There is no glory to be gained in the kingdom of the dead.
—Vec tomb inscription

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

"There is much to learn here, but few can endure the ringing of the spires."
—Nulakam the Archivist

City of Brass

Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

When defeat is near and guidance is scarce, all eyes look in one direction.

Command Tower

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

After years of silence, the caves once again echo with the grisly sounds of Phyrexians preparing for war.

Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
As Godless Shrine enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Marsh Flats: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Scrubland

The expedition's end began the marsh's story.

Silent Clearing

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {W} or {B}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Silent Clearing: Draw a card.

Snow-Covered Plains

Snow-Covered Swamp

Swamp

There is beauty in the uncertainty of potential.

Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Plains

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

"All peoples treasure a place where the weary traveler may drink in peace."
—Ajani Goldmane

Radiant Fountain

When Radiant Fountain enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Without Locthwain's persistence, the realm would stagnate and die.

Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Serra's blessing lies strongest upon Sursi, where her holy chapels are untouched even as evil encroaches.

Isolated Chapel

Isolated Chapel enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

"Do not linger in such places, child. There the gwyllions dance. If they find you, you will join in their revels for eternity."
—Talara, elvish safewright

Fetid Heath

{T}: Add {C}.
{W/B}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Temple of Silence

Temple of Silence enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Silence enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Where victors are commemorated and moments of glory immortalized.

Vault of Champions

Vault of Champions enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Tainted Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

The Quietus Cult holds their grim ceremonies in the dark places where unburied dead litter the ground.

Shattered Sanctum

Shattered Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

True power is achieved through blood and sweat. But mostly blood.

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

"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.

As blood touched the empty page, it formed words that seared themselves into the wizard's mind.

Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

"Your presence at the palace this evening is required."
—Letter from Queen Marchesa

Imperial Seal

Mana Vault

Mana Vault doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap Mana Vault.
At the beginning of your draw step, if Mana Vault is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Mox Diamond

If Mox Diamond would enter the battlefield, you may discard a land card instead. If you do, put Mox Diamond onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Lost to time is the artificer's art of trapping light from a distant star in a ring of purest gold.

Sol Ring

It started as a mere drop of water. The Magic Mirror crystallized it into much more.

Arcane Signet

Chrome Mox

Imprint — When Chrome Mox enters the battlefield, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.
{T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

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

Lotus Petal

{T}, Sacrifice Lotus Petal: Add one mana of any color.

Scroll Rack

{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

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 the task spilled over into undeath, he stopped calling it his life's work.

Ad Nauseam

Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.

Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Angel

Luminarch Ascension

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if you didn't lose life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Luminarch Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.)
{1}{W}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if Luminarch Ascension has four or more quest counters on it.

Necromancy

You may cast Necromancy as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When Necromancy enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach Necromancy to it. When Necromancy leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

"Your superstitions and mumblings are useless chaff before my righteousness."

Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

"Let's begin this conversation again, and this time you will only listen."

Hushbringer

Flying, lifelink
Creatures entering the battlefield or dying don't cause abilities to trigger.

Aven Mindcensor

Flash
Flying
If an opponent would search a library, that player searches the top four cards of that library instead.

"Our sanctuaries must be beacons of reason and calm or else they will fall."

Drannith Magistrate

Your opponents can't cast spells from anywhere other than their hands.

"The noble work of our order is to infuse all life on Esper with etherium. Our goal will be reached more rapidly if new life is . . . suppressed."

Ethersworn Canonist

Each player who has cast a nonartifact spell this turn can't cast additional nonartifact spells.

Those who seek to disturb the harmony of life will see their instruments taken from them.

Linvala, Keeper of Silence

Flying
Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated.

"The lasting effects are invariably fatal."
—Phyrexian progress notes

Plague Engineer

Deathtouch
As Plague Engineer enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Creatures of the chosen type your opponents control get -1/-1.

