Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Sphinx's Insight

Draw two cards.
Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, you gain 2 life.

Gerrard Capashen

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in target opponent's hand.
{3}{W}: Tap target creature. Activate only if Gerrard Capashen is attacking.

Hauken's Insight

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library face down. You may look at that card for as long as it remains exiled.
Once during each of your turns, you may play a land or cast a spell from among the cards exiled with this permanent without paying its mana cost.

Jacob Hauken, Inspector

{T}: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand face down. You may look at that card for as long as it remains exiled. You may pay {4}{U}{U}. If you do, transform Jacob Hauken, Inspector.

Jacob Hauken, Inspector // Hauken's Insight

Heliod's Intervention

Choose one —
• Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments.
• Target player gains twice X life.

Cradle of Vitality

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}{W}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each 1 life you gained.

Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Congregate

Target player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield.

Student of Ojutai

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you gain 2 life.

Gates of Istfell

Gates of Istfell enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}{U}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice Gates of Istfell: You gain 2 life and draw two cards.

Droning Bureaucrats

{X}, {T}: Each creature with mana value X can't attack or block this turn.

Searing Meditation

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, Searing Meditation deals 2 damage to any target.

Oust

Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top. Its controller gains 3 life.

Words of Worship

{1}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, you gain 5 life instead.

Shield Broker

When Shield Broker enters, put a shield counter on target noncommander creature you don't control. You gain control of that creature for as long as it has a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)

Zuran Orb

Blighted Steppe

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice Blighted Steppe: You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

Corrupt Eunuchs

When Corrupt Eunuchs enters, it deals 2 damage to target creature.

Thrilling Discovery

You gain 2 life. Then you may discard two cards. If you do, draw three cards.

Zhuge Jin, Wu Strategist

{T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Tomik, Distinguished Advokist

Flying
Lands on the battlefield and land cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.
Your opponents can't play land cards from graveyards.

Luminous Wake

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, you gain 4 life.

Cursebreak

Destroy target enchantment. You gain 2 life.

Celestial Unicorn

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Celestial Unicorn.

Drogskol Reaver

Flying, double strike, lifelink
Whenever you gain life, draw a card.

Traveling Philosopher

Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn.
• Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Trusted Advisor

Your maximum hand size is increased by two.
At the beginning of your upkeep, return a blue creature you control to its owner's hand.

Maestros Theater

When Maestros Theater enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Righteous Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.
• Exile target enchantment.
• You gain 5 life.

Snow-Covered Plains

Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker

Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, that player sacrifices a permanent.

Ojutai's Command

Choose two —
• Return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• You gain 4 life.
• Counter target creature spell.
• Draw a card.

Persistent Petitioners

{1}, {T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Tap four untapped Advisors you control: Target player mills twelve cards.
A deck can have any number of cards named Persistent Petitioners.

Collapsing Borders

Domain — At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player gains 1 life for each basic land type among lands they control. Then Collapsing Borders deals 3 damage to that player.

Prayer of Binding

Flash
When Prayer of Binding enters, exile up to one target nonland permanent an opponent controls until Prayer of Binding leaves the battlefield. You gain 2 life.

Orzhov Advokist

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player may put two +1/+1 counters on a creature they control. If a player does, creatures that player controls can't attack you or planeswalkers you control until your next turn.

Search Warrant

Target player reveals their hand. You gain life equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Take Up the Shield

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Mastery of the Unseen

Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, you gain 1 life for each creature you control.
{3}{W}: Manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Kabira Crossroads

Kabira Crossroads enters tapped.
When Kabira Crossroads enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {W}.

Kayla's Command

Choose two —
• Create a 2/2 colorless Construct artifact creature token.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control. It gains double strike until end of turn.
• Search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• You gain 2 life and scry 2.

Faithful Mending

You gain 2 life, draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback {1}{W}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Righteous Fury

Destroy all tapped creatures. You gain 2 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Lightning Helix

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Ivory Crane Netsuke

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have seven or more cards in hand, you gain 4 life.

Renewed Faith

You gain 6 life.
Cycling {1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Renewed Faith, you may gain 2 life.

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Spells your opponents cast cost {1} more to cast.

Lucky Offering

Destroy target artifact with mana value 3 or less. You gain 3 life.

Environmental Sciences

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 2 life.

Sphinx's Revelation

Ajani, Wise Counselor

+2: You gain 1 life for each creature you control.
−3: Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
−9: Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is your life total.

Faith's Fetters

Enchant permanent
When Faith's Fetters enters, you gain 4 life.
Enchanted permanent can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Angelic Sleuth

Flying
Whenever another permanent you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, investigate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Minister of Impediments

({W/U} can be paid with either {W} or {U}.)
{T}: Tap target creature.

Search for Glory

Search your library for a snow permanent card, a legendary card, or a Saga card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 1 life for each {S} spent to cast this spell. ({S} is mana from a snow source.)

Firesong and Sunspeaker

Red instant and sorcery spells you control have lifelink.
Whenever a white instant or sorcery spell causes you to gain life, Firesong and Sunspeaker deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam

{1}{U}: Return target artifact you control to its owner's hand.
{3}, {T}: Copy target artifact spell you control. (The copy becomes a token.)

