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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.

"I can't protect everyone here. But those I can, I will."
—Karn

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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.

"Let your heels point you home."
—Ancient blessing

Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

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.

Cavern of Souls

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, and that spell can't be countered.

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.

"Here sprouted the first seedling of Argoth. Here the last tree will fall."
—Gamelen, Citanul elder

Gaea's Cradle

{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

"Touch no tree, break no branch, and speak only the question you wish answered."
—Von Yomm, elder druid, to her initiates

Dryad Arbor

(This land isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "{T}: Add {G}.")

Tranquil Thicket

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

Slippery Karst

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: 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.

"The land promises nothing and keeps its promise."
—Oracle *en*-Vec

Wasteland

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

When the last scrap of flesh is scoured away, the Curse of Wandering ends. Then the dead may sleep.

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Desert

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: This land deals 1 damage to target attacking creature. Activate only during the end of combat step.

Each temple is a door to a horrible future.

Eldrazi Temple

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Petrified Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target land card from your graveyard to your hand.

"All peoples treasure a place where the weary traveler may drink in peace."
—Ajani Goldmane

Radiant Fountain

When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Winding Canyons

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You may cast creature spells this turn as though they had flash.

Lair of the Hydra

If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{X}{G}: Until end of turn, this land becomes an X/X green Hydra creature. It's still a land. X can't be 0.

The limbs of Pendelhaven extend as far as the meek roam, and reach as high as they strive.

Pendelhaven

{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Target 1/1 creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

Forest

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

Harmonize

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

Simic's strength comes from its diversity.

Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Zendikar Resurgent

Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced. (The types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless.)
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

"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.

"There's wisdom to be gained in death—whether it be one's own or someone else's."
—Jarad, Golgari Lich-Lord

Greater Good

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

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

Sol Ring

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.)

Nylea, God of the Hunt

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)
Other creatures you control have trample.
{3}{G}: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Courser of Kruphix

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands from the top of your library.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

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.

Freyalise, Skyshroud Partisan

Regal Force

It rarely moves, standing stock still in its clearing. When it does stir, ravens stop their cawing and crickets their chirping. All of nature watches in awed silence.

When this creature enters, draw a card for each green creature you control.

Elephant

Terastodon

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

"Some days, you wish you were fighting a dragon."
—Eshki Dragonclaw

Craterhoof Behemoth

Haste
When this creature enters, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Avenger of Zendikar

Plant

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.

"My skills are wasted here."
—Juruk, Kalonian tracker

Pathbreaker Ibex

Whenever this creature attacks, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"Odd. I didn't see any lightning . . . ."
—Herreth, poacher, last words

Thunderfoot Baloth

Trample
Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, this creature gets +2/+2 and other creatures you control get +2/+2 and have trample.

"Smash this city to pieces."
—Domri Rade

End-Raze Forerunners

Vigilance, trample, haste
When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and trample until end of turn.

Hornet Queen

Insect

Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, create four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch.

Arachnogenesis

Spider

Every movement is a summons—even your screams.

Create X 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach, where X is the number of creatures attacking you. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by non-Spider creatures.

Garruk Wildspeaker

Beast

+1: Untap two target lands.
−1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
−4: Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

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.

Chord of Calling

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Some spells sing a quiet tune. Others roar.

Finale of Devastation

Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. If X is 10 or more, creatures you control get +X/+X and gain haste until end of turn.

Few who encounter the strange, human-like grove leave once the lilting chorus of the dryads reaches their ears.

Song of the Dryads

Enchant permanent
Enchanted permanent is a colorless Forest land.

Every branch a crossroads, every vine a swift steed.

Wood Elves

When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"Verdant bloom does exist. It merely hides for its own safety."

Farhaven Elf

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

Fierce Empath

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value 6 or greater, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"What was once formed by masons, shaped by smiths, or given life by mages, I will return to the embrace of the earth."

Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Woodland Bellower

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a nonlegendary green creature card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Urza's forces tore across Argoth, and Argoth responded in kind.

Bane of Progress

When this creature enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each permanent destroyed this way.

It fears no sword and leaves no bones behind.

Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When this creature enters, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

It swallows its catches whole and keeps them in its belly—alive, immobilized, and dissolving slowly.

Moldgraf Monstrosity

Trample
When this creature dies, exile it, then return two creature cards at random from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.

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.)

The Temur see themselves as a pack, their bonds more primal than the Abzan's.

Temur Sabertooth

{1}{G}: You may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

For each creature that arrives in its audience, the sage imparts another piece of ancient wisdom for all to hear.

Primordial Sage

Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may draw a card.

It's there when a seed sprouts, when gourds ripen on the vines, and when the reapers cut the grains under the Harvest Moon.

Soul of the Harvest

Trample
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, you may draw a card.

"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.

"I can call an army to my side in the blink of an eye. Best not blink."

Yeva, Nature's Herald

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
You may cast green creature spells as though they had flash.

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

{2}{G}, {T}, Put a verse counter on Yisan: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of verse counters on Yisan, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

In nature, not a single bone or scrap of flesh goes to waste.

Scavenging Ooze

{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Trample
Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced.
Whenever an opponent taps a land for mana, that land doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"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.

"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.

Nissa, Voice of Zendikar

+1: Create a 0/1 green Plant creature token.
−2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
−7: You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the number of lands you control.

Nissa, Who Shakes the World

Nissa, Who Shakes the World Emblem

Whenever you tap a Forest for mana, add an additional {G}.
+1: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target noncreature land you control. Untap it. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with vigilance and haste that's still a land.
−8: You get an emblem with "Lands you control have indestructible." Search your library for any number of Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Long after the magic wore off, the mice still dreamed of glorious galloping."
—*Tales of the Fae*

Return to Nature

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.

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