Ixalan Checklist

Vampire

Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort

"I claim this land in the name of the queen."
—Adrian Adanto of Lujio

Legion's Landing

When Legion's Landing enters, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.
When you attack with three or more creatures, transform Legion's Landing.

Adanto, the First Fort

(Transforms from Legion's Landing.)
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.

Command Tower

Tower Winder

"Thus, the shattered half of the planet was
named Kavaron That Is, and the capital
was moved to Kavaron Before."
*—The Tragedy of Emperor Kavarus III*

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

After years of silence, the caves once again echo with the grisly sounds of Phyrexians preparing for war.

Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

"Log 1.7.618: Starshadow, a relic of a culture lost to calamity. Its people were eradicated in a single day—but by what?"
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Godless Shrine

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

Serra's blessing lies strongest upon Sursi, where her holy chapels are untouched even as evil encroaches.

Isolated Chapel

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

Scrubland

Marsh Flats

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

"Do not linger in such places, child. There the gwyllions dance. If they find you, you will join in their revels for eternity."
—Talara, elvish safewright

Fetid Heath

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

"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.

Volrath's Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Bojuka Bog

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

Emeria, the Sky Ruin

This land enters tapped.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more Plains, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
{T}: Add {W}.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

"For centuries my creation kept this world in balance. Now only her shadow remains."
—Sorin Markov

Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

If it can't be had here, it can't be had on any world.

High Market

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

"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}.

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.

Plains

Swamp

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}.

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Tainted Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Where victors are commemorated and moments of glory immortalized.

Vault of Champions

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

Summoning it is easy. Controlling it is another matter.

Bloodghast

This creature can't block.
This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage

Innistrad Checklist

Bloodline Keeper

Flying
{T}: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.
{B}: Transform this creature. Activate only if you control five or more Vampires.

Lord of Lineage

Flying
Other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+2.
{T}: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.

Malakir Bloodwitch

Flying, protection from white
When this creature enters, each opponent loses life equal to the number of Vampires you control. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

"For four hundred years, I have led armies of conquest. These lands hold nothing that can stand against me."

Vona, Butcher of Magan

Vigilance, lifelink
{T}, Pay 7 life: Destroy target nonland permanent. Activate only during your turn.

"I will not live as a slave. If you would be free, then fight alongside me."

Drana, Liberator of Malakir

Flying, first strike
Whenever Drana deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.

Vampire Nighthawk

Flying
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Tithe Drinker

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

"I often think on how excited they must feel to be chosen as my prey."

Falkenrath Noble

Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

When the blood hunt lost its thrill, she looked for less tangible means of domination.

Vampire Hexmage

First strike
Sacrifice this creature: Remove all counters from target permanent.

A few aetherborn have discovered a way to sustain their own existences at the cost of an insatiable hunger for the life essence of other beings.

Gifted Aetherborn

Sorin had created Avacyn, so it was a cruelty beyond imagining, a pain beyond description, that it fell upon him to end her forever.

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

For a razorkin, painless dissolution is a far worse fate than agonizing death.

Utter End

The divine light of the Palatinate could be so cold. As she laid down her sword, she felt the sun's warmth in a different way.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Vindicate

The queen sent her champion to defeat the necromancer threat. His helmet was returned the next day, warped and stained with blood.

Mortify

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.

The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

Diabolic Tutor

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

A spark of resistance against a tide of corruption.

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

If you're looking for it, it's available. The question is how much you're willing to pay.

Underworld Connections

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "{T}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

Soldier

Dawn of Hope

"To wage war, secure peace within yourself."
—Emmara

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.
{3}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Dark Ritual

"Each syllable chills your veins. Each word rattles your mind."
—Cabal Patriarch

Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.
Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Those who hear her go mad with inspiration.

Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.)
Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Obzedat, Ghost Council

When Obzedat enters, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
At the beginning of your end step, you may exile Obzedat. If you do, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of your next upkeep. It gains haste.

