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.

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.

Dragonstorm chasers are not deterred by danger—they claim there is nothing like witnessing the land embracing the power of a storm.

Evolving Wilds

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

The House's geography constantly warps and twists, fields melting into floorboards and walls opening into hungry maws.

Terramorphic Expanse

Those who bring nothing to the temple take nothing away.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Plains

Windbrisk Heights

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{W}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if you attacked with three or more creatures this turn.

Soldier

Memorial to Glory

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{3}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Forbidding Watchtower

Forbidding Watchtower enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{1}{W}: Forbidding Watchtower becomes a 1/5 white Soldier creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

Secluded Steppe

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

In Elesh Norn's domain, the gospel of unity is the highest law.

The Fair Basilica

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{1}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Myriad Landscape

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

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.)

"I search for a vision of Zendikar that does not include the Eldrazi."
—Expedition journal entry

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

"In these halls there is no pass or fail. Your true test comes with the first full moon."

Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

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.

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

Sol Ring

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 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.

Mardu blacksmiths can distill the technology of any clan and make it their own. Whether or not they should is another question.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

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.)

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}

Guardian Idol

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}: This artifact becomes a 2/2 Golem artifact creature until end of turn.

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.

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.

Sometimes restoring the lost archives of the Jeskai can be as simple as the quiet ruffle of pages and the smell of fresh ink.

Arcane Signet

The spirits of fallen battlemages can serve their guilds as familiars by joining with any physical form.

Sunscape Familiar

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Green spells and blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Deftblade Elite

Provoke (Whenever this creature attacks, you may have target creature defending player controls untap and block it if able.)
{1}{W}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by this creature this turn.

Kami of the Palace Fields

Flying, first strike
Soulshift 5 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 5 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

"We stand between the jaws of chaos and the mantle of order."

Perimeter Captain

Defender
Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.

Light's champion in the stronghold of darkness.

Jareth, Leonine Titan

Whenever Jareth blocks, it gets +7/+7 until end of turn.
{W}: Jareth gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Channel Harm

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you and permanents you control this turn by sources you don't control. If damage is prevented this way, you may have Channel Harm deal that much damage to target creature.

"The air stirred as if fanned by angels' wings, and the enemy was turned aside."
—Tales of Ikarov the Voyager

Angelic Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying

The refuge's defenses allow new recruits to see lesser Eldrazi up close, steeling their stomachs for what's to come.

Fortified Rampart

"Across the rift of battle, a bridge of gossamer. And for one moment, it holds."
—Snow-Fur, kitsune poet

Kami of False Hope

Sacrifice this creature: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

". . . Our castle's strength
Will laugh a siege to scorn."
—William Shakespeare,
*Macbeth*

Castle

Untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.

"Know your history. The lessons of the past will shield you in times of doubt."

Kitsune Loreweaver

{1}{W}: This creature gets +0/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

"Hold your position! Leave doubt for the dying!"
—Tahngarth of the Weatherlight

Staunch Defenders

When this creature enters, you gain 4 life.

Lammasu are the enigmatic travelers of Tarkir, soaring high above all lands in all seasons. None know their true purpose, but they often arrive on the eve of great conflicts or turning points in history.

Venerable Lammasu

Library of Leng

You have no maximum hand size.
If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.

Bottled Cloister

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, exile all cards from your hand face down.
At the beginning of your upkeep, return all cards you own exiled with this artifact to your hand, then draw a card.

"It may not look like much, but it's a good old door with strong wards. It'll hold."
—Olgard of the Skiltfolk

Bar the Door

Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.

"The merchant asked for riches no one had ever dreamed of. The djinn, smiling, granted his wish."
—Afari, *Tales*

Diamond Lion

{T}, Discard your hand, Sacrifice this creature: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only as an instant.

Enduring Renewal

Play with your hand revealed.
If you would draw a card, reveal the top card of your library instead. If it's a creature card, put it into your graveyard. Otherwise, draw a card.
Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return it to your hand.

Angels watch over mortals with heavy hearts, knowing what fate awaits them in the end.

