Plains

Adanto Vanguard

As long as Adanto Vanguard is attacking, it gets +2/+0.
Pay 4 life: Adanto Vanguard gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Consul's Lieutenant

First strike
Renown 1 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.)
Whenever Consul's Lieutenant attacks, if it's renowned, other attacking creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Duskborne Skymarcher

Flying
{W}, {T}: Target attacking Vampire gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"No matter how many I kill, there are always more to hunt. It makes me smile just to think about it."

Elite Inquisitor

First strike, vigilance
Protection from Vampires, from Werewolves, and from Zombies

Fiendslayer Paladin

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Fiendslayer Paladin can't be the target of black or red spells your opponents control.

For every wound there is a blessing; for every death, a reckoning.

Paladin of Atonement

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you lost life last turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Paladin of Atonement.
When Paladin of Atonement dies, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Vampire

Paladin of the Bloodstained

Closely linked to the Church of Dusk, the paladins of the Bloodstained order are devout to the point of fanaticism.

When Paladin of the Bloodstained enters, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.

Skymarcher Aspirant

City's Blessing

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Skymarcher Aspirant has flying as long as you have the city's blessing.

It's the favored mount of military commanders as well as anyone with a flair for the dramatic.

Vryn Wingmare

Flying
Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

Inner strength is never seen until it makes all the difference.

Aegis of the Heavens

Target creature gets +1/+7 until end of turn.

"Better the dead depart utterly than be enslaved."

Angel of Finality

Flying
When Angel of Finality enters, exile target player's graveyard.

Archangel of Tithes

Flying
As long as Archangel of Tithes is untapped, creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.
As long as Archangel of Tithes is attacking, creatures can't block unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

Brightling

{W}: Brightling gains vigilance until end of turn.
{W}: Brightling gains lifelink until end of turn.
{W}: Return Brightling to its owner's hand.
{1}: Brightling gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

"By Avacyn's decree, we shall cleanse these relics of their demonic past."

Devout Chaplain

{T}, Tap two untapped Humans you control: Exile target artifact or enchantment.

"In these halls there is no pass or fail. Your true test comes with the first full moon."

Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

As their supplies of etherium dwindled, mechanists sent gargoyles farther and farther afield in search of salvage.

Sanctum Gargoyle

Flying
When Sanctum Gargoyle enters, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

An Auriok shield is polished to a mirror finish even on the inside, enabling its bearer to watch foes ahead and behind.

Accorder's Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Though giants are mortal, they live so long and on such a grand scale that many small folk don't believe they ever truly die.

Arbiter of Knollridge

Vigilance
When Arbiter of Knollridge enters, each player's life total becomes the highest life total among all players.

Once a simple tool, it—like everything else on Zendikar—has been turned into a weapon against the Eldrazi.

Bone Saw

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Orazca Relic

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Orazca Relic: You gain 3 life and draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Parhelion II

Angel

Flying, first strike, vigilance
Whenever Parhelion II attacks, create two 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying and vigilance that are attacking.
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.)

Pillar of Origins

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

Legend speaks of the Sun Spear, the mighty weapon that can strike any point in Theros, even the depths of the Underworld.

Spear of Heliod

Creatures you control get +1/+1.
{1}{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target creature that dealt damage to you this turn.

Strata Scythe

Imprint — When Strata Scythe enters, search your library for a land card, exile it, then shuffle.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land on the battlefield with the same name as the exiled card.
Equip {3}

Disenchant

Oblivion Ring

When Oblivion Ring enters, exile another target nonland permanent.
When Oblivion Ring leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

"The spirit of Serra raised Brindri high and commanded her to keep the balance."
—*Song of All*, canto 524

On Serra's Wings

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is legendary, gets +1/+1, and has flying, vigilance, and lifelink.

Prison Term

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may attach Prison Term to that creature.

There was a time all craven beasts cowered before Avacyn's divine might.

