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Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale

Dowsing Dagger

When this Equipment enters, target opponent creates two 0/2 green Plant creature tokens with defender.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may transform this Equipment.
Equip {2}

The pirates had ventured into the interior for treasure. They found something far greater.

Lost Vale

(Transforms from Dowsing Dagger.)
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Tolaria West

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with mana value 0, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

"It's me and Gribble's special fort. None of the bad things can get us in there."
—Toby

Command Tower

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

Unlike previous conflicts, the war between Urza and Mishra made Dominaria itself a casualty of war.

Strip Mine

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

Island

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}.

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.

Its students graduate the school and enter history.

Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Cavern of Souls

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, and that spell can't be countered.

Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
—Lord Windgrace

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Some worlds possess a hidden core where life's essence constantly surges.

Mutavault

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: This land becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.

"The land promises nothing and keeps its promise."
—Oracle *en*-Vec

Wasteland

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Dust Bowl

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Destroy target nonbasic land.

"I can't protect everyone here. But those I can, I will."
—Karn

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

"Our world is vast, but Thraben is its heart. The cathedral must stand even if the hinterlands are lost."
—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Evolving Wilds

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

Lumengrid, site of the Knowledge Pool, source of vedalken arcana.

Seat of the Synod

Thrumming Stone

Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as that spell from among the revealed cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

"I despise Vorinclex and his slobberings about 'evolution.' Only I know true progress."
—Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Xenograft

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Each creature you control is the chosen type in addition to its other types.

Arcane Adaptation

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

The renegades mounted an aether disruptor aboard a lightweight thopter to destroy Tezzeret's Planar Bridge.

Hope of Ghirapur

Flying
Sacrifice Hope of Ghirapur: Until your next turn, target player who was dealt combat damage by Hope of Ghirapur this turn can't cast noncreature spells.

Hypnotic Siren

Bestow {5}{U}{U} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)
Flying
You control enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.

"All that concerns me is the vampires' sense of smell and those freezing Nephalian nights."

Invisible Stalker

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
This creature can't be blocked.

"Who will miss you, drywalker? A wife? A child? Perhaps they will blame the sea for your fate, and teach future generations to stay far away from it."

Triton Shorestalker

With matchless stealth, the River Heralds fought a running battle against the three enemy forces.

Mist-Cloaked Herald

Phantasmal Image

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

"They won't see your shadow or hear your breath, but they will feel your blade."

Neurok Invisimancer

This creature can't be blocked.
When this creature enters, target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Enclave Cryptologist

Level up {1}{U} ({1}{U}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)
LEVEL 1-2
0/1
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
LEVEL 3+
0/1
{T}: Draw a card.

"I don't like to think of myself as a pirate. I'm more like a stimulator of the local economy."

Coastal Piracy

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

The wills of mortals shift as the tide ebbs and flows.

Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
{1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

"The bonders work with creatures that fly, slink, and burrow. Assume they know everything."
—Jirina Kudro

Reconnaissance Mission

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Starlit Mantle

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Enchant creature you control
When this Aura enters, enchanted creature gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

Those who know the alleys and sewers of the Erdwal can disappear like smoke.

Artful Dodge

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Flashback {U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

The Eldrazi twisted in a direction that had no name, and a frontal assault became a panicked rout.

Slip Through Space

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Draw a card.

Cloak and Dagger

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Whenever a Rogue creature enters, you may attach this Equipment to it.
Equip {3}

Such cloaks are in high demand both by assassins and by those who fear them.

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}

Thassa, God of the Sea

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
{1}{U}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

"A crafter must imbue her weapon with part of her soul—something the Phyrexians are incapable of doing."
—Melira

Loxodon Warhammer

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink.
Equip {3}

Sword of Fire and Ice

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, this Equipment deals 2 damage to any target and you draw a card.
Equip {2}

Skilled merrow rudders ensure their charges arrive on time and without incident.

Protective Bubble

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Unstable Mutation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Aqueous Form

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked.
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Rapid Hybridization

Frog Lizard

"We've merged your life essence with that of several creatures at once. You're welcome."
—Speaker Trifon

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Reality Shift

Manifest

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

"You can tell me what I want to know, or you can talk to the Chief of Compliance. Why don't you make it easy on yourself?"

Take into Custody

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"I don't have time for you right now."
—Teferi

Exclude

Counter target creature spell.
Draw a card.

"I said we should destroy the Eldrazi. Ugin wanted to return them to stasis. Ugin's arguments were . . . unconvincing."
—Jace Beleren

Dispel

Counterspell

Swan Song

Bird

"The most enlightened mages create beauty from violence."
—Medomai the Ageless

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Daze

You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Misdirection

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Change the target of target spell with a single target.

"Your artillery will burn itself out before I allow my focus to waver."

Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

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.")

"Fine, you know more than me. But do you have to be such a show-off about it?"
—Chandra Nalaar, to Teferi

Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Thieving Skydiver

Kicker {X}. X can't be 0. (You may pay an additional {X} as you cast this spell.)
Flying
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, gain control of target artifact with mana value X or less. If that artifact is an Equipment, attach it to this creature.

Morph

Gudul Lurker

This creature can't be blocked.
Megamorph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Cloud of Faeries

Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to two lands.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Merfolk don't always know what they're looking for, but they're certain once they find it.

Merfolk Looter

Ninja of the Deep Hours

Ninjutsu {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Sakashima's Student

Ninjutsu {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Ninja in addition to its other creature types.

"We're on the fortieth floor, with one window, no balcony. No one could possibly get in."
—Minosz, Orzhov chief of security

Nightveil Sprite

Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Harbinger of the Tides

You may cast this card as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
When this creature enters, you may return target tapped creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Because of their capricious nature, faeries can serve as living lenses for disruptive magic.

Familiar's Ruse

As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.
Counter target spell.

Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

"Your first mistake was thinking I would let you live long enough to make a second."
—Sarnvax, Gitaxian sective

Mental Misstep

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Counter target spell with mana value 1.

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.

Cryptic Command

Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.

"A ruler wears a crown while the rest of us wear hats, but which would you rather have when it's raining?"
—Barrin, *Principia*

Back to Basics

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

"Close the walls! Retract the docks! The homarids are coming!"
—Benson, Argivian sentry

High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

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.)

Teferi had once wielded the power—-and hubris—of a god. To fix his mistakes, he would risk everything.

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

"I'm not saying I'm sure it's a trap. I'm just saying it wasn't there yesterday and I'm pretty sure I heard it whisper my name. If you're so curious, you touch it."
—Angus, survivor scout

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