Centuries ago, Shizo was a verdant field of wildflowers. After 891 samurai died in a single battle on its grasses, it became a haunted moor.

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}.
{B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}.
Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Dimir Aqueduct

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

Command Tower

Tower Winder

"The Path of Flame is a flamekin's most personal journey. You must walk it for yourself, but you'll never walk alone."
—Zasharua, Brighthearth mentor

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

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

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.

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}.

On the continent of Tazeem, rushing waters plunge through narrow canyons into mist-cloaked lakes.

Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

None can tell how many vessels are tangled up on the sea floor—or how much treasure remains unclaimed.

Drowned Catacomb

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

"Log 2.9.089: Lammuat, the cemetery moon of salvage and secrets. Could be profitable for those brave enough to plumb its recesses."
—*Maisie's Edge Chronicles*

Watery Grave

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

Enter and become a mastermind of spies, lies, and deception.

Dimir Guildgate

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

Lonely Sandbar

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

Fetid Pools

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

"Long after the land has given up the last of its secrets, there will still be mysteries in the depths of the sea."
—Kiora

Submerged Boneyard

"I ask only that the winds return you to me as swiftly as they bear you and the Storm Crane away."
—Samthar, Sultai merchant, to Jialing, Jeskai monk

Dismal Backwater

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

Choked Estuary

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

Creeping Tar Pit

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{1}{U}{B}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature. It's still a land. It can't be blocked this turn.

Ixalan Checklist

Plant

Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale

Dowsing Dagger

When this Equipment enters, target opponent creates two 0/2 green Plant creature tokens with defender.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may transform this Equipment.
Equip {2}

The pirates had ventured into the interior for treasure. They found something far greater.

Lost Vale

(Transforms from Dowsing Dagger.)
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Swamp

Island

Sakashima's Student

Ninjutsu {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Ninja in addition to its other creature types.

Ingenious Infiltrator

Ninjutsu {U}{B} ({U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever a Ninja you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Silent-Blade Oni

Ninjutsu {4}{U}{B} ({4}{U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand. You may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

Throat Slitter

Ninjutsu {2}{B} ({2}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy target nonblack creature that player controls.

Skullsnatcher

Ninjutsu {B} ({B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile up to two target cards from that player's graveyard.

Higure, the Still Wind

Ninjutsu {2}{U}{U} ({2}{U}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Higure deals combat damage to a player, you may search your library for a Ninja card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{2}: Target Ninja creature can't be blocked this turn.

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Commander ninjutsu {U}{B} ({U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand or the command zone tapped and attacking.)
Whenever a Ninja you control deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. Each opponent loses life equal to that card's mana value.

Azra Smokeshaper

Ninjutsu {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
When this creature enters, target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn.

Some naga initiates move as silently as the suns' reflections on the water.

Slither Blade

Okiba-Gang Shinobi

Ninjutsu {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards.

"This one opens the grate outside Zelzo Base. This one is for Ismeri Library. This one is for an invisible door . . . No, I've said too much."

Keymaster Rogue

This creature can't be blocked.
When this creature enters, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

Walker of Secret Ways

Ninjutsu {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand.
{1}{U}: Return target Ninja you control to its owner's hand. Activate only during your turn.

Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni

Ninjutsu {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Ink-Eyes deals combat damage to a player, you may put target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
{1}{B}: Regenerate Ink-Eyes.

"You wish to remember this lesson? I will write it down for you."
—Senifet, vizier of Bontu

Painful Lesson

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Dimir Keyrune

{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{U}{B}: This artifact becomes a 2/2 blue and black Horror artifact creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Islandwalk, swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island or a Swamp.)
Whenever Wrexial deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

As the great scourge passed by, Zendikar shivered, then lay silent.

Sire of Stagnation

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player exiles the top two cards of their library and you draw two cards.

"The Filigree Texts do not compel you to act in accordance with their precepts. They only specify the consequences should you fail."
—Lodus of the Ethersworn

Memory Erosion

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player mills two cards.

Consuming Aberration

Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards.
Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

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.

Deepfathom Skulker

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
{3}{C}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Teferi, Temporal Archmage

Teferi, Temporal Archmage Emblem

+1: 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.
−1: Untap up to four target permanents.
−10: You get an emblem with "You may activate loyalty abilities of planeswalkers you control on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant."
Teferi, Temporal Archmage can be your commander.

Army of the Damned

Zombie

Sometimes death comes knocking. Sometimes it tears down the walls.

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Dimir Infiltrator

This creature can't be blocked.
Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{B}, 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.)

Glen Elendra Archmage

Flying
{U}, Sacrifice this creature: 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.)

Nightveil Specter

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library.
You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with this creature.

Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Psychic Intrusion

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from that player's graveyard or hand and exile it. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

The cruelest tortures leave no mark upon the flesh.

Tasigur's Cruelty

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Each opponent discards two cards.

Mindleech Mass

Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may look at that player's hand. If you do, you may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

Liliana's Reaver

Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

"Begin with your escape and work backward."
—*Way of Secrets*

Cunning Evasion

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, you may return it 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.

Notion Thief

Flash
If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

"It's always satisfying to stymie the best efforts of a rival, but the reactions of the Gruul are particularly amusing."
—Bori Andon, Izzet blastseeker

Mindstatic

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {6}.

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

Sword of Feast and Famine

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.
Equip {2}

Viral Drake

Poison Counter

Flying
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
{3}{U}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Lazav, the Multifarious

When Lazav enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
{X}: Lazav becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except its name is Lazav, the Multifarious, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has this ability.

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."

"My ancestor Toshiro used to say, 'Life is a series of choices between bad and worse.' I'm a master of making great bad choices."

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

The rivers can no longer provide safe passage for travelers and commerce. They serve only as highways for raiders and channels for blood and woe.

Deepchannel Mentor

Blue creatures you control can't be blocked.

Escape Artist

This creature can't be blocked.
{U}, Discard a card: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

Smoke Shroud

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.
When a Ninja you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.

Order of Succession

Choose left or right. Starting with you and proceeding in the chosen direction, each player chooses a creature controlled by the next player in that direction. Each player gains control of the creature they chose.

The passing of the sai presages the end of the old clan and the ascent of the new.

Sai of the Shinobi

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever a creature you control enters, you may attach this Equipment to it.
Equip {2}

Ninja of the New Moon

Ninjutsu {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)

Spark Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

Psychic Impetus

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, you scry 2.

Wings of Velis Vel

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Until end of turn, target creature has base power and toughness 4/4, gains all creature types, and gains flying.

"Meadowlarks sing in sun-touched skies
And breezes kiss where Eirdu lies."
—Verselet of Lorwyn

Sol Ring

Mirror-Mad Phantasm

Flying
{1}{U}: This creature's owner shuffles it into their library. If that player does, they reveal cards from the top of that library until a card named Mirror-Mad Phantasm is revealed. The player puts that card onto the battlefield and all other cards revealed this way into their graveyard.

His mind whirled with grand plans, never thinking of what might happen if he were to succeed.

Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Tidespout Tyrant

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

Shriekhorn

This artifact enters with three charge counters on it.
{T}, Remove a charge counter from this artifact: Target player mills two cards.

Soul Collector

Morph

Flying
Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.
Morph {B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Viridian Longbow

Equipped creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"The sea gives up her dead as easily as the soil."
—Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Skeleton Ship

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Skeleton Ship.
{T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Geralf's Messenger

This creature enters tapped.
When this creature enters, target opponent loses 2 life.
Undying (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.)

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