Safe havens amid the desert and dragonstorms, Abzan fortresses attract merchants, travelers, outcasts, and exiles.

Command Tower

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

Temple of Silence

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Serra's blessing lies strongest upon Sursi, where her holy chapels are untouched even as the Cabal encroaches.

Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Concealed Courtyard

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

"Do not linger in such places, child. There the gwyllions dance. If they find you, you will join in their revels for eternity."
—Talara, elvish safewright

Fetid Heath

{T}: Add {C}.
{W/B}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Tainted Field

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

Swamp

Plains

Teysa, Orzhov Scion

Spirit

Sacrifice three white creatures: Exile target creature.
Whenever another black creature you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Kaya, Orzhov Usurper

+1: Exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard. You gain 2 life if at least one creature card was exiled this way.
−1: Exile target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.
−5: Kaya deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards that player owns in exile and you gain that much life.

Athreos, God of Passage

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you own dies, return it to your hand unless target opponent pays 3 life.

Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
{1}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.
{1}{W}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Exile target nonland permanent. Activate only if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total.

Orzhov Enforcer

"You'll pay what you owe, with your money or your life."

Deathtouch
Afterlife 1 (When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.)

"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.

Crypt Ghast

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.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

"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.

City's Blessing

Twilight Prophet

Flying
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

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.

Necropotence

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

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 token: Add one mana of any color.")

Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts

Vigilance, protection from creatures
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, destroy that creature. Create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.

"I feel in them a sense of duty and commitment, yet I can feel nothing else. It is as if their duty is to an empty void."
—Razia, Boros archangel

Angel of Despair

Flying
When this creature enters, destroy target permanent.

Archon of Justice

Flying
When this creature dies, exile target permanent.

Denied the peace of the Blessed Sleep, geists lash out at the living, and the cycle of anger and unrest continues unbroken.

Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

"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.

Scions of the Markov line take particular pleasure in the perversion of humans' holy rituals.

Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Some of Orzhov's cruelest collectors remember their debtors by taste alone.

Debt to the Deathless

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

For a razorkin, painless dissolution is a far worse fate than agonizing death.

Utter End

The queen sent her champion to defeat the necromancer threat. His helmet was returned the next day, warped and stained with blood.

Mortify

Sorin had created Avacyn, so it was a cruelty beyond imagining, a pain beyond description, that it fell upon him to end her forever.

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Merciless Eviction

Choose one —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all planeswalkers.

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}

Mardu lightning fences are the ingenious synthesis of blacksmith skill and stormsinger magic, protecting their dalkovans from even the most fearsome dragonstorms.

Sol Ring

The sigil holds different meanings depending on its form and presentation. While some wear it as a sign of status, others wear it as a sign of debt.

Orzhov Signet

It gathers hues from the twilight mist so that its master can paint a better world.

Painter's Servant

As this creature enters, choose a color.
All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are the chosen color in addition to their other colors.

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

Carrion Feeder

This creature can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

She is the apex of the artificer's craft, the spirit of the divine called out of base metal.

Platinum Angel

Flying
You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

The Church of Dusk teaches there is no gain without loss, no triumph without sacrifice, no drink of exquisite crimson without a dying gasp.

Axis of Mortality

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have two target players exchange life totals.

"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

Life Insurance

All the money in the world won't buy back a pulse.

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.)
Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token.

"Death is merely another foe the Mardu will overcome."

Bloodsoaked Champion

This creature can't block.
Raid — {1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only if you attacked this turn.

"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.

Pitiless Plunderer

"Shame to let good gold go to the grave."

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Boneyard Aberration

Reassembling Skeleton

"If none of the bones are original, is it even the same skele—aaagh!"
—Mort the Philosopher, last words

{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

"Behold! The image of the enemy and all that she has. Trust your envy, and take it."

Magus of the Mirror

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

"Jade-touched, wisteria-crowned, with gifts of gold and the Harvest's blessing, return this honored one to us as sibsig."
—Priests' chant

Gravecrawler

This creature can't block.
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

"'Davvol, blast those elves.' 'Davvol, transport those troops.' No one cares that today is my birthday."

Carnival of Souls

Whenever a creature enters, you lose 1 life and add {B}.

"How can we wage war against ourselves? What happens when the kami of our very souls rise against us? I answer simply: We cannot. We die. There can be no victory in this war."
—Sensei Hisoka, letter to Lord Konda

Night of Souls' Betrayal

Outrider en-Kor

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
{0}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn is dealt to target creature you control instead.

They are the reflection of Rushwood's glow on the edge of a wooden sword.

Task Force

Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, it gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Sanguine Soothsayer

Sanguine Bond

"Blood is constant. Every drop I drink, someone must bleed."
—Vradeen, vampire nocturnus

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Suture Priest

Whenever another creature you control enters, you may gain 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Hellish Sideswipe

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Destroy target creature or Vehicle. If the sacrificed permanent was a Vehicle, draw a card.

Vizkopa Guildmage

{1}{W}{B}: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
{1}{W}{B}: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

"Despite being older than nearly every living thing here, Loot is still just a kid. That doesn't change what we need from him."
—Jace

Bleachbone Verge

{T}: Add {B}.
{T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control a Plains or a Swamp.

"With each knight that rode out from the bone-white keep, the queen's soldiers felt their courage failing."
—Krinnea, *Siege of the Bone Spire*

Corpse Knight

Whenever another creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life.

Even as humans regained the upper hand, some still willingly traded their lives for a chance at immortality.

Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

"My people are no longer slaves to the Eldrazi, beholden to the past. We will determine our own future."

Cliffhaven Vampire

Flying
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

"By the time your knees have worn through your robe, you may have begun to learn your place."

Blind Obedience

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.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Let the past die so the future might live.

Ketramose, the New Dawn

Menace, lifelink, indestructible
Ketramose can't attack or block unless there are seven or more cards in exile.
Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from graveyards and/or the battlefield during your turn, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

"Through the blood of the wicked, we shall be redeemed. Let us pray."

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

"The vampires never had gods. We followed our bloodchiefs. Now they are gone. What is left? Destruction and death, my friends. That is enough."

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

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.

He has "friends" in places both high and low, and all seem to owe him favors.

Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

"The arc of my blade has carved a path of light for the peace that will follow."

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

"One does not question the size or shape of the grains of sand in an hourglass. Nor do I question the temperament of the souls under my guidance."

Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

"Just a nibble for now. I wouldn't want to ruin my appetite."

Indulging Patrician

Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, each opponent loses 3 life.

The Aetherspark

As long as The Aetherspark is attached to a creature, The Aetherspark can't be attacked and has "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage during your turn, put that many loyalty counters on The Aetherspark."
+1: Attach The Aetherspark to up to one target creature you control. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.
−5: Draw two cards.
−10: Add ten mana of any one color.

"Don't think of it as cheating, think of it as track they forgot to lay out for us."
—Rido, Endrider

Risky Shortcut

Draw two cards. Each player loses 2 life.

Obzedat, Ghost Council

When Obzedat enters, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
At the beginning of your end step, you may exile Obzedat. If you do, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of your next upkeep. It gains haste.

"It's not a matter of deserving. It's a matter of strength. The power to hold versus the power to take."

Sygg, River Cutthroat

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn, you may draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)

The Balrog, Durin's Bane

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each permanent sacrificed this turn.
Haste
The Balrog can't be blocked except by legendary creatures.
When The Balrog dies, destroy target artifact or creature an opponent controls.

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