A lifetime of keeping up appearances is not enough to earn an eternity of rest.

Remorseful Cleric

Flying
Sacrifice Remorseful Cleric: Exile target player's graveyard.

"These halls are sacred. You *will* be silent."

Sanctum Prelate

As Sanctum Prelate enters the battlefield, choose a number.
Noncreature spells with mana value equal to the chosen number can't be cast.

Students at the Dekatia Academy learn that being sent to study with her is a lesson in itself.

Spirit of the Labyrinth

Each player can't draw more than one card each turn.

"Thraben belongs to the living. I will not rest until it is cleansed."

Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

First strike
Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

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 the battlefield don't cause abilities to trigger.

"I have an eternity to know the souls who are bound here, to behold their every facet. But moments from now they will be gagged and masked, and they shall be known by none other."

Yixlid Jailer

"There is no justice when some profit and others go without."

Alms Collector

Flash
If an opponent would draw two or more cards, instead you and that player each draw a card.

Aura of Silence

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast.
Sacrifice Aura of Silence: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Chains of Mephistopheles

If a player would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, that player discards a card instead. If the player discards a card this way, they draw a card. If the player doesn't discard a card this way, they mill a card.

It is the soul of a philosopher who died of starvation contemplating the universe.

Eidolon of Rhetoric

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

It *is* the thing that goes bump in the night.

Mindslicer

When Mindslicer dies, each player discards their hand.

The law is meant to ensure that people kill each other with only the utmost fairness.

Rule of Law

Mother of Runes

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

Tidehollow Sculler

When Tidehollow Sculler enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.
When Tidehollow Sculler leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.

When the blood hunt lost its thrill, she looked for less tangible means of domination.

Vampire Hexmage

First strike
Sacrifice Vampire Hexmage: Remove all counters from target permanent.

Opposition Agent

Flash
You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries.
While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Selfless Spirit

Flying
Sacrifice Selfless Spirit: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Fiend Hunter

When Fiend Hunter enters the battlefield, you may exile another target creature.
When Fiend Hunter leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Skyclave Apparition

Illusion

When Skyclave Apparition enters the battlefield, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less.
When Skyclave Apparition leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Some protection requires a bit of finesse.

Containment Priest

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

"To be in the presence of a revoker is to be truly alone."
—Kara Vrist, Neurok agent

Phyrexian Revoker

As Phyrexian Revoker enters the battlefield, choose a nonland card name.
Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.

Before a cause can have supporters, it has to have a voice.

Recruiter of the Guard

When Recruiter of the Guard enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a creature card with toughness 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Stoneforge Mystic

When Stoneforge Mystic enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{1}{W}, {T}: You may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Liliana insisted on coming to Amonkhet to confront one of the two remaining demons to whom she is bound.

Razaketh, the Foulblooded

Flying, trample
Pay 2 life, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

She provides marks of protection to those she chooses as family.

Giver of Runes

{T}: Another target creature you control gains protection from colorless or from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Gix pierced his disciples' minds and savored their experiences as he took in their knowledge.

Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

"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.

Fatal Push

Destroy target creature if it has mana value 2 or less.
Revolt — Destroy that creature if it has mana value 4 or less instead if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn.

"Take a quiet moment to reflect on your sins."
—Cleph, Order of Redeemed Souls

Silence

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.

The barrier between existence and oblivion is thinner than you know.

Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"Any dream is a robust harvest. Still, I prefer the timeworn dreams, heavy with import, that haunt the obsessive mind."

Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

Wall of Blood

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Pay 1 life: Wall of Blood gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Vizkopa Guildmage

{1}{W}{B}: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
{1}{W}{B}: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

Oblivion Ring

When Oblivion Ring enters the battlefield, exile another target nonland permanent.
When Oblivion Ring leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Leonin Relic-Warder

When Leonin Relic-Warder enters the battlefield, you may exile target artifact or enchantment.
When Leonin Relic-Warder leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

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