Ixalan Checklist

Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz

High Marshal Arguel

Arguel's vision led him into the jungles of Ixalan . . .

Arguel's Blood Fast

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 5 or less life, you may transform Arguel's Blood Fast.

. . . to the lost temple of a bat-god of night, eternal enemy to the Threefold Sun.

Temple of Aclazotz

(Transforms from Arguel's Blood Fast.)
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

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.)

Command Tower

Tower Winder

"The Path of Flame is a flamekin's most personal journey. You must walk it for yourself, but you'll never walk alone."
—Zasharua, Brighthearth mentor

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

"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.

Swamp

Ifnir Deadlands

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Grasping Dunes

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
{T}: Add {B}.

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Amid rumors of war, the third act of *The Absolution of the Guildpact* was quickly rewritten as a tragedy.

Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Witch's Cottage

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

Myriad Landscape

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

Snow-Covered Swamp

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: 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.

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.

Barren Moor

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

Murderous Rider // Swift End

On an Adventure

Murderous Rider

Lifelink
When this creature dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

Swift End

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

It wasn't long before the taverns of High and Dry were full of whispers about the new captain who could turn a person to stone with a glance.

Vraska's Contempt

Exile target creature or planeswalker. You gain 2 life.

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Demon

Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath Emblem

Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

+2: Each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
−2: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. You lose 2 life.
−8: You get an emblem with "{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the sacrificed creature's power."
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath can be your commander.

As the Eldrazi spread, no secret that could give Zendikar's defenders an advantage was considered too dangerous to seek.

Painful Truths

Converge — You draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

Eirdu's adherents invoke its blessings with jingling bells and dancing feet. Where there is joy, there is the warmth of the sun.

Arcane Signet

"I often think on how excited they must feel to be chosen as my prey."

Falkenrath Noble

Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Ophiomancer

Snake

"There are dark, ancient arts that fascinate even me."
—Sorin Markov

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

His verdict is always guilty. His sentence is always death.

Butcher of Malakir

Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

"We have barely begun to learn the secrets of the Fourth People. Every remnant of their presence, however cryptic, is a gift."
—Akal Pakal, First Steward of Oteclan

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

It bends not light but mana, aligning its chaotic currents into the sharp angles necessary for the mystic's purposes.

Prismatic Lens

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

"You've begun to understand the hedrons' true purpose," said Ugin. "The Eldrazi can be imprisoned."
"And how did that work out last time?" asked Jace.

Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

"Under the suns, Mirrodin kneels and begs us for perfection."
—Geth, Lord of the Vault

Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Many have heard the beginning of its low, sustained shriek but few the end.

Midnight Banshee

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each nonblack creature.

Human

Slaughter Specialist

When this creature enters, each opponent creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Linger on death's door and risk being invited in.

Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Massacre Girl

Menace
When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Sinking into the Dross is neither a gentle death nor a quiet one. But once the necrogen takes hold, it is inevitable.

Drown in Ichor

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"Where once there was complacence, Sheoldred brought ambition, and soon the will of Yawgmoth reigned."
—Monument inscription

Black Sun's Twilight

Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Blowflies only infest corpses, but if none are available, they have no trouble making some.

Blowfly Infestation

Whenever a creature dies, if it had a -1/-1 counter on it, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Human Soldier

Bastion of Remembrance

Lives taken are lives not easily forgotten.

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"Our archers made sport of it as it fumbled its way up the slag ridge. As it collapsed we thought ourselves safe, but the foul thing carried more than necrogen."
—Adaran, Tangle hunter

Fume Spitter

Sacrifice this creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Not an arrow loosed, javelin thrown, nor sword raised. None were needed.

Bile Blight

Target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature get -3/-3 until end of turn.

"On vile wings and bloody wind, the swarm will rise."
—Skyclave inscription

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Shadowmoor's main crops are rot, slime, and despair.

Incremental Blight

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, two -1/-1 counters on another target creature, and three -1/-1 counters on a third target creature.

Radiation

Nuclear Fallout

The end of the world occurred as predicted: too many humans, not enough space or resources to go around. The details are trivial and pointless. The reasons, as always, purely human ones.

Each creature gets twice -X/-X until end of turn. Each player gets X rad counters.

"I welcome the use of even the foulest magic if it will rid us of the monstrosities that plague our world."
—Munda, ambush leader

Grasp of Darkness

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Rise of the Dread Marn

Zombie Berserker

Foretell

Create X 2/2 black Zombie Berserker creature tokens, where X is the number of nontoken creatures that died this turn.
Foretell {B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Yesterday's marvels are today's antiques.

Make Obsolete

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Poison Counter

Infectious Inquiry

"I give you pain, you give me information. A simple trade, is it not?"

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. Each opponent gets a poison counter.

Contagion Clasp

When this artifact enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"The Consulate pushed me to my limit, darling, and this is the result."

Yahenni's Expertise

All creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn.
You may cast a spell with mana value 3 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Erebos's Intervention

Choose one —
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.
• Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Massacre

If an opponent controls a Plains and you control a Swamp, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Druids hold certain plants to be sacred and use their leaves and wood as a spellcasting focus.

Wayfarer's Bauble

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

"Your creations are effective, Sheoldred, but we must unite the flesh, not merely flay it."
—Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Skinrender

When this creature enters, put three -1/-1 counters on target creature.

"Forget your human ancestors. You're part of my family now."

Bloodline Culling

Choose one —
• Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
• Creature tokens get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Blightbelly Rat

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
When this creature dies, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"I use maps to find out where explorers have already been. Then I go the other way."
—Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

"Defy me and I will burn the flesh from your bones. Betray me and I will steal the breath from your lungs."

Kaervek, the Spiteful

Eternal Thirst

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has lifelink and "Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Banewhip Punisher

When this creature enters, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target creature that has a -1/-1 counter on it.

"You were so eager to take and consume. Yet when asked to give, you refuse?"

Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

"I will not live as a slave. If you would be free, then fight alongside me."

Drana, Liberator of Malakir

Flying, first strike
Whenever Drana deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.

When Titania offered peace, Urza merely turned her down. Mishra made her people pay for the insult.

Go for the Throat

"The lasting effects are invariably fatal."
—Phyrexian progress notes

Plague Engineer

Deathtouch
As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures of the chosen type your opponents control get -1/-1.

Liliana's Influence

Liliana, Death Wielder

+2: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature.
−3: Destroy target creature with a -1/-1 counter on it.
−10: Return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

On Innistrad, one person's windfall usually starts with another person lying face down in the mud.

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

The Masamune

As long as equipped creature is attacking, it has first strike and must be blocked if able.
Equipped creature has "If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of this creature or an emblem you own to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time."
Equip {2}

Lockjaw Snapper

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
When this creature dies, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature with a -1/-1 counter on it.

"I didn't say I would help you find your way home. I said I would help you finish your adventure."

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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