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Azor's Gateway // Sanctum of the Sun

Azor's Gateway

{1}, {T}: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand. If cards with five or more different mana values are exiled with Azor's Gateway, you gain 5 life, untap Azor's Gateway, and transform it.

As soon as Jace laid eyes on the great sphinx's chamber, the shards of memory began sliding into place.

Sanctum of the Sun

(Transforms from Azor's Gateway.)
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is your life total.

Built in honor of Alara's creatures, the ziggurat vanished long ago. When Progenitus awakened, the temple emerged again.

Ancient Ziggurat

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

When defeat is near and guidance is scarce, all eyes look in one direction.

Command Tower

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

Emeria, the Sky Ruin

Emeria, the Sky Ruin enters the battlefield tapped.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more Plains, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
{T}: Add {W}.

Plains

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

Homeward Path

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

Terrain Generator

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

{T}: Add {W}.
Channel — {2}{W}, Discard Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

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}.

Kabira Crossroads

Kabira Crossroads enters the battlefield tapped.
When Kabira Crossroads enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {W}.

"When gods become apathetic, the people will worship anyone who answers their pleas."
—Kiora

Temple of the False God

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

There is no glory to be gained in the kingdom of the dead.
—Vec tomb inscription

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield 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.)

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Dust-spiked winds eroded the stones, but the ground where they had stood still holds power.

Flagstones of Trokair

{T}: Add {W}.
When Flagstones of Trokair is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters the battlefield with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

"The wilds are unpredictable. Rivers change course, trees shuffle and bend, rocks split and scurry. But mark my words, traveler—the main thing that'll change out there is *you*."
—Sturwynn, Boundary Lands ranger

Evolving Wilds

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

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Demolition Field: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, 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 Command Beacon: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Karoo

Karoo enters the battlefield tapped.
When Karoo enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Plains you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{W}.

Some worlds possess a hidden core where life's essence constantly surges.

Mutavault

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mutavault becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.

Seraph Sanctuary

When Seraph Sanctuary enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
Whenever an Angel enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Secluded Steppe

Secluded Steppe enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Windbrisk Heights

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Windbrisk Heights enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{W}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if you attacked with three or more creatures this turn.

Admonition Angel

Flying
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may exile target nonland permanent other than Admonition Angel.
When Admonition Angel leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.

"Wrath is no vice when inflicted upon the deserving."

Akroma, Angel of Wrath

Flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, haste, protection from black and from red

Angel of Serenity

Flying
When Angel of Serenity enters the battlefield, you may exile up to three other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards.
When Angel of Serenity leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

"A keen mind wields an army as a deft hand wields a sword."

Angelic Skirmisher

Flying
At the beginning of each combat, choose first strike, vigilance, or lifelink. Creatures you control gain that ability until end of turn.

Archangel of Thune

Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last.

Avacyn, Angel of Hope

Flying, vigilance, indestructible
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Some angels protect the meek and innocent. Others seek out and smite evil wherever it lurks.

Baneslayer Angel

Flying, first strike, lifelink, protection from Demons and from Dragons

Those who seek to disturb the harmony of life will see their instruments taken from them.

Linvala, Keeper of Silence

Flying
Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated.

Angel

Luminarch Ascension

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if you didn't lose life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Luminarch Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.)
{1}{W}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if Luminarch Ascension has four or more quest counters on it.

Resplendent Angel

Flying
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 5 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance.
{3}{W}{W}{W}: Until end of turn, Resplendent Angel gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink.

Serra the Benevolent Emblem

Serra the Benevolent

+2: Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1 until end of turn.
−3: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance.
−6: You get an emblem with "If you control a creature, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead."

There may exist powers even greater than Phyrexia.

Sunblast Angel

Flying
When Sunblast Angel enters the battlefield, destroy all tapped creatures.

Bird

Emeria Angel

When the earth shudders, the sky overflows.

Flying
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.

Sephara, Sky's Blade

You may pay {W} and tap four untapped creatures you control with flying rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Flying, lifelink
Other creatures you control with flying have indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

"Only when my sword lies idle shall I rejoice."

Seraph of the Sword

Flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Seraph of the Sword.

