"Always have a backup plan."
—Doral, Bala Ged guide

Bala Ged Recovery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I know it's around here somewhere."
—Doral, Bala Ged guide

Bala Ged Sanctuary

Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary

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.

Blighted Woodland

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

History is not delicately woven. It is hammered with fire.

Forge of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Choose target commander that entered this turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and a loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.

Command Tower

Tower Winder

"Thus, the shattered half of the planet was
named Kavaron That Is, and the capital
was moved to Kavaron Before."
*—The Tragedy of Emperor Kavarus III*

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

Five rivers encircle Theros, flowing with waters more ancient than the world itself.

Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Gale stared into the pool and saw a stranger. The similarities were uncanny, but it was not him.

Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Once guarded by the Knights of the Reliquary, the tower stands now protected only by its own remoteness, its dusty treasures open to plunder by anyone.

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Where scavengers nest in hollowed-out rib cages and chittering crawlers peer from empty eye sockets, few dare to trespass.

Swarmyard

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Jungle Basin

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Forest you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{G}.

Forest

Shifting Woodland

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
Delirium — {2}{G}{G}: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

A figure is moved on a map, and the tide of war changes.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

There is a sanctuary that reveals itself only to those graced by the *eludha*—the mystical connection between bonder and monster.

Bonders' Enclave

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Mosswort Bridge

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 {G}.
{G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

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.

Snow-Covered Forest

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Plaza of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell.
{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary permanents you control.
{3}, {T}, Exile this land: Target legendary creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

The land is ever resilient. Should it die, it will be reborn.

Evolving Wilds

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

Skophos Maze-Warden

Labyrinth of Skophos

For centuries, the minotaur polis of Skophos was unknown to humans. It remains unexplored.

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Remove target attacking or blocking creature from combat.

Tranquil Thicket

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

"I gazed once into that light. Now it burns in my mind, forever denying me rest."
—Riku of Two Reflections

Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Beast

Beast Within

"Kill the weak so they can't drag the strong down to their level. This is true compassion."
—Benzir, archdruid of Temple Might

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

"The timeless, tireless jaws of nature shall one day devour us all."
—Sildark, artificer of Omu

Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

"Give up these unnatural weapons, these scrolls. Heart and mind and fist are enough."
—Zyd, Kamahlite druid

Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"Now I wonder . . . will anyone come to protect *you*?"

Snakeskin Veil

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

As werewolf attacks increased, brutal weapons not seen since the Travails were dusted off and put to work.

Clear Shot

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.

"You don't find many old werewolf hunters."
—Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Prey Upon

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Prey's Vengeance

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Cartouche of Strength

Enchant creature you control
When this Aura enters, you may have enchanted creature fight target creature an opponent controls. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has trample.

Ambush Viper

Jessie Zane, Fangbringer

"Living creatures seldom impress me. But I like this one."
—Uta Falkenrath

Their arrows are tipped with basilisk eyes and fletched with cockatrice feathers.

Thornweald Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

"None can own the land's bounty. The gods made this world for all to share its riches. And I'm not just saying that because you caught me stealing your fruit."

Voyaging Satyr

Yavimaya Elder

When this creature dies, you may search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

There were no tombstones in orochi territory. Slain warriors were buried with a tree sapling, so they would become a part of the forest after death.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Viridian Emissary

When this creature dies, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"I call on both predators and protectors, for now is a season of war."

Fauna Shaman

{G}, {T}, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"From a tiny sprout, the greatest trees grow and flourish. May the seeds of your mind be equally fruitful."

Elvish Visionary

Skullwinder

Deathtouch
When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand, then choose an opponent. That player returns a card from their graveyard to their hand.

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

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}

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Few can overcome an assault of such aggressive serenity.

Haze of Pollen

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Bear

The Earth King

When The Earth King enters, create a 4/4 green Bear creature token.
Whenever one or more creatures you control with power 4 or greater attack, search your library for up to that many basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"I fear no army or beast, but only the morning fog. Our assault can survive everything else."
—Lord Hilneth

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Winds of Qal Sisma

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, instead prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures your opponents control.

Opposing elements working together in harmony.

Allies at Last

Affinity for Allies (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Ally you control.)
Up to two target creatures you control each deal damage equal to their power to target creature an opponent controls.

Tayil stood and breathed in the scent of wet earth. For a moment, he was home in his father's village, the battle but a distant dream.

Lull

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

It is a sun-dappled glade in the morning, the aroma of spring's first blossoms, and the melody of birds chirping in a joyful chorus. It is life.

Emerald Medallion

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

Moment's Peace

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Flashback {2}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Wherever the strong would harm the weak, I will be there."
—Ajani Goldmane

Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Llanowar Elves

Marwyn's Kindred

The elves of the Llanowar forest have defended it for generations. It is their sacred duty to keep outside influences from corrupting their ancestral home.

Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Silent as a snowdrift. Inexorable as an avalanche.

Ohran Frostfang

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

"That is why the city is named Ba Sing Se. It's the 'impenetrable city.'"
—General Sung

The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Defender
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

"Water the soil with blood, if you must. Eventually it must be tilled with forgiveness."
—Greensleeves

Blessed Respite

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Ba Sing Se

This land enters tapped unless you control a basic land.
{T}: Add {G}.
{2}{G}, {T}: Earthbend 2. Activate only as a sorcery. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)

"I see you, shiny soldiers, but you won't see me."

Blinding Fog

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures this turn. Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Badgermole Cub

When this creature enters, earthbend 1. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)
Whenever you tap a creature for mana, add an additional {G}.

From the cracks in the stone, she reads stories of the past. From the swirling vines, she glimpses visions of the future.

Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

A progenitor of tadpoles and allergies in equal measure.

Spore Frog

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

Whether hunter or hunted, Kathril chooses when it is seen.

Obscuring Haze

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures your opponents control.

"If they board us we're finished," warned Orim. Crovax nodded. "And if they don't . . . what then?"

Respite

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. You gain 1 life for each attacking creature.

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.

Toski, Bearer of Secrets

This spell can't be countered.
Indestructible
Toski attacks each combat if able.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

"Life grows everywhere. My kin merely find those places where it grows strongest."
—Nissa Revane

Elvish Mystic

Vigor

Trample
If damage would be dealt to another creature you control, prevent that damage. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each 1 damage prevented this way.
When Vigor is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Glorious Sunrise

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one —
• Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn.
• Target land gains "{T}: Add {G}{G}{G}" until end of turn.
• Draw a card if you control a creature with power 3 or greater.
• You gain 3 life.

"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.

As the green sun crowned, Phyrexian prophecies glowed on the Tree of Tales.

Green Sun's Zenith

Search your library for a green creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Smuggler's Surprise

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {2} — Mill four cards. You may put up to two creature and/or land cards from among the milled cards into your hand.
+ {4}{G} — You may put up to two creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.
+ {1} — Creatures you control with power 4 or greater gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

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

Kodama's Reach

You Look Upon the Tarrasque

Choose one —
• Run and Hide — Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you and creatures you control this turn.
• Gather Your Courage — Target creature gets +5/+5 and gains indestructible until end of turn. All creatures your opponents control able to block that creature this turn do so.

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