"Always have a backup plan."
—Doral, Bala Ged guide

Bala Ged Recovery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I know it's around here somewhere."
—Doral, Bala Ged guide

Bala Ged Sanctuary

Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary

Thawing Glaciers

This land enters tapped.
{1}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Return this land to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Forest

Mountain

When a werewolf changes for the first time, that first howl is said to echo through the wilds till moonset.

Kessig Wolf Run

{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Without Garenbrig's strength, the realm would succumb to the wilds.

Castle Garenbrig

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
{2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.

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.

A figure is moved on a map, and the tide of war changes.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

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.

"I can't protect everyone here. But those I can, I will."
—Karn

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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}.

Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

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.

On the volcanic continent of Akoum, bizarre vegetation clusters around gas vents, and jagged mountain peaks rise high into the air.

Cinder Glade

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Cliffs echo and branches quake at the roar of life.

Rootbound Crag

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

Cries of panic echo along Kessig's narrow ravines as howlpacks herd their prey.

Rockfall Vale

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

Game Trail

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

"Log 2.5.325: A newborn moon, Aqqat still churns with the fires of creation. I'm eager to see what it will become!"
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Stomping Ground

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

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.)

The village's name was long forgotten, its crumbling ruins a monument to the fragility of civilization.

Spire Garden

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

Between jagged, snowcapped peaks, the dense bands of hardy evergreens provide the perfect cover for roving bands of orc and goblin raiders.

Karplusan Forest

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

Gruul Turf

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

Lush growth spreads like a ferocious blaze across the Otarian hillsides.

Mossfire Valley

Temple of Abandon

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 {R} or {G}.

Home and hunting ground for Kaldheim's fearsome trolls.

Wooded Foothills

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

"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.

Here, the Boilerbilges twitch like a trapped animal, peaks straining against the grasping roots and vines.

Thornspire Verge

{T}: Add {R}.
{T}: Add {G}. Activate only if you control a Mountain or a Forest.

The land is ever resilient. Should it die, it will be reborn.

Evolving Wilds

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

Sheltered Thicket

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The power of long-forgotten empires still pulses in the earth of Dominaria, giving rise to strange, mana-rich pockets of growth.

Wooded Ridgeline

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
This land enters tapped.

A dent marks every year of service, and it has as much rust as glory.

Battered Golem

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
Whenever an artifact enters, you may untap this creature.

Staff of Domination

{1}: Untap this artifact.
{2}, {T}: You gain 1 life.
{3}, {T}: Untap target creature.
{4}, {T}: Tap target creature.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card.

Multani's Harmony

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Ancient yet ever-young, it is wise and subtle—and cruel and reckless as the spring itself.

Nyxbloom Ancient

Trample
If you tap a permanent for mana, it produces three times as much of that mana instead.

Sword of the Paruns

As long as equipped creature is tapped, tapped creatures you control get +2/+0.
As long as equipped creature is untapped, untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.
{3}: You may tap or untap equipped creature.
Equip {3}

Karn, the Great Creator

Activated abilities of artifacts your opponents control can't be activated.
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.
−2: You may reveal an artifact card you own from outside the game or choose a face-up artifact card you own in exile. Put that card into your hand.

The importance of using updated Pinnacle codebooks is a lesson learned only once.

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.

"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.

Beast

Beast Within

"Kill the weak so they can't drag the strong down to their level. This is true compassion."
—Benzir, archdruid of Temple Might

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

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

Eumidians live to change and be changed, ever increasing the complexity of the Edge. Each new world is a new perspective.

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Those who love the woods only wish to spread its majesty.

Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Llanowar Elves

Marwyn's Kindred

The elves of the Llanowar forest have defended it for generations. It is their sacred duty to keep outside influences from corrupting their ancestral home.

"Life grows everywhere. My kin merely find those places where it grows strongest."
—Nissa Revane

Elvish Mystic

"We could no more abandon the forest than the stars could abandon the night sky."

Fyndhorn Elves

If you stop to listen, you can hear it grow.

Wild Growth

Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.

Utopia Sprawl

Enchant Forest
As this Aura enters, choose a color.
Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of the chosen color.

Arbor Elf

Some creatures are bound to the cold by Rimewind magic. Others seek it out, adapted by two thousand years of the Ice. The Boreal, where Heidar's frigid sway is strongest, is home to both.

Boreal Druid

Long ago, birds of paradise littered the skies. Thanks to the city's sprawl, most now exist as pets of society's elite.

Birds of Paradise

Its hood blossoms as a warning: receive your gift, but stray no closer.

Lotus Cobra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.

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.

Every branch a crossroads, every vine a swift steed.

Wood Elves

When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

The parched earth still shielded those few souls with the heart to call it home.

Yavimaya Dryad

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped under target player's control, then shuffle.

"Vine-wreathed, he nurtures life among the dead."
—Psemilla, Meletian poet

Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

Oracle of Mul Daya

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands from the top of your library.

Treasure

Food

Tireless Provisioner

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

"Regrowth is as inevitable as the tragedy that necessitates it."

Springbloom Druid

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"He has been to the heart of the wood. Did you truly expect to wield power over him?"
—Oakhide druid

Sylvan Safekeeper

Sacrifice a land: Target creature you control gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"Our recruitment drives are bringing in fewer fresh troops every day. We need a new strategy."
—Urza, to Tawnos

Urza's Incubator

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells of the chosen type cost {2} less to cast.

The Great Henge

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
{T}: Add {G}{G}. You gain 2 life.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.

Triumph of the Hordes

Poison Counter

Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample and infect. (Creatures with infect deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Wary of the ferocious dinosaurs, the Legion of Dusk built up the walls of their fort—just in time for the pirates to burn them down.

Fiery Cannonade

Fiery Cannonade deals 2 damage to each non-Pirate creature.

Comet Storm

Multikicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Choose any target, then choose another target for each time this spell was kicked. Comet Storm deals X damage to each of them.

"Control the Great Conduit? You might as well try to divert a river with your hands."

Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

In a wave of spells called the Cursemute, Avacyn cleansed the world with divine fire.

Reforge the Soul

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.
Miracle {1}{R} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Wheel of Fortune

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

"Animals commune with their environment without the need for language. Theirs is a fundamental connection that surpasses flimsy words."
—Vivien Reid

Harmonize

Life is eternal. A lifetime is ephemeral.

Fecundity

Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller may draw a card.

Return of the Wildspeaker

Choose one —
• Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control.
• Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

"I want to help Zendikar. Show me the way."
—Nissa Revane

Elemental Bond

Whenever a creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, draw a card.

Simic's strength comes from its diversity.

Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Zendikar Resurgent

Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced. (The types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless.)
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Copy

Mirror March

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, flip a coin until you lose a flip. For each flip you won, create a token that's a copy of that creature. Those tokens gain haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.

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