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}.

Command Tower

Tower Winder

"Thus, the shattered half of the planet was
named Kavaron That Is, and the capital
was moved to Kavaron Before."
*—The Tragedy of Emperor Kavarus III*

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

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.

Island

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.

"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.

Desert of the Mindful

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.

Sunken Palace

This land 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.)

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.

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.

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.

Snow-Covered Island

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.

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.

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.

Built on a fumarole field, the village is a refuge of warmth amid the ice of the Qal Sisma mountains.

Mistrise Village

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn can't be countered.

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.

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.

Remote Isle

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

Terrain Generator

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Geier Reach Sanitarium

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

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.

"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.)

The Izzet specialize in unnatural disaster.

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

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.

Rhystic Study

Archival Whorl

Friends teach what you want to know. Enemies teach what you *need* to know.

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

A curse is just another name for an unwanted blessing.

Consecrated Sphinx

Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

"It is not a goal, but a process—the process of creating the perfect Phyrexia."

Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Flash
At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards.
Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

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.

"All creation in a single point, the point of all creation in all."
—Sunstar loop-mantra

Sol Ring

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

Urza's metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines.

Thran Dynamo

"An ordered Sothera is a peaceful Sothera. Join the Strategic Corps today and proudly turn the gears of progress!"
—Pinnacle recruitment ad

Arcane Signet

"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.

"You've begun to understand the hedrons' true purpose," said Ugin. "The Eldrazi can be imprisoned."
"And how did that work out last time?" asked Jace.

Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Even a fragment of a powerstone contains within it not just energy, but space—vast dimensions trapped in fragile crystal.

Worn Powerstone

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

Over such beauty, wars are fought. With such power, wars are won.

Gilded Lotus

Caged Sun

As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Gauntlet of Power

As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a basic land is tapped for mana of the chosen color, its controller adds an additional one mana of that color.

The model incorporated the fifth sun effortlessly, as if it had always known.

Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You may cast spells as though they had flash.

No one knows what she is watching, but she never takes her eyes off it.

Fatespinner

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player chooses draw step, main phase, or combat phase. The player skips each instance of the chosen step or phase this turn.

The battalion thought they could escape the fog by marching in a straight line. Three days later, they began to suspect it was following them.

Fog Bank

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by this creature.

"Of all the things that can be stolen, opportunity is the most valuable."

Cursecatcher

Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Tidespout Tyrant

Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Deep-Sea Kraken

This creature can't be blocked.
Suspend 9—{2}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{U} and exile it with nine time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if this card is suspended, remove a time counter from it.

"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.)

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 this enchantment.
At the beginning of each end step, if there are three or more quest counters on this enchantment, you may put a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"I can see why this appeals to Thassa."
—Kiora

Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Octopus

Crush of Tentacles

Surge {3}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If this spell's surge cost was paid, create an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.

When Lorthos emerges from his deepwater realm, the tides bow to his will and the coastline cowers in his presence.

Lorthos, the Tidemaker

Whenever Lorthos attacks, you may pay {8}. If you do, tap up to eight target permanents. Those permanents don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

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.)

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."

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.)

"Gleams like moonlight on water drew us through the storm and toward our doom."
—Siona, captain of the *Pyleas*

Serpent of Yawning Depths

Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents you control can't be blocked except by Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.)
When Slinn Voda enters, if it was kicked, return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Merfolk, Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Elder Deep-Fiend

Flash
Emerge {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When you cast this spell, tap up to four target permanents.

Thassa, God of the Sea

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
{1}{U}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

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 this creature becomes monstrous, tap up to four target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps for as long as you control this creature.

Scourge of Fleets

When this creature enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Thassa's Oracle

When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Octopus Umbra

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 8/8 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap target creature with power 8 or less."
Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

"Beauty to the eye does not always translate to the touch."
—Naimah, Femeref philosopher

Man-o'-War

When this creature enters, return target creature to its owner's hand.

Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare

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Startled Awake

Target opponent mills thirteen cards.
{3}{U}{U}: Put this card from your graveyard onto the battlefield transformed. Activate only as a sorcery.

Persistent Nightmare

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
When this creature deals combat damage to a player, return it to its owner's hand.

Fireshrieker

Equipped creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"I have foreseen that you will not pass my trial."

Winds of Rebuke

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Each player mills two cards.

Omen Machine

Players can't draw cards.
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player exiles the top card of their library. If it's a land card, the player puts it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, the player casts it without paying its mana cost if able.

Sometimes it's useful to take a break from existence.

Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Will Kenrith

Rowan Kenrith

Will Kenrith Emblem

+2: Until your next turn, up to two target creatures each have base power and toughness 0/3 and lose all abilities.
−2: Target player draws two cards. Until your next turn, instant, sorcery, and planeswalker spells that player casts cost {2} less to cast.
−8: Target player gets an emblem with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy."
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Will Kenrith can be your commander.

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

Archaeomancer

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

Basalt Monolith

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{3}: Untap this artifact.

A step in one direction is two steps away from another.

Mesmeric Orb

Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.

One man's trash is another man's troller.

Junktroller

Defender
{T}: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

Tunnel Vision

Choose a card name. Target player reveals cards from the top of their library until a card with that name is revealed. If it is, that player puts the rest of the revealed cards into their graveyard and puts the card with the chosen name on top of their library. Otherwise, the player shuffles.

Urza, Lord High Artificer

Construct

When Urza enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."
Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add {U}.
{5}: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.

Palinchron

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

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