Ixalan Checklist

Vance's Blasting Cannons // Spitfire Bastion

With a broadside assault, Captain Vance carved the cliffs to form her new home.

Vance's Blasting Cannons

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. If it's a nonland card, you may cast that card this turn.
Whenever you cast your third spell in a turn, you may transform Vance's Blasting Cannons.

Now instead of a ship, Ripley Vance commands a fortress.

Spitfire Bastion

(Transforms from Vance's Blasting Cannons.)
{T}: Add {R}.
{2}{R}, {T}: Spitfire Bastion deals 3 damage to any target.

Without Embereth's courage, the realm would falter and fall.

Castle Embereth

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain.
{T}: Add {R}.
{1}{R}{R}, {T}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

For many children, the wonder of their first warp is a lifelong inspiration.

Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Command Tower

Tower Winder

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

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

Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Forgotten Cave

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

Smoldering Spires

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, target creature can't block this turn.
{T}: Add {R}.

Dwarf

Dwarven Mine

({T}: Add {R}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Mountains.
When this land enters untapped, create a 1/1 red Dwarf creature token.

Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

"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.

Mystifying Maze

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Exile target attacking creature an opponent controls. At the beginning of the next end step, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.

Crystal Vein

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Add {C}{C}.

"All peoples treasure a place where the weary traveler may drink in peace."
—Ajani Goldmane

Radiant Fountain

When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Mountain

Spirit

Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

{T}: Add {R}.
Channel — {3}{R}, Discard this card: Create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens. They gain haste until end of turn. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

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.

Hidden Volcano

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
{4}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: 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.)

Desert of the Fervent

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
Cycling {1}{R} ({1}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Phyrexian Mite

Mirrex

Poison Counter

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if this land entered this turn.
{3}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and "This token can't block." (Players dealt combat damage by it also get a poison counter.)

Snow-Covered Mountain

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.)

Start Your Engines! // Max Speed

Amonkhet Raceway

Stage 2: The sands and waters of Amonkhet.

Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
{T}: Add {C}.
Max speed — {T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

Inkmoth Nexus

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: This land becomes a 1/1 Phyrexian Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying and infect until end of turn. It's still a land. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

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.

Chandra, Fire Artisan

Whenever one or more loyalty counters are removed from Chandra, she deals that much damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
+1: Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn.
−7: Exile the top seven cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Chandra, Awakened Inferno

Chandra, Awakened Inferno Emblem

This spell can't be countered.
+2: Each opponent gets an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, this emblem deals 1 damage to you."
−3: Chandra deals 3 damage to each non-Elemental creature.
−X: Chandra deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker. If a permanent dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Chandra's Regulator

Whenever you activate a loyalty ability of a Chandra planeswalker, you may pay {1}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
{1}, {T}, Discard a Mountain card or a red card: Draw a card.

Elemental

Chandra, Acolyte of Flame

0: Put a loyalty counter on each red planeswalker you control.
0: Create two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.
−2: You may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

A dwarf's grudge runs deeper than the mountains' roots.

Torbran, Thane of Red Fell

If a red source you control would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.

Purphoros, God of the Forge

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control enters, Purphoros deals 2 damage to each opponent.
{2}{R}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Goblin

Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin

Whenever Krenko attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it, then create a number of 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens equal to Krenko's power.

Cavalier of Flame

{1}{R}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain haste until end of turn.
When this creature enters, discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards.
When this creature dies, it deals X damage to each opponent and each planeswalker they control, where X is the number of land cards in your graveyard.

The forge of Purphoros burns in the heart of Mount Velus, attracting dragons with its blistering heat.

Terror of Mount Velus

Flying
Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
When this creature enters, creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn.

The purest virtue burns brighter than the sun and hotter than dragonfire.

Slaying Fire

Slaying Fire deals 3 damage to any target.
Adamant — If at least three red mana was spent to cast this spell, it deals 4 damage instead.

As the blaze raced toward her, Syr Ameril closed her eyes and pictured Castle Ardenvale so her last thoughts would be of home.

Scorching Dragonfire

Scorching Dragonfire deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If that creature or planeswalker would die this turn, exile it instead.

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

Shock

Light Up the Stage

Spectacle {R} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

"Our feeble villages and tiny encampments stand only at the whim of the Roil."
—*The Invokers' Tales*

Roil Eruption

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.)
Roil Eruption deals 3 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, it deals 5 damage instead.

"Remember all the great heroes who were careful and never did anything risky? Me neither."
—Syr Carah, the Bold

Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards.

"We have to get out of the city, Djeru. All of us! Gather as many as you can."
—Samut, former Tah-crop initiate

Crash Through

Creatures you control gain trample until end of turn. (Each of those creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Draw a card.

