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.)

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.

"It's me and Gribble's special fort. None of the bad things can get us in there."
—Toby

Command Tower

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

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.

Structures built from darksteel yield to neither assault nor age.

Darksteel Citadel

There is no height above Grixis that is free from the stench of death.

Grixis Panorama

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Grixis Panorama: Search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Where scavengers nest in hollowed-out rib cages and chittering crawlers peer from empty eye sockets, few dare to trespass.

Swarmyard

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Geier Reach Sanitarium

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

Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Soldevi Excavations

If Soldevi Excavations would enter, sacrifice an untapped Island instead. If you do, put Soldevi Excavations onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add {C}{U}.
{1}, {T}: Scry 1.

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 Thaumatic Compass.

". . . 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.

"The rushing water is as the God-Pharaoh. It encompasses all. It nurtures all."
—Temmet, vizier of Naktamun

Cascading Cataracts

Indestructible
{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}: Add five mana in any combination of colors.

Blast Zone

Blast Zone enters with a charge counter on it.
{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{X}, {T}: Put X charge counters on Blast Zone.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Blast Zone: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on Blast Zone.

Poison Counter

Inkmoth Nexus

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Inkmoth Nexus becomes a 1/1 Phyrexian Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying and infect until end of turn. It's still a land. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Mishra's Factory

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mishra's Factory becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Sometimes the strongest weapon you can hold in your hand is another hand.

Mobilized District

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}: Mobilized District becomes a 3/3 Citizen creature with vigilance until end of turn. It's still a land. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature and planeswalker you control.

Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Ghost Quarter: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Island

Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

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.

Remote Isle

Remote Isle enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Plaza of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell.
{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary permanents you control.
{3}, {T}, Exile Plaza of Heroes: Target legendary creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them."
—Pulan, Bant orchardist

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Skyline Cascade

Skyline Cascade enters tapped.
When Skyline Cascade enters, target creature an opponent controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
{T}: Add {U}.

Chaos Wand

{4}, {T}: Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then put the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of that library in a random order.

A child's porcelain doll went missing one night, as did a pair of kitchen shears and the town magistrate.

Creepy Doll

Indestructible
Whenever Creepy Doll deals combat damage to a creature, flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy that creature.

Eye of the Storm

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery card, exile it. Then that player copies each instant or sorcery card exiled with Eye of the Storm. For each copy, the player may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Blatant Thievery

For each opponent, gain control of target permanent that player controls.

"Slimefoot, I know I said I wanted to grow our repository of knowledge, but this isn't what I had in mind."

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

"I can think of *one* goblin it ain't so lucky for."
—Slobad, goblin tinkerer

Krark's Thumb

If you would flip a coin, instead flip two coins and ignore one.

"All consciousness is one, separated only by a thin veil of the physical."
—Jace Beleren

Hive Mind

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, each other player copies that spell. Each of those players may choose new targets for their copy.

Gate to the Aether

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player reveals the top card of their library. If it's an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card, the player may put it onto the battlefield.

Shared Fate

If a player would draw a card, that player exiles the top card of one of their opponents' libraries face down instead.
Each player may look at cards they exiled with Shared Fate, and they may play lands and cast spells from among those cards.

Confounding Conundrum

When Confounding Conundrum enters, draw a card.
Whenever a land enters under an opponent's control, if that player had another land enter the battlefield under their control this turn, they return a land they control to its owner's hand.

Psychic Battle

Whenever a player chooses one or more targets, each player reveals the top card of their library. The player who reveals the card with the highest mana value may change the target or targets. If two or more cards are tied for highest, the target or targets remain unchanged. Changing targets this way doesn't trigger abilities of permanents named Psychic Battle.

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

When you spend most of your time running for your life, it pays to invest in quality footwear.

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.)

Sometimes safety is a place. Sometimes it's a person. Sometimes it's a tangible reminder that even in darkness, hope persists.

