Safe havens amid the desert and dragonstorms, Abzan fortresses attract merchants, travelers, outcasts, and exiles.

Command Tower

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

"They never found the body of young Josu, or that of his murderous sister."
—"The Fall of the House of Vess"

Woodland Cemetery

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

Swamp

Forest

Tranquil Thicket

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

Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
{T}: Add {B}.

Barren Moor

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.

"I love what they've done with the place."
—Liliana Vess

Grim Backwoods

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{B}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

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}.

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}.

Long-standing disagreements between the Sultai and Abzan about how to honor their dead have led to rare but fierce skirmishes.

Jungle Hollow

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

Dragonstorm chasers are not deterred by danger—they claim there is nothing like witnessing the land embracing the power of a storm.

Evolving Wilds

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

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

The House's geography constantly warps and twists, fields melting into floorboards and walls opening into hungry maws.

Terramorphic Expanse

Necroblossom Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Some of the nature spirits and wraiths that haunt Urborg take offense at the term "ghost town."

Haunted Mire

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
This land enters tapped.

Enter those who are starving and sick. You are welcome among the Swarm when the rest of Ravnica rejects you.

Golgari Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{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.

The stench of rotting meat lures flies, goblins, and young raptors.

Foul Orchard

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them."
—Pulan, Bant orchardist

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Life and death mixing together, both ends of the same cycle giving rise to something else.

Viridescent Bog

"Lost a boot in the muck. Get the feeling I'm lucky I got to keep the leg."
—Pioneer journal of Big Ralph

Festering Gulch

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Blighted Woodland

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

Far from human eyes, birds flit between vivid blossoms in a hidden paradise.

Thriving Grove

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than green.
{T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

The path to power is forged in ruthlessness.

Darkmoss Bridge

This land enters tapped.
Indestructible
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Mage-students fascinated by the energies of life and death choose Witherbloom, the college of essence studies.

Witherbloom Campus

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
{4}, {T}: Scry 1.

"Sleep now, brother. That is the one gift I can give you."
—Liliana Vess

Final Parting

Search your library for two cards. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

"Die. But die knowing that your pathetic life will yield a great bounty for me."
—Zul Ashur, lich lord

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Emrakul does not grant wishes. Desires simply align to her will.

Grapple with the Past

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature or land card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

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.

"We gather the past from surface dwellers and sell it right back to them."

Golgari Findbroker

When this creature enters, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Jade-touched, wisteria-crowned, with gifts of gold and the Harvest's blessing, return this honored one to us as sibsig."
—Priests' chant

Gravecrawler

This creature can't block.
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Stitcher's Supplier

When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Glowspore Shaman

When this creature enters, mill three cards. You may put a land card from your graveyard on top of your library. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

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

Elvish Mystic

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.

There were no tombstones in orochi territory. Slain warriors were buried with a tree sapling, so they would become a part of the forest after death.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

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

Yavimaya Elder

When this creature dies, you may search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

"Verdant bloom does exist. It merely hides for its own safety."

Farhaven Elf

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"What was once formed by masons, shaped by smiths, or given life by mages, I will return to the embrace of the earth."

Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Opening Orazca unleashed more horrors than just the Immortal Sun.

Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

He enjoys his work, for he sees only the worst Abzan criminals: those who betray their own kin.

Merciless Executioner

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

"My power is generosity, in a way. I give my survivors an appreciation for their lives."

Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Shriekmaw

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

His victims don't have time to feel despair.

Nekrataal

First strike
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

It fears no sword and leaves no bones behind.

Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When this creature enters, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

In matters of life and death, he trusts his gut.

Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

"In these bloodstains I will find the fingerprints of our oppressors."
—Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Carnage Altar

His verdict is always guilty. His sentence is always death.

Butcher of Malakir

Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

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.

Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Glacian built his automatons to last, and last they did, beyond even the Thran themselves.

Thran Vigil

Whenever one or more artifact and/or creature cards leave your graveyard during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Putrid Goblin

Persist (When this creature 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.)

Saproling

Verdant Force

The bower shuddered. The stillness broke. The scurf shifted, and a being emerged from the flowers and ferns.

At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Kishla Village

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {G}.
{3}{G}, {T}: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

"The identifying ornamental growths of alpha thallids may be hereditary, or catalyzed by some chemical signal."
—*Sarpadian Empires, vol. III*

Sporecrown Thallid

Each other creature you control that's a Fungus or Saproling gets +1/+1.

Sporoloth Ancient

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

Sporesower Thallid

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on each Fungus you control.
Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Fungal Plots

Thallids nurture saprolings, entertain them, and eat them.

{1}{G}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Sacrifice two Saprolings: You gain 2 life and draw a card.

Thallid Germinator

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature.
Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Sacrifice a Saproling: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Fungal Rebirth

"We're all food for something in the end."
—Cevraya, Golgari shaman

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. If a creature died this turn, create two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.

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.

Undercellar Myconid

Water, barley, yeast, darkness—the tavern cellar had everything a growing mold could need.

Whenever this creature enters or dies, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Saproling Symbiosis

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each creature you control.

"'Victory is survival' is the tenet that guides us. My love, know that I will always ensure your survivial."
—Duvir, Mardu warrior, final letter

Worthy Cost

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Deathspore Thallid

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature.
Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Sacrifice a Saproling: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Necrogenesis

"Those may be the squirms of one life ending or of another beginning. Either way, I'd leave it alone."
—Rakka Mar

{2}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

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.

Flash Foliage

"This undemanding vegetation takes root in a mote of dust but grows incredibly quickly."
—Simic research notes

Cast this spell only during combat after blockers are declared.
Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token that's blocking target creature attacking you.
Draw a card.

Myconid colonies grow and expand at an aggressive rate, but they are friendly and peaceful unless provoked.

Myconid Spore Tender

Infesting Spores — When this creature enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment.

"If you hear a groaning noise in the cellar, don't investigate. Don't split up. Just lock the door and barricade it."
—Emili, guard captain

Eaten Alive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}{B}.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Scions of the Markov line take particular pleasure in the perversion of humans' holy rituals.

Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

In theory, the Guildpact keeps guild feuds from spiraling out of control. Personal feuds, however, are not covered.

Vindictive Vampire

Whenever another creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

Casualties of War

Choose one or more —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target creature.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Destroy target land.
• Destroy target planeswalker.

Murder

There is no atrocity Valgavoth's devotees would not commit for the promise of freedom from fear.

Deathreap Ritual

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, you may draw a card.

Fists of Ironwood

Saprolings add the three and the four to the "one-two punch."

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, create two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.
Enchanted creature has trample.

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