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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.

Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring

Primal Amulet

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on this artifact. Then if there are four or more charge counters on it, you may remove those counters and transform it.

Primal Wellspring

(Transforms from Primal Amulet.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color. When that mana is spent to cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.

Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

"It's me and Gribble's special fort. None of the bad things can get us in there."
—Toby

Command Tower

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

Izzet Boilerworks

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

Temple of Epiphany

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 {R}.

Steam Vents

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

Travelers bathe in the falls to wash away curses from the pucas who lurk nearby.

Cascade Bluffs

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

"We have inherited the mysteries of the Thran, but few of the answers."
—Jhoira

Sulfur Falls

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

The boiling seas around Shiv provided a welcome layer of protection for the reclaimed Mana Rig.

Shivan Reef

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

Spirebluff Canal

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

Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

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}.

Island

Mountain

"You should have granted us an audience. Instead, you now reign over a kingdom of ruins."
—Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker

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 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.

Wandering Fumarole

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.
{2}{U}{R}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 1/4 blue and red Elemental creature with "{0}: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn." It's still a land.

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.

Those who bring nothing to the temple take nothing away.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Between matches, combatants practice to stay in peak mental and physical form.

Training Center

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

Frequent, violent storms shape the Nephalia coastline, sculpting cliffs and caves where monsters often lurk.

Stormcarved Coast

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Frostboil Snarl

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

Scalding Tarn

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

Cast Through Time

Instant and sorcery spells you control have rebound. (Exile the spell as it resolves if you cast it from your hand. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast that card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

"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.

Simic mages create redundant backups of their experiments to reduce the consequences of catastrophe.

Copy Enchantment

You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of any enchantment on the battlefield.

To the sorrow of all, its winds found sin in the hearts of those who once learned from its wisdom.

Honden of Seeing Winds

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card for each Shrine you control.

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}.

Mana Web

Whenever a land an opponent controls is tapped for mana, tap all lands that player controls that could produce any type of mana that land could produce.

Too many wizards spoil the spell, but too many spells spoil the wizard.
—Sign on entry to arcane lab

Arcane Laboratory

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

"Is the inevitable any less miraculous?"
—Veldka, wandering sage

Future Sight

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.

The god Kruphix was born when mortals first looked to the horizon and wondered what lay beyond.

Dictate of Kruphix

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

"For all our lofty talk of keeping watch, we had no idea what we were getting into."
—Jace Beleren

Jace's Sanctum

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.

The Kipamu League knew what Keld refused to acknowledge: the land could support no more.

Overburden

Whenever a player puts a nontoken creature onto the battlefield, that player returns a land they control to its owner's hand.

"The secret to invention is to see something in your mind, then find where it hides in the world."

Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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

Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Even a fragment of a powerstone contains within it not just energy, but space—vast dimensions trapped in fragile crystal.

Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

"I'm not saying I'm sure it's a trap. I'm just saying it wasn't there yesterday and I'm pretty sure I heard it whisper my name. If you're so curious, you touch it."
—Angus, survivor scout

Sol Ring

Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Tamiyo, the Moon Sage Emblem

Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

+1: Tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
−2: Draw a card for each tapped creature target player controls.
−8: You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size" and "Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may return it to your hand."

To save this plane, he must forsake all others.

Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Flash
Creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield have flash.
Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.

Ral, Storm Conduit

Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Ral deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
+2: Scry 1.
−2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
+1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.
−8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.

Jace, Unraveler of Secrets Emblem

Jace, Unraveler of Secrets

+1: Scry 1, then draw a card.
−2: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent casts their first spell each turn, counter that spell."

Niv-Mizzet, Parun

This spell can't be countered.
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, you draw a card.

As brilliant as a cut diamond, and with just as cruel an edge.

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target.
{T}: Draw a card.

Each spell is an intricate tapestry, and Kira is the great unraveler.

Kira, Great Glass-Spinner

Flying
Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability."

His marvels of artifice pale in comparison to the developing machinery of his mind.

Venser, Shaper Savant

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

A curse is just another name for an unwanted blessing.

Consecrated Sphinx

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

Sphinx Ambassador

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for a card, then that player chooses a card name. If you searched for a creature card that doesn't have that name, you may put it onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

"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.

His mind whirled with grand plans, never thinking of what might happen if he were to succeed.

Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

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.

"Good ideas don't take time. They take a lot of bad ideas first."
—Ral Zarek

Talisman of Creativity

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

"What do you have that I cannot obtain?"
—Mairsil, the Pretender

Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

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

Izzet Signet

Basalt Monolith

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{3}: Untap this artifact.

The Phyrexian death machine awoke, its coldsteel heart imbuing it with sinister new power.

Coldsteel Heart

This artifact enters tapped.
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Every facet aglow like iron in Moradin's mighty forge.

Fire Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.

Every facet a window into Oghma's divine insight.

Sky Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Urza's metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines.

Thran Dynamo

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.

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

Negate

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.

"Abandon ship! No, grab the treasure first!"
—Admiral Beckett Brass

Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Boar

Curse of the Swine

Another imminent battle subsided in busy snuffling and carefree rooting.

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

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.")

"Holy places are no longer sanctuary from death, and death is no longer sanctuary from anything."
—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Incendiary Command

Choose two —
• Incendiary Command deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Incendiary Command deals 2 damage to each creature.
• Destroy target nonbasic land.
• Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards.

Only one vault was great enough to hold Emrakul.

Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker
Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "{T}: Add {C}" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

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.

Rapid Hybridization

Frog Lizard

"We've merged your life essence with that of several creatures at once. You're welcome."
—Speaker Trifon

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

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