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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.

"We may fight the Temur when territory demands it, but we've no desire to profane their sacred places."
—Taklai, Mardu convoy

Rugged Highlands

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

Despite the chaos of the Roil and the devastation of the Eldrazi, Zendikar is a world of breathtaking beauty.

Tranquil Expanse

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Jungle Basin

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Forest you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{G}.

Temple Garden

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

Stomping Ground

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

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

Sunpetal Grove

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

Forest

Plains

Mountain

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 this creature enters, create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.

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.

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.

"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, this creature deals 2 damage to it. If a Dinosaur is dealt damage this way, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

It cares more about preserving the herd's territory than about preserving itself.

Thrashing Brontodon

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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

Ripjaw Raptor

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, draw a card.

"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.

Forerunner of the Empire

When this creature 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 this creature deal 1 damage to each creature.

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

Drover of the Mighty

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

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 this creature: Return target Dinosaur card from your graveyard to your hand.

Etali, Primal Storm

Whenever Etali 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.

Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Vigilance, trample, haste
Whenever Gishath 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.

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}: This creature gains your choice of reach, trample, or haste until end of turn.

Copy

Polyraptor

An innumerable pack is concealed in a single reflection.

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

"Follow her footsteps and she will show you the way."
—Itzama the Crested

Goring Ceratops

Double strike
Whenever this creature attacks, other creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn.

Sun Empire commanders are well versed in advanced martial strategy. Still, the correct maneuver is usually to deploy the giant, implacable death lizard.

Carnage Tyrant

This spell can't be countered.
Trample, hexproof

Swift Warden

Flash
When this creature enters, target Merfolk you control gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Huatli, Warrior Poet

+2: You gain life equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
0: Create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.
−X: Huatli deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures. Creatures dealt damage this way can't block this turn.

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.

Vanquisher's Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

"The tiniest mouse speaks louder to me than all the festival crowds on Tin Street."

Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

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.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"To care for yourself, cultivate the world. To care for the world, cultivate yourself."

Evolution Sage

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"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.

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it."
—Dosan the Falling Leaf

Kodama's Reach

Migration Path

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"The shortest path between two points is not always the safest."
—Tamina, district guide

Circuitous Route

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"We have safe houses in every zone, but you'll never find one without this."

Renegade Map

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

New Horizons

Enchant land
When this Aura enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Enchanted land has "{T}: Add two mana of any one color."

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

Raging Regisaur

Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 1 damage to any target.

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

Charging Monstrosaur

Knight of the Stampede

Dinosaur spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.

Jace awoke to the certainty that he was lost.

Ixalan's Binding

When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.
Your opponents can't cast spells with the same name as the exiled card.

It is a sun-dappled glade in the morning, the aroma of spring's first blossoms, and the melody of birds chirping in a joyful chorus. It is life.

Emerald Medallion

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

"Listen to the roar! Feel the thunder! The Immersturm shouts its approval with every bolt of lightning!"

Warstorm Surge

Whenever a creature you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Warrior

Secure the Wastes

"The Shifting Wastes provide our clan eternal protection. It is our duty to return the favor."
—Kadri, Dromoka warrior

Create X 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens.

After lightning struck the cliffs, the ore became iron, the iron became steel, and the steel became greaves. The lightning never left.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

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

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

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.)

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.

Herald's Horn

As this artifact 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.

"The visions haunt me. I see the end of the world, brought on by the search for the Immortal Sun."
—Shaper Pashona

Star of Extinction

Destroy target land. Star of Extinction deals 20 damage to each creature and each planeswalker.

Boros Charm

Choose one —
• Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
• Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

"Give up these unnatural weapons, these scrolls. Heart and mind and fist are enough."
—Zyd, Kamahlite druid

Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I want to help Zendikar. Show me the way."
—Nissa Revane

Elemental Bond

Whenever a creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, draw a card.

Beast

Beast Within

Beasties tend to be shy, kind to humans, and absolutely ruthless toward Valgavoth's monstrous spawn.

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Return of the Wildspeaker

Choose one —
• Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control.
• Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

The Izzet mage knew she would neither get her thermoinverter back nor have the satisfaction of exploding it herself.

Crush Contraband

Choose one or both —
• Exile target artifact.
• Exile target enchantment.

Centuries ago, a pyromancer's spark ignited a fiery conflagration.

Jaya's Immolating Inferno

(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)
Jaya's Immolating Inferno deals X damage to each of up to three targets.

Setessan Tactics

Strive — This spell costs {G} more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Until end of turn, any number of target creatures each get +1/+1 and gain "{T}: This creature fights another target creature."

"You don't find many old werewolf hunters."
—Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Prey Upon

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"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.

When the shards merged, Mayael found herself the general of Naya's mightiest army.

Meglonoth

Vigilance, trample
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, this creature deals damage to that creature's controller equal to this creature's power.

Wild Pair

Whenever a creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, you may search your library for a creature card with the same total power and toughness, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Struggle for Skemfar

Foretell

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then that creature fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Foretell {G} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

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.

Herd Heirloom

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.
{T}: Until end of turn, target creature you control with power 4 or greater gains trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

Zirda, the Dawnwaker

Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has an activated ability. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
Abilities you activate that aren't mana abilities cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
{1}, {T}: Target creature can't block this turn.

Every spire is a physical dedication to the Way.

Cori Mountain Monastery

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
{T}: Add {R}.
{3}{R}, {T}: Exile the top card of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.

Zacama, Primal Calamity

Vigilance, reach, trample
When Zacama enters, if you cast it, untap all lands you control.
{2}{R}: Zacama deals 3 damage to target creature.
{2}{G}: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
{2}{W}: You gain 3 life.

Elf Warrior

Rhys the Redeemed

{2}{G/W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 green and white Elf Warrior creature token.
{4}{G/W}{G/W}, {T}: For each creature token you control, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

The First Sliver

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Sliver spells you cast have cascade.

Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Menace
Assassin spells you cast have freerunning {B}{B}. (You may cast a spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
Whenever Ezio deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} if that player has 10 or less life. When you do, that player loses the game.

"My power is as vast as the plains, my strength is that of mountains. Each wave that crashes upon the shore thunders like blood in my veins."
—Dakkon Blackblade, Memoirs

Dakkon Blackblade

Dakkon Blackblade's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.

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