Esper is an expansive canvas painted by precise, controlling hands.

Esper Panorama

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Bant's hearts are as pure as its air and as bright as its skies.

Bant Panorama

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

For wisdom's sake, it was built high to gaze on all things. For glory's sake, it was built high as a testament of power. For strength's sake, it was built high to repel all attacks.

Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

"Log 1.7.618: Starshadow, a relic of a culture lost to calamity. Its people were eradicated in a single day—but by what?"
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Godless Shrine

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

Hallowed Fountain

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

"Log 2.2.119: Kiln, known for its blazing forges and ancient lava seeps. The footing may be treacherous, but the metallurgy is grand!"
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Sacred Foundry

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

None can tell how many vessels are tangled up on the sea floor—or how much treasure remains unclaimed.

Drowned Catacomb

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

Ships blown north in their voyage across the Stormwreck Sea become trapped in the unmelting ice.

Glacial Fortress

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

Serra's blessing lies strongest upon Sursi, where her holy chapels are untouched even as the Cabal encroaches.

Isolated Chapel

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

Blooming Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

The sunlight falls pristine on the temple at Epityr, softened by the remembered shadows of angelic saviors' wings.

Clifftop Retreat

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

No one really knows how deep the waters go beneath Undercity, nor what amorphous horrors lurk within.

Morphic Pool

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

Where victors are commemorated and moments of glory immortalized.

Vault of Champions

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

Gale stared into the pool and saw a stranger. The similarities were uncanny, but it was not him.

Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

"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.

Spirit

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.

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

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.

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}.

Ally Encampment

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast an Ally spell.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target Ally you control to its owner's hand.

Geier Reach Sanitarium

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

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.

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

"Let your heels point you home."
—Ancient blessing

Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Legend has it that meteor craters are haunted by the ghosts of those who died on impact.

Meteor Crater

{T}: Choose a color of a permanent you control. Add one mana of that color.

Nurturing Peatland

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B} or {G}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Since the river ran dry, travelers wander where fish once swam.

Sunbaked Canyon

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {R} or {W}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

The trees pull water from deep underground, filling the forest for miles.

Waterlogged Grove

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {U}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Ixalan Checklist

Plant

Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale

Dowsing Dagger

When this Equipment enters, target opponent creates two 0/2 green Plant creature tokens with defender.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may transform this Equipment.
Equip {2}

The pirates had ventured into the interior for treasure. They found something far greater.

Lost Vale

(Transforms from Dowsing Dagger.)
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

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.

Forest

Swamp

Mountain

Island

Plains

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

Sol Ring

Darksteel Hydra

Darksteel Ingot

"It reflects the purity of Mirrodin-that-was."
—Koth of the Hammer

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

The Thran learned to capture mana, but power inevitably escapes its bonds.

Fractured Powerstone

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Roll the planar die. Activate only as a sorcery.

Talisman of Indulgence

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

It is a monument as austere, unyielding, and inscrutable as Esper itself.

Obelisk of Esper

Whether incorporated into the structure of castles or admired as lone symbols, the obelisks stand for Bant's values of loyalty, honor, and truth.

Obelisk of Bant

Like most features of Grixis, the obelisks that remain from the time of Alara now exist only for dark exploitation.

Obelisk of Grixis

Obelisk of Alara

{1}{W}, {T}: You gain 5 life.
{1}{U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{1}{B}, {T}: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
{1}{R}, {T}: This artifact deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.
{1}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Centuries have passed since the plane shattered, yet the obelisks of each shard faithfully serve their long-forgotten purpose.

Obelisk of Naya

Wreckage from the Phyrexian Invasion provided the rats with a seemingly unlimited number of breeding grounds.

Rat Colony

This creature gets +1/+0 for each other Rat you control.
A deck can have any number of cards named Rat Colony.

Thopter Assembly

Thopter

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control no Thopters other than this creature, return this creature to its owner's hand and create five 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying.

