Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Every laboratory buzzes with new experiments, each a piece of Ral's ambitious project.

Izzet Guildgate

Izzet Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
{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.

"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}.

Island

Mountain

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.

Spirit

Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

{T}: Add {R}.
Channel — {3}{R}, Discard Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance: Create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens. They gain haste until end of turn. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Desert of the Fervent

Desert of the Fervent enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
Cycling {1}{R} ({1}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.

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}.

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}.

He speaks directly into his supplicants' minds using fiery words that inflame their thoughts and incite their passions.

Arjun, the Shifting Flame

Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, put the cards in your hand on the bottom of your library in any order, then draw that many cards.

Jariad burned the midnight oil, burned through scroll after scroll, and then burned down his laboratory.

Burning Inquiry

Each player draws three cards, then discards three cards at random.

The chasm of years and worlds collapsed under the power of their embrace.

Cathartic Reunion

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

Chandra, Pyromaster

+1: Chandra, Pyromaster deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and 1 damage to up to one target creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. That creature can't block this turn.
0: Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn.
−7: Exile the top ten cards of your library. Choose an instant or sorcery card exiled this way and copy it three times. You may cast the copies without paying their mana costs.

Chandra, Torch of Defiance

Chandra, Torch of Defiance Emblem

+1: Exile the top card of your library. You may cast that card. If you don't, Chandra, Torch of Defiance deals 2 damage to each opponent.
+1: Add {R}{R}.
−3: Chandra, Torch of Defiance deals 4 damage to target creature.
−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, this emblem deals 5 damage to any target."

Compulsion

{1}{U}, Discard a card: Draw a card.
{1}{U}, Sacrifice Compulsion: Draw a card.

"Surely you know the joy of the hunt, my furry friend. My kind of hunt just takes a different form than yours."

Curiosity

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

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.)

It took the banning of temporal manipulation at Tolaria West to teach its students the value of time.

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Incendiary Command

Choose two —
• Incendiary Command deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Incendiary Command deals 2 damage to each creature.
• Destroy target nonbasic land.
• Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards.

Izzet Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.
• Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature.
• Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

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

Izzet Signet

Magic Origins Checklist

Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound

Jace, Telepath Unbound Emblem

"People's thoughts just come to me. Sometimes I don't know if it's them or me thinking."

Jace, Vryn's Prodigy

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are five or more cards in your graveyard, exile Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.

Jace, Telepath Unbound

+1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-0 until your next turn.
−3: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
−9: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, target opponent mills five cards."

"Some trade in goods, some in secrets. My soul has walked the futures, and I offer the rare coin of possibility."

Magus of the Bazaar

{T}: Draw two cards, then discard three cards.

What some see as "distracted" is really "fathoming the unfathomable."

Mercurial Chemister

{U}, {T}: Draw two cards.
{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Mercurial Chemister deals damage to target creature equal to the discarded card's mana value.

Construct

Metallurgic Summonings

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create an X/X colorless Construct artifact creature token, where X is that spell's mana value.
{3}{U}{U}, Exile Metallurgic Summonings: Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you control six or more artifacts.

Mission Briefing

Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

"I do things in my own time."
—Etha, initiate of Rhet crop

Pull from Tomorrow

Genius is finding the edge of what's possible, then jumping over it.

Radical Idea

Draw a card.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

In a wave of spells called the Cursemute, Avacyn cleansed the world with divine fire.

Reforge the Soul

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.
Miracle {1}{R} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

The Neurok see the artificer as an archaeologist, clearing away falsehoods to see the truth hidden beneath.

Riddlesmith

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

"What some call obsession, I call the quest for perfection."

Runic Repetition

Return target exiled card with flashback you own to your hand.

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

Sol Ring

"You've never considered the implications of dealing with another telepath, Jace."

Sphinx's Tutelage

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. If two nonland cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process.
{5}{U}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Tandem Lookout

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Tandem Lookout is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card."

