Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison

Rivals of Ixalan Checklist

Golem

Golden Guardian

Defender
{2}: This creature fights another target creature you control. When this creature dies this turn, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

An army of living gold for the golden city.

Gold-Forge Garrison

(Transforms from Golden Guardian.)
{T}: Add two mana of any one color.
{4}, {T}: Create a 4/4 colorless Golem artifact creature token.

Crystal Vein

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Add {C}{C}.

Mage-Ring Network

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land.
{T}, Remove any number of storage counters from this land: Add {C} for each storage counter removed this way.

Mirrorpool

Copy

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{C}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.
{4}{C}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.

"The voice calls me here, yet I see only bones. Is this more dragon trickery?"
—Sarkhan Vol

Tomb of the Spirit Dragon

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You gain 1 life for each colorless creature you control.

The gods known to the merfolk as Ula, Emeria, and Cosi were nothing more than false memories of a monstrous trinity: the Eldrazi titans Ulamog, Emrakul, and Kozilek.

Shrine of the Forsaken Gods

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless spells. Activate only if you control seven or more lands.

Foundry of the Consuls

Thopter

All around the foundry, automatons unhitched themselves from their mounts and pivoted to face Chandra.

{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create two 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying.

Structures built from darksteel yield to neither assault nor age.

Darksteel Citadel

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

A monument to long-forgotten gods, it stands as a tribute to the fleeting nature of human ways.

Deserted Temple

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Untap target land.

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.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Blinkmoth Nexus

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: This land becomes a 1/1 Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.
{1}, {T}: Target Blinkmoth creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Each temple is a door to a horrible future.

Eldrazi Temple

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.

"Center of the Sea, Eye of the World, Shrine of Enlightenment. Seek it for answers. Seek it for healing. Seek it and return transformed."
—Scroll fragment from the ruins of Minamo

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card.

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}.

"Let your heels point you home."
—Ancient blessing

Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Arch of Orazca

City's Blessing

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Blasted Landscape

{T}: Add {C}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"All peoples treasure a place where the weary traveler may drink in peace."
—Ajani Goldmane

Radiant Fountain

When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Wastes

Thendar, the Overminer

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

Sol Ring

Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Over such beauty, wars are fought. With such power, wars are won.

Gilded Lotus

Urza's metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines.

Thran Dynamo

"You've begun to understand the hedrons' true purpose," said Ugin. "The Eldrazi can be imprisoned."
"And how did that work out last time?" asked Jace.

Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Even a fragment of a powerstone contains within it not just energy, but space—vast dimensions trapped in fragile crystal.

Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Steel Hellkite

Flying
{2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
{X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by this creature this turn. Activate only once each turn.

The impact sent the soldiers scattering—then something came out of the crater.

Meteor Golem

When this creature enters, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Artisan of Kozilek

When you cast this spell, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)

Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

When you cast this spell, exile two target permanents.
Indestructible
Whenever Ulamog attacks, defending player exiles the top twenty cards of their library.

Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

When you cast this spell, draw four cards.
Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.)
When Kozilek is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Emrakul, the Promised End

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard.
When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn.
Flying, trample, protection from instants

It That Betrays

Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent, put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

"Have you ever seen a world fall to its knees? Watch, and learn."
—Ob Nixilis

Void Winnower

Your opponents can't cast spells with even mana values. (Zero is even.)
Your opponents can't block with creatures with even mana values.

"For those without the Planeswalker spark, the merest touch of the Blind Eternities can kill."
—Ugin

Spatial Contortion

({C} represents colorless mana.)
Target creature gets +3/-3 until end of turn.

Eldrazi Scion

Warping Wail

({C} represents colorless mana.)
Choose one —
• Exile target creature with power or toughness 1 or less.
• Counter target sorcery spell.
• Create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

"The emergence of the Eldrazi isn't necessarily a bad thing, as long as you've already lived a fulfilling and complete life without regrets."
—Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

All Is Dust

Each player sacrifices all permanents they control that are one or more colors.

Thought-Knot Seer

({C} represents colorless mana.)
When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, target opponent draws a card.

Reality Smasher

({C} represents colorless mana.)
Trample, haste
Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, counter that spell unless its controller discards a card.

