"We must rely on our own knowledge, not on the dogma of the seekers or the mutterings of the sphinxes."
—Tullus of Palandius

Arcane Sanctum

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

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.

After years of silence, the caves once again echo with the grisly sounds of Phyrexians preparing for war.

Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Choked Estuary

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

"I ask only that the winds return you to me as swiftly as they bear you and the Storm Crane away."
—Samthar, Sultai merchant, to Jialing, Jeskai monk

Dismal Backwater

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

Esper is an expansive canvas painted by precise, controlling hands.

Esper Panorama

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

Fetid Pools

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

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.

Godless Shrine

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

Hallowed Fountain

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

Irrigated Farmland

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

Marsh Flats

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

A warped gateway that seeps toxins and malevolence into the waters around Towashi.

Polluted Delta

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

The continent of Ondu is a vast plateau crisscrossed by deep trenches and meandering rivers.

Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

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}.

On the continent of Tazeem, rushing waters plunge through narrow canyons into mist-cloaked lakes.

Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Temple of Deceit

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 {B}.

Temple of Silence

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 {W} or {B}.

"The war polluted the land, turning what had once been fruitful fields into fetid morasses of mud and rusted corpses."
—*The Antiquities War*

Underground River

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

Watery Grave

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

Dimir Aqueduct

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

Azorius Chancery

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

Orzhov Basilica

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

Enter and become a mastermind of spies, lies, and deception.

Dimir Guildgate

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

None can tell how many vessels are tangled up on the sea floor—or how much treasure remains unclaimed.

Drowned Catacomb

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

"A cliff once rose from the surf here—until Bjora Dawn-Greeter declared that it was blocking her view and pulled it down bare-handed."
—Iskene, Kannah storyteller

Glacial Floodplain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
This land enters tapped.

Transguild Promenade

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Underground Sea

Isolated Watchtower

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Scry 1, then you may reveal the top card of your library. If a basic land card is revealed this way, put it onto the battlefield tapped. Activate only if an opponent controls at least two more lands than you.

From Otaria, the sun above meets the sea below at a glittering horizon.

Skycloud Expanse

Tainted Isle

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

Swamp

Island

Plains

An emblem of a secret guild, the Dimir insignia is seen only by its own members—and the doomed.

Dimir Signet

You only need to wield it once to appreciate the power of control.

Orzhov Keyrune

{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{W}{B}: This artifact becomes a 1/4 white and black Thrull artifact creature with lifelink until end of turn.

Elves believe the hydra-god Progenitus sleeps beneath Naya, feeding on forgotten magics.

Relic of Progenitus

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard.
{1}, Exile this artifact: Exile all graveyards. Draw a card.

Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

"Wear this, and take your place among the shadows—wise, lethal, and unseen."
—Ivrelya, Dimir spymaster

Dimir Locket

{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{U/B}{U/B}{U/B}{U/B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

"It looks expensive, doesn't it? You have no idea..."
—Milana, Orzhov prelate

Orzhov Locket

{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Aven Mindcensor

Flash
Flying
If an opponent would search a library, that player searches the top four cards of that library instead.

Zombie

Diregraf Colossus

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Zombie card in your graveyard.
Whenever you cast a Zombie spell, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

If one of the anointed fails to serve with perfect obedience, the desert is always ready to receive it.

Wayward Servant

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"My priests swore loyalty to the Cabal not until death, but beyond it."
—Cabal Patriarch

Shepherd of Rot

{T}: Each player loses 1 life for each Zombie on the battlefield.

It has no respect for the deeds of martyrs, reducing their legacy to a mouthful of flesh.

Carrion Feeder

This creature can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Grixis is a world where the only things found in abundance are death and decay. Corpses, whole or in part, are the standard currency among necromancers and demons.

Fleshbag Marauder

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

"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.

Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

Lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas.

The Curse of Wandering leaves only hatred.

Lord of the Accursed

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1.
{1}{B}, {T}: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it.
Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying 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.)

Plague and death wrapped in one convenient package.

Noxious Ghoul

Whenever this creature or another Zombie enters, all non-Zombie creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Relentless Dead

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
When this creature dies, you may pay {B}. If you do, return it to its owner's hand.
When this creature dies, you may pay {X}. If you do, return another target Zombie creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"Let those idiot priests tremble! A new era in unlife begins here and now. Oglor, raise the lightning vane!"
—Stitcher Geralf

Rooftop Storm

You may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for Zombie creature spells you cast.

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Sidisi, Undead Vizier

Deathtouch
Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When Sidisi exploits a creature, you may search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"To see past the veil of death, cross it."
—*The Red Book of Mezdrithalik*

Undead Augur

Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

It has the strength of seven men. In fact, it used to be seven men.

Undead Warchief

Zombie spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.

Those who don't learn from their deaths are destined to repeat them.

Vengeful Dead

Whenever this creature or another Zombie dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

They say the Zombie Master controlled these foul creatures even before his own death, but now that he is one of them, nothing can make them betray him.

Zombie Master

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

"It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness."
—Volrath

Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

"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

Contamination

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you sacrifice a creature.
If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type and amount.

"I take no pleasure in your suffering, but it is necessary. Once you accept your fate you'll find eternity more tolerable."

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Denied the peace of the Blessed Sleep, geists lash out at the living, and the cycle of anger and unrest continues unbroken.

Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Liliana's Mastery

"There are so many of them. It seems they've just been waiting for someone to serve."

Zombies you control get +1/+1.
When this enchantment enters, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Liliana, the Last Hope

Liliana, the Last Hope Emblem

+1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-1 until your next turn.
−2: Mill two cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is two plus the number of Zombies you control."

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Copy

The Scarab God

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control.
{2}{U}{B}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Liliana, Defiant Necromancer Emblem

Magic Origins Checklist

Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

Liliana, Heretical Healer

Lifelink
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile Liliana, Heretical Healer, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

+2: Each player discards a card.
−X: Return target nonlegendary creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature dies, return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step."

Army of the Damned

Sometimes death comes knocking. Sometimes it tears down the walls.

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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.

The Cabal never expected its creations to create servants of their own.

Gravespawn Sovereign

Tap five untapped Zombies you control: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

The feeble resistance of the flesh is over. Phyrexia spreads its shadow over all.

Life's Finale

Destroy all creatures, then search target opponent's library for up to three creature cards and put them into their graveyard. Then that player shuffles.

It shambled from the cloud of ash and bone dust, undeterred by its own extinction.

Necromantic Selection

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

"There's some new darkness in the air tonight. If I were you, I'd stay home and lock the doors."
—Ferrick, village warden

Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

"There will come a day so dark you will pray for death. On that day your prayers will be answered."
—Minaldra, the Vizag Atum

Zombie Apocalypse

Return all Zombie creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped, then destroy all Humans.

Spawning Pit

Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on Spawning Pit.
{1}, Remove two charge counters from Spawning Pit: Create a 2/2 colorless Spawn artifact creature token.

"Her voice is damnation, unyielding and certain."
—Phage the Untouchable

Graveborn Muse

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

The mind sings, though at times it sings a dirge.

Morality Shift

Exchange your graveyard and library. Then shuffle your library.

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