Ixalan Checklist

Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring

Primal Amulet

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on Primal Amulet. Then if there are four or more charge counters on it, you may remove those counters and transform it.

Primal Wellspring

(Transforms from Primal Amulet.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color. When that mana is spent to cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.

Mountain

Island

Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Restless Spire

Restless Spire enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.
{U}{R}: Until end of turn, Restless Spire becomes a 2/1 blue and red Elemental creature with "As long as it's your turn, this creature has first strike." It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Spire attacks, scry 1.

Without Vantress's knowledge, the realm would lose itself in darkness.

Castle Vantress

Castle Vantress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Cephalid Coliseum

{T}: Add {U}. Cephalid Coliseum deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {U}, {T}, Sacrifice Cephalid Coliseum: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

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}.

Urza's Saga

Construct

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Urza's Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — Urza's Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

A lonely sentinel facing gales, hurricanes, and tides of homicidal spirits.

Desolate Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}{R}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Working with the best of intentions, its researchers unwittingly unleashed a plague of troubles upon Dominaria.

Riptide Laboratory

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.

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.

The boiling seas around Shiv provided a welcome layer of protection for the reclaimed Mana Rig.

Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.

"We have inherited the mysteries of the Thran, but few of the answers."
—Jhoira

Sulfur Falls

Sulfur Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Steam Vents

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

Between matches, combatants practice to stay in peak mental and physical form.

Training Center

Training Center enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Frequent, violent storms shape the Nephalia coastline, sculpting cliffs and caves where monsters often lurk.

Stormcarved Coast

Stormcarved Coast enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Travelers bathe in the falls to wash away curses from the pucas who lurk nearby.

Cascade Bluffs

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

Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Scalding Tarn: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Where water is the canvas and lava the paint.

Fiery Islet

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U} or {R}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Fiery Islet: Draw a card.

Thundering Falls

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
Thundering Falls enters the battlefield tapped.
When Thundering Falls enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Frostboil Snarl

As Frostboil Snarl enters the battlefield, you may reveal an Island or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, Frostboil Snarl enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Temple of Epiphany

Temple of Epiphany enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Epiphany enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Izzet Boilerworks

Izzet Boilerworks enters the battlefield tapped.
When Izzet Boilerworks enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}{R}.

"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.

Stability and volatility churn together, creating beauty and danger both.

Ferrous Lake

Spirebluff Canal

Spirebluff Canal enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Ral, Storm Conduit

Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Ral, Storm Conduit deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
+2: Scry 1.
−2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"The echo of silence is music to my ears."

Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Experience

Mizzix of the Izmagnus

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value greater than the number of experience counters you have, you get an experience counter.
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each experience counter you have.

Saheeli, the Gifted

Copy

Servo

+1: Create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.
+1: The next spell you cast this turn costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control as you cast it.
−7: For each artifact you control, create a token that's a copy of it. Those tokens gain haste. Exile those tokens at the beginning of the next end step.
Saheeli, the Gifted can be your commander.

"It's contemplative, resourceful, and original. Everything else aside, it's the perfect student."
—Naban, dean of iteration

Tolarian Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}. When you do, you may tap or untap target creature.

Treasure

Storm-Kiln Artist

A captured elemental makes for a potent, albeit unstable, power source.

Storm-Kiln Artist gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token.

Elemental

Young Pyromancer

Immolation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

When asked how much power is required, Izzet mages always answer "more."

Goblin Electromancer

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Bird Illusion

Murmuring Mystic

Rumors float through the city like crows, alighting on citizens seemingly at random.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

Ral, Izzet Viceroy Emblem

Ral, Izzet Viceroy

+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
−3: Ral, Izzet Viceroy deals damage to target creature equal to the total number of instant and sorcery cards you own in exile and in your graveyard.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this emblem deals 4 damage to any target and you draw two cards."

Expansion

Copy target instant or sorcery spell with mana value 4 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Explosion

Explosion deals X damage to any target. Target player draws X cards.

