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Path of Mettle // Metzali, Tower of Triumph

Path of Mettle

When Path of Mettle enters, it deals 1 damage to each creature that doesn't have first strike, double strike, vigilance, or haste.
Whenever you attack with at least two creatures that have first strike, double strike, vigilance, and/or haste, transform Path of Mettle.

Metzali, Tower of Triumph

(Transforms from Path of Mettle.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}{R}, {T}: Metzali deals 2 damage to each opponent.
{2}{W}, {T}: Choose a creature at random that attacked this turn. Destroy that creature.

Hobs bury their kin far from home. They believe the dry, open ground keeps hags from stealing the bones and gwyllions from stealing the spirits.

Rugged Prairie

{T}: Add {C}.
{R/W}, {T}: Add {R}{R}, {R}{W}, or {W}{W}.

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}.

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.

"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.

Boros Garrison

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

Secluded Steppe

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

Forgotten Cave

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

Enter with merciful hearts. Exit with battle cries.

Boros Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Team Cloudspire burns with the pride and passion typical of competitors on Kylem. As the reigning champions of the Ghirapur Grand Prix, they have no intention of losing their title.

Wind-Scarred Crag

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

"So even the heart of our world has succumbed."
—Koth of the Hammer

Phyrexia's Core

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: You gain 1 life.

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.

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}.

Kobolds of Kher Keep

Kher Keep

"I swear, for every one Prossh devours, three more pop out of a hole somewhere."
—Jaya Ballard

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{R}, {T}: Create a 0/1 red Kobold creature token named Kobolds of Kher Keep.

Drifting Meadow

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

Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}.
Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

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.

Plains

Mountain

The sky takes flight and the earth
trembles.

Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Flying, double strike, vigilance, trample, indestructible

Captain Lannery Storm

Treasure

Haste
Whenever Captain Lannery Storm attacks, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Treasure, Captain Lannery Storm gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Cartographer's Hawk

Flying
When this creature deals combat damage to a player who controls more lands than you, return it to its owner's hand. If you do, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Combustible Gearhulk

First strike
When this creature enters, target opponent may have you draw three cards. If the player doesn't, you mill three cards, then this creature deals damage to that player equal to the total mana value of those cards.

Heart-Piercer Manticore

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, this creature deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target.
Embalm {5}{R} ({5}{R}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Manticore with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

"We have barely begun to learn the secrets of the Fourth People. Every remnant of their presence, however cryptic, is a gift."
—Akal Pakal, First Steward of Oteclan

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

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

Carved high into stone, the signet requires all to look up at it—whether with fear or admiration.

Boros Signet

Forged by divine hands to wander mortal realms.

Burnished Hart

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

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.

"You've begun to understand the hedrons' true purpose," said Ugin. "The Eldrazi can be imprisoned."
"And how did that work out last time?" asked Jace.

Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Solemn Simulacrum

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

Eternal Dragon

Flying
{3}{W}{W}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.
Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

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.

"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.

Wear

Destroy target artifact.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Tear

Destroy target enchantment.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Wear // Tear

"Many must die for the one who should not have perished."

Akroma's Vengeance

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Planar Outburst

Destroy all nonland creatures.
Awaken 4—{5}{W}{W}{W} (If you cast this spell for {5}{W}{W}{W}, also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

"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.

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.

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Her palm flared like the eye of a waking dragon. Then all was calm.

End Hostilities

Destroy all creatures and all permanents attached to creatures.

In the first moments, the gate to the afterlife opened, and the people were prostrate in the light of the God-Pharaoh.

Hour of Revelation

This spell costs {3} less to cast if there are ten or more nonland permanents on the battlefield.
Destroy all nonland permanents.

Comeuppance

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you and planeswalkers you control this turn by sources you don't control. If damage from a creature source is prevented this way, Comeuppance deals that much damage to that creature. If damage from a noncreature source is prevented this way, Comeuppance deals that much damage to the source's controller.

Legion's Initiative

Red creatures you control get +1/+0.
White creatures you control get +0/+1.
{R}{W}, Exile this enchantment: Exile all creatures you control. At the beginning of the next combat, return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control and those creatures gain haste until end of turn.

Leaders shape the minds of their allies. It takes a master to shape the minds of enemies.

Boros Battleshaper

At the beginning of each combat, up to one target creature attacks or blocks this combat if able and up to one target creature can't attack or block this combat.

He collects the precious metals, and then converts the rest to propellant.

Hoard-Smelter Dragon

Flying
{3}{R}: Destroy target artifact. This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that artifact's mana value.

