Volo, Guide to Monsters

Whenever you cast a creature spell that doesn't share a creature type with a creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, copy that spell. (A copy of a creature spell becomes a token.)

Artisan of Kozilek

When you cast this spell, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents.)

Mystic Reflection

Choose target nonlegendary creature. The next time one or more creatures or planeswalkers enter the battlefield this turn, they enter as copies of the chosen creature.
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.)

Birds of Paradise

Kogla, the Titan Ape

When Kogla, the Titan Ape enters the battlefield, it fights up to one target creature you don't control.
Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls.
{1}{G}: Return target Human you control to its owner's hand. Kogla gains indestructible until end of turn.

Neurok Stealthsuit

Equipped creature has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
{U}{U}: Attach Neurok Stealthsuit to target creature you control.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Gemhide Sliver

All Slivers have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Maraleaf Pixie

End-Raze Forerunners

Vigilance, trample, haste
When End-Raze Forerunners enters the battlefield, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and trample until end of turn.

Murkfiend Liege

Other green creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.
Untap all green and/or blue creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

Man-o'-War

When Man-o'-War enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand.

Pathrazer of Ulamog

Annihilator 3 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices three permanents.)
Pathrazer of Ulamog can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Thorn Mammoth

Trample
Whenever Thorn Mammoth or another creature enters the battlefield under your control, Thorn Mammoth fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Wrap in Vigor

Lifecrafter's Bestiary

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay {G}. If you do, draw a card.

Strionic Resonator

{2}, {T}: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Helm of the Host

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste.
Equip {5}

Esika's Chariot

When Esika's Chariot enters the battlefield, create two 2/2 green Cat creature tokens.
Whenever Esika's Chariot attacks, create a token that's a copy of target token you control.
Crew 4

The Great Henge

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
{T}: Add {G}{G}. You gain 2 life.
Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.

Talisman of Curiosity

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Talisman of Curiosity deals 1 damage to you.

Perplexing Test

Choose one —
• Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands.
• Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

Tranquil Thicket

Tranquil Thicket enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Growing Rites of Itlimoc

When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.

Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

(Transforms from Growing Rites of Itlimoc.)
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Sol Ring

Shamanic Revelation

Draw a card for each creature you control.
Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

Junk Winder

Affinity for tokens (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each token you control.)
Whenever a token enters the battlefield under your control, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Frost Titan

Whenever Frost Titan becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays {2}.
Whenever Frost Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Sweet-Gum Recluse

Flash
Cascade
Reach
When Sweet-Gum Recluse enters the battlefield, put three +1/+1 counters on each of any number of target creatures that entered the battlefield this turn.

Displace

Exile up to two target creatures you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Pelakka Wurm

Trample
When Pelakka Wurm enters the battlefield, you gain 7 life.
When Pelakka Wurm dies, draw a card.

Tendershoot Dryad

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Saprolings you control get +2/+2 as long as you have the city's blessing.

Incubation Druid

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce. If Incubation Druid has a +1/+1 counter on it, add three mana of that type instead.
{3}{G}{G}: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

Apex Devastator

Cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Multiple instances of cascade each trigger separately.)

Second Harvest

For each token you control, create a token that's a copy of that permanent.

Evolving Wilds

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

Wonder

Flying
As long as Wonder is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Rampaging Baloths

Trample
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

Coiling Oracle

When Coiling Oracle enters the battlefield, 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.

Wandering Archaic

Whenever an opponent casts an instant or sorcery spell, they may pay {2}. If they don't, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Explore the Vastlands

Each player looks at the top five cards of their library and may reveal a land card and/or an instant or sorcery card from among them. Each player puts the cards they revealed this way into their hand and the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order. Each player gains 3 life.

Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands

Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Fblthp, the Lost

When Fblthp, the Lost enters the battlefield, 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.

Vivien, Monsters' Advocate

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast creature spells from the top of your library.
+1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Put your choice of a vigilance counter, a reach counter, or a trample counter on it.
−2: When you next cast a creature spell this turn, search your library for a creature card with lesser mana value, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Brawn

Trample
As long as Brawn is in your graveyard and you control a Forest, creatures you control have trample.

Callous Oppressor

You may choose not to untap Callous Oppressor during your untap step.
As Callous Oppressor enters the battlefield, an opponent chooses a creature type.
{T}: Gain control of target creature that isn't of the chosen type for as long as Callous Oppressor remains tapped.

Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Kiora, Master of the Depths

+1: Untap up to one target creature and up to one target land.
−2: Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card and/or a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may have it fight target creature." Then create three 8/8 blue Octopus creature tokens.

Biomantic Mastery

Draw a card for each creature target player controls, then draw a card for each creature another target player controls.

Esix, Fractal Bloom

Flying
The first time you would create one or more tokens during each of your turns, you may instead choose a creature other than Esix, Fractal Bloom and create that many tokens that are copies of that creature.

Search for Tomorrow

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
You may have Phyrexian Metamorph enter the battlefield as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Bramble Sovereign

Whenever another nontoken creature enters the battlefield, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, that creature's controller creates a token that's a copy of that creature.

Gatecreeper Vine

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

Thassa, Deep-Dwelling

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature.
At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one other target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.
{3}{U}: Tap another target creature.

Craterhoof Behemoth

Haste
When Craterhoof Behemoth enters the battlefield, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

Eternal Witness

When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Beast Within

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

Fellwar Stone

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

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Tireless Provisioner

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Abundant Harvest

Choose land or nonland. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Terastodon

When Terastodon enters the battlefield, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Simic Signet

Double Major

Copy target creature spell you control, except it isn't legendary if the spell is legendary. (A copy of a creature spell becomes a token.)

Blue Sun's Zenith

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

Crystal Shard

{3}, {T} or {U}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

Littjara Mirrorlake

Littjara Mirrorlake enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{G}{G}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice Littjara Mirrorlake: Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except it enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery.

Sarulf's Packmate

When Sarulf's Packmate enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Foretell {1}{G} (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.)

Growth Spiral

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

Amphin Mutineer

When Amphin Mutineer enters the battlefield, exile up to one target non-Salamander creature. That creature's controller creates a 4/3 blue Salamander Warrior creature token.
Encore {4}{U}{U} ({4}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Duplicant

Imprint — When Duplicant enters the battlefield, you may exile target nontoken creature.
As long as a card exiled with Duplicant is a creature card, Duplicant has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with Duplicant. It's still a Shapeshifter.

Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

Quandrix Command

Choose two —
• Return target creature or planeswalker to its owner's hand.
• Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
• Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library.

Giant's Amulet

When Giant's Amulet enters the battlefield, you may pay {3}{U}. If you do, create a 4/4 blue Giant Wizard creature token, then attach Giant's Amulet to it.
Equipped creature gets +0/+1 and has "This creature has hexproof as long as it's untapped." (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {2}

Simic Charm

Choose one —
• Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
• Permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Urban Evolution

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

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Orochi Leafcaller

Dissolve

Counter target spell. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Exotic Orchard

Blighted Woodland

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice Blighted Woodland: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Arcane Signet

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

Command Tower

Lonely Sandbar

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

Temple of Mystery

Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.

Vineglimmer Snarl

As Vineglimmer Snarl enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Forest or Island card from your hand. If you don't, Vineglimmer Snarl enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Simic Guildgate

Simic Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Scute Swarm

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that's a copy of Scute Swarm instead.

Conclave Naturalists

When Conclave Naturalists enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

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