Plains

Forest

Eye of Ugin

Colorless Eldrazi spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.
{7}, {T}: Search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Academy Rector

When Academy Rector dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last.

Avacyn, Angel of Hope

Flying, vigilance, indestructible
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Archangel of Thune

Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Those who seek to disturb the harmony of life will see their instruments taken from them.

Linvala, Keeper of Silence

Flying
Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated.

Mother of Runes

{T}: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

"Thraben belongs to the living. I will not rest until it is cleansed."

Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

First strike
Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

"Salvation will not be granted by the Lunarch Council. It must be earned—at the edge of a sword, if necessary."

Thalia, Heretic Cathar

First strike
Creatures and nonbasic lands your opponents control enter tapped.

Aven Mindcensor

Flash
Flying
If an opponent would search a library, that player searches the top four cards of that library instead.

"Your superstitions and mumblings are useless chaff before my righteousness."

Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

It is the soul of a philosopher who died of starvation contemplating the universe.

Eidolon of Rhetoric

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

"Let's begin this conversation again, and this time you will only listen."

Hushbringer

Flying, lifelink
Creatures entering or dying don't cause abilities to trigger.

"Our people are torn by infighting. Until the two sides reconcile, our laws can carry no meaning."

Leonin Arbiter

Players can't search libraries. Any player may pay {2} for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.

A lifetime of keeping up appearances is not enough to earn an eternity of rest.

Remorseful Cleric

Flying
Sacrifice Remorseful Cleric: Exile target player's graveyard.

Students at the Dekatia Academy learn that being sent to study with her is a lesson in itself.

Spirit of the Labyrinth

Each player can't draw more than one card each turn.

So great are his wisdom and spirit that many who have met him say that they stood before a giant of a man and talked to the wisest of the four winds.

Gaddock Teeg

Noncreature spells with mana value 4 or greater can't be cast.
Noncreature spells with {X} in their mana costs can't be cast.

"This world was once so much more than the confines of Naktamun."

Ramunap Excavator

Karmic Guide

Flying, protection from black
Echo {3}{W}{W} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When Karmic Guide enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Reveillark

Flying
When Reveillark leaves the battlefield, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Evoke {5}{W} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

In the blink of an eye, she strode from deep snow to dusty waste. From the crease of light behind her, a voice rang hollow: "Saffi, wait for me . . . ."

Saffi Eriksdotter

Sacrifice Saffi Eriksdotter: When target creature is put into your graveyard this turn, return that card to the battlefield.

Sun Titan

Vigilance
Whenever Sun Titan enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Elvish Reclaimer

Elvish Reclaimer gets +2/+2 as long as there are three or more land cards in your graveyard.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

In nature, not a single bone or scrap of flesh goes to waste.

Scavenging Ooze

{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

In its hoofprints, barren dust becomes fertile ground.

Yasharn, Implacable Earth

When Yasharn enters, search your library for a basic Forest card and a basic Plains card, reveal those cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Players can't pay life or sacrifice nonland permanents to cast spells or activate abilities.

"He steals power from treasure after treasure, and what does it do for the ouphe? Nothing."
—Jhoira

Collector Ouphe

Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

His work determines who is remembered and who feeds the worms.

Loaming Shaman

When Loaming Shaman enters, target player shuffles any number of target cards from their graveyard into their library.

"Our sanctuaries must be beacons of reason and calm or else they will fall."

Drannith Magistrate

Your opponents can't cast spells from anywhere other than their hands.

An overwhelming sense of calm accompanies the gryffs that wheel above the roofs of Gavony.

Hushwing Gryff

Flash
Flying
Creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.

Some protection requires a bit of finesse.

Containment Priest

Flash
If a nontoken creature would enter and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.

"There is no justice when some profit and others go without."

Alms Collector

Flash
If an opponent would draw two or more cards, instead you and that player each draw a card.

"They have forsaken their vows. The edict of the Circle demands their voices be silenced."
—Syr Tasdale, knight of Ardenvale

Deafening Silence

Each player can't cast more than one noncreature spell each turn.

"'Invincible' is just a word."
—Gideon Jura

Oust

Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top. Its controller gains 3 life.

Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Angel

Luminarch Ascension

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if you didn't lose life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Luminarch Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.)
{1}{W}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if Luminarch Ascension has four or more quest counters on it.

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.

Smothering Tithe

Treasure

"I await your donation."
—Dasha, Orzhov priest

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Aura of Silence

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast.
Sacrifice Aura of Silence: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Sterling Grove

Other enchantments you control have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)
{1}, Sacrifice Sterling Grove: Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

"Organization is often undervalued but rarely unjustified."
—Frasio, royal archivist

Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Idyllic Tutor

Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sylvan Library

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.

