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.

Watery Grave

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

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.

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}.

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}.

A warped gateway that seeps toxins and malevolence into the waters around Towashi.

Polluted Delta

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

Underground Sea

Creeping Tar Pit

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{1}{U}{B}: This land becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. It's still a land.

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
—Lord Windgrace

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Choked Estuary

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

Without the care of the tideshapers, the Lanes lie neglected. Some have flooded entire towns; others dried to cracked mud.

Sunken Ruins

{T}: Add {C}.
{U/B}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Dimir Aqueduct

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

Lonely Sandbar

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

"I ask only that the winds return you to me as swiftly as they bear you and the Storm Crane away."
—Samthar, Sultai merchant, to Jialing, Jeskai monk

Dismal Backwater

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

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}.

Halimar Depths

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Add {U}.

Temple of Deceit

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 {U} or {B}.

"The war polluted the land, turning what had once been fruitful fields into fetid morasses of mud and rusted corpses."
—*The Antiquities War*

Underground River

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

Island

Swamp

Fear the knight leaping from the water into the air, weapon ready.

Vodalian Knights

First strike
This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.
{U}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Phylactery Lich

Indestructible
As this creature enters, put a phylactery counter on an artifact you control.
When you control no permanents with phylactery counters on them, sacrifice this creature.

"Catch good today. Start replacing crew tomorrow."
—Faysal al-Mousa, fisher captain, log

Dandân

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

"We thought it was a fallen tree trunk. Then it ate Snod."
—Sneed, goblin barkwright

Bog Serpent

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls a Swamp.
When you control no Swamps, sacrifice this creature.

Kukemssa Serpent

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
{U}, Sacrifice an Island: Target land an opponent controls becomes an Island until end of turn.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Pirate Ship

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Manta Ray

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
This creature can't be blocked except by blue creatures.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Serendib Djinn

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a land. If you sacrifice an Island this way, this creature deals 3 damage to you.
When you control no lands, sacrifice this creature.

Island Fish Jasconius

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {U}{U}{U}. If you do, untap this creature.
This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

With the spread of Rimewind's sorcerous winter, snow dwellers reclaimed their places atop the food chain.

Ronom Serpent

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls a snow land.
When you control no snow lands, sacrifice this creature.

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.

Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

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.)

"It's easy to anticipate Captain Storm's orders: take the more dangerous route."

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

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}.

Rhystic Study

Archival Whorl

Friends teach what you want to know. Enemies teach what you *need* to know.

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

"The cost of your opposition will be extracted from your wits."
—Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

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

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

Dimir Signet

Talisman of Dominance

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

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

God-Eternal Kefnet

Flying
You may reveal the first card you draw each turn as you draw it. Whenever you reveal an instant or sorcery card this way, copy that card and you may cast the copy. That copy costs {2} less to cast.
When God-Eternal Kefnet dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand.
{2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Doing something at the last minute isn't so bad when you can make that minute last.

Temporal Manipulation

Assault Suit

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has haste, can't attack you or planeswalkers you control, and can't be sacrificed.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you may have that player gain control of equipped creature until end of turn. If you do, untap it.
Equip {3}

Marjhan

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
{U}{U}, Sacrifice a creature: Untap this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.
This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
{U}{U}: This creature gets -1/-0 until end of turn and deals 1 damage to target attacking creature without flying.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Accurate information is a precious commodity in times of war.

Mirran Spy

Flying
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may untap target creature.

Suddenly he realized that everything was connected by invisible strings, strings that could be pulled—or cut.

Banishing Knack

Until end of turn, target creature gains "{T}: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand."

Naga Fleshcrafter

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.
Renew — {2}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonlegendary creature you control. Each other creature you control becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Rust Elemental

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice another artifact. If you can't, tap this creature and you lose 4 life.

Built on a fumarole field, the village is a refuge of warmth amid the ice of the Qal Sisma mountains.

Mistrise Village

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn can't be countered.

The only prince inside this frog is the one it ate.

Wretched Anurid

Whenever another creature enters, you lose 1 life.

Ebonblade Reaper

Morph

Whenever this creature attacks, you lose half your life, rounded up.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.
Morph {3}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Rot-Curse Rakshasa

Trample
Decayed (This creature can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Renew — {X}{B}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a decayed counter on each of X target creatures. Activate only as a sorcery.

The deadliest killers serve only those who are not afraid to die.

Ebon Drake

Flying
Whenever a player casts a spell, you lose 1 life.

Subservience to greater power is the only law in the pit.

Demonic Taskmaster

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature.

"Evil wears many faces. Keep your windows closed at night, or it might wear yours."
—Sultai warning

Qarsi Revenant

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Renew — {2}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a flying counter, a deathtouch counter, and a lifelink counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Its bewildered bellow was met with a stern "shh."

Wrong Turn

Target opponent gains control of target creature. (If an attacking or blocking creature changes controllers, it's removed from combat.)

"Once you create perfection, what else is there to make?"
—Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi machinist

Steel Golem

Counterspell

Archfiend of the Dross

Flying
This creature enters with four oil counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an oil counter from this creature. Then if it has no oil counters on it, you lose the game.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, its controller loses 2 life.

It strikes at your soul, heedless of your prayers.

Drinker of Sorrow

This creature can't block.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage, sacrifice a permanent.

"As one, nature lifts its voice to tell you this: 'No.'"

Negate

"Edahlis, what *is* that thing? We should have stayed in Yavimaya . . . ."
—Aznaph, greenseeker

Evil Eye of Urborg

Non-Eye creatures you control can't attack.
Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature.

His slaves crave death more than they desire freedom. He denies them both.

Abyssal Persecutor

Flying, trample
You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game.

"Now, *that's* a zombie!"
—Modriss of Zargoth Fen

Rotting Regisaur

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card.

Afterlife from the Loam

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
For each player, choose up to one target creature card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. They're Zombies in addition to their other types.

The highway of fear is the shortest route to defeat.

Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore

Non-Eye creatures you control can't attack.
This creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Greater Harvester

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a permanent.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.

Though the reaver is horrifyingly effective, its dorsal vents spit a highly corrosive cloud of filth.

Flesh Reaver

Whenever this creature deals damage to a creature or opponent, this creature deals that much damage to you.

Its precious corpses dance like puppets to attract mindless nim prey.

Desecration Elemental

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever a player casts a spell, sacrifice a creature.

Phyrexian Negator

Trample
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, sacrifice that many permanents.

Long River's Pull

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Counter target creature spell. If the gift was promised, instead counter target spell.

March of Swirling Mist

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of blue cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way.
Up to X target creatures phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Each of the twenty-three winds of Esper is named and chronicled, and every possible interaction with the flow of magic is exhaustively detailed.

Countersquall

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Wizard Class

A-Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
You have no maximum hand size.
{2}{U}: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards.
{4}{U}: Level 3
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Aqueous Form

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked.
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Each spindrell is the lingering consciousness of a survivor consumed by cellarspawn—a ragged, drifting remnant pulsing with constant psychic agony.

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Vislor Turlough

Deal with the Black Guardian — When Vislor Turlough enters, you may have an opponent gain control of it. If you do, it's goaded for as long as they control it.
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"Show me what Norn's sycophants are hiding under all that pretty porcelain."
—Sheoldred

Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.

Poison Counter

Phyrexian Vatmother

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you get a poison counter.

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