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.)

Sol Ring

Birds of Paradise

Breeding Pool

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

Elemental Bond

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

Elven Chorus

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast creature spells from the top of your library.
Creatures you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

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.

Exotic Orchard

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

Flooded Grove

{T}: Add {C}.
{G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Garruk's Uprising

When Garruk's Uprising enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Creatures you control have trample.
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Growth Spiral

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

Heroic Intervention

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

Island

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.

Amphin Mutineer

When Amphin Mutineer enters, 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.)

Arcane Signet

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

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.

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.

Beast Within

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

Clever Impersonator

You may have Clever Impersonator enter as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.

Command Tower

Counterspell

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.

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.)

Dutiful Replicator

When Dutiful Replicator enters, you may pay {1}. When you do, create a token that's a copy of target token you control not named Dutiful Replicator.

Evolving Wilds

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

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Forest

Hinterland Harbor

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

Hornet Queen

Flying, deathtouch
When Hornet Queen enters, create four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch.

Hydroelectric Specimen

Flash
When Hydroelectric Specimen enters, you may change the target of target instant or sorcery spell with a single target to Hydroelectric Specimen.

Hydroelectric Laboratory

As Hydroelectric Laboratory enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory

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.

Junk Winder

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

Kiora's Follower

Man-o'-War

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

Maraleaf Pixie

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.

Nature's Lore

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

Negate

Octomancer

Gift an Octopus (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, when it enters, they create an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.)
At the beginning of each end step, create a token that's a copy of target creature token that entered the battlefield this turn.

Ornithopter of Paradise

Peregrine Drake

Flying
When Peregrine Drake enters, untap up to five lands.

Perplexing Test

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

Poison Dart Frog

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

Radagast the Brown

Whenever Radagast the Brown or another nontoken creature you control enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is that creature's mana value. You may reveal a creature card that doesn't share a creature type with a creature you control from among those cards and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Rampant Growth

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

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.'"

Rejuvenating Springs

Rejuvenating Springs enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Return of the Wildspeaker

Choose one —
• Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control.
• Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

Rootcast Apprenticeship

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
• Create a token that's a copy of target token you control.
• Target player creates a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token.
• Target opponent sacrifices a nontoken artifact.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

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

Scute Swarm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, 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.

Silverback Elder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one —
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
• You gain 4 life.

Solemn Simulacrum

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

Swiftfoot Boots

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

Temple of Mystery

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

Terastodon

When Terastodon enters, 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.

Tribute to the World Tree

Whenever a creature you control enters, draw a card if its power is 3 or greater. Otherwise, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Twinning Staff

If you would copy a spell one or more times, instead copy it that many times plus an additional time. You may choose new targets for the additional copy.
{7}, {T}: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Vineglimmer Snarl

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

Vivien, Champion of the Wilds

You may cast creature spells as though they had flash.
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target creature gains vigilance and reach.
−2: Look at the top three cards of your library. Exile one face down and put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. For as long as it remains exiled, you may cast it if it's a creature spell.

Volo, Itinerant Scholar

When Volo enters, create Volo's Journal, a legendary colorless artifact token with hexproof and "Whenever you cast a creature spell, note one of its creature types that hasn't been noted for this artifact."
{2}, {T}: Draw a card for each creature type noted for target permanent you control named Volo's Journal.
Choose a Background

Dreamroot Cascade

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

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.

Yavimaya Coast

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

Kodama's Reach

Lightning Greaves

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

Lotus Cobra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.

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.)

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.

Panharmonicon

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

Pongify

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

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.

Second Harvest

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

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}.

Simic Signet

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.

Temur Sabertooth

{1}{G}: You may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, Temur Sabertooth gains indestructible until end of turn.

Three Visits

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

Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

When Uro enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped.
Whenever Uro enters or attacks, you gain 3 life and draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Escape—{G}{G}{U}{U}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

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.

Garruk's Packleader

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

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.

Champion of Lambholt

Creatures with power less than Champion of Lambholt's power can't block creatures you control.
Whenever another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Champion of Lambholt.

Managorger Hydra

Trample
Whenever a player casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Managorger Hydra.

Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Chasm Skulker.
When Chasm Skulker dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Chasm Skulker. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

One with the Kami

Flash
Enchant creature you control
Whenever enchanted creature or another modified creature you control dies, create X 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens, where X is that creature's power. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Termagant Swarm

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Death Frenzy — When Termagant Swarm dies, create a number of 1/1 green Tyranid creature tokens equal to Termagant Swarm's power.

Hangarback Walker

Hangarback Walker enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When Hangarback Walker dies, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying for each +1/+1 counter on Hangarback Walker.
{1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Hangarback Walker.

Overrun

Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

Thunderfoot Baloth

Trample
Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, Thunderfoot Baloth gets +2/+2 and other creatures you control get +2/+2 and have trample.

Prime Speaker Zegana

Prime Speaker Zegana enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control.
When Prime Speaker Zegana enters, draw cards equal to its power.

Dreamtide Whale

Vanishing 2 (This creature enters with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Simic Ascendancy

{1}{G}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a creature you control, put that many growth counters on Simic Ascendancy.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Simic Ascendancy has twenty or more growth counters on it, you win the game.

Master Biomancer

Each other creature you control enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to Master Biomancer's power and as a Mutant in addition to its other types.

Curse of the Swine

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

Zegana, Utopian Speaker

When Zegana, Utopian Speaker enters, if you control another creature with a +1/+1 counter on it, draw a card.
{4}{G}{U}: Adapt 4. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put four +1/+1 counters on it.)
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

Flood of Tears

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If you return four or more nontoken permanents you control this way, you may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

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