Reprobation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a Coward creature with base power and toughness 0/1. (It keeps all supertypes but loses all other types and creature types.)

Runed Halo

As Runed Halo enters, choose a card name.
You have protection from the chosen card name. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything with that name.)

Afterlife

Spirit

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Clash of sword and cry of beast fall mute when angels sound the call to prayer.

Angelsong

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"You were defeated the moment you declared your aggression."
—Gideon Jura

Celestial Flare

Target player sacrifices an attacking or blocking creature.

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Pride of Conquerors

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. If you have the city's blessing, those creatures get +2/+2 until end of turn instead.

"The arc of my blade has carved a path of light for the peace that will follow."

Swords to Plowshares

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

"You see a bird, an oak, a packbeast. I see the potential for an army."
—Lalia, Selesnya dryad

Wake the Reflections

Populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

When its power is threatened, the council speaks with a unified voice.

Council's Judgment

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

Ancestral Blade

Soldier

When Ancestral Blade enters, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token, then attach Ancestral Blade to it.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Launch the Fleet

Strive — This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Until end of turn, any number of target creatures each gain "Whenever this creature attacks, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token that's tapped and attacking."

When the vaults are empty, everyone is rich.

Open the Vaults

Return all artifact and enchantment cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under their owners' control. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in graveyards.)

Once you've been dragged down the currents of time, you'll never quite trust your own permanence again.

Unexpectedly Absent

Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library just beneath the top X cards of that library.

Vanquish the Foul

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

"There shall be a vast shout and then a vaster silence."
—Oracle *en*-Vec

Winds of Rath

Destroy all creatures that aren't enchanted. They can't be regenerated.

Gideon Jura

+2: During target opponent's next turn, creatures that player controls attack Gideon Jura if able.
−2: Destroy target tapped creature.
0: Until end of turn, Gideon Jura becomes a 6/6 Human Soldier creature that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.

Gideon's Company

Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Gideon's Company.
{3}{W}: Put a loyalty counter on target Gideon planeswalker.

On Amonkhet, Gideon lost both his sural and his faith in himself. But he can still throw a punch, and he still knows a bad guy when he sees one.

Gideon's Reproach

Gideon's Reproach deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

To Liliana's surprise, the cost of betraying Bolas did not fall on her.

Gideon's Sacrifice

Choose a creature or planeswalker you control. All damage that would be dealt this turn to you and permanents you control is dealt to the chosen permanent instead (if it's still on the battlefield).

Knight Ally

Gideon, Ally of Zendikar

Gideon, Ally of Zendikar Emblem

+1: Until end of turn, Gideon, Ally of Zendikar becomes a 5/5 Human Soldier Ally creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
0: Create a 2/2 white Knight Ally creature token.
−4: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+1."

Gideon, Martial Paragon

Gideon's Resolve

+2: Untap all creatures you control. Those creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.
0: Until end of turn, Gideon, Martial Paragon becomes a 5/5 Human Soldier creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
−10: Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn. Tap all creatures your opponents control.

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Kytheon, Hero of Akros // Gideon, Battle-Forged

Kytheon, Hero of Akros

At end of combat, if Kytheon, Hero of Akros and at least two other creatures attacked this combat, exile Kytheon, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.
{2}{W}: Kytheon gains indestructible until end of turn.

Gideon, Battle-Forged

+2: Up to one target creature an opponent controls attacks Gideon, Battle-Forged during its controller's next turn if able.
+1: Until your next turn, target creature gains indestructible. Untap that creature.
0: Until end of turn, Gideon, Battle-Forged becomes a 4/4 Human Soldier creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.

Together the soldiers were like a golden blade, cutting down their enemies and scarring the darkness.

Honor of the Pure

In life, they were a motley crew: farmers, lords, cutpurses, priests. In death, they are united in singular, benevolent purpose.

Intangible Virtue

Creature tokens you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance.