Sorin Markov

+2: Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
−3: Target opponent's life total becomes 10.
−7: You control target player during that player's next turn.

Sorin, Solemn Visitor

Sorin, Solemn Visitor Emblem

+1: Until your next turn, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain lifelink.
−2: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.
−6: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice."

Sorin, Lord of Innistrad

Sorin, Lord of Innistrad Emblem

+1: Create a 1/1 black Vampire creature token with lifelink.
−2: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+0."
−6: Destroy up to three target creatures and/or other planeswalkers. Return each card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control.

Sorin, Grim Nemesis

Vampire Knight

+1: Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. Each opponent loses life equal to its mana value.
−X: Sorin deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.
−9: Create a number of 1/1 black Vampire Knight creature tokens with lifelink equal to the highest life total among all players.

Kaya, Orzhov Usurper

+1: Exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard. You gain 2 life if at least one creature card was exiled this way.
−1: Exile target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.
−5: Kaya deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards that player owns in exile and you gain that much life.

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Lifelink
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda.
When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

While Kaya is guildmaster, Teysa waits patiently at the center of the Orzhov web of power.

Teysa Karlov

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Creature tokens you control have vigilance and lifelink.

"The gods here may walk among the people, but they are not with them."
—Gideon Jura

Anointed Procession

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Elspeth, Sun's Champion Emblem

+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."

Elspeth, Knight-Errant Emblem

Elspeth, Knight-Errant

+1: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
+1: Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn.
−8: You get an emblem with "Artifacts, creatures, enchantments, and lands you control have indestructible."

Elspeth Tirel

+2: You gain 1 life for each creature you control.
−2: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
−5: Destroy all other permanents except for lands and tokens.

Human Soldier

Elspeth, Sun's Nemesis

−1: Up to two target creatures you control each get +2/+1 until end of turn.
−2: Create two 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens.
−3: You gain 5 life.
Escape—{4}{W}{W}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

"An ordered Sothera is a peaceful Sothera. Join the Strategic Corps today and proudly turn the gears of progress!"
—Pinnacle recruitment ad

Arcane Signet

The sigil holds different meanings depending on its form and presentation. While some wear it as a sign of status, others wear it as a sign of debt.

Orzhov Signet

"Behold! The image of the enemy and all that she has. Trust your envy, and take it."

Magus of the Mirror

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

The Church of Dusk teaches there is no gain without loss, no triumph without sacrifice, no drink of exquisite crimson without a dying gasp.

Axis of Mortality

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have two target players exchange life totals.

"Through the blood of the wicked, we shall be redeemed. Let us pray."

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

"We have a proud history of self-sacrifice. But it is easy, in these bleak times, to find one among us who is eager to die for any cause."
—Tavalus, acolyte of Korlis

Children of Korlis

Sacrifice this creature: You gain life equal to the life you've lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Momo, Friendly Flier

Flying
The first non-Lemur creature spell with flying you cast during each of your turns costs {1} less to cast.
Whenever another creature you control with flying enters, Momo gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

The line between victory and defeat can be as slim as a razor's edge.

Stunning Reversal

The next time you would lose the game this turn, instead draw seven cards and your life total becomes 1.
Exile Stunning Reversal.

Worse than the years of aging was the burden of memory. The young monk lost his youth and gained a vicarious lifetime of hardship and woe.

Reverse the Sands

Redistribute any number of players' life totals. (Each of those players gets one life total back.)

"You have an unhealthy attachment to your selfhood. I can help you with that."
—Malcator, Executor of Synthesis

Soul Conduit

{6}, {T}: Two target players exchange life totals.

"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.

Clue

Raven Eagle

Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, exile up to one target card from a graveyard. If a creature card is exiled this way, create a Clue token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Profane Transfusion

"Those that fall short of perfection can still contribute to the Great Work."
—Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor

Two target players exchange life totals. You create an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token, where X is the difference between those players' life totals.

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