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.

Godless Shrine

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

Marsh Flats

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

Scrubland

Plains

Swamp

Orzhov Basilica

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

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.

Shambling Vent

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{1}{W}{B}: This land becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink until end of turn. It's still a land.

Tomb Fortress

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}{B}{B}{B}, {T}, Exile this land: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

"A cursed silhouette to look upon. Even if the halls stand empty, its vile shadows blight the land. I shudder to think of the evils that it held."
—Koth

Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

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

Castle Locthwain

This land enters 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.

Deep within the Cabal's vault, the Mirari pulsed like a dead sun—and its darkness radiated across Otaria.

Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

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}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

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

Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Where victors are commemorated and moments of glory immortalized.

Vault of Champions

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{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

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 {W} or {B}.

Tainted Field

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

Concealed Courtyard

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

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

Shattered Sanctum

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

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

Silent Clearing

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

A flickering beacon of righteous corruption.

Shineshadow Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Shadowy Backstreet

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Mardu blacksmiths can distill the technology of any clan and make it their own. Whether or not they should is another question.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

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

Sol Ring

Sometimes restoring the lost archives of the Jeskai can be as simple as the quiet ruffle of pages and the smell of fresh ink.

Arcane Signet

A spark of resistance against a tide of corruption.

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Smothering Tithe

Treasure

"I await your donation."
—Dasha, Orzhov priest

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

"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.

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Fiendslayer Paladin

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
This creature can't be the target of black or red spells your opponents control.

"For four hundred years, I have led armies of conquest. These lands hold nothing that can stand against me."

Vona, Butcher of Magan

Vigilance, lifelink
{T}, Pay 7 life: Destroy target nonland permanent. Activate only during your turn.

"Though Innistrad is not cleansed of evil, we finally have cause to rejoice."

Angel of Jubilation

Flying
Other nonblack creatures you control get +1/+1.
Players can't pay life or sacrifice creatures to cast spells or activate abilities.

Angel

Resplendent Angel

Flying
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 5 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance.
{3}{W}{W}{W}: Until end of turn, this creature gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink.

Archangel of Thune

Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

"The walls of Argive were built by a peaceful dynastic union that has guarded us against war for fifteen centuries. The lesson is clear."

Baird, Steward of Argive

Vigilance
Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

Odric, Lunarch Marshal

At the beginning of each combat, creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn if a creature you control has first strike. The same is true for flying, deathtouch, double strike, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, skulk, trample, and vigilance.

"A keen mind wields an army as a deft hand wields a sword."

Angelic Skirmisher

Flying
At the beginning of each combat, choose first strike, vigilance, or lifelink. Creatures you control gain that ability until end of turn.

Angel of Invention

Servo

Flying, vigilance, lifelink
Fabricate 2 (When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on it or create two 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.)
Other creatures you control get +1/+1.

Herald of War

Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Angel spells and Human spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Elspeth, Sun's Champion Emblem

Soldier

+1: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
−3: Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater.
−7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."

Vampire

Sorin, Lord of Innistrad

Sorin, Lord of Innistrad Emblem

+1: Create a 1/1 black Vampire creature token with lifelink.
−2: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+0."
−6: Destroy up to three target creatures and/or other planeswalkers. Return each card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control.

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (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.)

Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

As the Eldrazi spread, no secret that could give Zendikar's defenders an advantage was considered too dangerous to seek.

Painful Truths

Converge — You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

"Conquering your first world is the hardest, after all. My power grew as I moved from world to world, taking anything that would make the next taking easier."
—Ob Nixilis

Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Revel in Riches

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.

"No rest. No mercy. No matter what."
—Memorial inscription

Akroma's Memorial

Creatures you control have flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, haste, and protection from black and from red.

Coat of Arms

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

The sigil holds different meanings depending on its form and presentation. While some wear it as a sign of status, others wear it as a sign of debt.

Orzhov Signet

Dimir mages put the lanterns to good use, creating shapeshifters and sleeper agents from mana foreign to them.

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Orzhov Charm

Choose one —
• Return target creature you control and all Auras you control attached to it to their owner's hand.
• Destroy target creature and you lose life equal to its toughness.
• Return target creature card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Teysa, Orzhov Scion

Spirit

Sacrifice three white creatures: Exile target creature.
Whenever another black creature you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Odric resisted the vampire's curse with all his strength. But after a lifetime of fighting monsters, he was doomed to become one himself.

Hero's Downfall

Legend speaks of the lost coastal polis of Olantin, whose inhabitants' hubris enraged the sun god Heliod.

Wrath of God

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Damnation

Obzedat, Ghost Council

When Obzedat enters, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
At the beginning of your end step, you may exile Obzedat. If you do, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of your next upkeep. It gains haste.

Knight of the White Orchid

First strike
When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Mother of Runes

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

Restoration Angel

Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, you may exile target non-Angel creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

For a razorkin, painless dissolution is a far worse fate than agonizing death.

Utter End

Liliana seized the reins of Bolas's vast army, gritting her teeth behind the Chain Veil.

Command the Dreadhorde

Choose any number of target creature and/or planeswalker cards in graveyards. Command the Dreadhorde deals damage to you equal to the total mana value of those cards. Put them onto the battlefield under your control.

Merciless Eviction

Choose one —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all planeswalkers.

Though Serra is long dead, her legacy of grace and kindness will live on forever.

Serra Avatar

Serra Avatar's power and toughness are each equal to your life total.
When Serra Avatar is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

"Through the blood of the wicked, we shall be redeemed. Let us pray."

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Enduring Renewal

Play with your hand revealed.
If you would draw a card, reveal the top card of your library instead. If it's a creature card, put it into your graveyard. Otherwise, draw a card.
Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return it to your hand.

Reminders of Memnarch's reign still skirr across Mirrodin, reminiscent of his form if not his power.

Memnite

They put their safety in his hands. He puts sharpened steel in theirs.

Auriok Steelshaper

Equip costs you pay cost {1} less.
As long as this creature is equipped, each creature you control that's a Soldier or a Knight gets +1/+1.

Prowling Geistcatcher

Whenever you sacrifice another creature, exile it. If that creature was a token, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return each card exiled with it to the battlefield under your control.

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back."
—Ashnod, to Tawnos

Ashnod's Altar

"I have schemed too long to be supplanted by dead gods. If I cannot have this world, no one can."

Pestilence Demon

Flying
{B}: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Myr Battlesphere

When this creature enters, create four 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, this creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.

Eldrazi Displacer

Devoid (This card has no color.)
{2}{C}: Exile another target creature, then return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Walking Ballista

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Soul of Eternity

Copy

Soul of Eternity's power and toughness are each equal to your life total.
Encore {7}{W}{W} ({7}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Sanguine Soothsayer

Sanguine Bond

"Blood is constant. Every drop I drink, someone must bleed."
—Vradeen, vampire nocturnus

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Sorin had created Avacyn, so it was a cruelty beyond imagining, a pain beyond description, that it fell upon him to end her forever.

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

"By the time your knees have worn through your robe, you may have begun to learn your place."

Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

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