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Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

Growing Rites of Itlimoc

When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.

Though the Sun Empire and the River Heralds once came together to plant the sacred forest, its roots have been tended by the mycoids ever since.

Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

(Transforms from Growing Rites of Itlimoc.)
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

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.)

Cave of Temptation

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Cave of Temptation: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

The limbs of Pendelhaven extend as far as the meek roam, and reach as high as they strive.

Pendelhaven

{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Target 1/1 creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

Oran-Rief, the Vastwood

Oran-Rief, the Vastwood enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each green creature that entered this turn.

Where scavengers nest in hollowed-out rib cages and chittering crawlers peer from empty eye sockets, few dare to trespass.

Swarmyard

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

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}.

Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Mosswort Bridge enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Tranquil Thicket

Tranquil Thicket enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Llanowar Reborn

Llanowar Reborn enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Graft 1 (This land enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this land onto it.)

Without Garenbrig's strength, the realm would succumb to the wilds.

Castle Garenbrig

Castle Garenbrig enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
{2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.

"Touch no tree, break no branch, and speak only the question you wish answered."
—Von Yomm, elder druid, to her initiates

Dryad Arbor

(Dryad Arbor isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "{T}: Add {G}.")

Treetop Village

Treetop Village enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{1}{G}: Treetop Village becomes a 3/3 green Ape creature with trample until end of turn. It's still a land. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Unclaimed Territory

As Unclaimed Territory enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Geier Reach Sanitarium

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

Forest

Oriq agents stick to the dark corners of Arcavios, unseen yet ever-present.

Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

"I can't protect everyone here. But those I can, I will."
—Karn

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"Multani's heart is a seed, and all of Yavimaya is its flower. There is as much life here as in the rest of Dominaria together."
—Karn

Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

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

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Blighted Woodland

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice Blighted Woodland: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard Boseiju, Who Endures: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

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.

A figure is moved on a map, and the tide of war changes.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Treasure

Fountainport

Fish

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a token: Draw a card.
{3}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token.
{4}, {T}: Create a Treasure token.

"There will come a time when the only prey left will be each other."
—Ulrich of Krallenhorde Pack

Parallel Lives

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

Beastmaster Ascension

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on Beastmaster Ascension.
As long as Beastmaster Ascension has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

The mind is a beautiful bounty encased in an annoying bone container.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

Fresh Meat

Beast

A scavenger's favorite appetizer is death.

Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token for each creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.

Saproling

Mycoloth

Devour 2 (As this enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each +1/+1 counter on Mycoloth.

Psychotrope Thallid

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Psychotrope Thallid.
Remove three spore counters from Psychotrope Thallid: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
{1}, Sacrifice a Saproling: Draw a card.

Sporemound

"If you threaten its territory, it produces spores. Actually, no matter what you do, it produces spores."
—Hadi Kasten, Calla Dale naturalist

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

City's Blessing

Tendershoot Dryad

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Saprolings you control get +2/+2 as long as you have the city's blessing.

Jade Mage

"Loneliness is a symptom of civilization."

{2}{G}: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Utopia Mycon

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Utopia Mycon.
Remove three spore counters from Utopia Mycon: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Sacrifice a Saproling: Add one mana of any color.

Verdeloth the Ancient

Kicker {X} (You may pay an additional {X} as you cast this spell.)
Saproling creatures and other Treefolk creatures get +1/+1.
When Verdeloth the Ancient enters, if it was kicked, create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.

Thelonite Hermit

Morph

All Saprolings get +1/+1.
Morph {3}{G}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When Thelonite Hermit is turned face up, create four 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.

Nemata, Grove Guardian

"Anyone who believes the elder dragons are the only ancient powers of this world has spent too much time listening to the elder dragons."
—Multani

{2}{G}: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Sacrifice a Saproling: Saproling creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Sporoloth Ancient

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Sporoloth Ancient.
Creatures you control have "Remove two spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token."

Thallid Shell-Dweller

Defender
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Thallid Shell-Dweller.
Remove three spore counters from Thallid Shell-Dweller: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"How truly vast this city must be, that I have traveled so far and seen so much, yet never once found the place where the buildings fail."

