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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.

Swamp

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}.

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
—Lord Windgrace

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

The seat of Belzenlok's power, the Stronghold serves as the gathering place for the Cabal as their dark influence spreads from Urborg.

Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Bojuka Bog

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

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

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.

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}.

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.

Spirit

Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever you tap this land for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

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.

No matter how deep Urza delved, he couldn't escape his regrets.

Urza's Cave

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

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.

Centuries ago, Shizo was a verdant field of wildflowers. After 891 samurai died in a single battle on its grasses, it became a haunted moor.

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}.
{B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Without Locthwain's persistence, the realm would stagnate and die.

Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

"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.)

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.

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.

Cabal Pit

{T}: Add {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

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.

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

"A cursed silhouette to look upon. Even if the halls stand empty, its vile shadows blight the land. I shudder to think of the evils that it held."
—Koth

Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Grasping Dunes

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

Barren Moor

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

Spymaster's Vault

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{B}, {T}: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

Sometimes restoring the lost archives of the Jeskai can be as simple as the quiet ruffle of pages and the smell of fresh ink.

Arcane Signet

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

Every facet a portent of Kelemvor's inevitable judgment.

Charcoal Diamond

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

"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.

"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.

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

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.

Its collapse is like the lashing out of a long-dead civilization that resents being forgotten.

Unstable Obelisk

{T}: Add {C}.
{7}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy target permanent.

The blade glows only for Zendikar's chosen.

Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip {2}

After lightning struck the cliffs, the ore became iron, the iron became steel, and the steel became greaves. The lightning never left.

Lightning Greaves

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

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"It's a difficult task to quarantine a plague that moves with the clouds."
—Esara, healer adept

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Ugin's whispered summons led Sarkhan Vol to the moment that would echo down the centuries and seal Tarkir's fate: the primal battle between Ugin and Nicol Bolas.

Crux of Fate

Choose one —
• Destroy all Dragon creatures.
• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

"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.

Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Dark Ritual

"Each syllable chills your veins. Each word rattles your mind."
—Cabal Patriarch

Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.
Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Smothering Abomination

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.

Once it consecrated the dead. Now it desecrates them.

Withered Wretch

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.

"My power is generosity, in a way. I give my survivors an appreciation for their lives."

Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Bone Shredder

Flying
Echo {2}{B} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.

"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.

Opening Orazca unleashed more horrors than just the Immortal Sun.

Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Noxious Gearhulk

Menace
When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

"He is judge, jury, and executioner because he killed them all."
—Bishop Cawle of Elgaud

Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

The fall of the evening star never heralds a gentle dawn.

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying
When Kokusho dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

The litany of the infernal on his flesh pulses to the beating of his dark heart.

Rune-Scarred Demon

Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"You can sign, or you can spend your life imagining what might have been yours."

Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying
{B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

"Why would I kill you all? Who then would be left to worship me?"

Archfiend of Depravity

Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Zombie

Grave Titan

Deathtouch
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

A spark of resistance against a tide of corruption.

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

No one welcomes his visit, yet all must grant him tribute.

Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Grim Haruspex

Morph

"We all want to know what's going on in someone else's head. I simply open it up and look."

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

What is a sliver of one's soul compared to unimaginable wealth?

Greed

Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

Mardu blacksmiths can distill the technology of any clan and make it their own. Whether or not they should is another question.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

Icon of Ancestry

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
{3}, {T}: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card of the chosen type from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Vanquisher's Banner

As this artifact 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.

Obelisk of Urd

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +2/+2.

Door of Destinies

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

Herald's Horn

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

"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.

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.)

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}.

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

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