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Vance's Blasting Cannons // Spitfire Bastion

With a broadside assault, Captain Vance carved the cliffs to form her new home.

Vance's Blasting Cannons

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. If it's a nonland card, you may cast that card this turn.
Whenever you cast your third spell in a turn, you may transform Vance's Blasting Cannons.

Now instead of a ship, Ripley Vance commands a fortress.

Spitfire Bastion

(Transforms from Vance's Blasting Cannons.)
{T}: Add {R}.
{2}{R}, {T}: Spitfire Bastion deals 3 damage to any target.

Mountain

Hidden Volcano

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
{4}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 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.)

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}.

Urza's Saga

Construct

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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.

There is a sanctuary that reveals itself only to those graced by the *eludha*—the mystical connection between bonder and monster.

Bonders' Enclave

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

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.

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.

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.

Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever you tap this land for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

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.

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.

Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Boseiju enters tapped.
{T}, Pay 2 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered.

Those who bring nothing to the temple take nothing away.

Temple of the False God

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

Smoldering Crater

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

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.)

"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 this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

The Planar Bridge opened over the Chamber of the Guildpact, reducing the symbol of Ravnica's endurance to rubble.

Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

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.

Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Forgotten Cave

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

Mardu lightning fences are the ingenious synthesis of blacksmith skill and stormsinger magic, protecting their dalkovans from even the most fearsome dragonstorms.

Sol Ring

Lightning Bolt

Toralf's Disciple

Thayan Evokers

Indris, the Hydrostatic Surge

The sparkmage shrieked, calling on the rage of the storms of his youth. To his surprise, the sky responded with a fierce energy he'd never thought to see again.

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

She realized that she could not, in fact, handle the truth.

Shock

Chain Lightning

Chain Lightning deals 3 damage to any target. Then that player or that permanent's controller may pay {R}{R}. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

It's not the most subtle incantation, but it gets the point across.

Lava Spike

Lava Spike deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Rift Bolt

Rift Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.
Suspend 1—{R} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {R} and exile it with a time counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Enthusiasm can be tempered in the furnace of the earth.

Price of Progress

Price of Progress deals damage to each player equal to twice the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.

"You might want to step back."
—Jaya Ballard, task mage

Flame Rift

Flame Rift deals 4 damage to each player.

Purphoros's blessing: sometimes a boon, sometimes a bane. Always ablaze.

Searing Blood

Searing Blood deals 2 damage to target creature. When that creature dies this turn, Searing Blood deals 3 damage to the creature's controller.

Searing Blaze

Searing Blaze deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and 1 damage to target creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.
Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, Searing Blaze deals 3 damage to that player or planeswalker and 3 damage to that creature instead.

The lawmage's argument was clever and well reasoned, but Blunk's response proved irrefutable.

Skullcrack

Players can't gain life this turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn. Skullcrack deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Izzet mages often acquire their magic reagents from dubious sources, so the potency of their spells is never predictable.

Char

Char deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

Chandra's gift set her apart and others aflame.

Exquisite Firecraft

Exquisite Firecraft deals 4 damage to any target.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, this spell can't be countered.

Embermages aren't well known for their diplomatic skills.

Fireblast

You may sacrifice two Mountains rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Fireblast deals 4 damage to any target.

She focused her mind on the volcano's fury, and hers erupted in kind.

Monastery Swiftspear

Haste
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Soul-Scar Mage

Prowess
If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to a creature an opponent controls, put that many -1/-1 counters on that creature instead.

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.

Zurgo Bellstriker

Zurgo can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.
Dash {1}{R} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

"Smarter than death? Let's see you outsmart my mace, necromancer!"

Ash Zealot

First strike, haste
Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, this creature deals 3 damage to that player.

Keldon Marauders

Vanishing 2 (This creature enters with two 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, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Hell's Thunder

Flying, haste
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.
Unearth {4}{R} ({4}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Hellspark Elemental

Trample, haste
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.
Unearth {1}{R} ({1}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

It's not any fun until someone loses an eye.

Vexing Devil

When this creature enters, any opponent may have it deal 4 damage to them. If a player does, sacrifice this creature.

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."

Chandra, Pyromaster

+1: Chandra deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and 1 damage to up to one target creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. That creature can't block this turn.
0: Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn.
−7: Exile the top ten cards of your library. Choose an instant or sorcery card exiled this way and copy it three times. You may cast the copies without paying their mana costs.

Elemental

Chandra, Acolyte of Flame

0: Put a loyalty counter on each red planeswalker you control.
0: Create two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.
−2: You may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Chandra, Fire Artisan

Whenever one or more loyalty counters are removed from Chandra, she deals that much damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
+1: Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn.
−7: Exile the top seven cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

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.

Chandra, Novice Pyromancer

+1: Elementals you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.
−1: Add {R}{R}.
−2: Chandra deals 2 damage to any target.

A word of vengeance, and her arrows awaken in flame.

Firebrand Archer

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

"Fire! Fire! Fire! What joy! What fire! Burn it all!"

Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Pyromancer Ascension

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that has the same name as a card in your graveyard, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell while this enchantment has two or more quest counters on it, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Young Pyromancer

The hydrorats were soon eradicated from the monastery.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

Bedlam Reveler

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
When this creature enters, discard your hand, then draw three cards.

Hazoret the Fervent

Indestructible, haste
Hazoret can't attack or block unless you have one or fewer cards in hand.
{2}{R}, Discard a card: Hazoret deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Shrine of Burning Rage

At the beginning of your upkeep and whenever you cast a red spell, put a charge counter on this artifact.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to any target.

Turns out coffee is the weird aunt of invention.

Experimental Frenzy

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.
You can't play lands or cast spells from your hand.
{3}{R}: Destroy this enchantment.

It is the warm glow of the setting sun at journey's end, the scent of the evening meal crackling over a fire, and the cacophony of a raucous song shared over tankards of mead. It is freedom.

Ruby Medallion

Red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Outpost Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons.
• Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card.
• Dragons — Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, this enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

Sulfuric Vortex

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.
If a player would gain life, that player gains no life instead.

Light Up the Stage

Spectacle {R} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Risk Factor

Target opponent may have Risk Factor deal 4 damage to them. If that player doesn't, you draw three cards.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Pyrostatic Pillar

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

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.

Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

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

Helm of Awakening

Chandra, Pyrogenius

Liberating Combustion

+2: Chandra deals 2 damage to each opponent.
−3: Chandra deals 4 damage to target creature.
−10: Chandra deals 6 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.

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

Skirk Prospector

"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.

Chandra, the Firebrand

+1: Chandra deals 1 damage to any target.
−2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
−6: Chandra deals 6 damage to each of up to six targets.

Even the smallest spark may set a world ablaze.

Worldfire

Exile all permanents. Exile all cards from all hands and graveyards. Each player's life total becomes 1.

"Why don't you come a little closer and say that again, you spineless spit-licker!"

Brash Taunter

Indestructible
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent.
{2}{R}, {T}: This creature fights another target creature.

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