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Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

Growing Rites of Itlimoc

When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.

Though the Sun Empire and the River Heralds once came together to plant the sacred forest, its roots have been tended by the mycoids ever since.

Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

(Transforms from Growing Rites of Itlimoc.)
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry 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.)

Farmers cut the trees and buried their dead. The dead rose up and killed the farmers. The trees grew back and strangled the dead.

Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Overgrown Tomb

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

Temple of Malady

Temple of Malady enters tapped.
When Temple of Malady enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

"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.

"The sylex blast marked not only the end of the war, but the end of Dominaria as most knew it."
—*The Antiquities War*

Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}. Llanowar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Golgari Rot Farm

Golgari Rot Farm enters tapped.
When Golgari Rot Farm enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{G}.

Jungle Hollow

Jungle Hollow enters tapped.
When Jungle Hollow enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

The stench of rotting meat lures flies, goblins, and young raptors.

Foul Orchard

Foul Orchard enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Swamp

Forest

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

Castle Garenbrig

Castle Garenbrig 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.

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.)
Mosswort Bridge 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.

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.

The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}, {T}: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Dawn's Light, greatest palace of Gilt-Leaf Wood, is built on tiers of wood and power.

Gilt-Leaf Palace

As Gilt-Leaf Palace enters, you may reveal an Elf card from your hand. If you don't, Gilt-Leaf Palace enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

To get to Valor's Reach, competitors must first make a name for themselves in the smaller arenas.

Undergrowth Stadium

Undergrowth Stadium enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Deadly mushrooms litter these woods, each waiting for an errant footstep to release its noxious spores.

Deathcap Glade

Deathcap Glade enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Skemfar Elderhall

A-Skemfar Elderhall

Elf Warrior

Skemfar Elderhall enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{2}{B}{B}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice Skemfar Elderhall: Up to one target creature you don't control gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Create two 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens. Activate only as a sorcery.

"The elves tend the forest, and the forest sustains the elves. My role is to ensure that the cycle continues."

Elvish Archdruid

Other Elf creatures you control get +1/+1.
{T}: Add {G} for each Elf you control.

Titania rewards all who honor the forest by making them a living part of it.

Priest of Titania

{T}: Add {G} for each Elf on the battlefield.

Marwyn's Kindred

Marwyn, the Nurturer

Whenever another Elf you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Marwyn, the Nurturer.
{T}: Add an amount of {G} equal to Marwyn's power.

Dwynen's Elite

When Dwynen's Elite enters, if you control another Elf, create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.

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

Elvish Mystic

Llanowar Elves

As patient and generous as life, as harsh and merciless as nature.

Elvish Rejuvenator

When Elvish Rejuvenator enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

"From a tiny sprout, the greatest trees grow and flourish. May the seeds of your mind be equally fruitful."

Elvish Visionary

When Elvish Visionary enters, draw a card.

Elvish Clancaller

Other Elves you control get +1/+1.
{4}{G}{G}, {T}: Search your library for a card named Elvish Clancaller, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Elvish Harbinger

When Elvish Harbinger enters, you may search your library for an Elf card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Elvish Promenade

The faultless and immaculate castes form the lower tiers of elvish society, with the exquisite caste above them. At the pinnacle is the perfect, a consummate blend of aristocrat and predator.

Create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token for each Elf you control.

"The tiniest mouse speaks louder to me than all the festival crowds on Tin Street."

Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

"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

When you spend most of your time running for your life, it pays to invest in quality footwear.

Lightning Greaves

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

Caged Sun

As Caged Sun enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Door of Destinies

As Door of Destinies enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on Door of Destinies.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on Door of Destinies.

Coat of Arms

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

Vanquisher's Banner

As Vanquisher's Banner enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

"Your words are meaningless. The rustling of leaves is the only language that makes any sense."

Wirewood Channeler

{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of Elves on the battlefield.

Mutated elves wondered if this was their final form, or if it was just another step.

Elvish Soultiller

When Elvish Soultiller dies, choose a creature type. Shuffle all creature cards of that type from your graveyard into your library.

"Wirewood cannot hide great size. Only with speed and skill can we survive here."

Elven Riders

Elven Riders can't be blocked except by Walls and/or creatures with flying.

"For what are leaves but countless blades
To fight a countless foe on high."
—Elvish hymn

Elvish Champion

Other Elf creatures get +1/+1 and have forestwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

First, whispers of ancient days. Then, visions of things to come.

Shamanic Revelation

Draw a card for each creature you control.
Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

Sylvan Messenger

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
When Sylvan Messenger enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Elf cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Imperious Perfect

In a culture of beauty, the most beautiful are worshipped as gods.

