Safe havens amid the desert and dragonstorms, Abzan fortresses attract merchants, travelers, outcasts, and exiles.

Command Tower

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

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.)

"There is much to learn here, but few can endure the ringing of the spires."
—Nulakam the Archivist

City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

In opulent chambers behind closed doors, dynasties are made and broken with but a few murmured words.

Luxury Suite

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

"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.

Without Vantress's knowledge, the realm would lose itself in darkness.

Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Godless Shrine

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

Sacred Foundry

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

Overgrown Tomb

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

Steam Vents

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

Temple Garden

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

Watery Grave

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

A graveyard for conquerors and conquered alike.

Bloodstained Mire

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

An underground paradise, bright and thriving beneath the surface of Ixalan.

Windswept Heath

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

Marsh Flats

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

Where water is the canvas and lava the paint.

Fiery Islet

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

The expedition's end began the marsh's story.

Silent Clearing

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

Rupture Spire

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

With a warm fire and a fresh catch, Temur hunters find respite in even the coldest climates.

Frontier Bivouac

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

"The most important part of a stronghold isn't its armaments or its walls. It's the reason people have to defend it."
—Gvar Barzeel, krumar captain

Sandsteppe Citadel

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

"The people must know that the former seat of their oppression is cleansed. Throw open Qarsi's gates and let them see for themselves."
—Kotis, the Fangkeeper

Opulent Palace

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

"The Mardu breathe life into what was lost under the dragonlords. If the Abzan are upset, it should be at themselves."
—Tersa Lightshatter

Nomad Outpost

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.

It's said the spirits of the drowned dead hang their lights from the shattered figureheads.

Crumbling Necropolis

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

"These lowlands were formed thousands of years ago by the behemoth Indath—its final footsteps before vanishing into the sea."
—*Tales of the Ozolith*

Indatha Triome

({T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Nowhere on Ikoria are monsters more integral to the landscape than Ketria, where the river itself will stand up and roar.

Ketria Triome

({T}: Add {G}, {U}, or {R}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Raugrin meets the sea with jaws wide, its coast spiked with teeth of crystal and granite.

Raugrin Triome

({T}: Add {U}, {R}, or {W}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Hunters in the primeval wetlands become fluent in reading the ripples to tell when to pursue and when to flee.

Zagoth Triome

({T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

A shoreless sea extends to every horizon, sharing its beauty only with those who can fly high enough to see it.

Sea of Clouds

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

Servants tend to the garden meticulously, ensuring that Upper City residents aren't bothered by the messier parts of nature.

Bountiful Promenade

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

Swamp

Forest

Mountain

Island

Plains

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

Sol Ring

Sometimes restoring the lost archives of the Jeskai can be as simple as the quiet ruffle of pages and the smell of fresh ink.

Arcane Signet

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.

"The land grows only where the kami will it."
—Dosan the Falling Leaf

Kodama's Reach

As the Simic released more of their krasis experiments, they required new habitats, always at the expense of the locals.

Urban Evolution

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

Bring to Light

Converge — Search your library for a creature, instant, or sorcery card with mana value less than or equal to the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell, exile that card, then shuffle. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

Leonos had no second thoughts about the abolishment edict. He'd left skyrunes warning of the eviction, even though it was cloudy.

Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.

"Not just any floriculturist can grow this caliber of nightbloom. We're looking for a rooftop hothouse with quite particular conditions."
—Dr. A of the Foundway Associates

Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorin had created Avacyn, so it was a cruelty beyond imagining, a pain beyond description, that it fell upon him to end her forever.

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

"Crovax knows we're coming now," said a grinning Sisay. "I just sent the *Predator* crashing into his stronghold."

Hull Breach

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Destroy target artifact and target enchantment.

Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.

"As a boulder diverts a stream, the crystals bend life around them."
—Rielle, the Everwise

Crystalline Resonance

Whenever you cycle a card, you may have this enchantment become a copy of another target permanent until your next turn, except it has this ability.

Niv-Mizzet Reborn

Flying
When Niv-Mizzet enters, reveal the top ten cards of your library. For each color pair, choose a card that's exactly those colors from among them. Put the chosen cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Kenrith, the Returned King

{R}: All creatures gain trample and haste until end of turn.
{1}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
{2}{W}: Target player gains 5 life.
{3}{U}: Target player draws a card.
{4}{B}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under its owner's control.

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

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Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

Flying
When Nicol Bolas enters, each opponent discards a card.
{4}{U}{B}{R}: Exile Nicol Bolas, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

+2: Draw two cards.
−3: Nicol Bolas deals 10 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
−4: Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
−12: Exile all but the bottom card of target player's library.

Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy

Whenever you tap a nonland permanent for mana, add one mana of any type that permanent produced.
{5}{G}{U}: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a non-Human creature card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Progenitus

Protection from everything
If Progenitus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Progenitus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Ramos, Dragon Engine

Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Ramos for each of that spell's colors.
Remove five +1/+1 counters from Ramos: Add {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}. Activate only once each turn.

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.")

Copy

Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.)
Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

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."

Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge

Creature and planeswalker spells you cast have affinity for artifacts. (They cost {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
+2: Tezzeret deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of artifacts you control. You gain X life.
−3: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
−8: Exile the top ten cards of your library. Put all artifact cards from among them onto the battlefield.

Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Elspeth, Sun's Champion Emblem

Soldier

+1: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
−3: Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater.
−7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Zombie

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

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."

"Knowledge is the universal currency of the Multiverse. It is power. It is freedom. It is possibility itself."

Thirst for Knowledge

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact 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.

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.

Beneath crashing waves lies an ocean of secrets waiting to be explored.

Thrasios, Triton Hero

{4}: Scry 1, then reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped. Otherwise, draw a card.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Tymna the Weaver

Lifelink
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, you may pay X life, where X is the number of opponents that were dealt combat damage this turn. If you do, draw X cards.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

"What tribute have you for our dragonlord?"

Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper

Menace
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Bringer of the Black Dawn

You may pay {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay 2 life. If you do, search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.

When it awoke, the mirrors of the world reflected only darkness.

Ink-Treader Nephilim

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, if that spell targets only this creature, copy the spell for each other creature that spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those creatures.

Felidar Retreat

Cat Beast

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Create a 2/2 white Cat Beast creature token.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn.

Crystals nestle in the roots of Indatha's helica trees as if being nurtured by their embrace.

Indatha Crystal

{T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The vegetation in Raugrin is dull, but that only makes the towering crystal structures gleam brighter.

Raugrin Crystal

{T}: Add {U}, {R}, or {W}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The same crystals that root deep enough to pierce Savai's catacombs also soar high enough to change its weather.

Savai Crystal

{T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

In times of portent, the land sculpts itself in accordance with the sigils burned on the sky.

Prismatic Omen

Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

Maelstrom Nexus

The first spell you cast each turn has cascade. (When you cast your first spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

"It is all in my grasp. Every petty dream, every grand scheme, every soul, every fear. It all flows through me and from me."
—Memnarch

Fist of Suns

You may pay {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast.

"What are they complaining about? It's not like axiomatic leyline paratrigonometrics is hard."

Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy

{1}, {T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
{4}, {T}: Draw a card. If you control eight or more lands, draw two cards instead.

"Those who wish to become evincar must first cast off the shackles of compassion."

Belbe, Corrupted Observer

At the beginning of each postcombat main phase, the active player adds {C}{C} for each of your opponents who lost life this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

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