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.)

"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.

A warped gateway that seeps toxins and malevolence into the waters around Towashi.

Polluted Delta

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

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.

There is beauty in the uncertainty of potential.

Prismatic Vista

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

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.

No one really knows how deep the waters go beneath Undercity, nor what amorphous horrors lurk within.

Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Gale stared into the pool and saw a stranger. The similarities were uncanny, but it was not him.

Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

"The war polluted the land, turning what had once been fruitful fields into fetid morasses of mud and rusted corpses."
—*The Antiquities War*

Underground River

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Creeping Tar Pit

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

"The Westfolk wept, and their tears wore winding rivers into the cheek of the world."
—Glem the Lonebard, "Origins of Kholon"

River of Tears

{T}: Add {U}. If you played a land this turn, add {B} instead.

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
—Lord Windgrace

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

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}.

Bojuka Bog

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

Temple of Deceit

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 {U} or {B}.

Dimir Aqueduct

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

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}.

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

Dimir Guildgate

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

Without the care of the tideshapers, the Lanes lie neglected. Some have flooded entire towns; others dried to cracked mud.

Sunken Ruins

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

Lonely Sandbar

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

Barren Moor

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

"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}.

Jwar Isle Refuge

"Now caged in Winter's bitter chill,
Our people cry, their voices shrill—
Eternal cold breaks down their will."
—*The Dynasty of Winter Kings*

Frost Marsh

Only death breeds in stagnant water.
—Urborg saying

Salt Marsh

Ixalan Checklist

Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca

"Clearly, it indicates the aetheric azimuth of . . ."
—Jace Beleren

Thaumatic Compass

{3}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control seven or more lands, transform this artifact.

". . . a cryptic objective."
—Jace Beleren

Spires of Orazca

(Transforms from Thaumatic Compass.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Untap target attacking creature an opponent controls and remove it from combat.

Island

Swamp

A mercurial face sows distrust. Distrust reaps a lonely life.

Changeling Outcast

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
This creature can't block and can't be blocked.

"It has been my honor to improve on Thran's original design. Perhaps history will remember me in some small part for my work."
—Urza, in his apprenticeship

Ornithopter

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.

Mist-Syndicate Naga

Copy

Ninjutsu {2}{U} ({2}{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, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Ninja of the Deep Hours

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, you may draw a card.

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.

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.

Fallen Shinobi

Ninjutsu {2}{U}{B} ({2}{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, that player exiles the top two cards of their library. Until end of turn, you may play those cards without paying their mana costs.

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.

"The patterns of crossing ripples reveal the future to those who know how to read them."

Faerie Seer

Flying
When this creature enters, 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.)

Mistblade Shinobi

Ninjutsu {U} ({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, you may return target creature that player controls to its owner's hand.

Moonblade Shinobi

Illusion

Ninjutsu {2}{U} ({2}{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, create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with flying.

Some owls house the souls of archmages of ages past.

Sage Owl

Flying
When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Trinket Mage

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Mulldrifter

Flying
When this creature 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.)

Thieving Sprite

Flying
When this creature enters, target player reveals X cards from their hand, where X is the number of Faeries you control. You choose one of those cards. That player discards that card.

"You see our world when you shut your eyes so tightly that tiny shapes float before them."
—Lyna, to Ertai

Thalakos Seer

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card.

"Ninjas can run across water, pull ladders from pockets, kill with a kiss, and slip between bricks. Pack of lies, I say."
—Benden, teahouse gossip

Phantom Ninja

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.

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.

Faerie Rogue

Notorious Throng

Prowl {5}{U} (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Rogue.)
Create X 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature tokens with flying, where X is the damage dealt to your opponents this turn. If this spell's prowl cost was paid, take an extra turn after this one.

Sakashima of a Thousand Faces

You may have Sakashima enter as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Sakashima's other abilities.
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

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.)

Its hunger and ire are no less for being wrought of lies and mist.

Phantasmal Dragon

Flying
When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

"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.

Patron of the Vein

Flying
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it and put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

Unable to touch items of value, he goes forth to steal secrets instead.

Looter il-Kor

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card, then discard a card.

"We're on the fortieth floor, with one window, no balcony. No one could possibly get in."
—Minosz, Orzhov chief of security

Nightveil Sprite

Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Nether Traitor

Haste
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Hostage Taker

When this creature enters, exile another target creature or artifact until this creature leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

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 that concerns me is the vampires' sense of smell and those freezing Nephalian nights."

Invisible Stalker

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
This creature can't be blocked.

An emblem of a secret guild, the Dimir insignia is seen only by its own members—and the doomed.

Dimir Signet

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

Sol Ring

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

It waits in the chill of the undercity, holding nameless secrets for those who dare to touch it.

Dimir Cluestone

{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

"Dangerous to recognize. Deadly not to."
—Lazav

Dimir Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target sorcery spell.
• Destroy target creature with power 2 or less.
• Look at the top three cards of target player's library. Put one back and the rest into that player's graveyard.

Anything sent into a plagued world is bound to come back infected.

Recoil

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Then that player discards a card.

"As one, nature lifts its voice to tell you this: 'No.'"

Negate

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.

Swan Song

Bird

In the end, the dying Illvoi clung to neither secrecy nor protocol. She cloudsculpted wings that she might live on in a spark of creativity.

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

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.)

Cryptic Command

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

The blades of a Sultai assassin stab like the fangs of a dragon.

Murderous Cut

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Destroy target creature.

Silumgar's Command

Choose two —
• Counter target noncreature spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
• Destroy target planeswalker.

Otrimi was disappointed at how quickly its new friend got tired and stopped playing.

Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

"How easily your flames are quenched."
—Baral, Chief of Compliance

Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Commandeer

You may exile two blue cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker, the permanent enters under your control.)

When Titania offered peace, Urza merely turned her down. Mishra made her people pay for the insult.

Go for the Throat

Slaughter Pact

Destroy target nonblack creature.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {2}{B}. If you don't, you lose the game.

It wasn't long before the taverns of High and Dry were full of whispers about the new captain who could turn a person to stone with a glance.

Vraska's Contempt

Exile target creature or planeswalker. You gain 2 life.

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