Island

Plains

Swamp

Nadir Kraken

Tentacle

Meeting one is definitely the low point of your life.

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Nadir Kraken and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

"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

"No life is without meaning. No living thing is too small to be strong."

Healer of the Pride

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 2 life.

"There will be gains for our losses. There will be rights for our wrongs."

Confessor

Whenever a player discards a card, you may gain 1 life.

"The skirges screech along with the bone saw. It makes a terrible racket, but they seem to enjoy it."
—Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor

Skirge Familiar

In truth, her own faith was gone, trodden in Ulamog's wake. She pantomimed the blessing in the hope that it would inspire others to continue to struggle.

Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

"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.

A-Queza, Augur of Agonies

Queza, Augur of Agonies

Some try to unravel the tangled skeins of fate. She reweaves them to her own deadly design.

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"You cannot defend others if your own well-being is neglected."

Ajani's Welcome

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

"I'm not saying I'm sure it's a trap. I'm just saying it wasn't there yesterday and I'm pretty sure I heard it whisper my name. If you're so curious, you touch it."
—Angus, survivor scout

Sol Ring

Parallax Wave

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
Remove a fade counter from Parallax Wave: Exile target creature.
When Parallax Wave leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards they own exiled with Parallax Wave.

Leonin Relic-Warder

When Leonin Relic-Warder enters, you may exile target artifact or enchantment.
When Leonin Relic-Warder leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

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, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Rebel

Blade of Shared Souls

For Mirrodin! (When this Equipment enters, create a 2/2 red Rebel creature token, then attach this to it.)
Whenever Blade of Shared Souls becomes attached to a creature, for as long as Blade of Shared Souls remains attached to it, you may have that creature become a copy of another target creature you control.
Equip {2}

Golem

Triplicate Titan

Flying, vigilance, trample
When Triplicate Titan dies, create a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token with flying, a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token with vigilance, and a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token with trample.

Hexavus

Flying
Hexavus enters with six +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Hexavus: Put a flying counter on another target creature.
{1}, Remove a counter from another creature you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on Hexavus.

Glen Elendra Archmage

Flying
{U}, Sacrifice Glen Elendra Archmage: Counter target noncreature spell.
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.)

Rodolf Duskbringer

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever you gain life, Rodolf Duskbringer gains indestructible until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}{W/B}. When you do, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Jhoira stumbled upon an ally, not just a good source of spare parts.

The Peregrine Dynamo

Haste
{1}, {T}: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control from another legendary source that's not a commander. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Citizens are free to do as they wish, within the confines of the Consulate's laws.

Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

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: Aetherflux Reservoir deals 50 damage to any target.

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.

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.

"Strictly speaking, you can't kill what's already dead, but trapping and disintegrating it is pretty close."
—Garden, survivor technologist

Exorcise

Exile target artifact, enchantment, or creature with power 4 or greater.

Marina Vendrell's Grimoire

When Marina Vendrell's Grimoire enters, if you cast it, draw five cards.
You have no maximum hand size and don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards.
Whenever you lose life, discard that many cards. Then if you have no cards in hand, you lose the game.

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.

Rhystic Study

Archival Whorl

Friends teach what you want to know. Enemies teach what you *need* to know.

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

"At least the razorkin are happy when they kill you. The walkers don't even notice."
—Angus, survivor scout

Shroudstomper

Deathtouch
Whenever Shroudstomper enters or attacks, each opponent loses 2 life. You gain 2 life and draw a card.

Enduring Tenacity

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Starscape Cleric

Offspring {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Flying
This creature can't block.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Though the spirits' bodies were ethereal, Agnur soon learned that their blades were quite solid—and razor-sharp.

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Lunar Convocation

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained and lost life this turn, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

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 artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

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.

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

Felidar Sovereign

Vigilance, lifelink
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 40 or more life, you win the game.

Essence Channeler

As long as you've lost life this turn, Essence Channeler has flying and vigilance.
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Essence Channeler.
When Essence Channeler dies, put its counters on target creature you control.

