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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.

Each cryptolith twists the plane's mana, bending its flow to a singular purpose.

Warped Landscape

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

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.

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

Foul Orchard

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

Tainted Wood

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

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}.

The elf was disgusted by the bramble before him when the skies darkened, then he stepped closer to observe the wild beauty.

Overgrown Tomb

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

"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}.

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}.

"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.

Command Tower

Tower Winder

"Thus, the shattered half of the planet was
named Kavaron That Is, and the capital
was moved to Kavaron Before."
*—The Tragedy of Emperor Kavarus III*

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

Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Bojuka Bog

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

"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.

Jungle Basin

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Forest you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{G}.

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.)

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}.

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.

Polluted Mire

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Barren Moor

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

Tranquil Thicket

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

Slippery Karst

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Hickory Woodlot

This land enters tapped with two depletion counters on it.
{T}, Remove a depletion counter from this land: Add {G}{G}. If there are no depletion counters on this land, sacrifice it.

Swamp

Forest

Deep within the Cabal's vault, the Mirari pulsed like a dead sun—and its darkness radiated across Otaria.

Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

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}.

The land is ever resilient. Should it die, it will be reborn.

Evolving Wilds

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

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.

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.

Bloodspore Thrinax

Devour 1 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)
Each other creature you control enters with an additional X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.

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 this creature is turned face up, create four 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.

Utopia Mycon

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: Add one mana of any color.

Mycoloth

Devour 2 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It 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 this creature.

Psychotrope 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.
{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.

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.

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.

"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.

"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

The chant was incomprehensible, but its power was unmistakable.

Cryptolith Rite

Creatures you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

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.

Path of Discovery

Whenever a creature you control enters, it explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on the creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Orochi Hatchery

Snake

This artifact enters with X charge counters on it.
{5}, {T}: Create a 1/1 green Snake creature token for each charge counter on this artifact.

Spore Swarm

As the irrepressible power of a dormant Multani courses through Yavimaya, the forest passes judgment on travelers and natives alike. Only the fungus prospers.

Create three 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.

Sprout Swarm

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.)
Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Fungal Sprouting

"Saprolings need only a host to feed upon. Numbers will take care of the rest."
—Ghave, Guru of Spores

Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

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.

"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.

Some of the thallids that escaped into the fens of Urborg began emulating the Cabal's bloodsoaked rituals in their own peculiar way.

Thallid Soothsayer

Vitaspore 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 gains haste until end of turn.

Elvish Farmer

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: You gain 2 life.

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.

Thelon of Havenwood created thallids as a food source in times of darkness. Thallids did the same with saprolings.

Thallid Omnivore

{1}, Sacrifice another creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If a Saproling was sacrificed this way, you gain 2 life.

Thallid Shell-Dweller

Defender
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.

Savage 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: Regenerate target Fungus.

Poison Counter

Tainted Strike

"Welcome to perfection."
—Sheoldred, Whispering One

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

A single seed unleashes a flurry of growth.

Echoing Courage

Target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature get +2/+2 until end of turn.

"I am irrelevant. The future I hold in my hands is everything."

Llanowar Augur

Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn. Activate only during your upkeep.

Reap and Sow

Choose one —
• Destroy target land.
• Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Entwine {1}{G} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Golgari reclaimers resent the gorgons, begrudging the loss of so many fine nutrients locked away in stone.

Gaze of Granite

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less.

"All matter, animate or not, rots when exposed to time. We merely speed up the process."
—Ezoc, Golgari rot farmer

Putrefy

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

"You're right. I'm sure your Legion friends *are* looking for you. And once we've hidden a piece of you in each district, they'll get to keep looking for a long time."
—Ivrelya, Dimir spymaster

Disembowel

Destroy target creature with mana value X.

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

"At harvest are seeds of next year sown."

Edge of Autumn

If you control four or fewer lands, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling—Sacrifice a land. (Sacrifice a land, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

An explorer's reward is a view of tomorrow's possibilities.

Explore

You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.

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.

Rampant Growth

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

Search for Tomorrow

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

"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.

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

Harmonize

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Vraska, Golgari Queen

Vraska, Golgari Queen Emblem

+2: You may sacrifice another permanent. If you do, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
−3: Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.
−9: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."

"If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, / And hug it in mine arms."
—William Shakespeare,
*Measure for Measure*

Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

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