Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Chains of Custody

Enchant creature you control
When Chains of Custody enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until Chains of Custody leaves the battlefield.
Enchanted creature has ward {2}. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Requisition Raid

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {1} — Destroy target artifact.
+ {1} — Destroy target enchantment.
+ {1} — Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature target player controls.

Strix Serenade

Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Undercity Sewers

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Undercity Sewers enters tapped.
When Undercity Sewers enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Final Act

Choose one or more —
• Destroy all creatures.
• Destroy all planeswalkers.
• Destroy all battles.
• Exile all graveyards.
• Each opponent loses all counters.

Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain

Flying, lifelink
Ward—Discard a card.
Whenever a modified creature you control attacks, double the number of each kind of counter on it. Then for each nontoken permanent attached to it, create a token that's a copy of that permanent attached to that creature.

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Swamp

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Island

Caves of Koilos

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

Adarkar Wastes

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

Underground River

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

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.")

Nerd Rage

Enchant creature
When Nerd Rage enters, draw two cards.
Enchanted creature has "You have no maximum hand size" and "Whenever this creature attacks, if you have ten or more cards in hand, it gets +10/+10 until end of turn."

Raffine's Tower

({T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.)
Raffine's Tower enters tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Talisman of Dominance

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

Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Talisman of Progress

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

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Tundra

Underground Sea

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
As Watery Grave enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

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.

Arcane Signet

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

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Command Tower

Danitha Capashen, Paragon

First strike, vigilance, lifelink
Aura and Equipment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is Esper Sentinel's power.

Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Farewell

Choose one or more —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all graveyards.

Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
As Godless Shrine enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Mantle of the Ancients

Enchant creature you control
When Mantle of the Ancients enters, return any number of target Aura and/or Equipment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura and Equipment attached to it.

Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Marsh Flats: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Meticulous Archive

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Meticulous Archive enters tapped.
When Meticulous Archive enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

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.

Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Scrubland

Shadowy Backstreet

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
Shadowy Backstreet enters tapped.
When Shadowy Backstreet enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Sol Ring

Combat Research

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}. (Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)

Danitha, Benalia's Hope

First strike, vigilance, lifelink
When Danitha, Benalia's Hope enters, you may put an Aura or Equipment card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield attached to Danitha.

Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Diamond City

Diamond City enters with a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Move a shield counter from Diamond City onto target creature. Activate only if two or more creatures entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

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}

Puresteel Paladin

Whenever an Equipment you control enters, you may draw a card.
Metalcraft — Equipment you control have equip {0} as long as you control three or more artifacts.

Silver Shroud Costume

Flash
When Silver Shroud Costume enters, attach it to target creature you control. That creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equipped creature can't be blocked.
Equip {3}

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Jeweled Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice Jeweled Lotus: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

Plains

Thran Power Suit

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura and Equipment attached to it and has ward {2}. (Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Assimilation Aegis

When Assimilation Aegis enters, exile up to one target creature until Assimilation Aegis leaves the battlefield.
Whenever Assimilation Aegis becomes attached to a creature, for as long as Assimilation Aegis remains attached to it, that creature becomes a copy of a creature card exiled with Assimilation Aegis.
Equip {2}

Roaming Throne

Ward {2}
As Roaming Throne enters, choose a creature type.
Roaming Throne is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Lavaspur Boots

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste and ward {1}. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)
Equip {1}

Helm of Awakening

Invasion of New Phyrexia

(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When Invasion of New Phyrexia enters, create X 2/2 white and blue Knight creature tokens with vigilance.

Teferi Akosa of Zhalfir

+1: Draw two cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a creature card.
−2: You get an emblem with "Knights you control get +1/+0 and have ward {1}."
−3: Tap any number of untapped creatures you control. When you do, shuffle target nonland permanent an opponent controls with mana value X or less into its owner's library, where X is the number of creatures tapped this way.

Invasion of New Phyrexia // Teferi Akosa of Zhalfir

Invasion of Gobakhan

(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When Invasion of Gobakhan enters, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may play it. A spell cast this way costs {2} more to cast.

Lightshield Array

At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that attacked this turn.
Sacrifice Lightshield Array: Creatures you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Invasion of Gobakhan // Lightshield Array

Balan, Wandering Knight

First strike
Balan, Wandering Knight has double strike as long as two or more Equipment are attached to it.
{1}{W}: Attach all Equipment you control to Balan.

Silverblade Paladin

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Silverblade Paladin is paired with another creature, both creatures have double strike.

Kinsbaile Cavalier

Knight creatures you control have double strike.

Spark Double

You may have Spark Double enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

Open the Armory

Search your library for an Aura or Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Steelshaper's Gift

Search your library for an Equipment card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Urza's Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — Urza's Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Flawless Maneuver

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

Forge Anew

When Forge Anew enters, return target Equipment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
During your turn, you may activate equip abilities any time you could cast an instant.
You may pay {0} rather than pay the equip cost of the first equip ability you activate during each of your turns.

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Armored Skyhunter

Flying
Whenever Armored Skyhunter attacks, look at the top six cards of your library. You may put an Aura or Equipment card from among them onto the battlefield. If an Equipment is put onto the battlefield this way, you may attach it to a creature you control. Put the rest of those cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Starnheim Courser

Flying
Artifact and enchantment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

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}.

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

Drowned Catacomb

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

Monumental Henge

Monumental Henge enters tapped unless you control a Plains.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}{W}, {T}: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a historic card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Mondrak, Glory Dominus

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.
{1}{W/P}{W/P}, Sacrifice two other artifacts and/or creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Mondrak, Glory Dominus. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Archway of Innovation

Archway of Innovation enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Waterlogged Teachings

Search your library for an instant card or a card with flash, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Inundated Archive

Inundated Archive enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive

Anointed Procession

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Liliana Vess

+1: Target player discards a card.
−2: Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
−8: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Ajani Steadfast

+1: Until end of turn, up to one target creature gets +1/+1 and gains first strike, vigilance, and lifelink.
−2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and a loyalty counter on each other planeswalker you control.
−7: You get an emblem with "If a source would deal damage to you or a planeswalker you control, prevent all but 1 of that damage."

Ajani, Strength of the Pride

+1: You gain life equal to the number of creatures you control plus the number of planeswalkers you control.
−2: Create a 2/2 white Cat Soldier creature token named Ajani's Pridemate with "Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Ajani's Pridemate."
0: If you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, exile Ajani, Strength of the Pride and each artifact and creature your opponents control.

Ajani Goldmane

+1: You gain 2 life.
−1: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn.
−6: Create a white Avatar creature token. It has "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to your life total."

Dakkon, Shadow Slayer

Dakkon, Shadow Slayer enters with a number of loyalty counters on him equal to the number of lands you control.
+1: Surveil 2.
−3: Exile target creature.
−6: You may put an artifact card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.

Nahiri, the Lithomancer

+2: Create a 1/1 white Kor Soldier creature token. You may attach an Equipment you control to it.
−2: You may put an Equipment card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.
−10: Create a colorless Equipment artifact token named Stoneforged Blade. It has indestructible, "Equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has double strike," and equip {0}.
Nahiri, the Lithomancer can be your commander.

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