There may exist powers even greater than Phyrexia.

Sunblast Angel

Flying
When this creature enters, destroy all tapped creatures.

Cataclysmic Gearhulk

Vigilance
When this creature enters, each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Board the Weatherlight

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a historic card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

"Avacyn has abandoned us! We have nothing left except what we can take!"

Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"Remember all the great heroes who were careful and never did anything risky? Me neither."
—Syr Carah, the Bold

Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards.

"Water and bone tell many tales, but fire is fickle. It would rather consume than reveal."
—Rielle, the Everwise

Fire Prophecy

Fire Prophecy deals 3 damage to target creature. You may put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library. If you do, draw a card.

Kargan tribal lands rarely have issues with goblin raids. Coincidentally, they also rarely have issues keeping their dragons fed.

Tormenting Voice

Nahiri, the Harbinger

+2: You may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
−2: Exile target enchantment, tapped artifact, or tapped creature.
−8: Search your library for an artifact or creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. It gains haste. Return it to your hand at the beginning of the next end step.

The Flame of Keld

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Discard your hand.
II — Draw two cards.
III — If a red source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player this turn, it deals that much damage plus 2 to that permanent or player instead.

Elemental

Chandra, Flamecaller

+1: Create two 3/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.
0: Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards plus one.
−X: Chandra deals X damage to each creature.

Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Elspeth, Sun's Champion Emblem

Soldier

+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."

Nahiri's Wrath

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Nahiri's Wrath deals damage equal to the total mana value of the discarded cards to each of up to X target creatures and/or planeswalkers.

"What do you have that I cannot obtain?"
—Mairsil, the Pretender

Fellwar Stone

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

"In case of fire, treachery, citywide riot, political upheaval, or worldwide societal collapse, break glass."
—Cluestone inscription

Boros Cluestone

{T}: Add {R} or {W}.
{R}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Boros Keyrune

{T}: Add {R} or {W}.
{R}{W}: This artifact becomes a 1/1 red and white Soldier artifact creature with double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Even a fragment of a powerstone contains within it not just energy, but space—vast dimensions trapped in fragile crystal.

Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

"We pass these along to our fellow soldiers to recognize deeds of valor. It won't stay with you for long."
—Alovnek, Boros guildmage

Boros Locket

{T}: Add {R} or {W}.
{R/W}{R/W}{R/W}{R/W}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Nine Lives

Hexproof
If a source would deal damage to you, prevent that damage and put an incarnation counter on this enchantment.
When there are nine or more incarnation counters on this enchantment, exile it.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

Harmless Offering

Target opponent gains control of target permanent you control.

Lorehold Excavation

Spirit

At the beginning of your end step, mill a card. If a land card was milled this way, you gain 1 life. Otherwise, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
{5}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a tapped 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.

"An arrow alone can't fell a dragon, but an added bolt of lightning brings it tumbling to the ground."
—Balur, Mardu warrior

Shocking Sharpshooter

Reach
Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to target opponent.

"This must be the lost city of Zantafar, where my people lived before becoming nomads. Think of the history we'll learn here!"
—Quintorius, Lorehold mage-student

Thrilling Discovery

You gain 2 life. Then you may discard two cards. If you do, draw three cards.

Quintorius, Loremaster

Vigilance
At the beginning of your end step, exile target noncreature, nonland card from your graveyard. Create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.
{1}{R}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice a Spirit: Choose target card exiled with Quintorius. You may cast that card this turn without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead.

Quintorius beamed, his mind eager to absorb every historical fact the spirit wanted to divulge.

Stonebound Mentor

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, scry 1.

Zenith Festival

Exile the top X cards of your library. You may play them until the end of your next turn.
Harmonize {X}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its harmonize cost. You may tap a creature you control to reduce that cost by an amount of generic mana equal to its power. Then exile this spell.)

Venerable Warsinger

Vigilance, trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of damage this creature dealt to that player.

Reconstruct History

Return up to one target artifact card, up to one target enchantment card, up to one target instant card, up to one target sorcery card, and up to one target planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.
Exile Reconstruct History.

Bag of Holding

Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return all cards exiled with this artifact to their owner's hand.

Elephant

Generous Gift

The best presents are impossible to regift.

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

"Your hatred dampens the land with my kin's blood. My love will flood it with yours."
—Hazena, spirit of House Emesh

Furious Forebear

Whenever a creature you control dies while this card is in your graveyard, you may pay {1}{W}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sevinne's Reclamation

Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy.
Flashback {4}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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