"The cost of your opposition will be extracted from your wits."
—Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Propaganda

Here, the Mistmoors slump like a grieving parent, the once-thriving fields drowned by the relentless deluge.

Floodfarm Verge

{T}: Add {W}.
{T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.

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.

Counterspell

"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.

"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.

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.

Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff

"Whatever is wrong in the Shire, Lotho will be at the bottom of it: you can be sure of that."
—Pippin

Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

"You'd better be worth it."
—Liliana Vess

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

"To comprehend the full answer requires years of temporal study. In short, they were now never born in the first place."
—Teferi

Time Wipe

Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.

Rhoxes who live long enough to retire from war lend support with their extensive knowledge of combat injuries.

Rhox Faithmender

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

The Arbiter is a conduit of justice, a will so disciplined that it dispenses justice without ego or remorse.

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Spells your opponents cast cost {1} more to cast.

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.

"Bottled life. Not as tasty as I'm used to, rather stale, but it has the same effect."
—Baron Sengir

Elixir of Immortality

{2}, {T}: You gain 5 life. Shuffle Elixir of Immortality and your graveyard into their owner's library.

Final Showdown

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {1} — All creatures lose all abilities until end of turn.
+ {1} — Choose a creature you control. It gains indestructible until end of turn.
+ {3}{W}{W} — Destroy all creatures.

"We had years to prepare, while they had mere minutes."
—Kerrick, sleeper agent

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Astarion, the Decadent

Deathtouch, lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, choose one —
• Feed — Target opponent loses life equal to the amount of life they lost this turn.
• Friends — You gain life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

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.

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

Dimir Signet

When you spend most of your time running for your life, it pays to invest in quality footwear.

Lightning Greaves

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

Ashiok, Dream Render

Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause their controller to search their library.
−1: Target player mills four cards. Then exile each opponent's graveyard.

The gods are fascinated by innocence, perhaps because it's a quality they themselves lack.

Nyx-Fleece Ram

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life.

"When you learn to read the tides of fate, it's easy to catch the outcomes you desire."

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Archaeomancer's Map

When Archaeomancer's Map enters, search your library for up to two basic Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player controls more lands than you, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"I bring a dawn that no night can follow."

Heliod's Intervention

Choose one —
• Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments.
• Target player gains twice X life.

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (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.)

When the task spilled over into undeath, he stopped calling it his life's work.

Ad Nauseam

Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.

Though Serra is long dead, her legacy of grace and kindness will live on forever.

Serra Avatar

Serra Avatar's power and toughness are each equal to your life total.
When Serra Avatar is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life.
Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card and each opponent loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Oloro, Ageless Ascetic is in the command zone, you gain 2 life.

Copy

The Scarab God

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control.
{2}{U}{B}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

The Necrobloom

Plant

Zombie

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token. If you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token instead.
Land cards in your graveyard have dredge 2. (You may return a land card from your graveyard to your hand and mill two cards instead of drawing a card.)

Goblin

Krenko, Mob Boss

"He displays a perverse charisma fueled by avarice. Highly dangerous. Recommend civil sanctions."
—Agmand Sarv, Azorius hussar

{T}: Create X 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens, where X is the number of Goblins you control.

Atraxa, Grand Unifier

Flying, vigilance, deathtouch, lifelink
When Atraxa, Grand Unifier enters, reveal the top ten cards of your library. For each card type, you may put a card of that type from among the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.)

Kestia, the Cultivator

Bestow {3}{G}{W}{U} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)
Enchanted creature gets +4/+4.
Whenever an enchanted creature or enchantment creature you control attacks, draw a card.

Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

Flying, vigilance, deathtouch, lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"I like to think Kytheon keeps watch over all of us."

Taranika, Akroan Veteran

Vigilance
Whenever Taranika, Akroan Veteran attacks, untap another target creature you control. Until end of turn, that creature has base power and toughness 4/4 and gains indestructible.

Vampire

Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Lifelink
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda, the Dusk Rose.
When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

Disa the Restless

Whenever a Lhurgoyf permanent card is put into your graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, put it onto the battlefield.
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Tarmogoyf token.

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