Endbringer

Untap this creature during each other player's untap step.
{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.
{C}, {T}: Target creature can't attack or block this turn.
{C}{C}, {T}: Draw a card.

Matter Reshaper

({C} represents colorless mana.)
When this creature dies, reveal the top card of your library. You may put that card onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card with mana value 3 or less. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

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.

Wurm

Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink
When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

"Material at dig site 165-beta confirmed to be of Null Moon origin. Immediate excavation assistance requested."
—Tolarian field dispatch

Meteorite

When this artifact enters, it deals 2 damage to any target.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Lithoform Engine

{2}, {T}: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.
{3}, {T}: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.
{4}, {T}: Copy target permanent spell you control. (The copy becomes a token.)

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.

Basalt Monolith

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{3}: Untap this artifact.

The vedalken embed such urns in their living artifact creations.

Blinkmoth Urn

At the beginning of each player's first main phase, if this artifact is untapped, that player adds {C} for each artifact they control.

"It's endearing, in a mystical, pointy sort of way."
—General Tazri, allied commander

Hedron Crawler

{T}: Add {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

The myr are like the Glimmervoid: blank canvases on which to build grand creations.

Palladium Myr

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Forged by divine hands to wander mortal realms.

Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The kor send their thopter kites to see if the land is in a welcoming mood.

Pilgrim's Eye

Flying
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Mephidross gives up treasure easily . . . as long as you take its place.

Myr Retriever

When this creature dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Junk Diver

Flying
When this creature dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sometimes the smallest things make the biggest difference.

Workshop Assistant

Scrap Trawler

Whenever this creature dies or another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return to your hand target artifact card in your graveyard with lesser mana value.

Treasure Keeper

When this creature dies, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card with mana value 3 or less. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put all revealed cards not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Myr Sire

Phyrexian Myr

For the Phyrexians, death is not an end, nor a one-time occurrence.

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Myr artifact creature token.

Jort the Thunder-Mad spent his life perfecting a way to harness the power of the heavens.

Thunderstaff

As long as this artifact is untapped, if a creature would deal combat damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.
{2}, {T}: Attacking creatures get +1/+0 until end of turn.

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}

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Such cloaks are in high demand both by assassins and by those who fear them.

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}

Made to ward off the Grim Captain and silence the lure of undeath.

Silent Gravestone

Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.
{4}, {T}: Exile this artifact and all cards from all graveyards. Draw a card.

Elves believe the hydra-god Progenitus sleeps beneath Naya, feeding on forgotten magics.

Relic of Progenitus

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard.
{1}, Exile this artifact: Exile all graveyards. Draw a card.

Dominaria's most extravagant crypt nevertheless holds an empty grave.

Tormod's Crypt

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

Skittering Cicada

Flash
You may cast colorless spells as though they had flash.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, until end of turn, this creature gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is that spell's mana value.

To the Zendikari, an apocalypse. To the Eldrazi, a day like any other.

Calamity of the Titans

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a colorless creature card from your hand.
Exile each creature and planeswalker with mana value less than the revealed card's mana value.

The continent of Bala Ged was ravaged by massive Eldrazi of Ulamog's lineage, its lush jungles and cascading rivers reduced to dust.

Bane of Bala Ged

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player exiles two permanents they control.

Flayer of Loyalties

When you cast this spell, gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. Until end of turn, it has base power and toughness 10/10 and gains trample, annihilator 2, and haste.
Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)
Trample

"We shall forever roam."
—Ayli, high priest of the Eternal Pilgrims

Forsaken Monument

Colorless creatures you control get +2/+2.
Whenever you tap a permanent for {C}, add an additional {C}.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, you gain 2 life.

Desecrate Reality

For each opponent, exile up to one target permanent that player controls with an even mana value. (Zero is even.)
Adamant — If at least three colorless mana was spent to cast this spell, return a permanent card with an odd mana value from your graveyard to the battlefield.

The Eternity Elevator

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery.)
STATION 20+
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of charge counters on The Eternity Elevator.

The future is set. The present remains uncertain.

The Endstone

Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, draw a card.
At the beginning of your end step, your life total becomes half your starting life total, rounded up.

Rise of the Eldrazi

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target permanent. Target player draws four cards. Take an extra turn after this one.
Exile Rise of the Eldrazi.

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