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Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

Growing Rites of Itlimoc

When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.

Though the Sun Empire and the River Heralds once came together to plant the sacred forest, its roots have been tended by the mycoids ever since.

Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

(Transforms from Growing Rites of Itlimoc.)
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry 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.)

Unclaimed Territory

As Unclaimed Territory enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

When the last scrap of flesh is scoured away, the Curse of Wandering ends. Then the dead may sleep.

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Cliffs echo and branches quake at the roar of life.

Rootbound Crag

Rootbound Crag enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

To the Sun Empire, any place where daylight brightens the jungle floor is sacred ground.

Sunpetal Grove

Sunpetal Grove enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

The sunlight falls pristine on the temple at Epityr, softened by the remembered shadows of angelic saviors' wings.

Clifftop Retreat

Clifftop Retreat enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

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.

Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Mosswort Bridge enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

On Naya, ambition and treachery are scarce, hunted nearly to extinction by the awe owed to terrestrial gods.

Jungle Shrine

Jungle Shrine enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.

Temple Garden

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

Stomping Ground

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As Stomping Ground enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Sacred Foundry

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

Kazandu Refuge

Kazandu Refuge enters tapped.
When Kazandu Refuge enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Graypelt Refuge

Graypelt Refuge enters tapped.
When Graypelt Refuge enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Enter and leave the shackles of society behind.

Gruul Guildgate

Gruul Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Enter and rejoice! The Conclave stands united, open to one and all.

Selesnya Guildgate

Selesnya Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

"It is our duty to protect all those in need. But the other guilds have never shown themselves worthy of that protection."
—Tajic

Boros Guildgate

Boros Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Forest

Mountain

Plains

Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Vigilance, trample, haste
Whenever Gishath, Sun's Avatar deals combat damage to a player, reveal that many cards from the top of your library. Put any number of Dinosaur creature cards from among them onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Streams of gold and bright feathers flash in the orb, visions of past and future.

Atzocan Seer

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Sacrifice Atzocan Seer: Return target Dinosaur card from your graveyard to your hand.

Forerunner of the Empire

When Forerunner of the Empire enters, you may search your library for a Dinosaur card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Whenever a Dinosaur you control enters, you may have Forerunner of the Empire deal 1 damage to each creature.

"Forward! Let the Burning Sun's light guide you to deserving prey!"

Otepec Huntmaster

Dinosaur spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{T}: Target Dinosaur gains haste until end of turn.

Carnivorous dinosaurs developed a taste for undead flesh, tracking the vampires by the scent of blood on their breath.

Raging Swordtooth

Trample
When Raging Swordtooth enters, it deals 1 damage to each other creature.

Raptors are clever enough to tear away a hard metal shell to get at the tasty morsel inside.

Ripjaw Raptor

Enrage — Whenever Ripjaw Raptor is dealt damage, draw a card.

"I suppose we'll just hope those ancient monoliths lost to our people for centuries weren't particularly important."
—Toxayac, Sun Empire historian

Thrashing Brontodon

{1}, Sacrifice Thrashing Brontodon: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Etali, Primal Storm

Whenever Etali, Primal Storm attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Regisaur Alpha

Dinosaur

"Seeing a pack of these monsters hunt together, I'm at a loss to imagine the size of their prey."
—Adrian Adanto of Lujio

Other Dinosaurs you control have haste.
When Regisaur Alpha enters, create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.

The Sun Empire's most sacred sites are protected by more than prayers.

Runic Armasaur

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a creature or land that isn't a mana ability, you may draw a card.

"Kinjalli's encompassing rays herald new life in the moment of the sun's dawning."
—Chitlati, Lightning Rider

Wakening Sun's Avatar

When Wakening Sun's Avatar enters, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all non-Dinosaur creatures.

"You don't tame a horncrest. You convince it that it's easier to destroy something else."
—Amautl, knight of Atzocan

Bonded Horncrest

Bonded Horncrest can't attack or block alone.

"I knew I should have stayed with the boat. Always stay with the boat!"

Charging Monstrosaur

Colossal Dreadmaw

Colossal Chorus

If you feel the ground quake, run. If you hear its bellow, flee. If you see its teeth, it's too late.

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Often found browsing on the upper canopies of Ixalan's jungles, whiptails are known to absently bat away anything foolish enough to interrupt their meal.

Grazing Whiptail

Herala sighed as the creature pulled itself from the smoldering pit, the ground boiling beneath its still-glowing feet. She had just plowed that field.

Meteor Golem

When Meteor Golem enters, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

All raptors are aggressive, but ferocidons seem to enjoy their prey's pain.

Rampaging Ferocidon

Menace
Players can't gain life.
Whenever another creature enters, Rampaging Ferocidon deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.

Raptor Hatchling

"Every little hatchling has a parent's claws to guard it."
—Sun Empire saying

Enrage — Whenever Raptor Hatchling is dealt damage, create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.

"Ixalli's fertile rays enliven us all. Each of us is a testament to the sun's strength and love."
—Chitlati, Lightning Rider

Verdant Sun's Avatar

Whenever Verdant Sun's Avatar or another creature you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

"Tilonalli's searing rays carry the spark of life's eventual destruction as all light fades."
—Chitlati, Lightning Rider

Burning Sun's Avatar

When Burning Sun's Avatar enters, it deals 3 damage to target opponent or planeswalker and 3 damage to up to one target creature.

