Ixalan Checklist

Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca

"Clearly, it indicates the aetheric azimuth of . . ."
—Jace Beleren

Thaumatic Compass

{3}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control seven or more lands, transform this artifact.

". . . a cryptic objective."
—Jace Beleren

Spires of Orazca

(Transforms from Thaumatic Compass.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Untap target attacking creature an opponent controls and remove it from combat.

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
—Lord Windgrace

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Command Tower

Tower Winder

"Thus, the shattered half of the planet was
named Kavaron That Is, and the capital
was moved to Kavaron Before."
*—The Tragedy of Emperor Kavarus III*

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

There is beauty in the uncertainty of potential.

Prismatic Vista

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

A figure is moved on a map, and the tide of war changes.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Smoldering Crater

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

Forgotten Cave

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

Mountain

Sunscorched Desert

Sandcloud Harbinger

When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
{T}: Add {C}.

Treasure

Mines of Moria

"Moria! Moria! Wonder of the Northern world!"
—Glóin

Mines of Moria enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {R}.
{3}{R}, {T}, Exile three cards from your graveyard: Create two Treasure tokens.

Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Keldon Megaliths

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
Hellbent — {1}{R}, {T}: This land deals 1 damage to any target. Activate only if you have no cards in hand.

Blast Zone

This land enters with a charge counter on it.
{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{X}, {T}: Put X charge counters on this land.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this land.

Ramunap Ruins

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {R}.
{2}{R}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: This land deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Once a center for knowledge, Sea Gate now serves as a reminder of what was lost.

Sea Gate Wreckage

{T}: Add {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.)
{2}{C}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have no cards in hand.

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.

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Snow-Covered Mountain

Students from other colleges are invited to visit Witherbloom's medical facilities. Not many do.

Witch's Clinic

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.

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.

Dwarf

Dwarven Mine

({T}: Add {R}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Mountains.
When this land enters untapped, create a 1/1 red Dwarf creature token.

Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

This land enters tapped.
Whenever a Mountain you control enters, if you control at least five other Mountains, you may have this land deal 3 damage to any target.
{T}: Add {R}.

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.

Spirit

Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

{T}: Add {R}.
Channel — {3}{R}, Discard this card: Create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens. They gain haste until end of turn. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

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.)
This land 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.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Without Embereth's courage, the realm would falter and fall.

Castle Embereth

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain.
{T}: Add {R}.
{1}{R}{R}, {T}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Holy places are no longer sanctuary from death, and death is no longer sanctuary from anything."
—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

The importance of using updated Pinnacle codebooks is a lesson learned only once.

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

In a wave of spells called the Cursemute, Avacyn cleansed the world with divine fire.

Reforge the Soul

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.
Miracle {1}{R} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Wheel of Fortune

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Wheel of Misfortune

Each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest and lowest numbers revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number. Each player who didn't choose the lowest number discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

"Avacyn has abandoned us! We have nothing left except what we can take!"

Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

The chasm of years and worlds collapsed under the power of their embrace.

Cathartic Reunion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards.
Draw three cards.

Chandra, Torch of Defiance

Chandra, Torch of Defiance Emblem

+1: Exile the top card of your library. You may cast that card. If you don't, Chandra deals 2 damage to each opponent.
+1: Add {R}{R}.
−3: Chandra deals 4 damage to target creature.
−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, this emblem deals 5 damage to any target."

Invented in Mishra's earlier days, the rack was once his most feared creation.

The Rack

As this artifact enters, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, this artifact deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand.

"This is what glory looks like."
—Nicol Bolas

Neheb, the Eternal

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.)
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, add {R} for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Alone in the charred desolation of her kingdom, she regretted many things—most of all not acting sooner.

Tectonic Reformation

Each land card in your hand has cycling {R}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Razia, archangel of war, demands total commitment.

War's Toll

Whenever an opponent taps a land for mana, tap all lands that player controls.
If a creature an opponent controls attacks, all creatures that opponent controls attack if able.

