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.

"I gazed once into that light. Now it burns in my mind, forever denying me rest."
—Riku of Two Reflections

Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Steam Vents

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

"We have inherited the mysteries of the Thran, but few of the answers."
—Jhoira

Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Temple of Epiphany

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 {U} or {R}.

Travelers bathe in the falls to wash away curses from the pucas who lurk nearby.

Cascade Bluffs

{T}: Add {C}.
{U/R}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{R}, or {R}{R}.

The boiling seas around Shiv provided a welcome layer of protection for the reclaimed Mana Rig.

Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

When spring melted the snow, fishers downstream of the Qadat Fire Rim learned of conflict between Temur and Jeskai from the gruesome flotsam.

Swiftwater Cliffs

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

Izzet Boilerworks

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

Mountain

Island

The Planar Bridge opened over the Chamber of the Guildpact, reducing the symbol of Ravnica's endurance to rubble.

Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

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}.

Urza's Saga

Construct

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

There is no glory to be gained in the kingdom of the dead.
—Vec tomb inscription

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Arena of Glory

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain.
{T}: Add {R}.
{R}, {T}, Exert this land: Add {R}{R}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (An exerted permanent won't untap during your next untap step.)

"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.

Frostboil Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Stability and volatility churn together, creating beauty and danger both.

Ferrous Lake

Between matches, combatants practice to stay in peak mental and physical form.

Training Center

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

Scalding Tarn

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

Where water is the canvas and lava the paint.

Fiery Islet

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U} or {R}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Thundering Falls

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Frequent, violent storms shape the Nephalia coastline, sculpting cliffs and caves where monsters often lurk.

Stormcarved Coast

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Volcanic Island

"There is much to learn here, but few can endure the ringing of the spires."
—Nulakam the Archivist

City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Gemstone Caverns

If this card is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand.
{T}: Add {C}. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.

Five rivers encircle Theros, flowing with waters more ancient than the world itself.

Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Mardu lightning fences are the ingenious synthesis of blacksmith skill and stormsinger magic, protecting their dalkovans from even the most fearsome dragonstorms.

Sol Ring

Sulfuric Vortex

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.
If a player would gain life, that player gains no life instead.

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

Counterspell

The Izzet specialize in unnatural disaster.

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (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.)

The mizzium-sphere array drove her mind deep into the thought field, where only the rarest motes of genius may be plucked.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"It's easy to anticipate Captain Storm's orders: take the more dangerous route."

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

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Rhystic Study

Archival Whorl

Friends teach what you want to know. Enemies teach what you *need* to know.

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Countless delights drift on the surface while dark schemes run below.

Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Draw three cards.

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"I do things in my own time."
—Etha, initiate of Rhet crop

Pull from Tomorrow

"Teferi is a problem student. Always late for class. No appreciation for constructive use of time."
—Barrin, progress report

Disruptive Student

{T}: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

"Is it not the embodiment of our aspirations?"
—Prokopios, astronomer of Meletis

Archetype of Imagination

Creatures you control have flying.
Creatures your opponents control lose flying and can't have or gain flying.

He has journeyed where none have been before. Now he returns to ensure that none follow.

Arcanis the Omnipotent

{T}: Draw three cards.
{2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis to its owner's hand.

Whirlpool Warrior

When this creature enters, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.
{R}, Sacrifice this creature: Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.

"This is a sacred duty. Master Beleren's trust has bought an eternity of my loyalty."

Jace's Archivist

{U}, {T}: Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Niv-Mizzet, Parun

This spell can't be countered.
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, you draw a card.

It chews open Mirrodin's husk and feeds on the outpouring of energy.

Galvanoth

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if it's an instant or sorcery spell.

A word of vengeance, and her arrows awaken in flame.

Firebrand Archer

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

"Fire! Fire! Fire! What joy! What fire! Burn it all!"

Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Cryptic Trilobite

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.
{1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

The Jeskai find potential recruits among all walks of life, including other clans.

Goblin Electromancer

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Elemental

Young Pyromancer

The hydrorats were soon eradicated from the monastery.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

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Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror

Thing in the Ice

Defender
This creature enters with four ice counters on it.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, remove an ice counter from this creature. Then if it has no ice counters on it, transform it.

"It serves as evidence of the ancient power of the deep, a reminder that the sea is the only thing worthy of reverence."
—Runo Stromkirk

Awoken Horror

When this creature transforms into Awoken Horror, return all non-Horror creatures to their owners' hands.

Crackling Drake

Flying
Crackling Drake's power is equal to the total number of instant and sorcery cards you own in exile and in your graveyard.
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Niblis of Frost

Flying
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Zombie Army

Commence the Endgame

This spell can't be countered.
Draw two cards, then amass Zombies X, where X is the number of cards in your hand. (Put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

Rise from the Tides

Zombie

"Dear brother, it's sweet that you have chosen to share your toys with Ludevic, but I too have found some new playmates."
—Ghoulcaller Gisa

Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

"Brother, your fate has always been bound to mine. Now we have reached the place where they shall both end."

Finale of Revelation

Draw X cards. If X is 10 or more, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw X cards, untap up to five lands, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
Exile Finale of Revelation.

Lightning Bolt

Toralf's Disciple

Thayan Evokers

Indris, the Hydrostatic Surge

The sparkmage shrieked, calling on the rage of the storms of his youth. To his surprise, the sky responded with a fierce energy he'd never thought to see again.

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Serum Visions

She realized that she could not, in fact, handle the truth.

Shock

After millennia asleep, the Eldrazi had forgotten about Zendikar's fiery temper and dislike of strangers.

Flame Slash

Flame Slash deals 4 damage to target creature.

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

When the twin-spell bonus round begins, the crowd rises to its feet in anticipation of incredible combinations.

Bonus Round

Until end of turn, whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, that player copies it and may choose new targets for the copy.

"Echoes of the Mirari's power yet linger."
—Zyd, Kamahlite druid

Reiterate

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.)
Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Copy

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

Haste
{T}: Create a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

"It has been my experience that disasters like to strike in pairs."

Dualcaster Mage

Flash
When this creature enters, copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Gauntlet of Might

Red creatures get +1/+1.
Whenever a Mountain is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {R}.

The Izzet signet is redesigned often, each time becoming closer to a vanity portrait of Niv-Mizzet.

Izzet Signet

Followed Footsteps

Æther can turn a footprint into a blueprint.

Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted creature.

Talrand's Invocation

Drake

After Talrand conquered the depths of Shandalar, his ambitions drove him skyward, joined by servants whose drive and curiosity equaled his own.

Create two 2/2 blue Drake creature tokens with flying.

Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn.
−2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Khorvath's Fury

For each player, choose friend or foe. Each friend discards all cards from their hand, then draws that many cards plus one. Khorvath's Fury deals damage to each foe equal to the number of cards in their hand.

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