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Flowstone spreads, but new life spreads faster."

Skyshroud Claim

Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Torching Krosa would be pointless. It grows faster than it burns.

Explosive Vegetation

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Animals commune with their environment without the need for language. Theirs is a fundamental connection that surpasses flimsy words."
—Vivien Reid

Harmonize

First, whispers of ancient days. Then, visions of things to come.

Shamanic Revelation

Draw a card for each creature you control.
Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

As the Phyrexian contagion corroded Karn's body, the praetors whispered psalms to corrupt his mind.

Praetor's Counsel

Return all cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Praetor's Counsel. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

Genesis Wave

Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.

Beast Within

Beasties tend to be shy, kind to humans, and absolutely ruthless toward Valgavoth's monstrous spawn.

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Give up these unnatural weapons, these scrolls. Heart and mind and fist are enough."
—Zyd, Kamahlite druid

Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Zendikar Resurgent

Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced. (The types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless.)
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

"Control the Great Conduit? You might as well try to divert a river with your hands."

Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

The seeds of new life take root in the soil of old.

Seasons Past

Return any number of cards with different mana values from your graveyard to your hand. Put Seasons Past on the bottom of its owner's library.

Tooth and Nail

Choose one —
• Search your library for up to two creature cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
• Put up to two creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.
Entwine {2} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Champion of Lambholt

Creatures with power less than Champion of Lambholt's power can't block creatures you control.
Whenever another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Champion of Lambholt.

Primeval Bounty

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 3 life.

Despite its fearsome stature, it is as elusive as a shadow, circling round to stalk those who presume to hunt it.

Archetype of Endurance

Creatures you control have hexproof.
Creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and can't have or gain hexproof.

Forgotten Ancient

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Forgotten Ancient.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from Forgotten Ancient onto other creatures.

Chord of Calling

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Song of Freyalise

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Until your next turn, creatures you control gain "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
III — Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance, trample, and indestructible until end of turn.

"I trust the instincts of any beast over the advice of any human who presumes to be an expert in the art of war."
—Rinshel, elf insurgent

Overwhelming Stampede

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

The pattern of life can be studied like a book, if you know how to read it.

Slate of Ancestry

{4}, {T}, Discard your hand: Draw a card for each creature you control.

"Ideas drift like petals on the wind. I have only to lift my face to the breeze."

Mind's Eye

Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

"The tiniest mouse speaks louder to me than all the festival crowds on Tin Street."

Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Silent as a snowdrift. Inexorable as an avalanche.

Ohran Frostfang

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Primal Vigor

If one or more tokens would be created, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.

Imperious Perfect

Elf Warrior

In a culture of beauty, the most beautiful are worshipped as gods.

Other Elves you control get +1/+1.
{G}, {T}: Create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.

He knows the name of every elf born in the last four centuries. More importantly, they all know his.

Elvish Archdruid

Other Elf creatures you control get +1/+1.
{T}: Add {G} for each Elf you control.

Great hero or grand betrayer? The truth of Ezuri's legacy is clouded by the fog of legend.

Ezuri, Renegade Leader

{G}: Regenerate another target Elf.
{2}{G}{G}{G}: Elf creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

Llanowar Elves

Marwyn's Kindred

The elves of the Llanowar forest have defended it for generations. It is their sacred duty to keep outside influences from corrupting their ancestral home.

"Life grows everywhere. My kin merely find those places where it grows strongest."
—Nissa Revane

Elvish Mystic

"We could no more abandon the forest than the stars could abandon the night sky."

Fyndhorn Elves

Some creatures are bound to the cold by Rimewind magic. Others seek it out, adapted by two thousand years of the Ice. The Boreal, where Heidar's frigid sway is strongest, is home to both.

Boreal Druid

Arbor Elf

"From a tiny sprout, the greatest trees grow and flourish. May the seeds of your mind be equally fruitful."

Elvish Visionary

When Elvish Visionary enters, draw a card.

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