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Conqueror's Galleon // Conqueror's Foothold

Conqueror's Galleon

When this Vehicle attacks, exile it at end of combat, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.
Crew 4 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 4 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Conqueror's Foothold

(Transforms from Conqueror's Galleon.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{4}, {T}: Draw a card.
{6}, {T}: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

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.

"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.

Gale stared into the pool and saw a stranger. The similarities were uncanny, but it was not him.

Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

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.

"Log 1.7.618: Starshadow, a relic of a culture lost to calamity. Its people were eradicated in a single day—but by what?"
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

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.

Island

Swamp

Mountain

Forest

Plains

The sound of every twisted secret tempts you to hear another.

Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample
Pay 2 life: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths

Menace
When Atris enters, target opponent looks at the top three cards of your library and separates them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Tergrid, God of Fright

Menace
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent or discards a permanent card, you may put that card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

When Tergrid was a child, her shadow tried to kill her. Only her lantern keeps it at bay.

Tergrid's Lantern

{T}: Target player loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card.
{3}{B}: Untap Tergrid's Lantern.

Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern

Rankle, Master of Pranks

Flying, haste
Whenever Rankle deals combat damage to a player, choose any number —
• Each player discards a card.
• Each player loses 1 life and draws a card.
• Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Shalai, Voice of Plenty

Flying
You, planeswalkers you control, and other creatures you control have hexproof.
{4}{G}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
{2}{G/U}{G/U}: Mill two cards, then return a nonland card of an opponent's choice from your graveyard to your hand.

"Yavimaya is one being—one vastness of rippling leaves, one deepness of roots, and one chatter of animals—of which I am one part."

Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

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.

Magister of Worth

Flying
Will of the council — When this creature enters, starting with you, each player votes for grace or condemnation. If grace gets more votes, each player returns each creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield. If condemnation gets more votes or the vote is tied, destroy all creatures other than this creature.

"Thraben belongs to the living. I will not rest until it is cleansed."

Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

First strike
Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

Emiel the Blessed

{3}: Exile another target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Whenever another creature you control enters, you may pay {G/W}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on it. If it's a Unicorn, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead. ({G/W} can be paid with either {G} or {W}.)

Gisela, Blade of Goldnight

Flying, first strike
If a source would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, that source deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead.
If a source would deal damage to you or a permanent you control, prevent half that damage, rounded up.

Faerie

Alela, Artful Provocateur

"Rankle's pranks are child's play. My games will topple kingdoms."

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+0.
Whenever you cast an artifact or enchantment spell, create a 1/1 blue Faerie creature token with flying.

Kruphix, God of Horizons

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to green and blue is less than seven, Kruphix isn't a creature.
You have no maximum hand size.
If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes colorless instead.

Brago, King Eternal

Flying
Whenever Brago deals combat damage to a player, exile any number of target nonland permanents you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

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Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

Flying
When Nicol Bolas enters, each opponent discards a card.
{4}{U}{B}{R}: Exile Nicol Bolas, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

+2: Draw two cards.
−3: Nicol Bolas deals 10 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
−4: Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
−12: Exile all but the bottom card of target player's library.

Rafiq of the Many

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains double strike until end of turn.

Angel

Geist of Saint Traft

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Whenever Geist of Saint Traft attacks, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying that's tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat.

Wounded soldiers looked up, grateful for her appearance. But she passed over them, her eyes firmly on their foe.

Jenara, Asura of War

Flying
{1}{W}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Jenara.

In the vast emptiness, Kaalia found she was not alone.

Kaalia of the Vast

Flying
Whenever Kaalia attacks an opponent, you may put an Angel, Demon, or Dragon creature card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking that opponent.

Marchesa, the Black Rose

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Other creatures you control have dethrone.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

Mogis, God of Slaughter

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black and red is less than seven, Mogis isn't a creature.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Mogis deals 2 damage to that player unless they sacrifice a creature of their choice.

Stoneforged Blade

Kor Soldier

Nahiri, the Lithomancer

+2: Create a 1/1 white Kor Soldier creature token. You may attach an Equipment you control to it.
−2: You may put an Equipment card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.
−10: Create a colorless Equipment artifact token named Stoneforged Blade. It has indestructible, "Equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has double strike," and equip {0}.
Nahiri, the Lithomancer can be your commander.

