golgari Rot Farm

Golgari Rot Farm enters the battlefield tapped.
When Golgari Rot Farm enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{G}.

Temple of Malady

Temple of Malady enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Malady enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Deadly mushrooms litter these woods, each waiting for an errant footstep to release its noxious spores.

Deathcap Glade

Deathcap Glade enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Verdant Catacombs

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

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}.

Necroblossom Snarl

As Necroblossom Snarl enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, Necroblossom Snarl enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

"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.

Life and death mixing together, both ends of the same cycle giving rise to something else.

Viridescent Bog

On the surface of Ixalan's vast tar pits, Phyrexian oil glistened, and old bones began to stir.

Jungle Hollow

Jungle Hollow enters the battlefield tapped.
When Jungle Hollow enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Underground Mortuary

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
Underground Mortuary enters the battlefield tapped.
When Underground Mortuary enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Some of the nature spirits and wraiths that haunt Urborg take offense at the term "ghost town."

Haunted Mire

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
Haunted Mire enters the battlefield tapped.

"Skyknight gear? Well, I have drake-skin gauntlets, supple and fireproof. Or a ceratok chestplate that'll stop a crossbow bolt."

Ivy Lane Denizen

Whenever another green creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Thick smoke billows and twists to form disturbing faces that cackle and click their teeth to the popping embers.

Cinderhaze Wretch

{T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.
Put a -1/-1 counter on Cinderhaze Wretch: Untap Cinderhaze Wretch.

A-Blood Artist

Blood Artist

"Vanya Falkenrath's paintings are astonishing. How does she manage to achieve such rich crimson hues?"
—Stefan, art critic

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

When the giant Tollek Worldslayer fell, a corruption erupted from his corpse to carry on his name.

Blowfly Infestation

Whenever a creature dies, if it had a -1/-1 counter on it, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Protection from Humans
Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.
{B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"There will come a time when the only prey left will be each other."
—Ulrich of Krallenhorde Pack

Parallel Lives

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

"The more our numbers grow, the more I gain hope that Volrath and his cursed stronghold will one day fall."
—Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Essence Warden

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

"Eldrazi? Ha! Try walking through Zulaport at night with your pockets full. Now *that's* dangerous."

Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"Mana lurks in all things, even in the depths of one's own heart."

Devoted Druid

{T}: Add {G}.
Put a -1/-1 counter on Devoted Druid: Untap Devoted Druid.

Obelisk Spider

Reach
Whenever Obelisk Spider deals combat damage to a creature, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.
Whenever you put one or more -1/-1 counters on a creature, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

When the great vault fell, it scattered its wonders across Thunder Junction.

Sol Ring

Boneyard Aberration

Reassembling Skeleton

"They may show up with the wrong thigh bone or mandible, but they always show up."
—Zul Ashur, lich lord

{1}{B}: Return Reassembling Skeleton from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

"Unskin these impure bodies, Great Yawgmoth, that the flesh may welcome your blessings."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Treasure

Pitiless Plunderer

"Shame to let good gold go to the grave."

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Crystalline Crawler

Converge — Crystalline Crawler enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Crystalline Crawler: Add one mana of any color.
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Crystalline Crawler.

Mindless Automaton

Mindless Automaton enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}, Discard a card: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mindless Automaton.
Remove two +1/+1 counters from Mindless Automaton: Draw a card.

Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider

Trample, haste
If you would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, put twice that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead.
If an opponent would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, they put half that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead, rounded down.

"It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness."
—Volrath

Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Eldrazi Spawn

Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever Pawn of Ulamog or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Ammit Eternal

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a -1/-1 counter on Ammit Eternal.
Whenever Ammit Eternal deals combat damage to a player, remove all -1/-1 counters from it.

Shifting Woodland

Shifting Woodland enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
Delirium — {2}{G}{G}: Shifting Woodland becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

"Living scarecrows make a mockery of the natural order. Dead ones make fine hats."

Wickerbough Elder

Wickerbough Elder enters the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
{G}, Remove a -1/-1 counter from Wickerbough Elder: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Carnifex Demon

Flying
Carnifex Demon enters the battlefield with two -1/-1 counters on it.
{B}, Remove a -1/-1 counter from Carnifex Demon: Put a -1/-1 counter on each other creature.

Poison Counter

Fynn, the Fangbearer

"Come, Koma, and reclaim what you lost! Or does the great serpent fear a rematch?"

Deathtouch
Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals combat damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Her new demonic overlords prized her knowledge of Bant's landscape.

Wight of the Reliquary

Vigilance
Wight of the Reliquary gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Even the small wounds let hope bleed out.

Grim Affliction

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"Nice boy . . . nice boy. Nice dinosaur!"

Spitting Dilophosaurus

Whenever Spitting Dilophosaurus enters the battlefield or attacks, put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature.
Creatures your opponents control with -1/-1 counters on them can't block.

Necroskitter

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, you may return that card to the battlefield under your control.

"'Did I do it?' You'll have to be more specific."

Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Menace
Creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.

"To care for yourself, cultivate the world. To care for the world, cultivate yourself."

Evolution Sage

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"Under the suns, Mirrodin kneels and begs us for perfection."
—Geth, Lord of the Vault

Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Channeler Initiate

When Channeler Initiate enters the battlefield, put three -1/-1 counters on target creature you control.
{T}, Remove a -1/-1 counter from Channeler Initiate: Add one mana of any color.

Nest of Scarabs

Insect

"They are small, but they always want more. Learn from them."
—Bontu, god of ambition

Whenever you put one or more -1/-1 counters on a creature, create that many 1/1 black Insect creature tokens.

Letting Oko believe he held all the cards provided the perfect cover for her own scheme to unfold.

Vraska Joins Up

When Vraska Joins Up enters the battlefield, put a deathtouch counter on each creature you control.
Whenever a legendary creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Contagion Clasp

When Contagion Clasp enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Generous Patron

When Generous Patron enters the battlefield, support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two other target creatures.)
Whenever you put one or more counters on a creature you don't control, draw a card.

The mind is a beautiful bounty encased in an annoying bone container.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

While it's true that a quillspike does heal the sick, it's just because it finds them tastier that way.

Quillspike

{B/G}, Remove a -1/-1 counter from a creature you control: Quillspike gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

Diabolic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Poison-Tip Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever another creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Noxious Hatchling

Noxious Hatchling enters the battlefield with four -1/-1 counters on it.
Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever you cast a black spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from Noxious Hatchling.
Whenever you cast a green spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from Noxious Hatchling.

Cartouche of Ambition

Enchant creature you control
When Cartouche of Ambition enters the battlefield, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.

Cauldron of Souls

{T}: Choose any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures gains persist until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Bloated Contaminator

Trample
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Whenever Bloated Contaminator deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"Hard to imagine," mused Hanna, stroking the petal, "such a lovely flower inspiring such greed."

Lotus Petal

{T}, Sacrifice Lotus Petal: Add one mana of any color.

Scions of the Markov line take particular pleasure in the perversion of humans' holy rituals.

Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Liliana's Influence

Liliana, Death Wielder

Put a -1/-1 counter on each creature you don't control. You may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Liliana, Death Wielder, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Chrome Mox

Imprint — When Chrome Mox enters the battlefield, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.
{T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

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.

Toski, Bearer of Secrets

This spell can't be countered.
Indestructible
Toski, Bearer of Secrets attacks each combat if able.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

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