Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison

Rivals of Ixalan Checklist

Golem

Golden Guardian

Defender
{2}: Golden Guardian fights another target creature you control. When Golden Guardian dies this turn, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

An army of living gold for the golden city.

Gold-Forge Garrison

(Transforms from Golden Guardian.)
{T}: Add two mana of any one color.
{4}, {T}: Create a 4/4 colorless Golem artifact creature token.

Forest

Mountain

Plains

Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard Boseiju, Who Endures: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Hidden Nursery

Hidden Nursery enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{4}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice Hidden Nursery: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Mosswort Bridge enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

When a werewolf changes for the first time, that first howl is said to echo through the wilds till moonset.

Kessig Wolf Run

{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

There is no glory to be gained in the kingdom of the dead.
—Vec tomb inscription

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

"Multani's heart is a seed, and all of Yavimaya is its flower. There is as much life here as in the rest of Dominaria together."
—Karn

Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Restless Ridgeline

Restless Ridgeline enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.
{2}{R}{G}: Restless Ridgeline becomes a 3/4 red and green Dinosaur creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Ridgeline attacks, another target attacking creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Untap that creature.

"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.

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.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield 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.)

On the volcanic continent of Akoum, bizarre vegetation clusters around gas vents, and jagged mountain peaks rise high into the air.

Cinder Glade

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
Cinder Glade enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

The continent of Murasa lies beneath a blanket of dense vegetation, its enormous branches tangled so thickly that some inhabitants never see the ground.

Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
Canopy Vista enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Oteclan, the Oltec capital, encompasses diverse satellite cities. The Oltec can live in any environment and maintain connection.

Clifftop Retreat

Clifftop Retreat enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them."
—Pulan, Bant orchardist

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

The people of the Sun Empire worship the sun in three aspects: the creative sun, the sustaining sun, and the destructive sun.

Jungle Shrine

Jungle Shrine enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.

Unclaimed Territory

As Unclaimed Territory enters the battlefield, 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.

Secluded Courtyard

As Secluded Courtyard enters the battlefield, 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 or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

Game Trail

As Game Trail enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Mountain or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, Game Trail enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Fortified Village

As Fortified Village enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Forest or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, Fortified Village enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Furycalm Snarl

As Furycalm Snarl enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Mountain or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, Furycalm Snarl enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

The Sun Empire bends nature— rivers, mountainsides, dinosaurs—to its unyielding will.

Evolving Wilds

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

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Stomping Ground

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

Temple Garden

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

"Stand still and try not to look like prey!"
—Skerk Hobnett, wilderness guide

Marauding Raptor

Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, Marauding Raptor deals 2 damage to it. If a Dinosaur is dealt damage this way, Marauding Raptor gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Regisaur Alpha

Dinosaur

"Seeing a pack of these monsters hunt together, I'm at a loss to imagine the size of their prey."
—Adrian Adanto of Lujio

Other Dinosaurs you control have haste.
When Regisaur Alpha enters the battlefield, create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.

Forerunner of the Empire

When Forerunner of the Empire enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a Dinosaur card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Whenever a Dinosaur enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Forerunner of the Empire deal 1 damage to each creature.

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

Ripjaw Raptor

Enrage — Whenever Ripjaw Raptor is dealt damage, draw a card.

Thunderherd Migration

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Dinosaur card from your hand or pay {1}.
Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The people of the Sun Empire worship the sun in three aspects. Kinjalli is the Wakening Sun, who created humans from clay and baked them in the sun's warmth.

Kinjalli's Caller

Dinosaur spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

All raptors are aggressive, but ferocidons seem to enjoy their prey's pain.

Rampaging Ferocidon

Menace
Players can't gain life.
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, Rampaging Ferocidon deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.

The Sun Empire's most sacred sites are protected by more than prayers.

Runic Armasaur

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a creature or land that isn't a mana ability, you may draw a card.

Shifting Ceratops

This spell can't be countered.
Protection from blue (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything blue.)
{G}: Shifting Ceratops gains your choice of reach, trample, or haste until end of turn.

Etali, Primal Storm

Whenever Etali, Primal Storm 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.

Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Vigilance, trample, haste
Whenever Gishath, Sun's Avatar 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.

Zacama, Primal Calamity

Vigilance, reach, trample
When Zacama, Primal Calamity enters the battlefield, 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.

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Trample

Wayward Swordtooth

City's Blessing

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Wayward Swordtooth can't attack or block unless you have the city's blessing.

"I suppose we'll just hope those ancient monoliths lost to our people for centuries weren't particularly important."
—Toxayac, Sun Empire historian

Thrashing Brontodon

{1}, Sacrifice Thrashing Brontodon: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"Kinjalli's encompassing rays herald new life in the moment of the sun's dawning."
—Chitlati, Lightning Rider

Wakening Sun's Avatar

When Wakening Sun's Avatar enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all non-Dinosaur creatures.

It hatches with its ferocity fully grown.

Needletooth Raptor

Enrage — Whenever Needletooth Raptor is dealt damage, it deals 5 damage to target creature an opponent controls.

