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Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

The Sunken Ruin houses all the learning of a long-forgotten age.

Search for Azcanta

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

(Transforms from Search for Azcanta.)
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}, {T}: 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 any order.

Simic Growth Chamber

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

"Log 1.4.778: Granove, a tropical moon teeming with endemic biota. A must see for any aspiring astrobiologist!"
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Breeding Pool

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

"Our ancestors brought down a Phyrexian portal ship, then built our town on its hull. We're pretty proud of that."
—Alene of Riverspan

Hinterland Harbor

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

As magnigoth trees expanded across the sea into Almaaz and New Argive, it became clear Yavimaya's borders were never confined by its coastline.

Yavimaya Coast

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

Botanical Sanctum

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

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}.

Tranquil Thicket

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

Remote Isle

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

Misty Rainforest

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

There is beauty in the uncertainty of potential.

Prismatic Vista

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

Thawing Glaciers

This land enters tapped.
{1}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Return this land to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Persecuted alchemists fled deep into Kessig's wilds, seeking solitude to continue their ghoulish craft.

Alchemist's Refuge

{T}: Add {C}.
{G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Enter and comprehend the perfection of orchestrated life.

Simic Guildgate

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

By morning the only evidence of conflict between Temur hunters and Sultai scouts were abandoned banners in the freshly fallen snow.

Thornwood Falls

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

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.

Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Wirewood Lodge

{T}: Add {C}.
{G}, {T}: Untap target Elf.

Oran-Rief, the Vastwood

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each green creature that entered this turn.

Island

Forest

For the Simic Combine, its sigil serves not as an emblem of honor but as a trademark. Its familiar image on any biological commodity attests to superb craftsmanship, ingenious innovation, and higher cost.

Simic Signet

"I do not miss Jukai Forest. It is not my home. My home is Kamigawa, its people my family. Wherever I set my pack and rest my head, I am home."

Azusa, Lost but Seeking

You may play two additional lands on each of your turns.

Courser of Kruphix

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands from the top of your library.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

"This world was once so much more than the confines of Naktamun."

Ramunap Excavator

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Eternal Witness

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

Oracle of Mul Daya

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands from the top of your library.

Mulldrifter

Flying
When this creature enters, draw two cards.
Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Snaking remnants of nature directed by a body of thought and progress, the oracles embody all that is Simic.

Coiling Oracle

When this creature enters, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Prime Speaker Zegana

Prime Speaker Zegana enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control.
When Prime Speaker Zegana enters, draw cards equal to its power.

Rampaging Baloths

Beast

"When the land is angry, so are they."
—Nissa Revane

Trample
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

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.

Thragtusk

"Always carry two spears."
—Mokgar, Kalonian hunter

When this creature enters, you gain 5 life.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Its hood blossoms as a warning: receive your gift, but stray no closer.

Lotus Cobra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.

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.

Every branch a crossroads, every vine a swift steed.

Wood Elves

When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Wayward Swordtooth

City's Blessing

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
This creature can't attack or block unless you have the city's blessing.

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

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.

"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.

"Planeswalking cannot be taught. Either you see the doors or you do not."
—Nissa Revane

Boundless Realms

Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of lands you control, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

As the Simic released more of their krasis experiments, they required new habitats, always at the expense of the locals.

Urban Evolution

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

Copy

Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.)
Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Beast Within

"Kill the weak so they can't drag the strong down to their level. This is true compassion."
—Benzir, archdruid of Temple Might

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Rampant Growth

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

Eumidians live to change and be changed, ever increasing the complexity of the Edge. Each new world is a new perspective.

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.

From the cracks in the stone, she reads stories of the past. From the swirling vines, she glimpses visions of the future.

Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Hidden within the infinite, protean rooms of the House are strange pockets of power that only the bravest dare access.

Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

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

Explore

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

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.

Zendikar Resurgent

Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced. (The types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless.)
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Some spells sing a quiet tune. Others roar.

Finale of Devastation

Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. If X is 10 or more, creatures you control get +X/+X and gain haste until end of turn.

"The Origin Query will wait. We must ensure we survive to return to it."
—Pelyus, vedalken ordinar

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

"Every thought is a star illuminating the darkness. Inspiration comes from finding the constellations that link them."

Stroke of Genius

Nissa's Pilgrimage

Search your library for up to two basic Forest cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, search your library for up to three basic Forest cards instead of two.

"All of us, from the tiny leaf-mite to the towering baloth, are vital threads in the weave of life."

Worldly Tutor

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.

"As long as there is a single shred of life, there is hope."
—Nissa Revane

Sylvan Scrying

Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Crop Rotation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Genesis Wave

Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.

Octopus

Crush of Tentacles

Surge {3}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If this spell's surge cost was paid, create an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.

Time Spiral

Exile Time Spiral. Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. You untap up to six lands.

The seeds of new life take root in the soil of old.

Seasons Past

Return any number of cards with different mana values from your graveyard to your hand. Put Seasons Past on the bottom of its owner's library.

As the Phyrexian contagion corroded Karn's body, the praetors whispered psalms to corrupt his mind.

Praetor's Counsel

Return all cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Praetor's Counsel. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

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.

The ruins of Old Prahv became a wildspace, although all birdsong was silenced by lingering Azorius magic.

Urban Burgeoning

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "Untap this land during each other player's untap step."

Nissa, Vital Force

Nissa, Vital Force Emblem

+1: Untap target land you control. Until your next turn, it becomes a 5/5 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.
−3: Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever a land you control enters, you may draw a card."

Nissa, Worldwaker

+1: Target land you control becomes a 4/4 Elemental creature with trample. It's still a land.
+1: Untap up to four target Forests.
−7: Search your library for any number of basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Those lands become 4/4 Elemental creatures with trample. They're still lands.

Nissa, Who Shakes the World

Nissa, Who Shakes the World Emblem

Whenever you tap a Forest for mana, add an additional {G}.
+1: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target noncreature land you control. Untap it. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with vigilance and haste that's still a land.
−8: You get an emblem with "Lands you control have indestructible." Search your library for any number of Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nissa's Encouragement

Nissa, Genesis Mage

+2: Untap up to two target creatures and up to two target lands.
−3: Target creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn.
−10: Look at the top ten cards of your library. You may put any number of creature and/or land cards from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Jace, the Mind Sculptor

+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library.
0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
−1: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles their hand into their library.

Jace, Unraveler of Secrets Emblem

Jace, Unraveler of Secrets

+1: Scry 1, then draw a card.
−2: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent casts their first spell each turn, counter that spell."

Jace, Memory Adept

+1: Draw a card. Target player mills a card.
0: Target player mills ten cards.
−7: Any number of target players each draw twenty cards.

Tamiyo, the Moon Sage Emblem

Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

+1: Tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
−2: Draw a card for each tapped creature target player controls.
−8: You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size" and "Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may return it to your hand."

Tamiyo, Collector of Tales

Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause you to discard cards or sacrifice permanents.
+1: Choose a nonland card name, then reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all cards with the chosen name from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
−3: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Teferi, Temporal Archmage

Teferi, Temporal Archmage Emblem

+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.
−1: Untap up to four target permanents.
−10: You get an emblem with "You may activate loyalty abilities of planeswalkers you control on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant."
Teferi, Temporal Archmage can be your commander.

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