"Always have a backup plan."
—Doral, Bala Ged guide

Bala Ged Recovery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I know it's around here somewhere."
—Doral, Bala Ged guide

Bala Ged Sanctuary

Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary

Verdant Catacombs

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

Swamp

Forest

"It's me and Gribble's special fort. None of the bad things can get us in there."
—Toby

Command Tower

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

Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{G}.

When asked, the Speedbrood never put their motives into words; they simply say that velocity is their way of life. Only by becoming speed itself can one truly understand their reason for racing.

Jungle Hollow

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

"The sylex blast marked not only the end of the war, but the end of Dominaria as most knew it."
—*The Antiquities War*

Llanowar Wastes

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

Overgrown Tomb

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

Farmers cut the trees and buried their dead. The dead rose up and killed the farmers. The trees grew back and strangled the dead.

Woodland Cemetery

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

Bojuka Bog

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

Tainted Wood

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

Temple of Malady

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 {G}.

Hissing Quagmire

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
{1}{B}{G}: This land becomes a 2/2 black and green Elemental creature with deathtouch until end of turn. It's still a land.

To get to Valor's Reach, competitors must first make a name for themselves in the smaller arenas.

Undergrowth Stadium

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

Myriad Landscape

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

Urza's forces tore across Argoth, and Argoth responded in kind.

Bane of Progress

When this creature enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each permanent destroyed this way.

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.

Wurm

Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink
When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Avenger of Zendikar

Plant

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.

World Shaper

Whenever this creature attacks, you may mill three cards.
When this creature dies, return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

He lurks in the undercity, eager for the corpse haulers to unload their rotting cargo.

Lotleth Troll

Trample
Discard a creature card: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Varolz, the Scar-Striped

Each creature card in your graveyard has scavenge. The scavenge cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)
Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Varolz.

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Jarad gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
{1}{B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Phyrexian Devourer

When Phyrexian Devourer's power is 7 or greater, sacrifice it.
Exile the top card of your library: Put X +1/+1 counters on Phyrexian Devourer, where X is the exiled card's mana value.

It eats what it wants to eat—which is anything that moves.

Pelakka Wurm

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
When this creature enters, you gain 7 life.
When this creature dies, draw a card.

"Jarad fancies himself king of the undercity, but he's merely king of rot."

Necropolis Regent

Flying
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.

Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Deathtouch
When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Liliana, Death's Majesty

Zombie

+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Mill two cards.
−3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.
−7: Destroy all non-Zombie creatures.

Vraska the Unseen

Assassin

+1: Until your next turn, whenever a creature deals combat damage to Vraska, destroy that creature.
−3: Destroy target nonland permanent.
−7: Create three 1/1 black Assassin creature tokens with "Whenever this token deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."

Deadbridge Chant

When this enchantment enters, mill ten cards.
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a card at random in your graveyard. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

The Eldest Reborn

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.
II — Each opponent discards a card.
III — Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

"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.

The void is without substance but cuts like steel.

Doom Blade

The blades of a Sultai assassin stab like the fangs of a dragon.

Murderous Cut

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Destroy target creature.

Julie thought getting trapped in a doll was the worst fate imaginable. She was wrong.

Putrefy

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

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.

"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.

Depending on your point of view, the seal represents a proud guardian of the natural cycle or one who has sold her soul to darkness for eternal life.

Golgari Signet

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Golgari mold collects whispers, intelligence that is later harvested by Jarad and his high chancellors.

Golgari Cluestone

{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
{B}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Cultivator's Caravan

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Cauldron of Souls

{T}: Choose any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures gains persist until end of turn. (When it 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.)

"A crafter must imbue her weapon with part of her soul—something the Phyrexians are incapable of doing."
—Melira

Loxodon Warhammer

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink.
Equip {3}

When you spend most of your time running for your life, it pays to invest in quality footwear.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Nighthowler

Bestow {2}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)
This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Thornbite Staff

Equipped creature has "{2}, {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target" and "Whenever a creature dies, untap this creature."
Whenever a Shaman creature enters, you may attach this Equipment to it.
Equip {4}

Eldrazi Spawn

Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

A-Blood Artist

Blood Artist

"Vanya Falkenrath's paintings are astonishing. How does she manage to achieve such rich crimson hues?"
—Stefan, art critic

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

"Eldrazi? Ha! Try walking through Zulaport at night with your pockets full. Now *that's* dangerous."

Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Smothering Abomination

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.

Treasure

Pitiless Plunderer

"Shame to let good gold go to the grave."

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Splinterfright

Trample
Splinterfright's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
At the beginning of your upkeep, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Sewer Nemesis

As this creature enters, choose a player.
Sewer Nemesis's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in the chosen player's graveyard.
Whenever the chosen player casts a spell, that player mills a card.

Beast

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.

Odric resisted the vampire's curse with all his strength. But after a lifetime of fighting monsters, he was doomed to become one himself.

Hero's Downfall

Languish

All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

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

Harmonize

Rampant Growth

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

"Tread carefully. You remember what happened in the last quiet, peaceful clearing."
—Halana, to Alena

Mulch

Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"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.

"We traffic in flesh, not souls. Still, it's a shame to let anything go to waste."
—Cevraya, Golgari shaman

Death's Presence

Whenever a creature you control dies, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the power of the creature that died.

Trail of Mystery

Whenever a face-down creature you control enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, if it's a creature, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"The heroes of the past nourish our spirits by their example—and nourish our crops by their decay."
—Jeddeg, philosopher of graves

Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Life is eternal. A lifetime is ephemeral.

Fecundity

Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller may draw a card.

"The Izzet are searching for something. Discern what or die trying."

Jarad's Orders

Search your library for up to two creature cards and reveal them. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

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}

As it twists, so does all life around it.

The Ozolith

Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.

Saproling

Golgari Germination

The Golgari don't bury their dead. They plant them.

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

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.

Beastmaster Ascension

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

Bramble Sovereign

Copy

Life runs wild amid the tangled branches.

Whenever another nontoken creature enters, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, that creature's controller creates a token that's a copy of that creature.

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