Angelic Renewal

Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may sacrifice this enchantment. If you do, return that card to the battlefield.

"It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness."
—Volrath

Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

"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

Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle

Flying
Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Its eyes burned nearly blind by the Whitesun, it hunts by metallic gleam.

Glint Hawk

Flying
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you return an artifact you control to its owner's hand.

"It has been my honor to improve on Thran's original design. Perhaps history will remember me in some small part for my work."
—Urza, in his apprenticeship

Ornithopter

Reminders of Memnarch's reign still skirr across Mirrodin, reminiscent of his form if not his power.

Memnite

They put their safety in his hands. He puts sharpened steel in theirs.

Auriok Steelshaper

Equip costs you pay cost {1} less.
As long as this creature is equipped, each creature you control that's a Soldier or a Knight gets +1/+1.

Blasting Station

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever a creature enters, you may untap this artifact.

Myr Battlesphere

When this creature enters, create four 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, this creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.

Eldrazi Displacer

Devoid (This card has no color.)
{2}{C}: Exile another target creature, then return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

All the junk, refuse, and offal of the Krark Clan is diligently collected, melted down, and made into more junk, refuse, and offal.

Krark-Clan Ironworks

Paragon of New Dawns

Other white creatures you control get +1/+1.
{W}, {T}: Another target white creature you control gains vigilance until end of turn. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)

In life, they were a motley crew: farmers, lords, cutpurses, priests. In death, they are united in singular, benevolent purpose.

Intangible Virtue

Creature tokens you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance.

Paladin Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
Spells your opponents cast during your turn cost {1} more to cast.
{2}{W}: Level 2
Creatures you control get +1/+1.
{4}{W}: Level 3
Whenever you attack, until end of turn, target attacking creature gets +1/+1 for each other attacking creature and gains double strike.

The kor send their thopter kites to see if the land is in a welcoming mood.

Pilgrim's Eye

Flying
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Planar Cleansing

Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Elspeth, Sun's Champion Emblem

+1: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
−3: Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater.
−7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."

Descendant of Storms

Spirit

The most elite of the Abzan are selected to join the Yathan: a prestigious group acting outside khan supervision for the good of the clan.

Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay {1}{W}. If you do, it endures 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token.)

Warrior

Dragonback Lancer

The Mardu's standing army need not always stand on the ground.

Flying
Mobilize 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, create a tapped and attacking 1/1 red Warrior creature token. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

The Monarch

Palace Sentinels

"One who ruled willing subjects would need no such protection."
—Adriana, Captain of the Guard

When this creature enters, you become the monarch.

Raise the Alarm

Like blinking or breathing, responding to an alarm is an involuntary reflex.

Create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Draped with the pennon of a fallen outpost, the sword came to symbolize the peoples of Zendikar becoming one.

Pennon Blade

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each creature you control.
Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Duty Beyond Death

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy those creatures.)

Pilgrim of the Ages

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{6}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Keeper of the Accord

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if that player controls more creatures than you, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if that player controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a basic Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

It is a helping hand reaching out to the downtrodden, the acrid-sweet tang of burning incense during prayer, and the harmony of voices uplifted in unison. It is faith.

Pearl Medallion

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

Eldrazi

Idol of Oblivion

"Arise, great one, and cleanse the world of our enemies!"

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn.
{8}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Precinct Captain

"In troubled times, we all need someone to watch our back."

First strike
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Bearer of Glory

During your turn, this creature has first strike.
{4}{W}: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Phyrexian Rebirth

Phyrexian Horror

As long as one drop of the oil exists, the joyous work continues.

Destroy all creatures, then create an X/X colorless Phyrexian Horror artifact creature token, where X is the number of creatures destroyed this way.

"We follow the dragonstorms, and we take down any threats that emerge from them!"
—Zurgo, khan of the Mardu

Coordinated Maneuver

Choose one —
• Coordinated Maneuver deals damage equal to the number of creatures you control to target creature or planeswalker.
• Destroy target enchantment.

Protector of the Crown

"I gladly offer my weapon and my life to the glory of my sovereign."

When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to this creature instead.

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