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.)

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.

"Our ancestors brought down a Phyrexian portal ship, then built our town on its hull. We're pretty proud of that."
—Alene of Riverspan

Hinterland Harbor

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

Llanowar Reborn

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Graft 1 (This land enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this land onto it.)

Mosswort Bridge

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 {G}.
{G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Oran-Rief, the Vastwood

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each green creature that entered this turn.

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}.

Temple of Mystery

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 {G} or {U}.

By morning the only evidence of conflict between Temur hunters and Sultai scouts were abandoned banners in the freshly fallen snow.

Thornwood Falls

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

Waterways carve their routes through the land to reflect the paths the aether streams cut through the clouds.

Woodland Stream

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

Forest

Island

Persecuted alchemists fled deep into Kessig's wilds, seeking solitude to continue their ghoulish craft.

Alchemist's Refuge

{T}: Add {C}.
{G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

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}.

Enter and comprehend the perfection of orchestrated life.

Simic Guildgate

Winding Canyons

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You may cast creature spells this turn as though they had flash.

Breeding Pool

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

At full moon, the river seeps over its banks and crawls through the woods like a blanket of serpents.

Flooded Grove

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

Lonely Sandbar

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

The House's geography constantly warps and twists, fields melting into floorboards and walls opening into hungry maws.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

"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.

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.)

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

Homeward Path

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

Mystifying Maze

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Exile target attacking creature an opponent controls. At the beginning of the next end step, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.

Coral Atoll

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{U}.

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.

There were no tombstones in orochi territory. Slain warriors were buried with a tree sapling, so they would become a part of the forest after death.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

It fears no sword and leaves no bones behind.

Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When this creature enters, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Its fangs are in your flesh before its hiss leaves your ears.

Mystic Snake

Flash
When this creature enters, counter target spell.

Hooded Hydra

Morph

Snake

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, create a 1/1 green Snake creature token for each +1/+1 counter on it.
Morph {3}{G}{G}
As this creature is turned face up, put five +1/+1 counters on it.

Thada Adel, Acquisitor

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Thada Adel deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

What happens when it is the dream that wakes and the sleeper that fades into memory?

Dream Stalker

When this creature enters, return a permanent you control to its owner's hand.

Draining Whelk

Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, counter target spell. Put X +1/+1 counters on this creature, where X is that spell's mana value.

Mystic Genesis

Ooze

"The Simic can grow anything out of a puddle of sludge. I just hope they never join forces with the Golgari."
—Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov

Counter target spell. Create an X/X green Ooze creature token, where X is that spell's mana value.

His family was the first to reach out to the human monks. He soon knew as many koans as he did blade strikes.

Seshiro the Anointed

Other Snake creatures you control get +2/+2.
Whenever a Snake you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Icefeather Aven

Flying
Morph {1}{G}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When this creature is turned face up, you may return another target creature to its owner's hand.

Prime Speaker Zegana

Prime Speaker Zegana enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control.
When Prime Speaker Zegana enters, draw cards equal to its power.

Chameleon Colossus

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Protection from black
{2}{G}{G}: This creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is its power.

Altered Ego

This spell can't be countered.
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Krosan Cloudscraper

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {G}{G}.
Morph {7}{G}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

"She walks among us unseen, learning from our imperfections."
—*The Seer's Parables*

Overbeing of Myth

Overbeing of Myth's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card.

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.

Sosuke, Son of Seshiro

Other Snake creatures you control get +1/+0.
Whenever a Warrior you control deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

River Kelpie

Whenever this creature or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card.
Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card.
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.)

"I can call an army to my side in the blink of an eye. Best not blink."

Yeva, Nature's Herald

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
You may cast green creature spells as though they had flash.

Drift of Phantasms

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

It will come to the defense of all wild things, from the shivering wren to the towering giant.

Thorn Mammoth

Trample
Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, this creature fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Wurm

Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink
When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

"Gleams like moonlight on water drew us through the storm and toward our doom."
—Siona, captain of the *Pyleas*

Serpent of Yawning Depths

Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents you control can't be blocked except by Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

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.

The pull of the tide star holds eternal sway.

Keiga, the Tide Star

Flying
When Keiga dies, gain control of target creature.

"Everything serves a purpose. Even you."
—Vorel of the Hull Clade

Plasm Capture

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next first main phase, add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is that spell's mana value.

Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

Whenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power.
{G}, {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Frost Titan

Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays {2}.
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Thought-Knot Seer

({C} represents colorless mana.)
When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, target opponent draws a card.

Enlightenment is not gained by striking the bell or hearing its toll. It's found in the silence that follows.

Temple Bell

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.

"Tomorrow wears yesterday's face."
—Kordel the Cryptic

Conjurer's Closet

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

The Temur see themselves as a pack, their bonds more primal than the Abzan's.

Temur Sabertooth

{1}{G}: You may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

Thassa, Deep-Dwelling

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature.
At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one other target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.
{3}{U}: Tap another target creature.

The vedalken know it is not of this world, so they know that this world is not the only one.

Crystal Shard

{3}, {T} or {U}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

"In Barrin's name!" cried Lyna as Hanna's sword passed through her, "Ertai sends word that the portal is open—but not for long!"

Erratic Portal

{1}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

For the Simic Combine, its sigil serves not as an emblem of honor but as a trademark. Its familiar image on any biological commodity attests to superb craftsmanship, ingenious innovation, and higher cost.

Simic Signet

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

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.)

After lightning struck the cliffs, the ore became iron, the iron became steel, and the steel became greaves. The lightning never left.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

"I bring a flood that nothing can withstand."

Thassa's Intervention

Choose one —
• Look at the top X cards of your library. Put up to two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays twice {X}.

"I can see why this appeals to Thassa."
—Kiora

Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

"Don't worry, there's plenty for everyone."
—Vickon, Eleventh Company battlemage

Aetherspouts

For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Profaner of the Dead

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When this creature exploits a creature, return to their owners' hands all creatures your opponents control with toughness less than the exploited creature's toughness.

Snapcaster Mage

Flash
When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Whale

Fish

Kraken

Reef Worm

When this creature dies, create a 3/3 blue Fish creature token with "When this token dies, create a 6/6 blue Whale creature token with 'When this token dies, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token.'"

Deadeye Navigator

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Deadeye Navigator is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "{1}{U}: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control."

Thassa, God of the Sea

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
{1}{U}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Colossal Whale

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever this creature attacks, you may exile target creature defending player controls until this creature leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

One glamer leads him far from home. The next washes away his memory that home was ever anywhere but at her side.

Sower of Temptation

Flying
When this creature enters, gain control of target creature for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.

Deep-Sea Kraken

This creature can't be blocked.
Suspend 9—{2}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{U} and exile it with nine 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. It has haste.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if this card is suspended, remove a time counter from it.

Thassa felt no need to punish the sailors for their folly in crossing the straits. The kraken would do it for her.

Kraken of the Straits

Creatures with power less than the number of Islands you control can't block this creature.

The waters that give the River Herald merfolk their name are sacred to their culture; they do not abide invaders to sail upon them.

River's Rebuke

Return all nonland permanents target player controls to their owner's hand.

Octopus

Crush of Tentacles

Surge {3}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If this spell's surge cost was paid, create an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.

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