Safe havens amid the desert and dragonstorms, Abzan fortresses attract merchants, travelers, outcasts, and exiles.

Command Tower

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

"We have inherited the mysteries of the Thran, but few of the answers."
—Jhoira

Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Temple of Epiphany

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 {R}.

When spring melted the snow, fishers downstream of the Qadat Fire Rim learned of conflict between Temur and Jeskai from the gruesome flotsam.

Swiftwater Cliffs

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Izzet Boilerworks

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

Lonely Sandbar

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The House's geography constantly warps and twists, fields melting into floorboards and walls opening into hungry maws.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Dragonstorm chasers are not deterred by danger—they claim there is nothing like witnessing the land embracing the power of a storm.

Evolving Wilds

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}.

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.

Forgotten Cave

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
Cycling {R} ({R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"A place like this makes me wonder if there's more to life than blood and treasure . . . Nah."
—Boyl Bucksalt, Storm Fleet swab

Highland Lake

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

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.

Ghost Quarter

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

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.

Without Vantress's knowledge, the realm would lose itself in darkness.

Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Faerie Conclave

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}: This land becomes a 2/1 blue Faerie creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.

Rivals of Ixalan Checklist

Azor's Gateway // Sanctum of the Sun

Azor's Gateway

{1}, {T}: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand. If cards with five or more different mana values are exiled with Azor's Gateway, you gain 5 life, untap Azor's Gateway, and transform it.

As soon as Jace laid eyes on the great sphinx's chamber, the shards of memory began sliding into place.

Sanctum of the Sun

(Transforms from Azor's Gateway.)
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is your life total.

The boiling seas around Shiv provided a welcome layer of protection for the reclaimed Mana Rig.

Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them."
—Pulan, Bant orchardist

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Mountain

Island

Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Frostboil Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

One footstep among many is silent. One footstep alone is deafening.

Intruder Alarm

Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.

Towashi Guide-Bot

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
{4}, {T}: Draw a card. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each modified creature you control. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Ask a merfolk even a simple question and the answer is a journey far beyond the known.

Sage of the Falls

Whenever this creature or another non-Human creature you control enters, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

He has journeyed where none have been before. Now he returns to ensure that none follow.

Arcanis the Omnipotent

{T}: Draw three cards.
{2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis to its owner's hand.

"He's a living library. He remembers everything our band of explorers has seen, and we can use that to our advantage."
—Zahr Gada, Halimar expedition leader

Sea Gate Loremaster

{T}: Draw a card for each Ally you control.

"Choices belong to those with the luxuries of time and distance. We have neither. I recommend we proceed with the plan to destroy all shrines of the kami."
—Lady Azami, letter to Sensei Hisoka

Azami, Lady of Scrolls

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Draw a card.

Shapeshifter

Maskwood Nexus

Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)

Day // Night

The Celestus

If it's neither day nor night, it becomes day as The Celestus enters.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{3}, {T}: If it's night, it becomes day. Otherwise, it becomes night. Activate only as a sorcery.
Whenever day becomes night or night becomes day, you gain 1 life. You may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Aphetto Alchemist

Morph

{T}: Untap target artifact or creature.
Morph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

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

Merfolk Looter

Mardu lightning fences are the ingenious synthesis of blacksmith skill and stormsinger magic, protecting their dalkovans from even the most fearsome dragonstorms.

Sol Ring

Niv-Mizzet, Parun

This spell can't be countered.
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, you draw a card.

Drake

Talrand, Sky Summoner

"The seas are vast, but the skies are even more so. Why be content with one kingdom when I can rule them both?"

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer

Phyrexian Myr

Creature tokens you control have haste.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 2/1 blue Phyrexian Myr artifact creature token. Then you may choose a token you control. If you do, each other token you control becomes a copy of that token.

Bird Illusion

Murmuring Mystic

Rumors float through the city like crows, alighting on citizens seemingly at random.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

Elemental

Young Pyromancer

The hydrorats were soon eradicated from the monastery.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

Thopter Spy Network

Thopter

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control an artifact, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

The Locust God's children were numberless, relentlessly eating away every trace of the city's protection.

Swarm Intelligence

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"If their ears are to the ground, we will make them bleed!"
—Taklai, Kolaghan warrior

Impact Tremors

Whenever a creature you control enters, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent.

"It is the nature of souls that they burn more brightly together than apart."
—Vessifrus, flamekin demagogue

Shared Animosity

Whenever a creature you control attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking creature that shares a creature type with it.

The Royal Scions

+1: Draw a card, then discard a card.
+1: Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike and trample until end of turn.
−8: Draw four cards. When you do, The Royal Scions deals damage to any target equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Chasm Skulker

Squid

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Genesis Chamber

"As the experimental population grows, so do the number of myr. It's a perfect equilibrium."
—Memnarch

Whenever a nontoken creature enters, if this artifact is untapped, that creature's controller creates a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.

Mindwrack Liege

Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other red creatures you control get +1/+1.
{U/R}{U/R}{U/R}{U/R}: You may put a blue or red creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Djinn Illuminatus

({U/R} can be paid with either {U} or {R}.)
Flying
Each instant and sorcery spell you cast has replicate. The replicate cost is equal to its mana cost. (When you cast it, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Mizzix's Mastery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery.
Overload {5}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

"Any oaf can conquer a kingdom. It takes true power to conquer time."
—Shai Fusan, archmage

Time Reversal

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. Exile Time Reversal.

As brilliant as a cut diamond, and with just as cruel an edge.

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target.
{T}: Draw a card.

Windfall

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

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"Ideas drift like petals on the wind. I have only to lift my face to the breeze."

Mind's Eye

Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, 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.

"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 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.)

"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.

Treasure

Seize the Spoils

Slibbo was tired of following Korvold's draconian library rules.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

"It's easy to anticipate Captain Storm's orders: take the more dangerous route."

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

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.

Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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.)

Portent

Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Serum Visions

The farmer was amazed to see the penny vanish into thin air, but the goose knew he'd just slipped it to the faerie.

Sleight of Hand

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

Long-Term Plans

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card third from the top.

Muddle the Mixture

Counter target instant or sorcery spell.
Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Bonder and bonded move in unison, intuiting each other's next move.

Anticipate

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

While other pirates prowl for treasure, Captain Parrish plunders secrets.

Chart a Course

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.

The whispers are incomprehensible, yet cinders always hear a message of urgency.

Crimson Wisps

Target creature becomes red and gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} this turn.)
Draw a card.

"I've seen lightning move slower."
—Nomad sentry

Accelerate

Target creature gains haste until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Fragments of thought refract and multiply, surging in a geyser of dizzying insight.

Mind Spring

"I do things in my own time."
—Etha, initiate of Rhet crop

Pull from Tomorrow

"A riddle is nothing more than a trap for small minds, baited with the promise of understanding."

Sphinx of Magosi

Flying
{2}{U}: Draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

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