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

Growing Rites of Itlimoc

When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters the battlefield, 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.

Plains

Forest

Restless Prairie

Restless Prairie enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.
{2}{G}{W}: Restless Prairie becomes a 3/3 green and white Llama creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Prairie attacks, other creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Hidden Nursery

Hidden Nursery enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{4}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice Hidden Nursery: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Hall of Heliod's Generosity

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

Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

{T}: Add {W}.
Channel — {2}{W}, Discard Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

"Here sprouted the first seedling of Argoth. Here the last tree will fall."
—Gamelen, Citanul elder

Gaea's Cradle

{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Tranquil Thicket

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

Stirring Wildwood

Stirring Wildwood enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.
{1}{G}{W}: Until end of turn, Stirring Wildwood becomes a 3/4 green and white Elemental creature with reach. It's still a land.

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.

Human

Castle Ardenvale

Without Ardenvale's loyalty, the realm would greedily devour itself.

Castle Ardenvale enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.

When defeat is near and guidance is scarce, all eyes look in one direction.

Command Tower

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

The continent of Murasa lies beneath a blanket of dense vegetation, its enormous branches tangled so thickly that some inhabitants never see the ground.

Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
Canopy Vista enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Lush Portico

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
Lush Portico enters the battlefield tapped.
When Lush Portico enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

To the Sun Empire, any place where daylight brightens the jungle floor is sacred ground.

Sunpetal Grove

Sunpetal Grove enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
As Temple Garden enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Temple of Plenty

Temple of Plenty enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Plenty enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Selesnya Sanctuary

Selesnya Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped.
When Selesnya Sanctuary enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{W}.

Fortified Village

As Fortified Village enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Forest or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, Fortified Village enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

On Otaria, peace and harmony are rare. Places that provide both are cherished.

Sungrass Prairie

Servants tend to the garden meticulously, ensuring that Upper City residents aren't bothered by the messier parts of nature.

Bountiful Promenade

Bountiful Promenade enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

A few weed-choked gourd patches are all that remain of the proud, thriving farms that once blanketed the province.

Overgrown Farmland

Overgrown Farmland enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Krosan Verge

Krosan Verge enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Krosan Verge: Search your library for a Forest card and a Plains card, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"The wilds are unpredictable. Rivers change course, trees shuffle and bend, rocks split and scurry. But mark my words, traveler—the main thing that'll change out there is *you*."
—Sturwynn, Boundary Lands ranger

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The Copper Host brought a hideous mockery of new life to Amonkhet's death-cursed desert.

Blossoming Sands

Blossoming Sands enters the battlefield tapped.
When Blossoming Sands enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

"Urza fortified every thirty miles on the path to Tomakul, creating a network of trenches the brothers would trade for decades."
—*The Antiquities War*

Brushland

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}. Brushland deals 1 damage to you.

Yavimaya's inhabitants are dedicated to protecting its unspoiled jungle from the scourge of artifice.

Radiant Grove

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
Radiant Grove enters the battlefield tapped.

Llanowar forges weapons of steel. Yavimaya grows her weapons within.

Whip Silk

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)
{G}: Return Whip Silk to its owner's hand.

"Unskin these impure bodies, Great Yawgmoth, that the flesh may welcome your blessings."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

"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.

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.

Shielded by Faith

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has indestructible.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Shielded by Faith to that creature.

Reins of the Vinesteed

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.
When enchanted creature dies, you may return Reins of the Vinesteed from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to a creature that shares a creature type with that creature.

"It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness."
—Volrath

Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Flickering Ward

Enchant creature
As Flickering Ward enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove Flickering Ward.
{W}: Return Flickering Ward to its owner's hand.

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

Anointed Procession

"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

Abundant Growth

Enchant land
When Abundant Growth enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Enchanted land has "{T}: 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.

"Avacyn's protection is everywhere. From the holy church to the sacred glade, all that we see is under her blessed watch."

Avacyn's Pilgrim

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

Elvish Mystic

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.

"The land grows only where the kami will it."
—Dosan the Falling Leaf

Kodama's Reach

The true strength of nature is not the raging storm or the charging rhino, but the inexorable vitality of life.

Fertile Ground

Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Utopia Sprawl

Enchant Forest
As Utopia Sprawl enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of the chosen color.

Beast

Beast Within

"Monsters dwell in every heart. We only think civilization tames them."
—Euphemia, Nexus watcher

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

"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.

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.

Elephant

Generous Gift

The best presents are impossible to regift.

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

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.

"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.

Sun Titan

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

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Eternal Witness

When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Llanowar Elves

Marwyn's Kindred

As patient and generous as life, as harsh and merciless as nature.

Tribal rivalries and petty disputes were laid aside at Eladamri's summons.

Eladamri's Call

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

"Once Avacyn returned, I hoped I'd never need these things again. I didn't think I'd be dusting them off to use against angels."

Open the Armory

Search your library for an Aura or Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"Choose one to heal, one to harm, and one to grant you the prudence to use them."
—Miotri, auratouched mage

Three Dreams

Search your library for up to three Aura cards with different names, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Harmony of Nature

Tap any number of untapped creatures you control. You gain 4 life for each creature tapped this way.

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.

"We in the Conclave have a saying: 'When you hold a shield, lend your shield.' The strong must never forget what they owe to the weak."
—Niszka, Selesnya evangel

Privileged Position

({G/W} can be paid with either {G} or {W}.)
Other permanents you control have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Gaea forged her soldiers into self-wielding weapons that struck down all impurities.

Aura Shards

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Even after a false god tore the magic from Dominaria, power still radiated from the Mirari sword that slew her.

Mirari's Wake

Creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced.

"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.

Few who encounter the strange, human-like grove leave once the lilting chorus of the dryads reaches their ears.

Song of the Dryads

Enchant permanent
Enchanted permanent is a colorless Forest land.

Oblivion Ring

When Oblivion Ring enters the battlefield, exile another target nonland permanent.
When Oblivion Ring leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

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

Banishing Light

When Banishing Light enters the battlefield, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until Banishing Light leaves the battlefield.

Journey to Nowhere

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

"I am the simplifier, the root that drags all artifice to earth."
—Seal inscription

Seal of Primordium

Sacrifice Seal of Primordium: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"Dawn-kissed, he nourishes the golden grain."
—Psemilla, Meletian poet

Alseid of Life's Bounty

Lifelink
{1}, Sacrifice Alseid of Life's Bounty: Target creature or enchantment you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Hyena Umbra

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has first strike.
Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Flickerform

Enchant creature
{2}{W}{W}: Exile enchanted creature and all Auras attached to it. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you do, return the other cards exiled this way to the battlefield under their owners' control attached to that creature.

Rancor

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample.
When Rancor is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Rancor to its owner's hand.

Gryff's Boon

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has flying.
{3}{W}: Return Gryff's Boon from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

As Trostani's influence grew, vitality spread through the Conclave—much to the other guilds' dismay.

Unflinching Courage

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has trample and lifelink. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

As the elves learned the hymns of angels, the knights learned the roars of titans.

Sigil of the Nayan Gods

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each creature you control.
Cycling {G/W} ({G/W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Bladehold houses a rogues' gallery filled with the living "statues" of the worst enemies of the Auriok.

Arrest

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

"You think you can stop me?" hissed Tsabo. "I think I can kill you," replied Gerrard.

Dueling Grounds

No more than one creature can attack each combat.
No more than one creature can block each combat.

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