Mystic Sanctuary

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

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}.

Command Tower

Tower Winder

Safe havens amid the desert and dragonstorms, Abzan fortresses attract merchants, travelers, outcasts, and exiles.

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

Temple of Epiphany

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 {U} or {R}.

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

Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

When spring melted the snow, fishers downstream of the Qadat Fire Rim learned of conflict between Temur and Jeskai from the gruesome flotsam.

Swiftwater Cliffs

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

Enter those with the vision to create and the daring to release their creations.

Izzet Guildgate

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

"A place like this makes me wonder if there's more to life than blood and treasure . . . Nah."
—Boyl Bucksalt, Storm Fleet swab

Highland Lake

Halimar Depths

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Add {U}.

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}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Spirebluff Canal

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Wandering Fumarole

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.
{2}{U}{R}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 1/4 blue and red Elemental creature with "{0}: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn." It's still a land.

Memorial to Genius

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw two cards.

Forgotten Cave

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

Lonely Sandbar

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

Izzet Boilerworks

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

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.

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.

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 this artifact. 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

"Were I to go where my heart dwells, I would now be wandering in the fair valley of Rivendell."
—Aragorn

Rivendell

Rivendell enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

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.

"It's easy to anticipate Captain Storm's orders: take the more dangerous route."

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.

Serum Visions

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.)

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

The wills of mortals shift as the tide ebbs and flows.

Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
{1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

"I don't like to think of myself as a pirate. I'm more like a stimulator of the local economy."

Coastal Piracy

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Thassa, God of the Sea

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
{1}{U}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Druids hold certain plants to be sacred and use their leaves and wood as a spellcasting focus.

Wayfarer's Bauble

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

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

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

Sol Ring

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

"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.

Every hour, at the turning of the glass, its owner had whispered to the locket, seeding it with secrets. This would be her legacy, her memory, if the rifts should take her.

Locket of Yesterdays

Spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each card with the same name as that spell in your graveyard.

The vedalken know it is not of this world, so they know that this world is not the only one.

Crystal Shard

{3}, {T} or {U}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

Whirlpool Warrior

When this creature enters, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.
{R}, Sacrifice this creature: Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.

Charmbreaker Devils

At the beginning of your upkeep, return an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +4/+0 until end of turn.

The winds of change have a mind of their own.

Djinn of Infinite Deceits

Flying
{T}: Exchange control of two target nonlegendary creatures. You can't activate this ability during combat.

It chews open Mirrodin's husk and feeds on the outpouring of energy.

Galvanoth

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if it's an instant or sorcery spell.

"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.

Naru Meha, Master Wizard

Flash
When Naru Meha enters, copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Other Wizards you control get +1/+1.

He has no patience for minds that do not inspire him or explode by trying.

Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius

Flying
Whenever Niv-Mizzet deals damage to a player, you may draw a card.
{U}{R}: Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target.

Spark Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

"What sort of life is that, huddling in the familiar and safe? No thanks. Put me right in the center of the action."

Kaza, Roil Chaser

Flying, haste
{T}: The next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs {X} less to cast, where X is the number of Wizards you control as this ability resolves.

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 early days of Valley, desperate animalfolk harnessed the power of Calamity Beasts in ways that destroyed more than defended.

Blasphemous Act

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

Mystic Retrieval

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Reins of Power

Untap all creatures you control and all creatures target opponent controls. You and that opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.

Saheeli's Artistry

Copy

"From the first touch, I know exactly what the metal wants to be."

Choose one or both —
• Create a token that's a copy of target artifact.
• Create a token that's a copy of target creature, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

"Beware the merrows, whose envy and covetousness surpasses even that of the ravenous whirlpools where they dwell."
—*The Book of Other Folk*

Flow of Ideas

Minds Aglow

Join forces — Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player draws X cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Stolen Strategy

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of each opponent's library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

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.

Ever since the disaster, the city's survivors viewed the star-strewn sky with dread.

Starstorm

Starstorm deals X damage to each creature.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Deep-Sea Kraken

This creature can't be blocked.
Suspend 9—{2}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{U} and exile it with nine time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if this card is suspended, remove a time counter from it.

Tromokratis

Tromokratis has hexproof unless it's attacking or blocking.
Tromokratis can't be blocked unless all creatures defending player controls block it. (If any creature that player controls doesn't block this creature, it can't be blocked.)

"Into its maw went the seventh sea, never to be seen again while the world remains."
—Esper fable

Inkwell Leviathan

Trample
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Horizon Scholar

Flying
When this creature enters, 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.)

"I do not understand the future I see: the guilds subverted, the world at war, armies bent to a cruel conqueror's will."

Sphinx of Foresight

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, scry 3 at the beginning of your first upkeep.
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.

As the ship approached, the jade totem rose high overhead. Power rippled. Eyes of stone glowed and crackled. Out hissed a breath of the world, and a windstorm came alive.

Air Elemental

Djinn of Wishes

Flying
This creature enters with three wish counters on it.
{2}{U}{U}, Remove a wish counter from this creature: Reveal the top card of your library. You may play that card without paying its mana cost. If you don't, exile it.

Arbiter of the Ideal

Flying
Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact, creature, or land card, you may put it onto the battlefield with a manifestation counter on it. That permanent is an enchantment in addition to its other types.

Prognostic Sphinx

Flying
Discard a card: This creature gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it.
Whenever this creature attacks, scry 3.

Sphinx of Uthuun

Flying
When this creature enters, 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.

"It is not a goal, but a process—the process of creating the perfect Phyrexia."

Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Flash
At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards.
Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

Nezahal, Primal Tide

This spell can't be countered.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card.
Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"Safe passage requires only a simple answer to a simple question, traveler."

Riddlemaster Sphinx

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
When this creature enters, you may return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Most see krakens as wantonly violent, failing to notice their meticulous attention to detail when dismantling a vessel.

Stormsurge Kraken

Hexproof
Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may draw two cards."

Octopus

Crush of Tentacles

Surge {3}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If this spell's surge cost was paid, create an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.

Commit

Put target spell or nonland permanent into its owner's library second from the top.

Memory

Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)
Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards.

Commit // Memory

"Brother, your fate has always been bound to mine. Now we have reached the place where they shall both end."

Finale of Revelation

Draw X cards. If X is 10 or more, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw X cards, untap up to five lands, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
Exile Finale of Revelation.

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 this enchantment: Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you control six or more artifacts.

Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer

Phyrexian Myr

Creature tokens you control have haste.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 2/1 blue Phyrexian Myr artifact creature token. Then you may choose a token you control. If you do, each other token you control becomes a copy of that token.

Melek, Izzet Paragon

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may cast instant and sorcery spells from the top of your library.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your library, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Sometimes it's useful to take a break from existence.

Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

The wise, the righteous, the mighty—the merchant feeds them all.

Trade Routes

{1}: Return target land you control to its owner's hand.
{1}, Discard a land card: Draw a card.

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