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

Growing Rites of Itlimoc

When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters, 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.

Command Tower

Tower Winder

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

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

Temple Garden

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

"Log 2.5.325: A newborn moon, Aqqat still churns with the fires of creation. I'm eager to see what it will become!"
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Stomping Ground

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

Sheltered Thicket

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"Log 2.2.119: Kiln, known for its blazing forges and ancient lava seeps. The footing may be treacherous, but the metallurgy is grand!"
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Sacred Foundry

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

The sunlight falls pristine on the temple at Epityr, softened by the remembered shadows of angelic saviors' wings.

Clifftop Retreat

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

"We may fight the Temur when territory demands it, but we've no desire to profane their sacred places."
—Taklai, Mardu convoy

Rugged Highlands

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

Krosan Verge

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest card and a Plains card, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"As Terisiare's mines ran dry, scrap metal became increasingly plentiful."
—*The Antiquities War*

Battlefield Forge

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Cliffs echo and branches quake at the roar of life.

Rootbound Crag

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Temple of Abandon

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 {R} or {G}.

Temple of Triumph

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 {R} or {W}.

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

Sunpetal Grove

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

Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Boros Garrison

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

Selesnya Sanctuary

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

Gruul Turf

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

Plant

Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale

Dowsing Dagger

When this Equipment enters, target opponent creates two 0/2 green Plant creature tokens with defender.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may transform this Equipment.
Equip {2}

The pirates had ventured into the interior for treasure. They found something far greater.

Lost Vale

(Transforms from Dowsing Dagger.)
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Forest

Mountain

Plains

Zacama, Primal Calamity

Vigilance, reach, trample
When Zacama enters, if you cast it, untap all lands you control.
{2}{R}: Zacama deals 3 damage to target creature.
{2}{G}: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
{2}{W}: You gain 3 life.

Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Vigilance, trample, haste
Whenever Gishath deals combat damage to a player, reveal that many cards from the top of your library. Put any number of Dinosaur creature cards from among them onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Regal Behemoth

The Monarch

Trample
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever you tap a land for mana while you're the monarch, add an additional one mana of any color.

"There are moments when I feel I could fly like the sunwing. Far away I would soar, but always a golden gale pushes me back."
—Huatli

Kinjalli's Sunwing

Flying
Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

They cover their territory like a tide of teeth and claws.

Ranging Raptors

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Raptors are clever enough to tear away a hard metal shell to get at the tasty morsel inside.

Ripjaw Raptor

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, draw a card.

"Forward! Let the Burning Sun's light guide you to deserving prey!"

Otepec Huntmaster

Dinosaur spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{T}: Target Dinosaur gains haste until end of turn.

"I knew I should have stayed with the boat. Always stay with the boat!"

Charging Monstrosaur

It cares more about preserving the herd's territory than about preserving itself.

Thrashing Brontodon

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Sun Empire commanders are well versed in advanced martial strategy. Still, the correct maneuver is usually to deploy the giant, implacable death lizard.

Carnage Tyrant

This spell can't be countered.
Trample, hexproof

Dinosaur

Huatli, Warrior Poet

+2: You gain life equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
0: Create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.
−X: Huatli deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures. Creatures dealt damage this way can't block this turn.

Huatli, Dinosaur Knight

Sun-Blessed Mount

+2: Put two +1/+1 counters on up to one target Dinosaur you control.
−3: Target Dinosaur you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.
−7: Dinosaurs you control get +4/+4 until end of turn.

Vanquisher's Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Herald's Horn

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

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

Sol Ring

Even after a false god tore the magic from Dominaria, power still radiated from the Mirari sword that slew her.

Mirari's Wake

Creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced.

Dimir mages put the lanterns to good use, creating shapeshifters and sleeper agents from mana foreign to them.

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Pillar of Origins

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Kindred Summons

Choose a creature type. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X creature cards of the chosen type, where X is the number of creatures you control of that type. Put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest of the revealed cards into your library.

"It is the nature of souls that they burn more brightly together than apart."
—Vessifrus, flamekin demagogue

Shared Animosity

Whenever a creature you control attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking creature that shares a creature type with it.

Beast

Beast Within

Beasties tend to be shy, kind to humans, and absolutely ruthless toward Valgavoth's monstrous spawn.

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

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.

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

"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.

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.

"Ghirapur's gremlin population poses a threat to the infrastructure of the fairgrounds. Threats must be eliminated."
—Sram, senior edificer

Fumigate

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Pyrohemia

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.
{R}: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

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}

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it."
—Dosan the Falling Leaf

Kodama's Reach

"Animals commune with their environment without the need for language. Theirs is a fundamental connection that surpasses flimsy words."
—Vivien Reid

Harmonize

"Control the Great Conduit? You might as well try to divert a river with your hands."

Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

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.

First, whispers of ancient days. Then, visions of things to come.

Shamanic Revelation

Draw a card for each creature you control.
Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

"The tiniest mouse speaks louder to me than all the festival crowds on Tin Street."

Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

"Hold the line, hold the li—"
—General Srok, last words

Siege Behemoth

Hexproof
As long as this creature is attacking, for each creature you control, you may have that creature assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.

Etali, Primal Storm

Whenever Etali attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Sunbird's Invocation

Whenever you cast a spell from your hand, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from among cards revealed this way without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

"I want to help Zendikar. Show me the way."
—Nissa Revane

Elemental Bond

Whenever a creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, draw a card.

"Inspiration is found by looking outward."
—Oviya Pashiri, sage lifecrafter

Lifecrafter's Bestiary

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay {G}. If you do, draw a card.

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}

The Great Henge

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
{T}: Add {G}{G}. You gain 2 life.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.

As the foul beast appeared, arcane lightning crackled around it.

Aether Flash

Whenever a creature enters, this enchantment deals 2 damage to it.

"I have attuned the staff to your screams so that only I may benefit from your pain."
—Volux, disciple of Nin

Staff of Nin

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card.
{T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Door of Destinies

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on this artifact.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on this artifact.

Angel

Speaker of the Heavens

Vigilance, lifelink (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
{T}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total and only as a sorcery.

"I stand for every cobbler, tanner, and fool in this town—and they stand for me."

Champion of the Parish

Whenever another Human you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

She doesn't escort the dead to the afterlife, but instead raises them to fight and die again.

Adarkar Valkyrie

Flying, vigilance
{T}: When target creature other than this creature dies this turn, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Copy

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

Haste
{T}: Create a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

It *wants* to remain a mystery, banishing the curious in favor of less inquisitive company.

Cloudstone Curio

Whenever a nonartifact permanent you control enters, you may return another permanent you control that shares a permanent type with it to its owner's hand.

Blessed Sanctuary

Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to you and creatures you control.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, create a 2/2 white Unicorn creature token.

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