Island

"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.)

Desert of the Mindful

Desert of the Mindful enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

There is a sanctuary that reveals itself only to those graced by the *eludha*—the mystical connection between bonder and monster.

Bonders' Enclave

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

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.

Dappled coats become armored hides. Soft jaws become razor tusks. Nestling play becomes the fight for survival.

Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

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.)

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}.

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.

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.

Geier Reach Sanitarium

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

Its secrets once wrought the greatest artifice ever known. Now crabs loot the rubble to decorate their shells.

Academy Ruins

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

Treasure

Fountainport

Fish

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a token: Draw a card.
{3}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token.
{4}, {T}: Create a Treasure token.

"Were I to go where my heart dwells, I would now be wandering in the fair valley of Rivendell."
—Aragorn

Rivendell

Rivendell enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Remote Isle

Remote Isle enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.

Cephalid Coliseum

{T}: Add {U}. Cephalid Coliseum deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {U}, {T}, Sacrifice Cephalid Coliseum: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

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

Castle Vantress

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

If it can't be had here, it can't be had on any world.

High Market

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Sunken Palace

Sunken Palace enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}, Exile seven cards from your graveyard: Add {U}. When you spend this mana to cast a spell or activate an ability, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Mana abilities can't be copied.)

Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Lonely Sandbar

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

"Center of the Sea, Eye of the World, Shrine of Enlightenment. Seek it for answers. Seek it for healing. Seek it and return transformed."
—Scroll fragment from the ruins of Minamo

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

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

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.

"The Origin Query will wait. We must ensure we survive to return to it."
—Pelyus, vedalken ordinar

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

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

Pull from Tomorrow

"When you learn to read the tides of fate, it's easy to catch the outcomes you desire."

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.)

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.

The student searches the world for meaning. The master finds worlds of meaning in the search.

Mystical Tutor

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

Counterspell

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}.

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Cryptic Command

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

Commit

Put target spell or nonland permanent into its owner's library second from the top.

Memory

Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)
Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards.

Commit // Memory

"The best denials are simply that: a beginning and end unchanged, a dream with no memory."

Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Snapcaster Mage

Flash
When Snapcaster Mage enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"Words of power never disappear. They sleep, awaiting those with the will to rouse them."

Archaeomancer

When Archaeomancer enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

His marvels of artifice pale in comparison to the developing machinery of his mind.

Venser, Shaper Savant

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When Venser, Shaper Savant enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

Glen Elendra Archmage

Flying
{U}, Sacrifice Glen Elendra Archmage: Counter target noncreature spell.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

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.)

In theory, the death of the Eldrazi should have stilled the Roil. It did not.

Into the Roil

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.)
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If this spell was kicked, draw a card.

Vedalken Shackles

You may choose not to untap Vedalken Shackles during your untap step.
{2}, {T}: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of Islands you control for as long as Vedalken Shackles remains tapped.

"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.

It is the glimpse of a new horizon beyond the hills, the briny taste of salt spray off a ship's hull, and the whisper of pages turning in a new book. It is discovery.

Sapphire Medallion

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

"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.

To save this plane, he must forsake all others.

Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Flash
Creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield have flash.
Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.

Thopter

Tezzeret, Artifice Master Emblem

Tezzeret, Artifice Master

+1: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
0: Draw a card. If you control three or more artifacts, draw two cards instead.
−9: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, search your library for a permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle."

The sea filled the villagers' nets until the day it cast its own.

Coastal Breach

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.)
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

"The tides have begun to ignore the moon."
—Tamiyo's journal

Engulf the Shore

Return to their owners' hands all creatures with toughness less than or equal to the number of Islands you control.

"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}.

The best cure for a big ego is a little failure.

Turnabout

Choose artifact, creature, or land. Tap all untapped permanents of the chosen type target player controls, or untap all tapped permanents of that type that player controls.

Palinchron

Flying
When Palinchron enters, untap up to seven lands.
{2}{U}{U}: Return Palinchron to its owner's hand.

"Always a welcome sight breaking through the clouds."
—Talrand, sky summoner

Peregrine Drake

Flying
When Peregrine Drake enters, untap up to five lands.

"It augments anamnesis. What is so confusing about that?"
—Perisophia the philosopher

Mnemonic Wall

Defender
When Mnemonic Wall enters, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mulldrifter

Flying
When Mulldrifter 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.)

Sea Gate Oracle

When Sea Gate Oracle enters, 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.

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Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror

Thing in the Ice

Defender
Thing in the Ice enters with four ice counters on it.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, remove an ice counter from Thing in the Ice. Then if it has no ice counters on it, transform it.

"It serves as evidence of the ancient power of the deep, a reminder that the sea is the only thing worthy of reverence."
—Runo Stromkirk

Awoken Horror

When this creature transforms into Awoken Horror, return all non-Horror creatures to their owners' hands.

Thieving Magpie

Landlore Navigator

Rayne once made several unkind comparisons between the bird's naked opportunism and Urza's.

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Whenever Thieving Magpie deals damage to an opponent, draw a card.

Each spell is an intricate tapestry, and Kira is the great unraveler.

Kira, Great Glass-Spinner

Flying
Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability."

Shipbreaker Kraken

{6}{U}{U}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
When Shipbreaker Kraken becomes monstrous, tap up to four target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps for as long as you control Shipbreaker Kraken.

Quest for Ula's Temple

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you may reveal it and put a quest counter on Quest for Ula's Temple.
At the beginning of each end step, if there are three or more quest counters on Quest for Ula's Temple, you may put a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Kefnet the Mindful

Flying, indestructible
Kefnet the Mindful can't attack or block unless you have seven or more cards in hand.
{3}{U}: Draw a card, then you may return a land you control to its owner's hand.

Mindshrieker

Flying
{2}: Target player mills a card. Mindshrieker gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the milled card's mana value.

"Into its maw went the seventh sea, never to be seen again while the world remains."
—Esper fable

Inkwell Leviathan

Trample
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Most see krakens as wantonly violent, failing to notice their meticulous attention to detail when dismantling a vessel.

Stormsurge Kraken

Hexproof
Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, Stormsurge Kraken gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever Stormsurge Kraken becomes blocked, you may draw two cards."

Chancellor of the Spires

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent mills seven cards.
Flying
When Chancellor of the Spires enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

Serpent of the Endless Sea

Serpent of the Endless Sea's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Islands you control.
Serpent of the Endless Sea can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

Thassa felt no need to punish the sailors for their folly in crossing the straits. The kraken would do it for her.

Kraken of the Straits

Creatures with power less than the number of Islands you control can't block Kraken of the Straits.

Tromokratis

Tromokratis has hexproof unless it's attacking or blocking.
Tromokratis can't be blocked unless all creatures defending player controls block it. (If any creature that player controls doesn't block this creature, it can't be blocked.)

Most inhabitants of Zendikar have given up on the idea of an accurate map.

Spreading Seas

Enchant land
When Spreading Seas enters, draw a card.
Enchanted land is an Island.

Quicksilver Fountain

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player puts a flood counter on target non-Island land they control of their choice. That land is an Island for as long as it has a flood counter on it.
At the beginning of each end step, if all lands on the battlefield are Islands, remove all flood counters from them.

Tamiyo, the Moon Sage Emblem

Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

+1: Tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
−2: Draw a card for each tapped creature target player controls.
−8: You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size" and "Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may return it to your hand."

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