Celestine, the Living Saint

Flying, lifelink
Healing Tears — At the beginning of your end step, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Denry Klin, Editor in Chief

Denry Klin, Editor in Chief enters with your choice of a +1/+1, first strike, or vigilance counter on it.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if Denry has counters on it, put the same number of each kind of counter on that creature.

Narset of the Ancient Way

+1: You gain 2 life. Add {U}, {R}, or {W}. Spend this mana only to cast a noncreature spell.
−2: Draw a card, then you may discard a card. When you discard a nonland card this way, Narset of the Ancient Way deals damage equal to that card's mana value to target creature or planeswalker.
−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this emblem deals 2 damage to any target."

Lantern Flare

Cleave {X}{R}{W} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Lantern Flare deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life. [X is the number of creatures you control.]

Battlefield Promotion

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. That creature gains first strike until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

Lorehold Command

Choose two —
• Create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.
• Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain indestructible and haste until end of turn.
• Lorehold Command deals 3 damage to any target. Target player gains 3 life.
• Sacrifice a permanent, then draw two cards.

Heartwarming Redemption

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards plus one. You gain life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Elite Guardmage

Flying
When Elite Guardmage enters, you gain 3 life and draw a card.

Sanguine Sacrament

You gain twice X life. Put Sanguine Sacrament on the bottom of its owner's library.

Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset

+1: Choose up to one target artifact, up to one target creature, and up to one target land. Untap the chosen permanents you control. Tap the chosen permanents you don't control. You gain 2 life.
−2: Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
−7: You get an emblem with "Untap all permanents you control during each opponent's untap step" and "You draw a card during each opponent's draw step."

Peach Garden Oath

You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

Hurloon Battle Hymn

Kicker {W} (You may pay an additional {W} as you cast this spell.)
Hurloon Battle Hymn deals 4 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If this spell was kicked, you gain 4 life.

Nyx-Fleece Ram

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life.

Illusions of Grandeur

Cumulative upkeep {2} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
When Illusions of Grandeur enters, you gain 20 life.
When Illusions of Grandeur leaves the battlefield, you lose 20 life.

Absorb

Aven Courier

Flying
Whenever Aven Courier attacks, choose a counter on a permanent you control. Put a counter of that kind on target permanent you control if it doesn't have a counter of that kind on it.

War Report

You gain life equal to the number of creatures on the battlefield plus the number of artifacts on the battlefield.

Council of the Absolute

As Council of the Absolute enters, choose a noncreature, nonland card name.
Your opponents can't cast spells with the chosen name.
Spells with the chosen name you cast cost {2} less to cast.

Minister of Inquiries

When Minister of Inquiries enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters).
{T}, Pay {E}: Target player mills three cards.

Orazca Relic

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Orazca Relic: You gain 3 life and draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Celestial Regulator

Flying
When Celestial Regulator enters, choose target creature you don't control and tap it. If you control a creature with a counter on it, the chosen creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Skyboon Evangelist

Flying
When Skyboon Evangelist enters, support 6. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to six other target creatures.)
Whenever a creature with a counter on it attacks one of your opponents, that creature gains flying until end of turn.

Cabaretti Courtyard

When Cabaretti Courtyard enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Mountain, Forest, or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Hurkyl, Master Wizard

At the beginning of your end step, if you've cast a noncreature spell this turn, reveal the top five cards of your library. For each card type among noncreature spells you've cast this turn, you may put a card of that type from among the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Knockout Blow

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a red creature.
Knockout Blow deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature and you gain 2 life.

Invoke the Divine

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life.

Nykthos Paragon

Whenever you gain life, you may put that many +1/+1 counters on each creature you control. Do this only once each turn.

Dazzling Reflection

You gain life equal to target creature's power. The next time that creature would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage.

Radiant Fountain

When Radiant Fountain enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Homicidal Brute

At the beginning of your end step, if Homicidal Brute didn't attack this turn, tap Homicidal Brute, then transform it.

Civilized Scholar

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If a creature card is discarded this way, untap Civilized Scholar, then transform it.

Civilized Scholar // Homicidal Brute

Mavinda, Students' Advocate

Flying
{0}: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell doesn't target a creature you control, it costs {8} more to cast this way. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only once each turn. (You still pay the spell's costs. Timing rules for the spell still apply.)

Rhox Faithmender

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Ritual of Rejuvenation

Pristine Talisman

Novijen Sages

Graft 4 (This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
{1}, Remove two +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Draw a card.

The Celestus

If it's neither day nor night, it becomes day as The Celestus enters.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{3}, {T}: If it's night, it becomes day. Otherwise, it becomes night. Activate only as a sorcery.
Whenever day becomes night or night becomes day, you gain 1 life. You may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Sejiri Refuge

Sejiri Refuge enters tapped.
When Sejiri Refuge enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Revitalize

Sol Ring

Azor's Elocutors

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a filibuster counter on Azor's Elocutors. Then if Azor's Elocutors has five or more filibuster counters on it, you win the game.
Whenever a source deals damage to you, remove a filibuster counter from Azor's Elocutors.

Survival Cache

You gain 2 life. Then if you have more life than an opponent, draw a card.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Peace of Mind

Snow-Covered Island

Ordeal of Heliod

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice Ordeal of Heliod.
When you sacrifice Ordeal of Heliod, you gain 10 life.

Warleader's Helix

Warleader's Helix deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life.