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Gates
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Commander

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Nine-Fingers Keene

Menace Ward—Pay 9 life. Whenever Nine-Fingers Keene deals combat damage to a player, look at the top nine cards of your library. You may put a Gate card from among them onto the battlefield. Then if you control nine or more Gates, put the rest into your hand. Otherwise, put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Nine-Fingers Keene (clb) 289

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Landfall

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Roil Elemental

Flying Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may gain control of target creature for as long as you control this creature.

Creature
Roil Elemental (zen) 62

Landfall

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Recursion

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Gate Colossus

Affinity for Gates (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Gate you control.) This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less. Whenever a Gate you control enters, you may put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Creature Artifact
Gate Colossus (rvr) 257
Life from the Loam

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Sorcery
Life from the Loam (rvr) 148
Nissa of Shadowed Boughs

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a loyalty counter on Nissa. +1: Untap target land you control. You may have it become a 3/3 Elemental creature with haste and menace until end of turn. It's still a land. −5: You may put a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control onto the battlefield from your hand or graveyard with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Planeswalker
Nissa of Shadowed Boughs (znr) 231

Recursion

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Copy

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Copy Land

You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of any land on the battlefield, except it's an enchantment in addition to its other types.

Enchantment
Copy Land (m3c) 99
March from Velis Vel

Choose a nonbasic land type. Each land you control of that type becomes a copy of target creature you control until end of turn and gains haste until end of turn. Flashback {4}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
March from Velis Vel (m3c) 100

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Mill

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Krydle of Baldur's Gate

Whenever Krydle deals combat damage to a player, that player loses 1 life and mills a card, then you gain 1 life and scry 1. Whenever you attack, you may pay {2}. If you do, target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Krydle of Baldur's Gate (afr) 226

Mill

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Removal

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Control Magic

Enchant creature You control enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Control Magic (cma) 34
Doom Blade

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Instant
Doom Blade (ima) 87
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (inr) 119
Sleep

Tap all creatures target player controls. Those creatures don't untap during that player's next untap step.

Sorcery
Sleep (plst) C15-106
Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Unwind (dom) 72

Removal

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Draw

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Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may draw a card.

Creature
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait (dsc) 210
Bonny Pall, Clearcutter

Reach When Bonny Pall enters, create Beau, a legendary blue Ox creature token with "Beau's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." Whenever you attack, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.

Creature
Bonny Pall, Clearcutter (otj) 196
Eureka Moment

Draw two cards. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Eureka Moment (dsc) 216
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (woc) 93
Gateway Sneak

Whenever a Gate you control enters, this creature can't be blocked this turn. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Gateway Sneak (rna) 40
Guild Summit

When this enchantment enters, you may tap any number of untapped Gates you control. Draw a card for each Gate tapped this way. Whenever a Gate you control enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Guild Summit (grn) 41
Harmonize

Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Harmonize (dsc) 182
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner

Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card. −1: Untap target permanent.

Planeswalker
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner (plst) WAR-232
Pip-Boy 3000

Whenever equipped creature attacks, choose one — • Sort Inventory — Draw a card, then discard a card. • Pick a Perk — Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. • Check Map — Untap up to two target lands. Equip {2}

Artifact
Pip-Boy 3000 (pip) 140
Ponder

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

Sorcery
Ponder (dsc) 73
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (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.)

Sorcery
Read the Bones (j25) 479
Shadow of the Second Sun

Enchant player At the beginning of each of enchanted player's postcombat main phases, there is an additional beginning phase after this phase. (The end step happens after the added untap, upkeep, and draw steps.)

Enchantment
Shadow of the Second Sun (mh3) 70
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Skeleton Key

Equipped creature has skulk. (It can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. Equip {2}

Artifact
Skeleton Key (soi) 263
Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Tatyova, Benthic Druid (dsc) 235
Territory Culler

Devoid (This card has no color.) Reach Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard.

Creature
Territory Culler (mh3) 173
Zimone and Dina

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. If you control eight or more lands, repeat this process once.

Creature
Zimone and Dina (mom) 257

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Protection

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Fog Bank

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by this creature.

Creature
Fog Bank (cmm) 848
Protective Bubble

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Enchantment
Protective Bubble (lrw) 80
Way of the Thief

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2. Enchanted creature can't be blocked as long as you control a Gate.

Enchantment
Way of the Thief (gtc) 56
Whispersilk Cloak

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

Artifact
Whispersilk Cloak (dsc) 257

Protection

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Tutor

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Elvish Reclaimer

This creature gets +2/+2 as long as there are three or more land cards in your graveyard. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Elvish Reclaimer (mb2) 205

Tutor

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Evasion

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Rancor

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Rancor (pip) 205

Evasion

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Pump

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Gatebreaker Ram

This creature gets +1/+1 for each Gate you control. As long as you control two or more Gates, this creature has vigilance and trample.

Creature
Gatebreaker Ram (rna) 126

Pump

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Land

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Baldur's Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.

