Haldan, Avid Arcanist

Partner with Pako, Arcane Retriever (When this creature enters, target player may put Pako into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
You may play lands and cast noncreature spells from among cards you exiled that have fetch counters on them, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Gruul Turf

Gruul Turf enters tapped.
When Gruul Turf enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {R}{G}.

Pako, Arcane Retriever

Partner with Haldan, Avid Arcanist
Haste
Whenever Pako, Arcane Retriever attacks, exile the top card of each player's library and put a fetch counter on each of them. Put a +1/+1 counter on Pako for each noncreature card exiled this way.

Broken Bond

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Earthquake

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Enter the Unknown

Target creature you control explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on the creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
You may play an additional land this turn.

Explore

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

Grow from the Ashes

Kicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell.)
Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If this spell was kicked, instead search your library for two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Invoke the Firemind

Choose one —
• Draw X cards.
• Invoke the Firemind deals X damage to any target.

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.)

Kodama's Reach

Mind Spring

Nylea's Intervention

Choose one —
• Search your library for up to X land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
• Nylea's Intervention deals twice X damage to each creature with flying.

Frontier Bivouac

Frontier Bivouac enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}, {U}, or {R}.

Llanowar Elves

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Relentless Assault

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

Savage Twister

Savage Twister deals X damage to each creature.

Summer Bloom

You may play up to three additional lands this turn.

Temporal Spring

Put target permanent on top of its owner's library.

Urban Evolution

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

Budoka Gardener

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you control ten or more lands, flip Budoka Gardener.

Dokai, Weaver of Life

{4}{G}{G}, {T}: Create an X/X green Elemental creature token, where X is the number of lands you control.

Budoka Gardener // Dokai, Weaver of Life

Coiling Oracle

When Coiling Oracle 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.

Dakra Mystic

{U}, {T}: Each player reveals the top card of their library. You may put the revealed cards into their owners' graveyards. If you don't, each player draws a card.

Diluvian Primordial

Flying
When Diluvian Primordial enters, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Herald of Secret Streams

Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them can't be blocked.

Hypersonic Dragon

Flying, haste
You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash. (You may cast them any time you could cast an instant.)

Ilysian Caryatid

{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, add two mana of any one color instead.

Rashmi, Eternities Crafter

Whenever you cast your first spell each turn, reveal the top card of your library. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if it's a spell with lesser mana value. If you don't cast it, put it into your hand.

Springbloom Druid

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Tatyova, Benthic Druid

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

Trinket Mage

When Trinket Mage enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Wizened Snitches

Flying
Players play with the top card of their libraries revealed.

Ral, Storm Conduit

Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Ral, Storm Conduit deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
+2: Scry 1.
−2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Aetherspouts

For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Brainstorm

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

Chemister's Insight

Draw two cards.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Expel from Orazca

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If you have the city's blessing, you may put that permanent on top of its owner's library instead.

Fury Storm

When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. You may choose new targets for the copies.
Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Growth Spiral

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

Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Into the Roil

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.)
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If this spell was kicked, draw a card.

Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Starstorm

Starstorm deals X damage to each creature.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Submerge

If an opponent controls a Forest and you control an Island, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

Totally Lost

Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library.

Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Vanishment

Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library.
Miracle {U} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Wrap in Vigor

Castle Vantress

Castle Vantress enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Command Tower

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

Evolving Wilds

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

Exotic Orchard

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

Forest

Halimar Depths

Halimar Depths enters tapped.
When Halimar Depths enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Add {U}.

Island

Izzet Boilerworks

Izzet Boilerworks enters tapped.
When Izzet Boilerworks enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}{R}.

Mountain

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.

Rogue's Passage

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

Simic Growth Chamber

Simic Growth Chamber enters tapped.
When Simic Growth Chamber enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{U}.

Temple of Abandon

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 {R} or {G}.

Temple of Mystery

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 {G} or {U}.

Fertile Ground

Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Kenrith's Transformation

Enchant creature
When Kenrith's Transformation enters, draw a card.
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green Elk creature with base power and toughness 3/3. (It loses all other card types and creature types.)

Khalni Heart Expedition

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a quest counter on Khalni Heart Expedition.
Remove three quest counters from Khalni Heart Expedition and sacrifice it: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

New Horizons

Enchant land
When this Aura enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Enchanted land has "{T}: Add two mana of any one color."

Precognition Field

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast instant and sorcery spells from the top of your library.
{3}: Exile the top card of your library.

Swarm Intelligence

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Weirding Wood

Enchant land
When Weirding Wood enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Enchanted land has "{T}: Add two mana of any one color."

Codex Shredder

{T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice Codex Shredder: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Ghirapur Orrery

Each player may play an additional land on each of their turns.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand, that player draws three cards.

Ghoulcaller's Bell

Lantern of Insight

Players play with the top card of their libraries revealed.
{T}, Sacrifice Lantern of Insight: Target player shuffles.

Mana Geode

When Mana Geode enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

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