Bolt Hound

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
Whenever this creature attacks, other creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Anax, Hardened in the Forge

Satyr

Anax's power is equal to your devotion to red. (Each {R} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to red.)
Whenever Anax or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 red Satyr creature token with "This token can't block." If the creature had power 4 or greater, create two of those tokens instead.

Rimrock Knight // Boulder Rush

On an Adventure

Rimrock Knight

Boulder Rush

Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Bonecrusher Giant // Stomp

Bonecrusher Giant

Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell, this creature deals 2 damage to that spell's controller.

Stomp

Damage can't be prevented this turn. Stomp deals 2 damage to any target.

"Fear of fire is a sensible instinct. If I were you, I'd be terrified."

Irencrag Pyromancer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, this creature deals 3 damage to any target.

Fervent Champion

First strike, haste
Whenever this creature attacks, another target attacking Knight you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Equip abilities you activate that target this creature cost {3} less to activate.

"That giant didn't even see me, let alone catch me! And I was close enough to smell him! Of course, that's not saying much."

Tin Street Dodger

Haste
{R}: This creature can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with defender.

Zombie Army

Grim Initiate

Beneath each gleaming mineral shell rots a once-proud warrior of Amonkhet.

First strike
When this creature dies, amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter 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.)

"I'd rather go out in a blaze of glory than fade away and be forgotten."

Heartfire Immolator

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{R}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker.

"We just pay him and point him at problems."
—Aro, Sea Gate adventurer

Shatterskull Minotaur

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)
Haste

"Renata launched a dozen arrows into the minotaur's thick hide, but the monster didn't slow its charge. The fury of Mogis was upon it."
—Luphea of Setessa, *Histories*

Infuriate

Target creature gets +3/+2 until end of turn.

"Now that I've dealt with your little toys, I can focus on the real problem: you."
—Chandra Nalaar, to Dovin Baan

Chandra's Pyrohelix

Chandra's Pyrohelix deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets.

At first, Syr Fenwick scoffed when he saw his opponents for the final match.

Redcap Melee

Redcap Melee deals 4 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If a nonred permanent is dealt damage this way, you sacrifice a land.

"We have visitors? Well, it'd be rude not to give them a traditional Keral Keep welcome."

Jaya's Greeting

Jaya's Greeting deals 3 damage to target creature. Scry 1.

"Life is a tournament that rewards the bold."
—Syr Layne, knight of Embereth

Joust

Choose target creature you control and target creature you don't control. The creature you control gets +2/+1 until end of turn if it's a Knight. Then those creatures fight each other. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Caldera Breaker

Volcanic Geyser

"The common folk call it the breaking of the crust or the spilling of fire. Geomancers call it target practice."
—Ryda, geomancer

Volcanic Geyser deals X damage to any target.

"A Tuskeri never shrinks from battle! Quite the opposite in fact."
—Arni Brokenbrow

Run Amok

Target attacking creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn.

Sure Strike

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Kargan tribal lands rarely have issues with goblin raids. Coincidentally, they also rarely have issues keeping their dragons fed.

Tormenting Voice

"Yes, she can be a nuisance. But at least my tea never gets cold."
—Marlan Farthwald, innkeeper

Scorch Spitter

Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 1 damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.

"Furballs? Try dealing with fireballs."
—Chandra Nalaar

Chandra's Embercat

{T}: Add {R}. Spend this mana only to cast an Elemental spell or a Chandra planeswalker spell.

Embercleave

Flash
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each attacking creature you control.
When Embercleave enters, attach it to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has double strike and trample.
Equip {3}

Seeing it coming a mile away is little comfort if you can't get out of range in time.

Volcanic Salvo

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Volcanic Salvo deals 6 damage to each of up to two target creatures and/or planeswalkers.

Chandra, Novice Pyromancer

+1: Elementals you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.
−1: Add {R}{R}.
−2: Chandra deals 2 damage to any target.

"Commander, we caught the Dimir spy and took her ashes into custody."
—Kramm, Wojek security officer

Lava Coil

Lava Coil deals 4 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Chandra's Incinerator

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total amount of noncombat damage dealt to your opponents this turn.
Trample
Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to an opponent, this creature deals that much damage to target creature or planeswalker that player controls.

"Is it purebred? No, but it's pure fire."
—Chandra Nalaar

Chandra's Magmutt

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.

"Why don't you come a little closer and say that again, you spineless spit-licker!"

Brash Taunter

Indestructible
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent.
{2}{R}, {T}: This creature fights another target creature.

Solemn Simulacrum

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

Chandra, Heart of Fire

+1: Discard your hand, then exile the top three cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may play cards exiled this way.
+1: Chandra deals 2 damage to any target.
−9: Search your graveyard and library for any number of red instant and/or sorcery cards, exile them, then shuffle. You may cast them this turn. Add six {R}.

Shivan Dragon

Sarkhan, Wanderer to Shiv

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Flying
{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

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