Nothing says trouble like a reedy hiss with a hint of liquid gurgle.

Frilled Deathspitter

Enrage — Whenever Frilled Deathspitter is dealt damage, it deals 2 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Lurking beneath the murky waters of Ixalan's rivers, sailbacks can rip a meal off the shore in the blink of an eye.

Snapping Sailback

Flash
Enrage — Whenever Snapping Sailback is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it. (It must survive the damage to get the counter.)

"Kinjalli sculpted humans from clay, but the dinosaurs were carved from unyielding stone."
—Itzama the Crested

Temple Altisaur

If a source would deal damage to another Dinosaur you control, prevent all but 1 of that damage.

Deathgorge Scavenger

Whenever Deathgorge Scavenger enters the battlefield or attacks, you may exile target card from a graveyard. If a creature card is exiled this way, you gain 2 life. If a noncreature card is exiled this way, Deathgorge Scavenger gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

To a siegehorn, there is no such thing as a dead end.

Siegehorn Ceratops

Enrage — Whenever Siegehorn Ceratops is dealt damage, put two +1/+1 counters on it. (It must survive the damage to get the counters.)

Its roaring challenge is punctuated by the slam of its tail on the earth, rousing the herds of the plains.

Bellowing Aegisaur

Enrage — Whenever Bellowing Aegisaur is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.

"If you come across a raptor in the city, stay perfectly still. At least then you'll be well rested when you die."
—Captain Brandis Thorn

Orazca Raptor

Those who wield the power of the sun protect the Empire from darkness.

Sheltering Light

Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Scry 1. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy the creature.)

The essence of Ixalan was never far from Huatli's heart.

Huatli's Raptor

Vigilance
When Huatli's Raptor enters the battlefield, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

The dryads of the forest have no stake in Ixalan's conflict, but they hate to see any living being suffer.

Verdant Rebirth

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand."
Draw a card.

The enormous can still be at the mercy of the small.

Rile

Rile deals 1 damage to target creature you control. That creature gains trample until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Disputes within the Brazen Coalition can escalate from insult to broadside in the blink of an eye.

Unfriendly Fire

Unfriendly Fire deals 4 damage to any target.

Danitha watched in shock as electricity lanced from Jaya's fingertips, obliterating the charging Phyrexians. "What?" said the pyromancer serenely. "I told you I'd learned some new tricks."

Lightning Strike

Lightning Strike deals 3 damage to any target.

Thrash // Threat

Beast

Thrash

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker you don't control.

Threat

Create a 4/4 red and green Beast creature token with trample.

After heavy casualties in the Phyrexian invasion, the Boros mage-priests trained as many rank-and-file soldiers as possible to wield the Legion's legendary battle magic.

Lightning Helix

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

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.

Its breath is a gale. Its roar is a volcano. Its anger tears soul from flesh.

Raging Regisaur

Whenever Raging Regisaur attacks, it deals 1 damage to any target.

"I would advise you not to struggle."
—Huatli

Trapjaw Tyrant

Enrage — Whenever Trapjaw Tyrant is dealt damage, exile target creature an opponent controls until Trapjaw Tyrant leaves the battlefield.

"The music of blades against its silver armor merely inspires it to bellow more full-throated melodies."
—Huatli

Imperial Ceratops

Enrage — Whenever Imperial Ceratops is dealt damage, you gain 2 life.

It doesn't hold grudges. It runs them down and impales them.

Charging Tuskodon

Trample
If Charging Tuskodon would deal combat damage to a player, it deals double that damage to that player instead.

"Before I let you wield one of these, let's see you dodge one!"

Sunhome Stalwart

First strike
Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)

From the eyes up, it's solid bone and stubbornness.

Territorial Hammerskull

Whenever Territorial Hammerskull attacks, tap target creature an opponent controls.

"Wherever the Threefold Sun shines, great wings may go."
—Emperor Apatzec Intli III

Sky Terror

Vampires call the gift of flight "exultation." For their enemies, it brings only sorrow.

Skyblade of the Legion

"Pterodons tolerate no intrusion into their skies. Even the clouds must ask permission."
—Mahuiz, Sun Empire archer

Sun-Crested Pterodon

Flying
Sun-Crested Pterodon has vigilance as long as you control another Dinosaur.

The people of the Sun Empire worship the sun in three aspects. Tilonalli is the Burning Sun, associated with ferocity, fire, and passion.

Tilonalli's Knight

Whenever Tilonalli's Knight attacks, if you control a Dinosaur, Tilonalli's Knight gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Adanto Vanguard

As long as Adanto Vanguard is attacking, it gets +2/+0.
Pay 4 life: Adanto Vanguard gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

"Control them? No. I gird them in armor and let them loose."
—Yacha, Otepec huntmaster

Silverclad Ferocidons

Enrage — Whenever Silverclad Ferocidons is dealt damage, each opponent sacrifices a permanent.

Its assistance is unnervingly similar to its hunting technique.

Imperial Aerosaur

Flying
When Imperial Aerosaur enters the battlefield, another target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn.

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