Assassin

The Monarch

Queen Marchesa

Deathtouch, haste
When Queen Marchesa enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent is the monarch, create a 1/1 black Assassin creature token with deathtouch and haste.

Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

Vigilance, reach
Ruric Thar attacks each combat if able.
Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, Ruric Thar deals 6 damage to that player.

Ruhan of the Fomori

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose an opponent at random. Ruhan attacks that player this combat if able.

"I'll fight no more just for the honor of dying. The afterlife will have to wait."

Samut, Voice of Dissent

Flash
Double strike, vigilance, haste
Other creatures you control have haste.
{W}, {T}: Untap another target creature.

Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter

Flying, lifelink
Sacrifice a creature: Put X +1/+1 counters on Vish Kal, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
Remove all +1/+1 counters from Vish Kal: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each +1/+1 counter removed this way.

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

{2}{G}, {T}, Put a verse counter on Yisan: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of verse counters on Yisan, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Zurgo Helmsmasher

Haste
Zurgo attacks each combat if able.
During your turn, Zurgo has indestructible.
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Zurgo this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Zurgo.

Nightmare

Ashiok, Nightmare Muse

+1: Create a 2/3 blue and black Nightmare creature token with "Whenever this token attacks or blocks, each opponent exiles the top two cards of their library."
−3: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand, then that player exiles a card from their hand.
−7: You may cast up to three spells from among face-up cards your opponents own from exile without paying their mana costs.

Domri Rade

Domri Rade Emblem

+1: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.
−2: Target creature you control fights another target creature.
−7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control have double strike, trample, hexproof, and haste."

Narset Transcendent Emblem

Narset Transcendent

+1: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a noncreature, nonland card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.
−2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand this turn, it gains rebound. (Exile the spell as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast that card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
−9: You get an emblem with "Your opponents can't cast noncreature spells."

Counterspell

The divine light of the Palatinate could be so cold. As she laid down her sword, she felt the sun's warmth in a different way.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Sorin had created Avacyn, so it was a cruelty beyond imagining, a pain beyond description, that it fell upon him to end her forever.

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

The queen sent her champion to defeat the necromancer threat. His helmet was returned the next day, warped and stained with blood.

Mortify

Beast

Beast Within

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

Some timelines forever fray, branch, and intermingle. Others end abruptly.

Return to Dust

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Odric resisted the vampire's curse with all his strength. But after a lifetime of fighting monsters, he was doomed to become one himself.

Hero's Downfall

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.

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

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.

"Under the suns, Mirrodin kneels and begs us for perfection."
—Geth, Lord of the Vault

Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

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.

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Wurm

Roar of the Wurm

Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token.
Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"Let the knowledge of absolute law inspire you to live a life of absolute order."

Sphinx's Revelation

"Slimefoot, I know I said I wanted to grow our repository of knowledge, but this isn't what I had in mind."

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

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.

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.

Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge

Creature and planeswalker spells you cast have affinity for artifacts. (They cost {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
+2: Tezzeret deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of artifacts you control. You gain X life.
−3: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
−8: Exile the top ten cards of your library. Put all artifact cards from among them onto the battlefield.

Slaughter Games

This spell can't be countered.
Choose a nonland card name. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Blade of Selves

Equipped creature has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Equip {4}

Dimir mages put the lanterns to good use, creating shapeshifters and sleeper agents from mana foreign to them.

Chromatic Lantern

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

Even a fragment of a powerstone contains within it not just energy, but space—vast dimensions trapped in fragile crystal.

Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Helm of the Host

Forged out of flowstone for the queen of Vesuva.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste.
Equip {5}

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Over such beauty, wars are fought. With such power, wars are won.

Gilded Lotus

Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra

Terra, Magical Adept

When Terra enters, mill five cards. Put up to one enchantment card milled this way into your hand.
Trance — {4}{R}{G}, {T}: Exile Terra, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Esper Terra

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I, II, III — Create a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary enchantment you control. It gains haste. If it's a Saga, put up to three lore counters on it. Sacrifice it at the beginning of your next end step.
IV — Add {W}{W}, {U}{U}, {B}{B}, {R}{R}, and {G}{G}. Exile Esper Terra, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).
Flying

Shattergang Brothers

{2}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Each other player sacrifices a creature.
{2}{R}, Sacrifice an artifact: Each other player sacrifices an artifact.
{2}{G}, Sacrifice an enchantment: Each other player sacrifices an enchantment.

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