Other Elves you control get +1/+1.
{G}, {T}: Create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.

Helplessly drawn in, the bard's enemies quickly find there's more than song to be found.

Elvish Bard

All creatures able to block Elvish Bard do so.

"If you ever want to leave this forest, now's the time."

Timberwatch Elf

{T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves on the battlefield.

Allosaurus Shepherd

This spell can't be countered.
Green spells you control can't be countered.
{4}{G}{G}: Until end of turn, each Elf creature you control has base power and toughness 5/5 and becomes a Dinosaur in addition to its other creature types.

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

Leyline of Abundance

If Leyline of Abundance is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Whenever you tap a creature for mana, add an additional {G}.
{6}{G}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Each pluck of the strings breaks the hold of the unnatural on the world.

Elvish Lyrist

{G}, {T}, Sacrifice Elvish Lyrist: Destroy target enchantment.

Fail to respect the forest and you will fertilize it.

Elvish Fury

Buyback {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Those who seek to escape her blades succeed only in dying on their stomachs.

Bramblewood Paragon

Each other Warrior creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

Their fury scatters enemies like a pile of dry leaves.

Elvish Berserker

Whenever Elvish Berserker becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

Jagged-Scar Archers

Jagged-Scar Archers's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Elves you control.
{T}: Jagged-Scar Archers deals damage equal to its power to target creature with flying.

"I call on both predators and protectors, for now is a season of war."

Fauna Shaman

{G}, {T}, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Great hero or grand betrayer? The truth of Ezuri's legacy is clouded by the fog of legend.

Ezuri, Renegade Leader

{G}: Regenerate another target Elf.
{2}{G}{G}{G}: Elf creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

"Verdant bloom does exist. It merely hides for its own safety."

Farhaven Elf

When Farhaven Elf enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"What was once formed by masons, shaped by smiths, or given life by mages, I will return to the embrace of the earth."

Reclamation Sage

When Reclamation Sage enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Elvish Warmaster

Whenever one or more other Elves you control enter, create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
{5}{G}{G}: Elves you control get +2/+2 and gain deathtouch until end of turn.

Prowess of the Fair

An elvish duel is a thing of beauty: the warriors' grace, the crash of steel, then the artful spray of blood.

Whenever another nontoken Elf is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.

The Ozolith's appearance spawned a new era of wild mutation on Ikoria. Some creatures hunted different prey, lived in new habitats, and thrived on mutation itself.

Essence Symbiote

Whenever a creature you control mutates, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature and you gain 2 life.

"How do the vinebred feel? Fah! We do not ask the puppet how it feels when the puppeteer bids it dance."

Elvish Branchbender

{T}: Until end of turn, target Forest becomes an X/X Treefolk creature in addition to its other types, where X is the number of Elves you control.

In beauty-obsessed Lys Alana, one cut of her blade means the difference between a high society feast and raking through the dungheap for scraps.

Lys Alana Scarblade

{T}, Discard an Elf card: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves you control.

Ashaya, the Awoken World

Nissa, Vastwood Seer // Nissa, Sage Animist

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Nissa, Vastwood Seer

When Nissa, Vastwood Seer enters, you may search your library for a basic Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Whenever a land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands, exile Nissa, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control.

Nissa, Sage Animist

+1: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
−2: Create Ashaya, the Awoken World, a legendary 4/4 green Elemental creature token.
−7: Untap up to six target lands. They become 6/6 Elemental creatures. They're still lands.

Nissa, Who Shakes the World

Nissa, Who Shakes the World Emblem

Whenever you tap a Forest for mana, add an additional {G}.
+1: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target noncreature land you control. Untap it. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with vigilance and haste that's still a land.
−8: You get an emblem with "Lands you control have indestructible." Search your library for any number of Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Quest for Renewal

Whenever a creature you control becomes tapped, you may put a quest counter on Quest for Renewal.
As long as there are four or more quest counters on Quest for Renewal, untap all creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

"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.

"Inspiration is found by looking outward."
—Oviya Pashiri, sage lifecrafter

Lifecrafter's Bestiary

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay {G}. If you do, draw a card.

"Naga shed their scales. We wear ours with pride."
—Golran, dragonscale captain

Hardened Scales

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

From the cracks in the stone, she reads stories of the past. From the swirling vines, she glimpses visions of the future.

Nature's Lore

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

"From Gaea grew the world, and the world was silent. From Gaea grew the world's elves, and the world was silent no more."
—Elvish teaching

Elvish Piper

{G}, {T}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Mana lurks in all things, even in the depths of one's own heart."

Devoted Druid

{T}: Add {G}.
Put a -1/-1 counter on Devoted Druid: Untap Devoted Druid.

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.

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