Command Tower

Tower Winder

Back in the '80s, Channel 6 built their headquarters at the corner of Spectacle and Scandal.

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

Gale stared into the pool and saw a stranger. The similarities were uncanny, but it was not him.

Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Five rivers encircle Theros, flowing with waters more ancient than the world itself.

Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

It's like the future's a party that these brothers just crashed . . .

City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

"Yooo, Rock, check that out. A *mutant* music club?"
—Bebop

Exotic Orchard

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

It's said the spirits of the drowned dead hang their lights from the shattered figureheads.

Crumbling Necropolis

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

What began with a deafening roar ends in uncertain silence . . .

Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

None can tell how many vessels are tangled up on the sea floor—or how much treasure remains unclaimed.

Drowned Catacomb

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

"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}.

"Log 2.9.089: Lammuat, the cemetery moon of salvage and secrets. Could be profitable for those brave enough to plumb its recesses."
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

The boggart was playfully prodding a critter when the skies darkened, then he gobbled it down with glee.

Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

The flamekin was drawn toward warm laughter when the skies darkened, then she turned back to the lonely peak.

Steam Vents

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

A warped gateway that seeps toxins and malevolence into the waters around Towashi.

Polluted Delta

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

Scalding Tarn

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

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
—Lord Windgrace

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Deep within the Cabal's vault, the Mirari pulsed like a dead sun—and its darkness radiated across Otaria.

Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

"A cursed silhouette to look upon. Even if the halls stand empty, its vile shadows blight the land. I shudder to think of the evils that it held."
—Koth

Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

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}.

Spirit

Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever you tap this land for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Temple of Deceit

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 {B}.

Temple of Malice

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 {B} or {R}.

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}.

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.

Volcanic Island

Underground Sea

No one really knows how deep the waters go beneath Undercity, nor what amorphous horrors lurk within.

Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Island

Swamp

Mountain

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.

Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

"You'd better be worth it."
—Liliana Vess

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Necromancy

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Dance of the Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

A grave is the safest place to store ill-gotten treasures.

Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

"Die. But die knowing that your pathetic life will yield a great bounty for me."
—Zul Ashur, lich lord

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

"The light of my master's guidance traverses all boundaries, even those separating life and death."

Beacon of Unrest

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

Phyrexian Delver

When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Liliana insisted on coming to Amonkhet to confront one of the two remaining demons to whom she is bound.

Razaketh, the Foulblooded

Flying, trample
Pay 2 life, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Mulldrifter

Flying
When this creature enters, draw two cards.
Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Zealous Conscripts

Haste
When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn.

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

Dualcaster Mage

Flash
When this creature enters, copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Countless delights drift on the surface while dark schemes run below.

Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Draw three cards.

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"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.

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.

Books are like crops—they must be thinned for best yield.

Careful Study

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.

"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.)

Kolaghan's Command

Choose two —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Target player discards a card.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to any target.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

"It's a difficult task to quarantine a plague that moves with the clouds."
—Esara, healer adept

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Ashiok, Dream Render

Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause their controller to search their library.
−1: Target player mills four cards. Then exile each opponent's graveyard.

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

Nicol Bolas has all loyalty abilities of all other planeswalkers on the battlefield.
+1: You draw a card. Each opponent exiles a card from their hand or a permanent they control.
−3: Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
−8: Each opponent who doesn't control a legendary creature or planeswalker loses the game.

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

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Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

Flying
When Nicol Bolas enters, each opponent discards a card.
{4}{U}{B}{R}: Exile Nicol Bolas, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

+2: Draw two cards.
−3: Nicol Bolas deals 10 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
−4: Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
−12: Exile all but the bottom card of target player's library.

When you've got nothing, you might as well trade it for something else.

Gamble

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle.

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

An emblem of a secret guild, the Dimir insignia is seen only by its own members—and the doomed.

Dimir Signet

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

Izzet Signet

Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

"Good ideas don't take time. They take a lot of bad ideas first."
—Ral Zarek

Talisman of Creativity

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

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.

Nightscape Familiar

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

The dead are lonely in the crypt and always eager for company.

Vile Entomber

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Within each rimekin rages an ongoing struggle for self-discovery and purpose.

Thirst for Identity

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a creature card.

"I don't like to speak ill of 'walkers . . . but just what did Teferi think he was doing?"
—Ertai, wizard adept

Teferi's Veil

Whenever a creature you control attacks, it phases out at end of combat. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before you untap during your next untap step.)

"I am ancient efficiency. I am evolution's future. I am mutation come full, vicious circle!"

Armaggon, Future Shark

Flash
When Armaggon enters, destroy up to three target creatures.

Convergence of Dominion

Dynastic Command Node — As long as you control your commander, activated abilities of cards in your graveyard cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that ability's activation cost to less than one mana.
Translocation Protocols — {3}, {T}: Mill three 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.

Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Etali, Primal Storm

Whenever Etali attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Flayer of the Hatebound

Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Whenever this creature or another creature enters from your graveyard, that creature deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Obeka, Brute Chronologist

{T}: The player whose turn it is may end the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

Impulsivity

Copy

When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
Encore {7}{R}{R} ({7}{R}{R}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Noxious Gearhulk

Menace
When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Twilight Diviner

When this creature enters, 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.)
Whenever one or more other creatures you control enter, if they entered or were cast from a graveyard, create a token that's a copy of one of them. This ability triggers only once each turn.

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