Dominaria's most extravagant crypt nevertheless holds an empty grave.

Tormod's Crypt

{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile target player's graveyard.

"Best bury them right. We don't want any gruesome encores."
—Constable Trosk

Grafdigger's Cage

Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.

Some corpses the Golgari cannot claim. Some souls the Orzhov cannot shackle.

Rest in Peace

When Rest in Peace enters, exile all graveyards.
If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Citizens are free to do as they wish, within the confines of the Consulate's laws.

Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

"By the time your knees have worn through your robe, you may have begun to learn your place."

Blind Obedience

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.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Though the spirits' bodies were ethereal, Agnur soon learned that their blades were quite solid—and razor-sharp.

Ghostly Prison

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

Stasis Snare

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When this enchantment enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.

After millennia to craft victory, Bolas had eternity to contemplate defeat.

Prison Realm

When Prison Realm enters, exile target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls until Prison Realm leaves the battlefield.
When Prison Realm enters, scry 1.

The Champion reached for a stone, and Heliod placed the sun into her hand.
—*The Theriad*

Banishing Light

When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.

Journey to Nowhere

When Journey to Nowhere enters, exile target creature.
When Journey to Nowhere leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

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.

"The arc of my blade has carved a path of light for the peace that will follow."

Swords to Plowshares

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

Once you've been dragged down the currents of time, you'll never quite trust your own permanence again.

Unexpectedly Absent

Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library just beneath the top X cards of that library.

Elephant

Generous Gift

The best presents are impossible to regift.

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

Kenrith's Transformation

Enchant creature
When Kenrith's Transformation enters, draw a card.
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green Elk creature with base power and toughness 3/3. (It loses all other card types and creature types.)

"I'm not saying I'm sure it's a trap. I'm just saying it wasn't there yesterday and I'm pretty sure I heard it whisper my name. If you're so curious, you touch it."
—Angus, survivor scout

Sol Ring

The land rises up to defend against those who would spoil its beauty.

Nature's Revolt

All lands are 2/2 creatures that are still lands.

Odric, Lunarch Marshal

At the beginning of each combat, creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn if a creature you control has first strike. The same is true for flying, deathtouch, double strike, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, skulk, trample, and vigilance.

"Why do bad things always come in threes?"
—Gisulf, expedition survivor

Triskelion

Triskelion enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Triskelion: It deals 1 damage to any target.

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back."
—Ashnod, to Tawnos

Ashnod's Altar

"It has latched onto this place like an infestation. All efforts at eradication have proved futile."
—Yeter, Trostad villager

Eternal Scourge

You may cast Eternal Scourge from exile.
When Eternal Scourge becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, exile Eternal Scourge.

"The land gives up little, but we are masters of persuasion."
—Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Earthcraft

Tap an untapped creature you control: Untap target basic land.

The greatest wonders of nature are found in the smallest saplings straining toward the canopy.

Mana Reflection

If you tap a permanent for mana, it produces twice as much of that mana instead.

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward

Soldier

When Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward enters, exile any number of other nonland permanents you control until Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield. Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token for each permanent exiled this way.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Leonin Relic-Warder

When Leonin Relic-Warder enters, you may exile target artifact or enchantment.
When Leonin Relic-Warder leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Blasting Station

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Blasting Station deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever a creature enters, you may untap Blasting Station.

Sigarda, Font of Blessings

Flying
Other permanents you control have hexproof.
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast Angel spells and Human spells from the top of your library.

"The Gitaxians whisper among themselves of other worlds. If they exist, we must bring Phyrexia's magnificence to them."

Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Vigilance
Other creatures you control get +2/+2.
Creatures your opponents control get -2/-2.

When the Mirran resistance arrived, the furnace dwellers looked to Urabrask for guidance. His decree stunned the others: "Let them be."

Urabrask the Hidden

Creatures you control have haste.
Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Orvar, the All-Form

Copy

Changeling
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, if it targets one or more other permanents you control, create a token that's a copy of one of those permanents.
When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, create a token that's a copy of target permanent.

Nebuchadnezzar

{X}, {T}: Choose a card name. Target opponent reveals X cards at random from their hand. Then that player discards all cards with that name revealed this way. Activate only during your turn.

Ian Malcolm, Chaotician

Whenever a player draws their second card each turn, that player exiles the top card of their library.
During each player's turn, that player may cast a spell from among the cards they don't own exiled with Ian Malcolm, Chaotician, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.

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

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Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

Flying
When Nicol Bolas, the Ravager enters, each opponent discards a card.
{4}{U}{B}{R}: Exile Nicol Bolas, the Ravager, 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, the Arisen 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.

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