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Vampire

Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort

"I claim this land in the name of the queen."
—Adrian Adanto of Lujio

Legion's Landing

When Legion's Landing enters, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.
When you attack with three or more creatures, transform Legion's Landing.

Adanto, the First Fort

(Transforms from Legion's Landing.)
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.

Human

Castle Ardenvale

Without Ardenvale's loyalty, the realm would greedily devour itself.

Castle Ardenvale enters tapped unless you control a Plains.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Emeria, the Sky Ruin

Emeria, the Sky Ruin enters tapped.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more Plains, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
{T}: Add {W}.

Windbrisk Heights

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.)
Windbrisk Heights enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{W}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if you attacked with three or more creatures this turn.

Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Secluded Steppe

Secluded Steppe enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Kabira Crossroads

Kabira Crossroads enters tapped.
When Kabira Crossroads enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {W}.

Every world is a work in progress, constantly reshaped by time, disasters, and even the powerful magic of Planeswalkers.

Encroaching Wastes

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Encroaching Wastes: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Ghost Quarter: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Buried Ruin: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mistveil Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)
Mistveil Plains enters tapped.
{W}, {T}: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Activate only if you control two or more white permanents.

A figure is moved on a map, and the tide of war changes.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Hall of Heliod's Generosity

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{W}, {T}: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.

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.)

Plains

"We move because the earth does."
—Bruse Tarl, Goma Fada nomad

Tectonic Edge

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Tectonic Edge: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.

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

Wasteland

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

Rishada is the gateway to free trade—but the key will cost you.

Rishadan Port

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.

Dust-spiked winds eroded the stones, but the ground where they had stood still holds power.

Flagstones of Trokair

{T}: Add {W}.
When Flagstones of Trokair is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls 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.

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.

Gemstone Caverns

If Gemstone Caverns is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand.
{T}: Add {C}. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

"Trust me, your lost fingers and toes are nothing compared to the lost treasures of Sejiri."
—Zahr Gada, Halimar expedition leader

Brave the Elements

Choose a color. White creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

Preeminent Captain

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Whenever Preeminent Captain attacks, you may put a Soldier creature card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking.

He is the only one who sees the patterns in the overlapping maps and conflicting reports.

Field Marshal

Other Soldier creatures get +1/+1 and have first strike. (They deal combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Captain of the Watch

Soldier

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)
Other Soldier creatures you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance.
When Captain of the Watch enters, create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Frontline Medic

Battalion — Whenever Frontline Medic and at least two other creatures attack, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Sacrifice Frontline Medic: Counter target spell with {X} in its mana cost unless its controller pays {3}.

"Fear holds no place in faith's battle plan."

Odric, Master Tactician

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Whenever Odric, Master Tactician and at least three other creatures attack, you choose which creatures block this combat and how those creatures block.

"Some aspire to climb the mountain of Honor. The Benalish are born upon its peak, and from there ascend among the stars."
—*History of Benalia*

Benalish Marshal

Precinct Captain

"In troubled times, we all need someone to watch our back."

First strike
Whenever Precinct Captain deals combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Darien, King of Kjeldor

"With his dream of unification fulfilled, Darien became the last king of Kjeldor. Those who followed were known as the kings of New Argive."
—*Kjeldor: Ice Civilization*

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may create that many 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Daru Warchief

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

"Truth is a straight, keen edge. There are no soft angles or rounded edges. To fight for truth, we must forge in steel."

Veteran Swordsmith

Other Soldier creatures you control get +1/+0.

"Courage is a proud and gleaming shield. It does not bend or hide from sight. To fight with courage, we must forge in steel."

Veteran Armorsmith

Other Soldier creatures you control get +0/+1.

"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.

Clue

Bygone Bishop

Flying
Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 3 or less, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

At his side, humble beasts become weapons more deadly than sharpened steel.

Ranger of Eos

When Ranger of Eos enters, you may search your library for up to two creature cards with mana value 1 or less, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Militia Bugler

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)
When Militia Bugler enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card with power 2 or less from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

"In our war Heliod gave mortals some favor, yet other times he withheld aid. Are we still no more than game pieces to him?"
—Polyxene the Doubter

Dictate of Heliod

Avacyn's holy warriors kept hope alive in her darkest hours. Now they will carry that hope across Innistrad.

Cathars' Crusade

Whenever a creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Elspeth, Sun's Champion Emblem

+1: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
−3: Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater.
−7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."

Crib Swap

Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Exile target creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

Vanquisher's Banner

As Vanquisher's Banner enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

The mind is a beautiful bounty encased in an annoying bone container.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

When you spend most of your time running for your life, it pays to invest in quality footwear.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Sometimes safety is a place. Sometimes it's a person. Sometimes it's a tangible reminder that even in darkness, hope persists.

Arcane Signet

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

"We have barely begun to learn the secrets of the Fourth People. Every remnant of their presence, however cryptic, is a gift."
—Akal Pakal, First Steward of Oteclan

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Every facet a benediction of Lathander's light.

Marble Diamond

Marble Diamond enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.

It is a helping hand reaching out to the downtrodden, the acrid-sweet tang of burning incense during prayer, and the harmony of voices uplifted in unison. It is faith.

Pearl Medallion

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

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.

Mother of Runes

{T}: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Unwanted Remake

Destroy target creature. Its controller manifests dread. (That player looks at the top two cards of their library, then puts one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into their graveyard. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

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.

"Don't be a wimp. We'll cover more ground this way."
—Rian, former survivor

Split Up

Choose one —
• Destroy all tapped creatures.
• Destroy all untapped creatures.

Divine Resilience

Kicker {2}{W} (You may pay an additional {2}{W} as you cast this spell.)
Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, instead any number of target creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Those who mock its ragged surface and seeping eyes have a curious tendency to go missing.

Splitskin Doll

When Splitskin Doll enters, draw a card. Then discard a card unless you control another creature with power 2 or less.

"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 (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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.

Some protection requires a bit of finesse.

Containment Priest

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

Enduring Innocence

Lifelink
Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
When Enduring Innocence dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

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.

"Salvation will not be granted by the Lunarch Council. It must be earned—at the edge of a sword, if necessary."

Thalia, Heretic Cathar

First strike
Creatures and nonbasic lands your opponents control enter tapped.

Throne of Eldraine

As Throne of Eldraine enters, choose a color.
{T}: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color.
{3}, {T}: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.

His oath required no service beyond death, but his honor demanded it.

White Orchid Phantom

Flying, first strike
When White Orchid Phantom enters, destroy up to one target nonbasic land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Organization is often undervalued but rarely unjustified."
—Frasio, royal archivist

Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

The glorious city of Pachatupa is the center of the Sun Empire, and Tocatli, the emperor's palace, is its glowing heart.

Tocatli Honor Guard

Creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.

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.

"Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once, everybody lives!"
—The Ninth Doctor

Everybody Lives!

All creatures gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Players gain hexproof until end of turn. Players can't lose life this turn and players can't lose the game or win the game this turn.

As war raged on, the young mages became more direct in their tactics, often at great cost.

Abolish

You may discard a Plains card rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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