Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

"All peoples treasure a place where the weary traveler may drink in peace."
—Ajani Goldmane

Radiant Fountain

When Radiant Fountain enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Enter and become a mastermind of spies, lies, and deception.

Dimir Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Swamp

Island

Dimir Aqueduct

Dimir Aqueduct enters tapped.
When Dimir Aqueduct enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}{B}.

None can tell how many vessels are tangled up on the sea floor—or how much treasure remains unclaimed.

Drowned Catacomb

Drowned Catacomb enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

"Long after the land has given up the last of its secrets, there will still be mysteries in the depths of the sea."
—Kiora

Submerged Boneyard

Submerged Boneyard enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Fetid Pools enters tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Choked Estuary

As Choked Estuary enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, Choked Estuary enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Lotus Field

Hexproof
Lotus Field enters tapped.
When Lotus Field enters, sacrifice two lands.
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

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}.

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.

Spymaster's Vault

Spymaster's Vault 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.)

Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

"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.

On the continent of Tazeem, rushing waters plunge through narrow canyons into mist-cloaked lakes.

Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Sunken Hollow enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Tainted Isle

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Murky Otarian tides hide the forgotten treacheries of the Phyrexian war.

Darkwater Catacombs

"The Westfolk wept, and their tears wore winding rivers into the cheek of the world."
—Glem the Lonebard, "Origins of Kholon"

River of Tears

{T}: Add {U}. If you played a land this turn, add {B} instead.

Port of Karfell

Port of Karfell enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{3}{U}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Port of Karfell: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters 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.

Undercity Sewers

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Undercity Sewers enters tapped.
When Undercity Sewers enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

A circus acrobat in life, she kills with such fluid grace that even her victims are awed by her performance.

Bloodthirsty Aerialist

Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodthirsty Aerialist.

Murderous Rider // Swift End

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Murderous Rider

Lifelink
When Murderous Rider 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.)

"Fleshy, with just a hint of leather. A fine vintage."

Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

"Give of yourself, for *compleation* awaits the cleansed."
—Nokar, priest of Sheoldred

Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

"The greatest victory is a battle unfought."
—*Tome of Obstructions*

Essence Scatter

"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.

Many an inventor has collapsed under the pressure to create a flawless design.

Mind Rot

"I love those who are eager to serve."
—Liliana Vess

Rise Again

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"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.

"Watch people flock to a murder scene. Then tell me we're not all a little sick in the head."
—Juri, proprietor of the Juri Revue

Grisly Spectacle

Destroy target nonartifact creature. Its controller mills cards equal to that creature's power.

Whispers of Emrakul

Target opponent discards a card at random.
Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, that player discards two cards at random instead.

The void is without substance but cuts like steel.

Doom Blade

A screech in the night is all it takes for Orzhov debtors to clutch at their coin purses.

Basilica Screecher

Flying
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

No guilds—that is her rule. The House vampires unnerve her. The Combine would dissect her, the Legion burn her, the Conclave "cure" her. The shadows are all the family she needs.

Child of Night

Knight of the Ebon Legion

{2}{B}: Knight of the Ebon Legion gets +3/+3 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, if a player lost 4 or more life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Knight of the Ebon Legion. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Lazotep Reaver

Zombie Army

Despite their many forms, the Eternals worked in chilling harmony, unburdened by instinct or emotion.

When Lazotep Reaver enters, amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

"They are called Eternals. They will never stop."
—Jace Beleren

Eternal Taskmaster

Eternal Taskmaster enters tapped.
Whenever Eternal Taskmaster attacks, you may pay {2}{B}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

With a snap of metal like a strike of lightning, the tide of war shifted in Mishra's favor.

Disfigure

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

It waits in the chill of the undercity, holding nameless secrets for those who dare to touch it.

Dimir Cluestone

{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Dimir Cluestone: Draw a card.

"Wear this, and take your place among the shadows—wise, lethal, and unseen."
—Ivrelya, Dimir spymaster

Dimir Locket

{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{U/B}{U/B}{U/B}{U/B}, {T}, Sacrifice Dimir Locket: Draw two cards.

An emblem of a secret guild, the Dimir insignia is seen only by its own members—and the doomed.