Leyline of Sanctity

If Leyline of Sanctity is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Marshal's Anthem

Multikicker {1}{W} (You may pay an additional {1}{W} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Creatures you control get +1/+1.
When Marshal's Anthem enters, return up to X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the number of times Marshal's Anthem was kicked.

Some protection requires a bit of finesse.

Containment Priest

Flash
If a nontoken creature would enter and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.

Knight of the White Orchid

First strike
When Knight of the White Orchid enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"Honorable tactics are for honorable foes. These werewolves are preying on innocent travelers. I'll stab them in the back while they sleep if I have to."

Cathar Commando

Flash
{1}, Sacrifice Cathar Commando: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Charitable Levy

Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.
Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, put a collection counter on Charitable Levy. Then if there are three or more collection counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, draw a card, then you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

To their dismay, Brazen Coalition explorers soon found that the Oltec were not impressed by cannons.

Dauntless Dismantler

Artifacts your opponents control enter tapped.
{X}{X}{W}, Sacrifice Dauntless Dismantler: Destroy each artifact with mana value X.

Strixhaven's five colleges encourage natural rivalries among the students, but some bonds transcend all barriers.

Secret Rendezvous

You and target opponent each draw three cards.

Norn's Annex

({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)
Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {W/P} for each of those creatures.

"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.

Born from the oldest red cedar, nursed on the sap of the tallest spruce, coronated under the mightiest pine.

Ayula, Queen Among Bears

Whenever another Bear you control enters, choose one —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target Bear.
• Target Bear you control fights target creature you don't control.

Tiamat

Flying
When Tiamat enters, if you cast it, search your library for up to five Dragon cards not named Tiamat that each have different names, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Gandalf the White

Flash
You may cast legendary spells and artifact spells as though they had flash.
If a legendary permanent or an artifact entering or leaving the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Treasure

Dihada, Binder of Wills

+2: Up to one target legendary creature gains vigilance, lifelink, and indestructible until your next turn.
−3: Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put any number of legendary cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Create a Treasure token for each card put into your graveyard this way.
−11: Gain control of all nonland permanents until end of turn. Untap them. They gain haste until end of turn.
Dihada, Binder of Wills can be your commander.

Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle

Flying
Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might

Trample
If a red source you control would deal an amount of noncombat damage less than Ojer Axonil's power to an opponent, that source deals damage equal to Ojer Axonil's power instead.
When Ojer Axonil dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control.

Chimil gave the Oltec passion. Ojer Axonil challenged them to harness it.

Temple of Power

(Transforms from Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might.)
{T}: Add {R}.
{2}{R}, {T}: Transform this land. Activate only if red sources you controlled dealt 4 or more noncombat damage this turn and only as a sorcery.

Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power

Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Experience

Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter.
At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have, return it to the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

"The sight of my thallids still thriving is a bittersweet welcome to this cold waste."

Thelon of Havenwood

Each Fungus creature gets +1/+1 for each spore counter on it.
{B}{G}, Exile a Fungus card from a graveyard: Put a spore counter on each Fungus on the battlefield.

The Dalek Emperor

Dalek

Affinity for Daleks (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Dalek you control.)
Other Daleks you control have haste.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent faces a villainous choice — That player sacrifices a creature of their choice, or you create a 3/3 black Dalek artifact creature token with menace.

Soramaro, First to Dream

Flying
Soramaro's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
{4}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Draw a card.

Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir

Eminence — Whenever you attack with one or more Knights, if Sidar Jabari is in the command zone or on the battlefield, draw a card, then discard a card.
Flying, first strike
Whenever Sidar Jabari deals combat damage to a player, return target Knight creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Mathas, Fiend Seeker

Menace
At the beginning of your end step, put a bounty counter on target creature an opponent controls. For as long as that creature has a bounty counter on it, it has "When this creature dies, each opponent draws a card and gains 2 life."

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