Thunderherd Migration

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Dinosaur card from your hand or pay {1}.
Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Commune with Dinosaurs

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a Dinosaur or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Herald's Horn

As Herald's Horn enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Some view Domri's unlikely ascent as a sign of Ilharg the Raze-Boar's imminent return.

Rhythm of the Wild

Creature spells you control can't be countered.
Nontoken creatures you control have riot. (They enter with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.)

"Stand still and try not to look like prey!"
—Skerk Hobnett, wilderness guide

Marauding Raptor

Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever another creature you control enters, Marauding Raptor deals 2 damage to it. If a Dinosaur is dealt damage this way, Marauding Raptor gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Its roaring challenge is punctuated by the slam of its tail on the earth, rousing the herds of the plains.

Bellowing Aegisaur

Enrage — Whenever Bellowing Aegisaur is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.

"There are moments when I feel I could fly like the sunwing. Far away I would soar, but always a golden gale pushes me back."
—Huatli

Kinjalli's Sunwing

Flying
Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Priest of the Wakening Sun

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may reveal a Dinosaur card from your hand. If you do, you gain 2 life.
{3}{W}{W}, Sacrifice Priest of the Wakening Sun: Search your library for a Dinosaur card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Lurking beneath the murky waters of Ixalan's rivers, sailbacks can rip a meal off the shore in the blink of an eye.

Snapping Sailback

Flash
Enrage — Whenever Snapping Sailback is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it. (It must survive the damage to get the counter.)

Thundering Spineback

"It appears that nature has risen against us."
—Captain Brinely Rage

Other Dinosaurs you control get +1/+1.
{5}{G}: Create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.

Nothing escapes its gaze—or its breath.

Tyrant's Familiar

Flying, haste
Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, Tyrant's Familiar gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever Tyrant's Familiar attacks, it deals 7 damage to target creature defending player controls."

The sky takes flight and the earth trembles.

Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Flying, double strike, vigilance, trample, indestructible

Its breath is a gale. Its roar is a volcano. Its anger tears soul from flesh.

Raging Regisaur

Whenever Raging Regisaur attacks, it deals 1 damage to any target.

The people of the Sun Empire worship the sun in three aspects. Kinjalli is the Wakening Sun, who created humans from clay and baked them in the sun's warmth.

Kinjalli's Caller

Dinosaur spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

"I do not lead. They do not follow. We walk together."

Drover of the Mighty

Drover of the Mighty gets +2/+2 as long as you control a Dinosaur.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

From the eyes up, it's solid bone and stubbornness.

Territorial Hammerskull

Whenever Territorial Hammerskull attacks, tap target creature an opponent controls.

A pirate ship in battle is a storm of activity.

Lightning-Rig Crew

{T}: Lightning-Rig Crew deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Whenever you cast a Pirate spell, untap Lightning-Rig Crew.

Savage Stomp

Wingbane Vantasaur

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a Dinosaur you control.
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then that creature fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"What do you mean a walking clock destroyed all our cannons?!"
—Captain Lannery Storm

Abrade

Choose one —
• Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature.
• Destroy target artifact.

"Hard to starboard! Starb— Abandon ship! Abandon ship!"

Reckless Rage

Reckless Rage deals 4 damage to target creature you don't control and 2 damage to target creature you control.

Suncleanser

When Suncleanser enters, choose one —
• Remove all counters from target creature. It can't have counters put on it for as long as Suncleanser remains on the battlefield.
• Target opponent loses all counters. That player can't get counters for as long as Suncleanser remains on the battlefield.

Shifting Ceratops

This spell can't be countered.
Protection from blue (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything blue.)
{G}: Shifting Ceratops gains your choice of reach, trample, or haste until end of turn.

"Why don't we fight for what's right and let bureaucrats argue over details?"

Bond of Passion

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Bond of Passion deals 2 damage to any other target.

His arrows are fletched with feathers from the greatest of the winged dinosaurs.

Atzocan Archer

Reach
When Atzocan Archer enters, you may have it fight another target creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"I am the ferocity of the Burning Sun. I am hide and feather, fang and claw."

Tilonalli's Skinshifter

Haste
Whenever Tilonalli's Skinshifter attacks, it becomes a copy of another target nonlegendary attacking creature until end of turn.

"It is finished. Now the real work can begin."
—Tezzeret

Planar Bridge

{8}, {T}: Search your library for a permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Selvala's Stampede

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for wild or free. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card for each wild vote. Put those creature cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest into your library. You may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield for each free vote.

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.

Sunbird's Invocation

Whenever you cast a spell from your hand, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from among cards revealed this way without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

"How truly vast this city must be, that I have traveled so far and seen so much, yet never once found the place where the buildings fail."

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Defense of the Heart

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls three or more creatures, sacrifice Defense of the Heart, search your library for up to two creature cards, put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"By the time you've seen it all, all have already changed."
—Wandering treant, name unknown

Traverse the Outlands

Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. Put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Even after a false god tore the magic from Dominaria, power still radiated from the Mirari sword that slew her.

Mirari's Wake

Creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced.

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