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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

Plains

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.

Human

Castle Ardenvale

Without Ardenvale's loyalty, the realm would greedily devour itself.

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Unlike most churches, at Orzhova it's best to pray before you arrive.

Orzhova, the Church of Deals

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}{W}{B}, {T}: Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Kabira Crossroads

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {W}.

Shambling Vent

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{1}{W}{B}: This land becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink until end of turn. It's still a land.

Leechridden Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)
This land enters tapped.
{B}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.

Secluded Steppe

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

Deep within the Cabal's vault, the Mirari pulsed like a dead sun—and its darkness radiated across Otaria.

Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Bojuka Bog

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

"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.

Isolated Chapel

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

Orzhov Basilica

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {W}{B}.

Godless Shrine

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

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}.

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}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

For the Champions of Amonkhet, the stakes go beyond victory. They race to show the Multiverse that their home is not a dead plane to be mourned, but a living world just beginning to awaken.

Scoured Barrens

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

Tainted Field

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

Where victors are commemorated and moments of glory immortalized.

Vault of Champions

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Enter to find wealth, security, and eternal life . . . for just a small price up front.

Orzhov Guildgate

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

"Our world is vast, but Thraben is its heart. The cathedral must stand even if the hinterlands are lost."
—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Evolving Wilds

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

A flickering beacon of righteous corruption.

Shineshadow Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{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}.

The Quietus Cult holds their grim ceremonies in the dark places where unburied dead litter the ground.

Shattered Sanctum

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

Concealed Courtyard

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

Some say the knowledge lost during the Ritual of Rebuking is returned through the well's waters.

Well of Lost Dreams

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {X}, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

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.

"Does Teysa think me blind to her scheming? Ambition runs in our family."

Karlov of the Ghost Council

Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Karlov.
{W}{B}, Remove six +1/+1 counters from Karlov: Exile target creature.

"We trust in the scalelords, bringers of justice that none can escape."
—Urdnan, Dromoka warrior

Sunscorch Regent

Flying
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

It surveys the withering landscape, waiting for a victory only it can see.

Felidar Sovereign

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 40 or more life, you win the game.

"She spoke of mystery and portent, of such unfathomable things that my mind screamed for pity."
—*The Seer's Parables*

Divinity of Pride

Flying, lifelink
This creature gets +4/+4 as long as you have 25 or more life.

Twice brewed and twice blessed, the remedy restores both body and mind.

Boon Reflection

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Soldier

Dawn of Hope

"To wage war, secure peace within yourself."
—Emmara

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.
{3}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

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.)

While most power is used for ordinary, everyday tasks, one shouldn't underestimate its potential for the extraordinary.

Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.
Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

"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.

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.

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.

Once rejected by his pride, Ajani is now revered by countless leonin as a healer and, more importantly, a friend.

Ajani's Pridemate

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

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 this creature.

It contains the totality of Alhammarret's notes, theories, and ponderings.

Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

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.

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.

"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.

The lives of elves are long, but their memories are longer. Even after death, they do not desert their homes.

Wall of Reverence

Defender, flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.

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

Treasury Thrull

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 this creature attacks, you may return target artifact, creature, or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

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.

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 timelines forever fray, branch, and intermingle. Others end abruptly.

Return to Dust

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

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

Mortify

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

Utter End

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.

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.

Sun Titan

Vigilance
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.

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.

Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 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

Promise of Power

Choose one —
• You draw five cards and you lose 5 life.
• Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Dead Man's Chest

Enchant creature an opponent controls
When enchanted creature dies, exile cards equal to its power from the top of its owner's library. You may cast spells from among those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them.

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.

Sorin Markov

+2: Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
−3: Target opponent's life total becomes 10.
−7: You control target player during that player's next turn.

Sorin, Grim Nemesis

Vampire Knight

+1: Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. Each opponent loses life equal to its mana value.
−X: Sorin deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.
−9: Create a number of 1/1 black Vampire Knight creature tokens with lifelink equal to the highest life total among all players.

Vampire

Sorin, Lord of Innistrad

Sorin, Lord of Innistrad Emblem

+1: Create a 1/1 black Vampire creature token with lifelink.
−2: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+0."
−6: Destroy up to three target creatures and/or other planeswalkers. Return each card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control.

Liliana of the Dark Realms

Liliana of the Dark Realms Emblem

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
−6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
{T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

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

Greed

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

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