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Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

The Sunken Ruin houses all the learning of a long-forgotten age.

Search for Azcanta

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

(Transforms from Search for Azcanta.)
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}, {T}: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

The land is ever resilient. Should it die, it will be reborn.

Evolving Wilds

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

On the border of the Chaos Wall that separates the Edge from the Blind Eternities, creation itself still churns.

Terramorphic Expanse

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.

Dimir Aqueduct

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

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}.

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

"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.

Island

Swamp

Vengeful Pharaoh

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever combat damage is dealt to you or a planeswalker you control, if this card is in your graveyard, destroy target attacking creature, then put this card on top of your library.

"No fact escapes me. Why do you think you can?"

Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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

Morality Shift

Exchange your graveyard and library. Then shuffle your library.

Forbidden Alchemy

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Flashback {6}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

It seemed as if no one wanted them to reach the Henge of Ramos—not even the dead.

Haunted Crossroads

{B}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

"Why throw away a perfectly good identity?"

Graveshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Undead Gladiator

{1}{B}, Discard a card: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.
Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"The veil between the living and the dead is so very thin that the whispers of the ancients can finally be heard."
—Amalric of Midvast Hall

Secrets of the Dead

Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, draw a card.

Zombie

Stitcher Geralf

{2}{U}, {T}: Each player mills three cards. Exile up to two creature cards put into graveyards this way. Create an X/X blue Zombie creature token, where X is the total power of the cards exiled this way.

Fusing intelligence with the power of undeath requires inspiration of the darkest kind.

Havengul Lich

{1}: You may cast target creature card in a graveyard this turn. When you cast it this turn, this creature gains all activated abilities of that card until end of turn.

Havengul Runebinder

{2}{U}, {T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Zombie creature you control.

"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.

"These fiends are slightly less tolerable than you."
"A sentiment that warms my heart, sister."

Gisa and Geralf

When Gisa and Geralf enters, mill four cards.
Once during each of your turns, you may cast a Zombie creature spell from your graveyard.

It took the banning of temporal manipulation at Tolaria West to teach its students the value of time.

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

"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.

"I am confident that if anyone actually penetrates our facades, even the most perceptive would still be fundamentally unprepared for the truth of House Dimir."
—Szadek

Glimpse the Unthinkable

Body Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature card in a graveyard.

Mulldrifter

Flying
When this creature enters, draw two cards.
Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Kindred Discovery

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.

"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.

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

Dimir Signet

Talisman of Dominance

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

"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 this artifact: Draw a card.

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Druids hold certain plants to be sacred and use their leaves and wood as a spellcasting focus.

Wayfarer's Bauble

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

"I use maps to find out where explorers have already been. Then I go the other way."
—Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Trackhand Trainer

Training Grounds

For those who survived, being prepared for the next crisis became one of the greatest virtues.

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

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.)

"Die. But die knowing that your pathetic life will yield a great bounty for me."
—Zul Ashur, lich lord

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Consuming Aberration

Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards.
Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

"You'd better be worth it."
—Liliana Vess

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Likeness Looter

Flying
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{X}: This creature becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except it has flying and this ability. Activate only as a sorcery.

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Fell Gravship

When this Spacecraft enters, mill three cards, then return a creature or Spacecraft card from your graveyard to your hand.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 8+.)
STATION 8+
Flying, lifelink

Those who go under rise again as cruel mockeries of their former selves, spewing foul water and keening with sorrow.

Terror Tide

Fathomless descent — All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.

"Rejoice! For within sekhar, the final sacrifice, you will find passage to the Next Eternity."
—Calnan, Monoist assassin

Singularity Rupture

Destroy all creatures, then any number of target players each mill half their library, rounded down.

Counterspell

"All worlds will know perfection."
—Elesh Norn

Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Stitch Together

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Wail of the Forgotten

Descend 8 — Choose one. If there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard as you cast this spell, choose one or more instead.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Target opponent discards a card.
• Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"The awestruck birds gazed at Wonder. Slowly, timidly, they rose into the air."
—*Scroll of Beginnings*

Wonder

Flying
As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Entropic Battlecruiser

Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 8+.)
STATION 1+
Whenever an opponent discards a card, they lose 3 life.
STATION 8+
Flying, deathtouch
Whenever this Spacecraft attacks, each opponent discards a card. Each opponent who can't loses 3 life.

Susur Secundi, Void Altar

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
STATION 12+
{1}{B}, {T}, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Activate only as a sorcery.

Starwinder

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards.
Warp {2}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)

Drown in the Loch

Choose one —
• Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
• Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Overlord of the Balemurk

Impending 5—{1}{B} (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with five time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.)
Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, mill four cards, then you may return a non-Avatar creature card or a planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.

Gyruda, Doom of Depths

Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with even mana values. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
When Gyruda enters, each player mills four cards. Put a creature card with an even mana value from among the milled cards onto the battlefield under your control.

Every facet a window into Oghma's divine insight.

Sky Diamond

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

Mind Grind

Each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal X land cards, then puts all cards revealed this way into their graveyard. X can't be 0.

Treasure

Ruthless Technomancer

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature you control. If you do, create a number of Treasure tokens equal to that creature's power.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice X artifacts: Return target creature card with power X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. X can't be 0.

Defossilize

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature explores, then it explores again. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard. Then repeat this process.)

"Hard to imagine," mused Hanna, stroking the petal, "such a lovely flower inspiring such greed."

Lotus Petal

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Codex Shredder

{T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Every facet a portent of Kelemvor's inevitable judgment.

Charcoal Diamond

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

"For every living person there are generations of dead. Which realm would you rather rule?"
—Liliana Vess

Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Palantír of Orthanc

At the beginning of your end step, put an influence counter on Palantír of Orthanc and scry 2. Then target opponent may have you draw a card. If that player doesn't, you mill X cards, where X is the number of influence counters on Palantír of Orthanc, and that player loses life equal to the total mana value of those cards.

Ivold gasped in surprise. Either a very strange insect had crawled onto one of the lenses or he was seeing geists at last!

Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.

"Lord Bolas has shown me how each miserable little life holds untold resources."

Disciple of Bolas

When this creature enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

An Offer You Can't Refuse

"I think you'll find my terms quite agreeable, if you know what's good for you."

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Zellix, Sanity Flayer

Horror

Hive Mind — Whenever a player mills one or more creature cards, you create a 1/1 black Horror creature token.
{1}, {T}: Target player mills three cards.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

"The Filigree Texts do not compel you to act in accordance with their precepts. They only specify the consequences should you fail."
—Lodus of the Ethersworn

Memory Erosion

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player mills two cards.

Starving Revenant

When this creature enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.
Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"The Meditation Realm is a willful puzzle. Seek, and it will impede. Wait, and it will permit passage."

Stillness in Motion

At the beginning of your upkeep, mill three cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, exile this enchantment and put five cards from your graveyard on top of your library in any order.

The Ancient One

Descend 8 — The Ancient One can't attack or block unless there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard.
{2}{U}{B}: Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way, target player mills cards equal to its mana value.

Teneb, the Harvester

Flying
Whenever Teneb deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{B}. If you do, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Copy

Riku of Two Reflections

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {U}{R}. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, you may pay {G}{U}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

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