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Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

The Sunken Ruin houses all the learning of a long-forgotten age.

Search for Azcanta

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

(Transforms from Search for Azcanta.)
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}, {T}: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Lumengrid, site of the Knowledge Pool, source of vedalken arcana.

Seat of the Synod

Swamp

Island

Plains

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Secluded Steppe

Secluded Steppe enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Mistveil Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)
Mistveil Plains enters tapped.
{W}, {T}: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Activate only if you control two or more white permanents.

The Planar Bridge opened over the Chamber of the Guildpact, reducing the symbol of Ravnica's endurance to rubble.

Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Emergence Zone: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Hall of Heliod's Generosity

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{W}, {T}: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.

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.

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}.

Lonely Sandbar

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

"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.

"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.

"We must rely on our own knowledge, not on the dogma of the seekers or the mutterings of the sphinxes."
—Tullus of Palandius

Arcane Sanctum

Arcane Sanctum enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

Contaminated Landscape

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Contaminated Landscape: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling {W}{U}{B} ({W}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The continent of Ondu is a vast plateau crisscrossed by deep trenches and meandering rivers.

Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Prairie Stream enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

After years of silence, the caves once again echo with the grisly sounds of Phyrexians preparing for war.

Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

Ships blown north in their voyage across the Stormwreck Sea become trapped in the unmelting ice.

Glacial Fortress

Glacial Fortress enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Isolated Chapel

Isolated Chapel enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

On the continent of Tazeem, rushing waters plunge through narrow canyons into mist-cloaked lakes.

Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Sunken Hollow enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

None can tell how many vessels are tangled up on the sea floor—or how much treasure remains unclaimed.

Drowned Catacomb

Drowned Catacomb enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

"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}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Left barren by the Brothers' War, it stands as a stark reminder of Dominaria's likely fate should the Coalition fail.

Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

The House's geography constantly warps and twists, fields melting into floorboards and walls opening into hungry maws.

Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Drownyard floods and unnatural frost made the once peaceful boardwalk deceptively treacherous.

Deserted Beach

Deserted Beach enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Azorius Chancery

Azorius Chancery enters tapped.
When Azorius Chancery enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {W}{U}.

"I'm not saying I'm sure it's a trap. I'm just saying it wasn't there yesterday and I'm pretty sure I heard it whisper my name. If you're so curious, you touch it."
—Angus, survivor scout

Sol Ring

Dark Ritual

"My flesh holds no secrets, monster. The spirit of Mirrodin will fight on."
—Vy Covalt, Mirran resistance

Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.

The mizzium-sphere array drove her mind deep into the thought field, where only the rarest motes of genius may be plucked.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"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.

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To 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.)

Counterspell

Delay

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

"Well, at least all of that arm-waving and arcane babbling you did was impressive."

Remand

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it into its owner's hand instead of into that player's graveyard.
Draw a card.

Leonos had no second thoughts about the abolishment edict. He'd left skyrunes warning of the eviction, even though it was cloudy.

Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.

"The arc of my blade has carved a path of light for the peace that will follow."

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

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.

Sorin had created Avacyn, so it was a cruelty beyond imagining, a pain beyond description, that it fell upon him to end her forever.

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

For a razorkin, painless dissolution is a far worse fate than agonizing death.

Utter End

"I see you've learned nothing, Chandra. You'd still put a match to something rather than understand it."

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

"You'd better be worth it."
—Liliana Vess

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Few escape the Underworld. Fewer still escape fate.

Grasp of Fate

When Grasp of Fate enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until Grasp of Fate leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

Detention Sphere

When Detention Sphere enters, you may exile target nonland permanent not named Detention Sphere and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.
When Detention Sphere leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

The Rakdos believe that all are eager to join their revels, even when told otherwise.

Sphere of Safety

Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {X} for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

Some corpses the Golgari cannot claim. Some souls the Orzhov cannot shackle.

Rest in Peace

When Rest in Peace enters, exile all graveyards.
If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Cracks in the facade of the House lead not to escape but to oblivion.

Leyline of the Void

If Leyline of the Void is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Karmic Justice

Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls destroys a noncreature permanent you control, you may destroy target permanent that opponent controls.

For a bittersweet moment, Jace believed he could still save his love. A moment was all Vraska needed. "For the glory of Phyrexia," she whispered.

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

"I am the purifier, the light that clears all shadows."
—Seal inscription

Seal of Cleansing

Sacrifice Seal of Cleansing: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"By the law of Avacyn, the following thoughts, words, and deeds are henceforth disallowed."

Nevermore

As Nevermore enters, choose a nonland card name.
Spells with the chosen name can't be cast.

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."

Sin Collector

When Sin Collector enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it and exile that card.

Aven Mindcensor

Flash
Flying
If an opponent would search a library, that player searches the top four cards of that library instead.

He has "friends" in places both high and low, and all seem to owe him favors.

Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Notion Thief

Flash
If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Deputy of Detention

When Deputy of Detention enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls and all other nonland permanents that player controls with the same name as that permanent until Deputy of Detention leaves the battlefield.

Orim's Chant

Kicker {W} (You may pay an additional {W} as you cast this spell.)
Target player can't cast spells this turn. If this spell was kicked, creatures can't attack this turn.

"I do not reject the gods. I reject their authority, their pettiness, and their arrogance."

Enlightened Ascetic

When Enlightened Ascetic enters, you may destroy target enchantment.

Winds of Abandon

Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Overload {4}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

When its power is threatened, the council speaks with a unified voice.

Council's Judgment

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

The Golgari maze-runner Varolz hungers to prove his fortitude in battle, and his trail of victims feeds other hungers.

Crypt Incursion

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

Vindicate

"Give of yourself, for compleation awaits the cleansed."
—Nokar, priest of Sheoldred

Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

You will scream out your innermost secrets just to make it stop.

Inquisition of Kozilek

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn.
−2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

"Memnarch or the vedalken salvage most of the large machines, leaving us only scraps. Scraps are enough."

Auriok Salvagers

{1}{W}: Return target artifact card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

Salvaging Station

{T}: Return target noncreature artifact card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Whenever a creature dies, you may untap Salvaging Station.

Serum Powder

{T}: Add {C}.
Any time you could mulligan and Serum Powder is in your hand, you may exile all the cards from your hand, then draw that many cards. (You can do this in addition to taking mulligans.)

March of the Machines

Each noncreature artifact is an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value. (Equipment that's a creature can't equip a creature.)

Though Serra is long dead, her legacy of grace and kindness will live on forever.

Serra Avatar

Serra Avatar's power and toughness are each equal to your life total.
When Serra Avatar is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Sanguine Soothsayer

Sanguine Bond

"Blood is constant. Every drop I drink, someone must bleed."
—Vradeen, vampire nocturnus

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

It feeds on metal filings suspended in the water, sieving flecks of precious ore through magnetic baleen.

Steelfin Whale

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Whenever an artifact you control enters, untap Steelfin Whale.

Suddenly he realized that everything was connected by invisible strings, strings that could be pulled—or cut.

Banishing Knack

Until end of turn, target creature gains "{T}: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand."

The Eternals found some sparks to be quite slippery.

Kaya's Ghostform

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control
When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

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