Mana Flare

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

The furnace awaits the next master who would stoke the fires of apocalypse.

Furnace of Rath

If a source would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Iroas and Mogis are as different in appearance as they are in personality.

Dictate of the Twin Gods

Flash
If a source would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.

"True strength lies in action. Let the weak react to me."
—Kamahl, pit fighter

Price of Glory

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, if it's not that player's turn, destroy that land.

Tawnos finally cracked the puzzle: the strange structures did not house Mishra's malevolent creations but were themselves among his creations.

Ankh of Mishra

Whenever a land enters, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Zo-Zu the Punisher

Whenever a land enters, Zo-Zu deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

"Your world is formed from the same power that wraps my burning hand around your throat."
—Shrazik, lavamancer

Burning Earth

Whenever a player taps a nonbasic land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Pyrostatic Pillar

Whenever a player casts a spell with mana value 3 or less, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

Eidolon of the Great Revel

Whenever a player casts a spell with mana value 3 or less, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.

"Let go of your memories and be reborn."
—Argent Etchings, plate 106, passage 27

Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

"Listen to the roar! Feel the thunder! The Immersturm shouts its approval with every bolt of lightning!"

Warstorm Surge

Whenever a creature you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

"If their ears are to the ground, we will make them bleed!"
—Taklai, Kolaghan warrior

Impact Tremors

Whenever a creature you control enters, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Purphoros, God of the Forge

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control enters, Purphoros deals 2 damage to each opponent.
{2}{R}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

The Extinguisher's curse lasted long after her departure.

Stigma Lasher

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player can't gain life for the rest of the game.

"We have barely begun to learn the secrets of the Fourth People. Every remnant of their presence, however cryptic, is a gift."
—Akal Pakal, First Steward of Oteclan

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

"You've begun to understand the hedrons' true purpose," said Ugin. "The Eldrazi can be imprisoned."
"And how did that work out last time?" asked Jace.

Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

"All creation in a single point, the point of all creation in all."
—Sunstar loop-mantra

Sol Ring

"I use maps to find out where explorers have already been. Then I go the other way."
—Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Druids hold certain plants to be sacred and use their leaves and wood as a spellcasting focus.

Wayfarer's Bauble

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

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Forged by divine hands to wander mortal realms.

Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The book shrieks horribly until its cover is opened, granting the spirit inside a moment's rest from the painful stirrings of the book's contents.

Geth's Grimoire

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

Planebound Accomplice

{R}: You may put a planeswalker card from your hand onto the battlefield. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

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.

Chandra Nalaar

+1: Chandra Nalaar deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
−X: Chandra Nalaar deals X damage to target creature.
−8: Chandra Nalaar deals 10 damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

"This is a tale to make all Kaldheim tremble..."

Birgi, God of Storytelling

Whenever you cast a spell, add {R}. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.
Creatures you control can boast twice during each of your turns rather than once.

Like her well of stories, Birgi's horn never runs dry.

Harnfel, Horn of Bounty

Discard a card: Exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn.

Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty

"You gotta be pretty smart to live long as me, but not being able to die helps."

Squee, the Immortal

You may cast this card from your graveyard or from exile.

"This little prize will cover your head, your spells, your bets, and your behind!"
—Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader

Helm of Awakening

Deep beneath the ruined continent of Otaria, there's a mine where goblins still work, ignorant of the destruction above.

Skirk Prospector

Underworld Breach

Each nonland card in your graveyard has escape. The escape cost is equal to the card's mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast cards from your graveyard for their escape cost.)
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this enchantment.

"Gather your strength. Prepare yourself."
—Jeska, to Radha

Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand.
• Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Elemental

Chandra, Flamecaller

+1: Create two 3/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.
0: Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards plus one.
−X: Chandra deals X damage to each creature.

"The worthy shall rush to the God-Pharaoh's side with relentless zeal, rising to overcome every obstacle."
—Monument inscription

Hazoret's Monument

Red creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

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