Helm of the Host

Copy

Forged out of flowstone for the queen of Vesuva.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste.
Equip {5}

Shapeshifter

Maskwood Nexus

Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Blessed by the gods. Coveted by mortals. Beholden to neither.

Gold-Forged Sentinel

Grand Architect

Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.
{U}: Target artifact creature becomes blue until end of turn.
Tap an untapped blue creature you control: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.

Tazri, Beacon of Unity

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature in your party.
{2/U}{2/B}{2/R}{2/G}: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal up to two Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, Wizard, and/or Ally cards from among them and put them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Thopter Engineer

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
Artifact creatures you control have haste. (They can attack and {T} as soon as they come under your control.)

Urza, Lord High Artificer

Construct

When Urza enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."
Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add {U}.
{5}: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.

Ancestral Vision

Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {U} and exile it with four time counters 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.)
Target player draws three cards.

The mizzium-sphere array drove her mind deep into the thought field, where only the rarest motes of genius may be plucked.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

For a razorkin, painless dissolution is a far worse fate than agonizing death.

Utter End

Tezzeret, Artifice Master Emblem

Tezzeret, Artifice Master

+1: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
0: Draw a card. If you control three or more artifacts, draw two cards instead.
−9: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, search your library for a permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle."

Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

+2: Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost.
+1: Each opponent exiles two cards from their hand.
−4: Nicol Bolas deals 7 damage to target opponent, creature an opponent controls, or planeswalker an opponent controls.
−12: Exile each nonland permanent your opponents control.

There are many Jeskai styles: Riverwalk imitates flowing water, Dragonfist the ancient hellkites, and Flying Crane the wild aven of the high peaks.

Flying Crane Technique

Untap all creatures you control. They gain flying and double strike until end of turn.

Saheeli Rai

+1: Scry 1. Saheeli Rai deals 1 damage to each opponent.
−2: Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
−7: Search your library for up to three artifact cards with different names, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Tezzeret, Master of Metal

Tezzeret's Betrayal

+1: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal an artifact card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
−3: Target opponent loses life equal to the number of artifacts you control.
−8: Gain control of all artifacts and creatures target opponent controls.

Rakdos Charm

Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Kaya, Ghost Assassin

0: Exile Kaya or up to one target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of your next upkeep. You lose 2 life.
−1: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
−2: Each opponent discards a card and you draw a card.

Knight Ally

Gideon, Ally of Zendikar

Gideon, Ally of Zendikar Emblem

+1: Until end of turn, Gideon becomes a 5/5 Human Soldier Ally creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
0: Create a 2/2 white Knight Ally creature token.
−4: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+1."

Beyond pain, beyond obsession and wild despair, there lies a place of twisted power only the most tormented souls can reach.

In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

"For the lost and forgotten, I will keep watch."

Oath of Teferi

When Oath of Teferi enters, exile another target permanent you control. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
You may activate the loyalty abilities of planeswalkers you control twice each turn rather than only once.

The model incorporated the fifth sun effortlessly, as if it had always known.

Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

"I pray that I am never considered useless or old."
—Sharuum the Hegemon

Time Sieve

{T}, Sacrifice five artifacts: Take an extra turn after this one.

All who listen hear their own song, a unique melody played just for them.

Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

The Izzet signet is redesigned often, each time becoming closer to a vanity portrait of Niv-Mizzet.

Izzet Signet

The symbol of the Conclave is one of unity, with tree supporting sun and sun feeding tree.

Selesnya Signet

The maze-like design embodies the core of Azorius law—strict structure designed to test wills and stall change.

Azorius Signet

An emblem of a secret guild, the Dimir insignia is seen only by its own members—and the doomed.

Dimir Signet

The impact sent the soldiers scattering—then something came out of the crater.

Meteor Golem

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

Thopter Foundry

"Etherium is limited. Innovation is not."
—Tezzeret

{1}, Sacrifice a nontoken artifact: Create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying. You gain 1 life.

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