Sublime Archangel

Flying
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Other creatures you control have exalted. (If a creature has multiple instances of exalted, each triggers separately.)

Voice of All

Flying
As Voice of All enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Voice of All has protection from the chosen color.

"Though Innistrad is not cleansed of evil, we finally have cause to rejoice."

Angel of Jubilation

Flying
Other nonblack creatures you control get +1/+1.
Players can't pay life or sacrifice creatures to cast spells or activate abilities.

She arrived like a meteorite, and the enemy fell in a shock wave of holy vengeance.

Angel of the Dire Hour

Flash
Flying
When Angel of the Dire Hour enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, exile all attacking creatures.

Exhale, and let the winds carry your soul for all eternity.

Sublime Exhalation

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.)
Destroy all creatures.

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

In their final moments, the demons gazed upon grace in its purest form.

Cleansing Nova

Choose one —
• Destroy all creatures.
• Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

"Ghirapur's gremlin population poses a threat to the infrastructure of the fairgrounds. Threats must be eliminated."
—Sram, senior edificer

Fumigate

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Winds of Abandon

Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Overload {4}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Smothering Tithe

Treasure

"I await your donation."
—Dasha, Orzhov priest

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Angelic Destiny

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +4/+4, has flying and first strike, and is an Angel in addition to its other types.
When enchanted creature dies, return Angelic Destiny to its owner's hand.

Day of Judgment

Mass Calcify

Angels watch over mortals with heavy hearts, knowing what fate awaits them in the end.

Angelic Renewal

Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may sacrifice Angelic Renewal. If you do, return that card to the battlefield.

The Boros built a prison in the sky where Azorius statutes couldn't restrict their sense of justice.

Angelic Edict

Vampires know blood and the systems that carry it. And they know exactly where to strike to set it free.

Bright Reprisal

Destroy target attacking creature.
Draw a card.

Decree of Justice

Soldier

Create X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying.
Cycling {2}{W} ({2}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Decree of Justice, you may pay {X}. If you do, create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Gideon Blackblade

As long as it's your turn, Gideon Blackblade is a 4/4 Human Soldier creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Gideon Blackblade during your turn.
+1: Up to one other target creature you control gains your choice of vigilance, lifelink, or indestructible until end of turn.
−6: Exile target nonland permanent.

When the great vault fell, it scattered its wonders across Thunder Junction.

Sol Ring

"Why do bad things always come in threes?"
—Gisulf, expedition survivor

Triskelion

Triskelion enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Triskelion: It deals 1 damage to any target.

A weapon of darkness for a warrior of light.

Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.
{1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip {2}

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

Temple Bell

Most clocks measure time, but a few measure everything.

Clock of Omens

Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Untap target artifact.

Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle

Flying
Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Its eyes burned nearly blind by the Whitesun, it hunts by metallic gleam.

Glint Hawk

Flying
When Glint Hawk enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you return an artifact you control to its owner's hand.

Blasting Station

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Blasting Station deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you may untap Blasting Station.

"It has been my honor to improve on Thran's original design. Perhaps history will remember me in some small part for my work."
—Urza, in his apprenticeship

Ornithopter

Cryptic Trilobite

Cryptic Trilobite enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Cryptic Trilobite: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.
{1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Cryptic Trilobite.

"I was not chosen for my faith in the gods. Sometimes the gods must put their faith in us."
—Elspeth

Sunbond

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature."

Staff of Domination

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

Odric, Lunarch Marshal

At the beginning of each combat, creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn if a creature you control has first strike. The same is true for flying, deathtouch, double strike, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, skulk, trample, and vigilance.

Sun Titan

Vigilance
Whenever Sun Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness."
—Volrath

Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

After it passed by, the rancher swore she saw hope shining in the pigs' eyes.

Holy Cow

Flash
Flying
When Holy Cow enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Angelic Accord

As demons are drawn to suffering, angels are drawn to acts of benevolence.

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 4 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying.

Righteous Valkyrie

Flying
Whenever another Angel or Cleric enters the battlefield under your control, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.
As long as you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2.

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Bishop of Wings

Spirit

"Within every angel is a spirit of light that will fight as long as there is darkness."

Whenever an Angel enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 4 life.
Whenever an Angel you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

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