Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison

Rivals of Ixalan Checklist

Golem

Golden Guardian

Defender
{2}: This creature fights another target creature you control. When this creature dies this turn, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

An army of living gold for the golden city.

Gold-Forge Garrison

(Transforms from Golden Guardian.)
{T}: Add two mana of any one color.
{4}, {T}: Create a 4/4 colorless Golem artifact creature token.

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

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

"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.

Swamp

Forest

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}.

"All peoples treasure a place where the weary traveler may drink in peace."
—Ajani Goldmane

Radiant Fountain

When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Oriq agents stick to the dark corners of Arcavios, unseen yet ever-present.

Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked 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.

Sapseep Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)
This land enters tapped.
{G}, {T}: You gain 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more green permanents.

Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: 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.

Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{G}.

Temple of Malady

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 {B} or {G}.

When asked, the Speedbrood never put their motives into words; they simply say that velocity is their way of life. Only by becoming speed itself can one truly understand their reason for racing.

Jungle Hollow

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Necroblossom Snarl

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

Tainted Wood

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

Overgrown Tomb

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

"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}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

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

Undergrowth Stadium

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

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}.

Enter those who are starving and sick. You are welcome among the Swarm when the rest of Ravnica rejects you.

Golgari Guildgate

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

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

Haunted Mire

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
This land enters tapped.

He'd chosen a sunlit clearing with open skies and an ample brook. All that remained was to find a worthy sapling.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Tel-Jilad's sworn protectors are the trolls, yet more fearsome protectors were created by the Tangle itself.

Ageless Entity

Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Assault Formation

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
{G}: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.
{2}{G}: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

Tree of Perdition

Defender
{T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with this creature's toughness.

Darksteel Myr

Indestructible (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.)

Treefolk Harbinger

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Treefolk or Forest card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

"Our enemy is nothing less than the end of all life. We shall not want for allies."
—*The War Diaries*

Overgrown Battlement

Defender
{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control with defender.

Hornet Nest

Insect

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Even the grandest forest begins with a single seedling.
—Llanowar saying

Treefolk Seedlings

Treefolk Seedlings's toughness is equal to the number of Forests you control.

The Sun Empire's most sacred sites are protected by more than prayers.

Runic Armasaur

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a creature or land that isn't a mana ability, you may draw a card.

Urza's wards fell from him like autumn leaves as he entered the dreaming grove. He awoke imprisoned in living wood.

Treefolk Mystic

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy all Auras attached to that creature.

Sapling of Colfenor

Indestructible
Whenever Sapling of Colfenor attacks, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you gain life equal to that card's toughness, lose life equal to its power, then put it into your hand.

"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.

Long after death, the spirits of the Disowned continue to seek redemption among their Abzan kin.

Disowned Ancestor

Outlast {1}{B} ({1}{B}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)

Ornery Dilophosaur

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever this creature attacks, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Hua Tuo, Honored Physician

{T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Every scar is a lesson, every battle a test of what you have learned.

Rite of Passage

Whenever a creature you control is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it. (It must survive the damage to get the counter.)

"My soldiers know that they need never fear for their protection."
—King Darien of Kjeldor

Shield Sphere

Defender
Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

Rooting Kavu

When this creature dies, you may exile it. If you do, shuffle all creature cards from your graveyard into your library.

Roar of Challenge

All creatures able to block target creature this turn do so.
Ferocious — That creature gains indestructible until end of turn if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

It protects her from the ravages of Phyrexia and the savages of Rath.

Belbe's Armor

{X}, {T}: Target creature gets -X/+X until end of turn.

Blastoderm

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Fading 3 (This creature enters with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Those who enter the copse never leave. They find peace there and take root, becoming part of the ever-growing grove.

Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Sometimes safety is a place. Sometimes it's a person. Sometimes it's a tangible reminder that even in darkness, hope persists.

Arcane Signet

Questing Beast

Vigilance, deathtouch, haste
Questing Beast can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
Combat damage that would be dealt by creatures you control can't be prevented.
Whenever Questing Beast deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to target planeswalker that player controls.

It evades Phyrexians by hiding in the spaces between seconds.

Shimmer Myr

Flash
You may cast artifact spells as though they had flash.

Deadwood Treefolk

Vanishing 3 (This creature enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
When this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"What is drowned is not forgotten. I will fulfill my oath. Come back to me, my brethren, as I have come back for you."

Fendeep Summoner

{T}: Up to two target Swamps each become 3/5 Treefolk Warrior creatures in addition to their other types until end of turn.

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

"I'm not saying I'm sure it's a trap. I'm just saying it wasn't there yesterday and I'm pretty sure I heard it whisper my name. If you're so curious, you touch it."
—Angus, survivor scout

Sol Ring

Life from the Loam

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

"Why do bad things always come in threes?"
—Gisulf, expedition survivor

Triskelion

This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Winding Constrictor

If one or more counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters are put on that permanent instead.
If you would get one or more counters, you get that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters instead.

Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer

Badger

Protection from planeswalkers and from Wizards
Greensleeves's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 3/3 green Badger creature token.

Kodama of the East Tree

Reach
Whenever another permanent you control enters, if it wasn't put onto the battlefield with this ability, you may put a permanent card with equal or lesser mana value from your hand onto the battlefield.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Ashaya, Soul of the Wild

Ashaya's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.
Nontoken creatures you control are Forest lands in addition to their other types. (They're still affected by summoning sickness.)

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.

Sly Requisitioner

Servo

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Whenever a nontoken artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.

Salvaging Station

{T}: Return target noncreature artifact card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Whenever a creature dies, you may untap this artifact.

All the junk, refuse, and offal of the Krark Clan is diligently collected, melted down, and made into more junk, refuse, and offal.

Krark-Clan Ironworks

Triskaidekaphobia

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one —
• Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player gains 1 life.
• Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player loses 1 life.

Vampire

Sorin the Mirthless

+1: Look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card and put it into your hand. If you do, you lose life equal to its mana value.
−2: Create a 2/3 black Vampire creature token with flying and lifelink.
−7: Sorin deals 13 damage to any target. You gain 13 life.

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.

Doubling Season

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.
If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.

Weakness is not in the nature of the Swarm.

Corpsejack Menace

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

"Despite their bravado, mortals are fragile. If Zendikar is to endure, its lords must save it."
—Drana, Kalastria bloodchief

Defiant Bloodlord

Flying
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Julie thought getting trapped in a doll was the worst fate imaginable. She was wrong.

Putrefy

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

Witch of the Moors

Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Beast

Beast Within

Beasties tend to be shy, kind to humans, and absolutely ruthless toward Valgavoth's monstrous spawn.

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Vampire Nighthawk

Flying
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Dina, Soul Steeper

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
{1}, Sacrifice another creature: Dina gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

The soft creak of trees in the wind is not always cause for comfort.

Ancient Lumberknot

Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

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.

"How truly vast this city must be, that I have traveled so far and seen so much, yet never once found the place where the buildings fail."

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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