Insect

The Locust God

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, create a 1/1 blue and red Insect creature token with flying and haste.
{2}{U}{R}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
When The Locust God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

"Knowledge is the universal currency of the Multiverse. It is power. It is freedom. It is possibility itself."

Thirst for Knowledge

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

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

Even in their mountain fortresses, the Akroans have learned not to anger Thassa.

Thryx, the Sudden Storm

Flash
Flying
Spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.

Why not ask the winds?
—Tolarian expression meaning "Who knows?"

Tolarian Winds

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.

His marvels of artifice pale in comparison to the developing machinery of his mind.

Venser, Shaper Savant

Flash
When Venser, Shaper Savant enters the battlefield, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

"The past is the foundation for all that exists in the present. We merely reconstruct what our ancestors have already discovered."
—Sachimir, Sage of Memories

Visions of Beyond

Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.

Destiny is a flickering path among tangled possibilities.

Weave Fate

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

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.

"Some relic hunters have given up exploring and gone to fight the Eldrazi. But I know our work is more important than ever. The secrets we uncover could lead to the world's salvation."

Jori En, Ruin Diver

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, draw a card.

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.

As brilliant as a cut diamond, and with just as cruel an edge.

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind deals 1 damage to any target.
{T}: Draw a card.

"If that brain can't figure out the secret of the serum, then add more brains."
—Rhmir, Hand of the Augur

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

"Fire! Fire! Fire! What joy! What fire! Burn it all!"

Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Guttersnipe deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Roilmages' tactics are as chaotic as the energies they channel.

Stormchaser Mage

Flying, haste
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Shadows Over Innistrad Checklist 2

Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror

Thing in the Ice

Defender
Thing in the Ice enters the battlefield with four ice counters on it.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, remove an ice counter from Thing in the Ice. Then if it has no ice counters on it, transform it.

"It serves as evidence of the ancient power of the deep, a reminder that the sea is the only thing worthy of reverence."
—Runo Stromkirk

Awoken Horror

When this creature transforms into Awoken Horror, return all non-Horror creatures to their owners' hands.

Drake

Talrand, Sky Summoner

"The seas are vast, but the skies are even more so. Why be content with one kingdom when I can rule them both?"

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

God-Eternal Kefnet

Flying
You may reveal the first card you draw each turn as you draw it. Whenever you reveal an instant or sorcery card this way, copy that card and you may cast the copy. That copy costs {2} less to cast.
When God-Eternal Kefnet dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

"The cost of your opposition will be extracted from your wits."
—Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

"Holy places are no longer sanctuary from death, and death is no longer sanctuary from anything."
—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Rapid Hybridization

Frog Lizard

"We've merged your life essence with that of several creatures at once. You're welcome."
—Speaker Trifon

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Pongify

Some spellcrafting mistakes go on to become spells of their own.

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

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.

Comet Storm

Multikicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Choose any target, then choose another target for each time this spell was kicked. Comet Storm deals X damage to each of them.

"It has been my experience that disasters like to strike in pairs."

Dualcaster Mage

Flash
When Dualcaster Mage enters the battlefield, copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"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

Epic Experiment

Exile the top X cards of your library. You may cast instant and sorcery spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs. Then put all cards exiled this way that weren't cast into your graveyard.

Crackling Drake

Flying
Crackling Drake's power is equal to the total number of instant and sorcery cards you own in exile and in your graveyard.
When Crackling Drake enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Saheeli, Sublime Artificer

Servo

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.
−2: Target artifact you control becomes a copy of another target artifact or creature you control until end of turn, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Kefnet the Mindful

Flying, indestructible
Kefnet the Mindful can't attack or block unless you have seven or more cards in hand.
{3}{U}: Draw a card, then you may return a land you control to its owner's hand.

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.")

"Any oaf can conquer a kingdom. It takes true power to conquer time."
—Shai Fusan, archmage

Time Reversal

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. Exile Time Reversal.

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