Expansion // Explosion

Invade the City

Zombie Army

Death greeted the world with a roar of desert air.

Amass Zombies X, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. (Put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

"Slimefoot, I know I said I wanted to grow our repository of knowledge, but this isn't what I had in mind."

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

"To control the present we must master the future."

Precognitive Perception

Draw three cards.
Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, instead scry 3, then draw three cards.

"Let's do it again!"
—Squee, goblin cabin hand

Time Warp

Target player takes an extra turn after this one.

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Ral's storm crackled with mystical detections: Planeswalkers were infiltrating Ravnica.

Thousand-Year Storm

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it for each other instant and sorcery spell you've cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.

The militia formed up in the central plaza awaiting the onslaught, but the giants never quite made it.

Aether Gale

Return six target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

"In the disarray of battle, an enemy's attack may be your most convenient weapon."
—Narset

Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"Echoes of the Mirari's power yet linger."
—Zyd, Kamahlite druid

Reiterate

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

The best cure for a big ego is a little failure.

Turnabout

Choose artifact, creature, or land. Tap all untapped permanents of the chosen type target player controls, or untap all tapped permanents of that type that player controls.

The mizzium-sphere array drove her mind deep into the thought field, where only the rarest motes of genius may be plucked.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

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.)

"My flesh holds no secrets, monster. The spirit of Mirrodin will fight on."
—Vy Covalt, Mirran resistance

Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.

"Sometimes the hardest choice is between two wonders."
—Gadwick, the Wizened

Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

The farmer was amazed to see the penny vanish into thin air, but the goose knew he'd just slipped it to the faerie.

Sleight of Hand

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

Desperate Ritual

Add {R}{R}{R}.
Splice onto Arcane {1}{R} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

"Close the walls! Retract the docks! The homarids are coming!"
—Benson, Argivian sentry

High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Vulshok mana rituals echo the day when the red sun burst through Mirrodin's surface to take its place in the heavens.

Seething Song

While most power is used for ordinary, everyday tasks, one shouldn't underestimate its potential for the extraordinary.

Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.
Pay 50 life: Aetherflux Reservoir deals 50 damage to any target.

"The perfection of the lotus reminds me of my hopes for this world . . . and my failures. I will not rest until I've atoned for them."
—Karn

Gilded Lotus

The Izzet signet is redesigned often, each time becoming closer to a vanity portrait of Niv-Mizzet.

Izzet Signet

Mana Crypt

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Mana Crypt deals 3 damage to you.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

When the great vault fell, it scattered its wonders across Thunder Junction.

Sol Ring

Urza's metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines.

Thran Dynamo

Basalt Monolith

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{3}: Untap Basalt Monolith.

"Remember to discharge your locket every seven hours. Unless you prefer the spontaneous aether overload, of course."
—Daxiver, Izzet electromancer

Izzet Locket

{T}: Add {U} or {R}.
{U/R}{U/R}{U/R}{U/R}, {T}, Sacrifice Izzet Locket: Draw two cards.

It started as a mere drop of water. The Magic Mirror crystallized it into much more.

Arcane Signet

Firemind's Research

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on Firemind's Research.
{1}{U}, Remove two charge counters from Firemind's Research: Draw a card.
{1}{R}, Remove five charge counters from Firemind's Research: It deals 5 damage to any target.

Mizzix's Mastery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery.
Overload {5}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

When the twin-spell bonus round begins, the crowd rises to its feet in anticipation of incredible combinations.

Bonus Round

Until end of turn, whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, that player copies it and may choose new targets for the copy.

"No fact escapes me. Why do you think you can?"

Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Temporal Trespass

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Trespass.

"You can come back once you've learned some manners—and figured out how to reconstitute your physical forms."

Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Red Sun's Zenith

Red Sun's Zenith deals X damage to any target. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead. Shuffle Red Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

"The Origin Query will wait. We must ensure we survive to return to it."
—Pelyus, vedalken ordinar

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

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