Dimir Signet

"Time is like the Luxa River—though it flows in one direction, it can be diverted."

Vizier of Tumbling Sands

{T}: Untap another target permanent.
Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Vizier of Tumbling Sands, untap target permanent.

The greatest treasure of the deep is an echo from above.

Salvager of Secrets

When Salvager of Secrets enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"My 'condition' is a trial. The weak are consumed by it. The strong transcend it."
—Sorin Markov

Mark of the Vampire

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has lifelink.

"Mists are carefree. They drift where they will, unencumbered by rocks and river beds."
—Thrasios, triton hero

Vaporkin

Flying
Vaporkin can block only creatures with flying.

Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper

Merfolk curiosity usually has dire consequences, but rarely for the merfolk.

Merfolk Secretkeeper

Venture Deeper

Target player mills four cards. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Return from Extinction

Choose one —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Return two target creature cards that share a creature type from your graveyard to your hand.

Tezzeret's Touch

Enchant artifact
Enchanted artifact is a creature with base power and toughness 5/5 in addition to its other types.
When enchanted artifact is put into a graveyard, return that card to its owner's hand.

Even in the relative safety of the city, there are places best left undisturbed.

Trespasser's Curse

Enchant player
Whenever a creature enchanted player controls enters, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"Your death will take a mere moment, but it will feel like an eternity."
—Vilis, Broker of Blood

Agonizing Syphon

Agonizing Syphon deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

"Three daggers left in an angel's back, three enforcers with memory loss, three keys stolen from my own belt—and you talk of peace?"
—Tajic, to Aurelia

Nightveil Predator

Flying, deathtouch
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

"Sure, I hear things. I hear plenty. But how am I to talk with this parched throat?"

Whispering Snitch

Whenever you surveil for the first time each turn, Whispering Snitch deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

Open the Graves

Zombie

It was a night like any other. It would soon become a night no one would ever forget.

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

"These terms are acceptable to House Dimir. Shall we shake on it?"

Silent Dart

{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Silent Dart: It deals 3 damage to target creature.

"Death—an outmoded concept. We sleep, and we change."
—Sitrik, birth priest

Exhume

Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.

Dwell longest on the thoughts that shine brightest.

Sift

One day, they may be paragons of deadly elegance. For the moment, they possess nothing but thirst.

Vampire Neonate

{2}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"Yarok's waters rush and rage
Where armies bled into the sand."
—*Lament for Bala Ged*, stanza 2

Yarok's Wavecrasher

When Yarok's Wavecrasher enters, return another creature you control to its owner's hand.

"As one, nature lifts its voice to tell you this: 'No.'"

Negate

What a lonely agony, the memory of memories lost.

Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Nagging Thoughts

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Madness {1}{U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Once they reached Orazca, the Legion's explorers ransacked tombs and temples, hunting for the Immortal Sun.

Dusk Legion Zealot

When Dusk Legion Zealot enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Though its mind has long since rotted away, it wields a sword with deadly skill.

Diregraf Captain

Deathtouch
Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.

"At least this one still has arms and legs. Well, most of its legs."
—Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Diregraf Ghoul

It wails of buried riches and the souls lost seeking them.

Howling Golem

Whenever Howling Golem attacks or blocks, each player draws a card.

A lich must consume mortal souls to feed its eternal life.

Lich's Caress

Destroy target creature. You gain 3 life.

Ashiok's Erasure

Flash
When Ashiok's Erasure enters, exile target spell.
Your opponents can't cast spells with the same name as the exiled card.
When Ashiok's Erasure leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.

Aberrant Researcher // Perfected Form

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"Metamorphosis is a process."
—Laboratory notes

Aberrant Researcher

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If an instant or sorcery card was milled this way, transform Aberrant Researcher.

The final pages of the experiment log were blank. Investigators found it abandoned on a desk in the researcher's lab, open, the pages flipping in the wind from a shattered window.

Perfected Form

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.)

Grotesque Mutation

Target creature gets +3/+1 and gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

"It's cold in the grave, and the dead crave your warmth. Who are you to deny them?"
—Strava, Dimir mage

Death's Approach

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -X/-X, where X is the number of creature cards in its controller's graveyard.

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