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Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

The Sunken Ruin houses all the learning of a long-forgotten age.

Search for Azcanta

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

(Transforms from Search for Azcanta.)
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}, {T}: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Simic Growth Chamber

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

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}.

Dimir Aqueduct

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

Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

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.

"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.

On the border of the Chaos Wall that separates the Edge from the Blind Eternities, creation itself still churns.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}.
Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

"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.

As magnigoth trees expanded across the sea into Almaaz and New Argive, it became clear Yavimaya's borders were never confined by its coastline.

Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Hinterland Harbor

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Woodland Cemetery

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

Fetid Pools

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

On the continent of Tazeem, rushing waters plunge through narrow canyons into mist-cloaked lakes.

Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Overgrown Tomb

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

"Log 1.4.778: Granove, a tropical moon teeming with endemic biota. A must see for any aspiring astrobiologist!"
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Breeding Pool

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

"Log 2.9.089: Lammuat, the cemetery moon of salvage and secrets. Could be profitable for those brave enough to plumb its recesses."
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Watery Grave

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

"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.

Island

Swamp

Forest

Long ago, birds of paradise littered the skies. Thanks to the city's sprawl, most now exist as pets of society's elite.

Birds of Paradise

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.

Cast out of the Conclave generations ago, these elves found a home in the corrupted districts of the Golgari.

Elves of Deep Shadow

{T}: Add {B}. This creature deals 1 damage to you.

Llanowar Elves

Marwyn's Kindred

The elves of the Llanowar forest have defended it for generations. It is their sacred duty to keep outside influences from corrupting their ancestral home.

"Yavimaya is one being—one vastness of rippling leaves, one deepness of roots, and one chatter of animals—of which I am one part."

Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

"Strike," the fumes hiss. "Raise an empire with your ambition."

Sultai Charm

Choose one —
• Destroy target monocolored creature.
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• Draw two cards, then discard a card.

The Izzet quickly suspended their policy of lifetime guarantees.

Abrupt Decay

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.

The Izzet specialize in unnatural disaster.

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

"Slimefoot, I know I said I wanted to grow our repository of knowledge, but this isn't what I had in mind."

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Mulldrifter

Flying
When this creature enters, draw two cards.
Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Countless delights drift on the surface while dark schemes run below.

Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Draw three cards.

A curse is just another name for an unwanted blessing.

Consecrated Sphinx

Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

"My child grew from rot and ruin, yet she bloomed."
—Multani

Muldrotha, the Gravetide

During each of your turns, you may play a land and cast a permanent spell of each permanent type from your graveyard. (If a card has multiple permanent types, choose one as you play it.)

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

The seeds of new life take root in the soil of old.

Seasons Past

Return any number of cards with different mana values from your graveyard to your hand. Put Seasons Past on the bottom of its owner's library.

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.

Rampant Growth

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

"Flowstone spreads, but new life spreads faster."

Skyshroud Claim

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

Villainous Wealth

Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library. You may cast any number of spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.

"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.

Ugin's whispered summons led Sarkhan Vol to the moment that would echo down the centuries and seal Tarkir's fate: the primal battle between Ugin and Nicol Bolas.

Crux of Fate

Choose one —
• Destroy all Dragon creatures.
• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

+2: Ugin deals 3 damage to any target.
−X: Exile each permanent with mana value X or less that's one or more colors.
−10: You gain 7 life, draw seven cards, then put up to seven permanent cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

Beast

Garruk, Apex Predator

Garruk, Apex Predator Emblem

+1: Destroy another target planeswalker.
+1: Create a 3/3 black Beast creature token with deathtouch.
−3: Destroy target creature. You gain life equal to its toughness.
−8: Target opponent gets an emblem with "Whenever a creature attacks you, it gets +5/+5 and gains trample until end of turn."

Vraska, Golgari Queen

Vraska, Golgari Queen Emblem

+2: You may sacrifice another permanent. If you do, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
−3: Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.
−9: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."

Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

+2: Exile the top three cards of target opponent's library.
−X: Put a creature card with mana value X exiled with Ashiok onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a Nightmare in addition to its other types.
−10: Exile all cards from all opponents' hands and graveyards.

Nissa, Steward of Elements

+2: Scry 2.
0: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card or a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of loyalty counters on Nissa, you may put that card onto the battlefield.
−6: Untap up to two target lands you control. They become 5/5 Elemental creatures with flying and haste until end of turn. They're still lands.

Garruk Wildspeaker

+1: Untap two target lands.
−1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
−4: Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

Karn Liberated

+4: Target player exiles a card from their hand.
−3: Exile target permanent.
−14: Restart the game, leaving in exile all non-Aura permanent cards exiled with Karn. Then put those cards onto the battlefield under your control.

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 a goal, but a process—the process of creating the perfect Phyrexia."

Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Flash
At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards.
Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

"Have you ever seen a world fall to its knees? Watch, and learn."
—Ob Nixilis

Void Winnower

Your opponents can't cast spells with even mana values. (Zero is even.)
Your opponents can't block with creatures with even mana values.

"What was once formed by masons, shaped by smiths, or given life by mages, I will return to the embrace of the earth."

Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Snaking remnants of nature directed by a body of thought and progress, the oracles embody all that is Simic.

Coiling Oracle

When this creature enters, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Merfolk don't always know what they're looking for, but they're certain once they find it.

Merfolk Looter

In matters of life and death, he trusts his gut.

Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, draw a card.

"My power is generosity, in a way. I give my survivors an appreciation for their lives."

Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Opening Orazca unleashed more horrors than just the Immortal Sun.

Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Woodfall Primus

Trample
When this creature enters, destroy target noncreature permanent.
Persist (When this creature 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.)

Counterspell

"We have intel that some guilds have fallen under an invader's influence. Until we're sure, no venture succeeds."
—Lazav

Sinister Sabotage

Counter target spell.
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Odric resisted the vampire's curse with all his strength. But after a lifetime of fighting monsters, he was doomed to become one himself.

Hero's Downfall

The void is without substance but cuts like steel.

Doom Blade

"All matter, animate or not, rots when exposed to time. We merely speed up the process."
—Ezoc, Golgari rot farmer

Putrefy

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

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Reality Shift

Manifest

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Pongify

Some spellcrafting mistakes go on to become spells of their own.

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Depending on your point of view, the seal represents a proud guardian of the natural cycle or one who has sold her soul to darkness for eternal life.

Golgari Signet

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

Sol Ring

Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

"The continual rise of the downtrodden is as inevitable as vines usurping a forest."
—Vraska

Talisman of Resilience

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

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.

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