Arcane Signet

Mimic Vat

Copy

Imprint — Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with Mimic Vat to its owner's graveyard.
{3}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of a card exiled with Mimic Vat. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Genesis Chamber

"As the experimental population grows, so do the number of myr. It's a perfect equilibrium."
—Memnarch

Whenever a nontoken creature enters, if Genesis Chamber is untapped, that creature's controller creates a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.

"When I grafted the Planar Bridge into myself, I felt my Planeswalker spark flare beyond my body. The Multiverse was my plaything. It felt . . . incredible."
—Tezzeret

One with the Machine

Draw cards equal to the highest mana value among artifacts you control.

Sphinx of Uthuun

Flying
When Sphinx of Uthuun enters, reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Iron Maiden

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Iron Maiden deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

From their earliest educations, the brothers had known that no human contrivance could stand against the true masters of Dominia.

Golgothian Sylex

{1}, {T}: Each nontoken permanent with a name originally printed in the Antiquities expansion is sacrificed by its controller.

Banner of Kinship

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. This artifact enters with a fellowship counter on it for each creature you control of the chosen type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each fellowship counter on this artifact.

Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever Body of Knowledge is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Though she was used to stepping into the unknown, something about this strange doorway made the Wanderer shiver as she crossed the threshold.

Enter the Enigma

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Draw a card.

Ominous Seas

Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on Ominous Seas.
Remove eight foreshadow counters from Ominous Seas: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"When you learn to read the tides of fate, it's easy to catch the outcomes you desire."

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

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.

"The lifespan of a wirefly can be precisely described as 'short.'"
—Bruenna, Neurok leader

Wirefly Hive

{3}, {T}: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, create a 2/2 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying named Wirefly. If you lose the flip, destroy all permanents named Wirefly.

"The cost of your opposition will be extracted from your wits."
—Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

"The best way to keep a secret is to forget it."
—Lazav

Clear the Mind

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.
Draw a card.

"If that brain can't figure out the secret of the serum, then add more brains."
—Rhmir, Hand of the Augur

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Cut Your Losses

Casualty 2 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy this spell and you may choose a new target for the copy.)
Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

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.

Spark Double

You may have Spark Double 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.

Fblthp, the Lost

When Fblthp, the Lost enters, draw a card. If it entered from your library or was cast from your library, draw two cards instead.
When Fblthp becomes the target of a spell, shuffle Fblthp into its owner's library.

Simun the Quiet filled the chest with his most precious thoughts. But in a fit of paranoia, he locked up the memory of where he hid the key.

Sorcerer's Strongbox

{2}, {T}: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, sacrifice Sorcerer's Strongbox and draw three cards.

Counterspell

Chasm Skulker

Squid

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Chasm Skulker.
When Chasm Skulker dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Chasm Skulker. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Sturmgeist

Flying
Sturmgeist's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever Sturmgeist deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Bird

Ravenform

Foretell

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Foretell {U} (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.)

"Fine, you know more than me. But do you have to be such a show-off about it?"
—Chandra Nalaar, to Teferi

Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Homunculus Horde

"*That* is why you triple-check all decimals when commissioning a new batch of homunculi!"
—Trigori, Azorius senator

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

It was built by the Witch of Lochmere. Most of the wishes it grants are its own.

Witching Well

When Witching Well 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.)
{3}{U}, Sacrifice Witching Well: Draw two cards.

She seemed tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful.

Raise the Palisade

Choose a creature type. Return all creatures that aren't of the chosen type to their owners' hands.

Searching the city for Fblthp felt like sifting the rain for a single drop of blood.

Humongulus

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

Mirror Box

The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Each legendary creature you control gets +1/+1.
Each nontoken creature you control gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control with the same name as that creature.

"The Origin Query will wait. We must ensure we survive to return to it."
—Pelyus, vedalken ordinar

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Proft's Eidetic Memory

When Proft's Eidetic Memory enters, draw a card.
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've drawn more than one card this turn, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn minus one.

Stitcher's Apprentice

Homunculus

"Oglor create life, Oglor take it away. Oglor god! ... until Master return."

{1}{U}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Homunculus creature token, then sacrifice a creature.

"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.

"Today's paperweight, tomorrow's leveler."
—Bruenna, Neurok leader

Reshape

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact.
Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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