Land
Baldur's Gate (clb) 345
Basilisk Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Basilisk Gate (clb) 346
Black Dragon Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than black. {T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Black Dragon Gate (clb) 347
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 59
Dimir Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dimir Guildgate (clu) 234
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (drc) 154
Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Fetid Pools (drc) 156
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 291
Gateway Plaza

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Gateway Plaza (plst) GRN-247
Golgari Guildgate

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

Land
Golgari Guildgate (clu) 235
Gond Gate

Gates you control enter untapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a Gate you control could produce.

Land
Gond Gate (clb) 353
Heap Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}, Tap an untapped Gate you control: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Land
Heap Gate (clb) 354
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 281
Manor Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than green. {T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Manor Gate (clb) 356
Maze's End

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Return this land to its owner's hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game.

Land
Maze's End (plst) DGM-152
Planar Nexus

This land is every nonbasic land type. (Nonbasic land types include Cave, Desert, Gate, Lair, Locus, Mine, Power-Plant, Sphere, Tower, and Urza's.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Planar Nexus (m3c) 132
Plaza of Harmony

When this land enters, if you control two or more Gates, you gain 3 life. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any type that a Gate you control could produce.

Land
Plaza of Harmony (plst) RNA-254
Sea Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than blue. {T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Sea Gate (clb) 359
Simic Guildgate

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

Land
Simic Guildgate (clu) 248
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (drc) 174
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 285
Talon Gates of Madara

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {4}: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Land
Talon Gates of Madara (m3c) 134
Temple of Deceit

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (drc) 176
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (drc) 179
The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}, {T}: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Land
The Black Gate (ltc) 80
Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Land
Thespian's Stage (m3c) 395
Thornwood Falls

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

Land
Thornwood Falls (dft) 266
Thran Portal

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. As this land enters, choose a basic land type. This land is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Mana abilities of this land cost an additional 1 life to activate.

Land
Thran Portal (dmu) 259
Thriving Moor

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than black. {T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Moor (j25) 779
Twilight Mire

{T}: Add {C}. {B/G}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{G}, or {G}{G}.

Land
Twilight Mire (dsc) 320
Vesuva

You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land on the battlefield.

Land
Vesuva (tsr) 289
Woodland Stream

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

Land
Woodland Stream (ltc) 347

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Ramp

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Amulet of Vigor

Whenever a permanent you control enters tapped, untap it.

Artifact
Amulet of Vigor (plst) WWK-121
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 52
Bear Umbra

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, untap all lands you control." Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Enchantment
Bear Umbra (woc) 121
Circuitous Route

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

Sorcery
Circuitous Route (plst) GRN-125
Coiling Oracle

When this creature enters, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Creature
Coiling Oracle (blc) 250
District Guide

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

Creature
District Guide (grn) 128
Expedition Map

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

Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (j25) 146
Explore the Underdark

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

Sorcery
Explore the Underdark (clb) 232
Gatecreeper Vine

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

Creature
Gatecreeper Vine (ddm) 48
Golgari Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Artifact
Golgari Signet (dsc) 246
Greenside Watcher

{T}: Untap target Gate.

Creature
Greenside Watcher (gtc) 122
Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios

Creature
Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle (stx) 151Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle (stx) 151
Journey of Discovery

Choose one — • Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. • You may play up to two additional lands this turn. Entwine {2}{G} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery
Journey of Discovery (mrd) 123
Magus of the Candelabra

{X}, {T}: Untap X target lands.

Creature
Magus of the Candelabra (bbd) 206
Nature's Will

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, tap all lands that player controls and untap all lands you control.

Enchantment
Nature's Will (chk) 230
Navigation Orb

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Navigation Orb (clb) 329
Omo, Queen of Vesuva

Whenever Omo enters or attacks, put an everything counter on each of up to one target land and up to one target creature. Each land with an everything counter on it is every land type in addition to its other types. Each nonland creature with an everything counter on it is every creature type.

Creature
Omo, Queen of Vesuva (m3c) 2
Open the Gates

Search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Open the Gates (rvr) 151
Peregrine Drake

Flying When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.

Creature
Peregrine Drake (dmr) 65
Realm Seekers

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total number of cards in all players' hands. {2}{G}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Realm Seekers (j25) 705
Sage of the Maze

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. {T}: Until end of turn, target land you control becomes an X/X Citizen creature with haste in addition to its other types, where X is twice the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery. Tap an untapped Gate you control: Untap this creature.

Creature
Sage of the Maze (m3c) 119
Simic Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Artifact
Simic Signet (dsc) 252
Spelunking

When this enchantment enters, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you put a Cave onto the battlefield this way, you gain 4 life. Lands you control enter untapped.

Enchantment
Spelunking (lci) 213
Tiller Engine

Whenever a land you control enters tapped, choose one — • Untap that land. • Tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Creature Artifact
Tiller Engine (dmc) 20
Wilderness Reclamation

At the beginning of your end step, untap all lands you control.

Enchantment
Wilderness Reclamation (dsc) 205

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