To the Sun Empire, any place where daylight brightens the jungle floor is sacred ground.

Sunpetal Grove

Sunpetal Grove enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Isolated Chapel

Isolated Chapel enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

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 the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

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.

On the surface of Ixalan's vast tar pits, Phyrexian oil glistened, and old bones began to stir.

Jungle Hollow

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

Sandsteppe Citadel

Sandsteppe Citadel enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.

Temple of Malady

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

Temple of Plenty

Temple of Plenty enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Plenty enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Temple of Silence

Temple of Silence enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Silence enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

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 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.

After years of silence, the caves once again echo with the grisly sounds of Phyrexians preparing for war.

Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

Tendo Ice Bridge

Tendo Ice Bridge enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Remove a charge counter from Tendo Ice Bridge: Add one mana of any color.

"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.

"For centuries my creation kept this world in balance. Now only her shadow remains."
—Sorin Markov

Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Orzhov Basilica

Orzhov Basilica enters the battlefield tapped.
When Orzhov Basilica enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {W}{B}.

Golgari Rot Farm

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

Selesnya Sanctuary

Selesnya Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped.
When Selesnya Sanctuary enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{W}.

Polluted Mire

Polluted Mire enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Slippery Karst

Slippery Karst enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Barren Moor

Barren Moor enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"I love what they've done with the place."
—Liliana Vess

Grim Backwoods

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{B}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

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

Foul Orchard

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

Jungle Basin

Jungle Basin enters the battlefield tapped.
When Jungle Basin enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Forest you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{G}.

Ixalan Checklist

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

Growing Rites of Itlimoc

When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters the battlefield, 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.

Take two steps north into the unsettled future, south into the unquiet past, east into the present day, or west into the great unknown.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

"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.

Swamp

Forest

Plains

Verdant Succession

Whenever a green nontoken creature dies, that creature's controller may search their library for a card with the same name as that creature, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"Beings of the rifts are not natural. No longer will these abominations tread upon the body of Gaea."

Riftsweeper

When Riftsweeper enters the battlefield, choose target face-up exiled card. Its owner shuffles it into their library.

In matters of life and death, he trusts his gut.

Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

It has no respect for the deeds of martyrs, reducing their legacy to a mouthful of flesh.

Carrion Feeder

Carrion Feeder can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back."
—Ashnod, to Tawnos

Ashnod's Altar

"Unskin these impure bodies, Great Yawgmoth, that the flesh may welcome your blessings."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

"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.

To the Golgari, anything buried is treasure.

Grisly Salvage

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

"Tread carefully. You remember what happened in the last quiet, peaceful clearing."
—Halana, to Alena

Mulch

Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"All matter, animate or not, rots when exposed to time. We merely speed up the process."
—Ezoc, Golgari rot farmer

Putrefy

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

Eldrazi Spawn

Awakening Zone

The ground erupted in time with the hedron's thrum, a dirge of the last days.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

"Die. But die knowing that your pathetic life will yield a great bounty for me."
—Zul Ashur, lich lord

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

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.

"In these halls there is no pass or fail. Your true test comes with the first full moon."

Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature with power 2 or less enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

"There are two ways for me to pass this gate. One involves you remaining conscious."
—Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Abyssal Gatekeeper

When Abyssal Gatekeeper dies, each player sacrifices a creature.

Puppeteer Clique

Flying
When Puppeteer Clique enters the battlefield, put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. At the beginning of your next end step, exile it.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Eternal Witness

When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Yavimaya Elder

When Yavimaya Elder dies, you may search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
{2}, Sacrifice Yavimaya Elder: Draw a card.

Karmic Guide

Flying, protection from black
Echo {3}{W}{W} (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 Karmic Guide enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The Gitaxians whisper among themselves of other worlds. If they exist, we must bring Phyrexia's magnificence to them."

Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Vigilance
Other creatures you control get +2/+2.
Creatures your opponents control get -2/-2.

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature.

"There is nothing so invigorating and stubbornly belligerent as the pure energy of life."
—Valentin, Witherbloom dean

Essence Pulse

You gain 2 life. Each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

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.

"There are times when destiny calls forth a people and demands an action. *Now* is the time. *We* are the people. *This* is our action. Charge!"
—Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Awakening

At the beginning of each upkeep, untap all creatures and lands.

The barrier between existence and oblivion is thinner than you know.

Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"Here you lie then, Ugin. The corpses of worlds will join you in the tomb."
—Sorin Markov

Bitter Revelation

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 2 life.

"Most wise, most thoughtful, most powerful qadir," said the Gixian, "we offer whatever help we may give in your illustrious name."

Corrupt

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Primal Growth

Kicker—Sacrifice a creature. (You may sacrifice a creature in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If this spell was kicked, instead search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Nylea's Intervention

Choose one —
• Search your library for up to X land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
• Nylea's Intervention deals twice X damage to each creature with flying.

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 you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

Xathrid Necromancer

"My commands shall echo forever in their dusty skulls."

Whenever Xathrid Necromancer or another Human creature you control dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Doomed Dissenter

The most dangerous place to be in Kessig is alone.

When Doomed Dissenter dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Prismite

Dark Ritual

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The Roil redraws the world as it passes, leaving only the hedrons unchanged.

Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Animist's Awakening

Reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, untap those lands.

Saproling

Death Mutation

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is that creature's mana value.

At the instant of death, the mystery of life.

Life's Legacy

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Constant Mists

Buyback—Sacrifice a land. (You may sacrifice a land in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Mimic Vat

Copy

Imprint — Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with Mimic Vat to its owner's graveyard.
{3}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of a card exiled with Mimic Vat. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Without the God-Pharaoh, there would be no Luxa. Without the Luxa, there would be no life.

Luxa River Shrine

{1}, {T}: You gain 1 life. Put a brick counter on Luxa River Shrine.
{T}: You gain 2 life. Activate only if there are three or more brick counters on Luxa River Shrine.

"The time for subtlety is over, darling."

Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni, Undying Partisan.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

A-Blood Artist

Blood Artist

"Vanya Falkenrath's paintings are astonishing. How does she manage to achieve such rich crimson hues?"
—Stefan, art critic

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"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 the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

He'd chosen a sunlit clearing with open skies and an ample brook. All that remained was to find a worthy sapling.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Every branch a crossroads, every vine a swift steed.

Wood Elves

When Wood Elves enters the battlefield, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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