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.)

Oasis Gardener

When Oasis Gardener enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Forest

Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Island

Railway Brawler

Reach, trample
Whenever another creature you control enters, put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is its power.
Plot {3}{G} (You may pay {3}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Flare of Denial

You may sacrifice a nontoken blue creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Dreamroot Cascade

Dreamroot Cascade enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When Acidic Slime enters, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Avenger of Zendikar

When Avenger of Zendikar enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.

Elemental Bond

Whenever a creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, draw a card.

Second Harvest

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

Panharmonicon

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

Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Birds of Paradise

Pilgrim's Eye

Flying
When Pilgrim's Eye enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Mask of Avacyn

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {3}

Bala Ged Recovery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Bala Ged Sanctuary

Bala Ged Sanctuary enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.

Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary

Phantasmal Image

You may have Phantasmal Image enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Chromatic Lantern

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

Freestrider Commando

Freestrider Commando enters with two +1/+1 counters on it if it wasn't cast or no mana was spent to cast it.
Plot {3}{G} (You may pay {3}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Utter Insignificance

Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1.
{2}{C}: Exile enchanted creature.

Venomous Brutalizer

Toxic 3 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get three poison counters.)
When Venomous Brutalizer enters, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Poison Dart Frog

Reach
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{2}: Poison Dart Frog gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Flare of Cultivation

You may sacrifice a nontoken green creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
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.

Song of the Dryads

Enchant permanent
Enchanted permanent is a colorless Forest land.

Reef Worm

When Reef Worm dies, create a 3/3 blue Fish creature token with "When this creature dies, create a 6/6 blue Whale creature token with 'When this creature dies, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token.'"

Command Tower

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

Impede Momentum

Tap target creature and put three stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Defense of the Heart

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls three or more creatures, sacrifice Defense of the Heart, search your library for up to two creature cards, put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

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

Kiora's Follower

Hydra's Growth

Enchant creature
When Hydra's Growth enters, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on enchanted creature.

Tangled Islet

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
Tangled Islet enters tapped.

Vapor Snag

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 1 life.

Neverwinter Hydra

As Neverwinter Hydra enters, roll X d6. It enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the total of those results.
Trample
Ward {4} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {4}.)

Seedborn Muse

Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.

Breeding Pool

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

Simic Signet

Skyshroud Claim

Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Ravenform

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying.
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.)

Jaheira's Respite

Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of creatures attacking you, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Snow-Covered Island

Nightshade Dryad

Deathtouch
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (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.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Hinterland Harbor

Hinterland Harbor enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

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.

Wayward Swordtooth

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Wayward Swordtooth can't attack or block unless you have the city's blessing.

Tireless Provisioner

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, 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.")

Kodama's Reach

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.

Ohran Frostfang

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Elvish Mystic

Loyal Drake

Flying
Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, draw a card.

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Watchful Radstag

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Whenever Watchful Radstag evolves, create a token that's a copy of it.

Sol Ring

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.

Overwhelming Encounter

Creatures you control gain vigilance and trample until end of turn. Roll a d20.
1—9 | Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
10—19 | Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
20 | Put four +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Volatile Stormdrake

Flying, hexproof from activated and triggered abilities
When Volatile Stormdrake enters, exchange control of Volatile Stormdrake and target creature an opponent controls. If you do, you get {E}{E}{E}{E}, then sacrifice that creature unless you pay an amount of {E} equal to its mana value.

Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Kalonian Hydra

Trample
Kalonian Hydra enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever Kalonian Hydra attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Myr Battlesphere

When Myr Battlesphere enters, create four 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens.
Whenever Myr Battlesphere attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, Myr Battlesphere gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.

Cultivate

Entish Restoration

Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, instead search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Arcane Signet

Prosperous Innkeeper

When Prosperous Innkeeper enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Consecrated Sphinx

Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Faerie Slumber Party

Return all creatures to their owners' hands. For each opponent who controlled a creature returned this way, you create two 1/1 blue Faerie creature tokens with flying and "This creature can block only creatures with flying."

Verdurous Gearhulk

Trample
When Verdurous Gearhulk enters, distribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control.

Monstrous Vortex

Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, discover X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Mulldrifter

Flying
When Mulldrifter enters, draw two cards.
Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Phantom Steed

Flash
When Phantom Steed enters, exile another target creature you control until Phantom Steed leaves the battlefield.
Whenever Phantom Steed attacks, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of the exiled card, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types. Sacrifice that token at end of combat.

Forgotten Ancient

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Forgotten Ancient.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from Forgotten Ancient onto other creatures.

Botanical Sanctum

Botanical Sanctum enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Barkchannel Pathway

Tidechannel Pathway

Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway

Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Phyrexian Metamorph

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

Giant Beaver

Vigilance
Whenever Giant Beaver attacks while saddled, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature that saddled it this turn.
Saddle 3 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.)

Crash of Rhino Beetles

Trample
Crash of Rhino Beetles gets +10/+10 as long as you control ten or more lands.

Bronze Walrus

When Bronze Walrus enters, 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.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Combine Chrysalis

Creature tokens you control have flying.
{2}{G}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a token: Create a 4/4 green Beast creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.

Crashing Drawbridge

Defender
{T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creeping Renaissance

Choose a permanent type. Return all cards of the chosen type from your graveyard to your hand.
Flashback {5}{G}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Croaking Counterpart

Create a token that's a copy of target non-Frog creature, except it's a 1/1 green Frog.
Flashback {3}{G}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Cyber Conversion

Turn target creature face down. It's a 2/2 Cyberman artifact creature.

Decimator of the Provinces

Emerge {6}{G}{G}{G} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When you cast this spell, creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain trample until end of turn.
Trample, haste

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.)

End-Raze Forerunners

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

Eternal Witness

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

Fleet Swallower

Whenever Fleet Swallower attacks, target player mills half their library, rounded up.

Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Nyxbloom Ancient

Trample
If you tap a permanent for mana, it produces three times as much of that mana instead.

Path of Discovery

Whenever a creature you control enters, it 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.)

Plaxcaster Frogling

Graft 3 (This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
{2}: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

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