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Vivien Reid
Legendary Planeswalker — Vivien

[+1]: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

[−3]: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying.

[−8]: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have vigilance, trample, and indestructible."

Loyalty: 5
Sire of Seven Deaths
Creature — Eldrazi

First strike, vigilance

Menace, trample

Reach, lifelink

Ward—Pay 7 life.

7/7
Arahbo, the First Fang
Legendary Creature — Cat Avatar

Other Cats you control get +1/+1.

Whenever Arahbo or another nontoken Cat you control enters, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token.

The rumble of his roar is a call to the hunt.

2/2
Celestial Armor
Artifact — Equipment

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. That creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has flying.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Crystal Barricade
Artifact Creature — Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control.

Ikoria's crystals glow in the presence of monsters, making them valuable as both defensive fortifications and warning beacons.

0/4
Exemplar of Light
Creature — Angel

Flying

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on this creature, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

3/3
Giada, Font of Hope
Legendary Creature — Angel

Flying, vigilance

Each other Angel you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it for each Angel you already control.

: Add . Spend this mana only to cast an Angel spell.

2/2
Herald of Eternal Dawn
Creature — Angel

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Flying

You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

"Have patience, brave one. Just as the sun returns each morning, I will be there to drive back the terrors of night."

6/6
Raise the Past
Sorcery

Return all creature cards with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Conyan the Great carefully selected his last words as he lay bleeding on the battlefield. Moments later, he snapped awake in a body of stone, with a startled, curious face peering at him.

Skyknight Squire
Creature — Cat Scout

Whenever another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

As long as this creature has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying and is a Knight in addition to its other types.

"Fly high. Fly true. Fly free."

—Skyknight's oath

1/1
Valkyrie's Call
Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken, non-Angel creature you control dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it. It has flying and is an Angel in addition to its other types.

Every warrior on Kaldheim aspires to a death so noble.

Archmage of Runes
Creature — Giant Wizard

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost less to cast.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

The giants of Kaldheim have over two hundred runes for "squish."

3/6
Curator of Destinies
Creature — Sphinx

This spell can't be countered.

Flying

When this creature enters, look at the top five cards of your library and separate them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

5/5
Drake Hatcher
Creature — Human Wizard

Vigilance, prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put that many incubation counters on it.

Remove three incubation counters from this creature: Create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

1/3
High Fae Trickster
Creature — Faerie Wizard

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Flying

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

"You humans think even slower than you move. You don't realize you've already lost."

4/2
Homunculus Horde
Creature — Homunculus

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

"To whoever left their homunculus experiment unattended: you will not be penalized if you come forward and tell us how to make it stop."

—Laboratory notice

2/2
Kiora, the Rising Tide
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Noble

When Kiora enters, draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Threshold — Whenever Kiora attacks, if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may create Scion of the Deep, a legendary 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.

3/2
Lunar Insight
Sorcery

Draw a card for each different mana value among nonland permanents you control.

"When wolves howl at the moon, I can't help but wonder: Does it answer? What secrets might it share when humans aren't listening?"

—Elinor, philosopher

Omniscience
Enchantment

You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.

"Knowing everything reveals not answers, but in fact their profound absence."

—Gadwick, the Wizened

Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
Creature — Sphinx

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Flying

Whenever this creature attacks, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

3/3
Abyssal Harvester
Creature — Demon Warlock

: Exile target creature card from a graveyard that was put there this turn. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types. Then exile all other Nightmare tokens you control.

Final moments stricken by terror make the corpses into potent magical fuel.

3/2
Blasphemous Edict
Sorcery

You may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield.

Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.

Bloodthirsty Conqueror
Creature — Vampire Knight

Flying, deathtouch

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)

"Your death will be neither quick nor painless. Agony makes blood so much sweeter."

5/5
High-Society Hunter
Creature — Vampire Noble

Flying

Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Whenever another nontoken creature dies, draw a card.

She preys on Thraben's elites, known for their sophisticated taste.

5/3
Nine-Lives Familiar
Creature — Cat

This creature enters with eight revival counters on it if you cast it.

When this creature dies, if it had a revival counter on it, return it to the battlefield with one fewer revival counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Curiosity stopped keeping score.

1/1
Phyrexian Arena
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

The gladiatorial stadiums on New Phyrexia echo day and night with the sounds of grinding metal and tearing flesh.

Rise of the Dark Realms
Sorcery

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

The empire expanded hungrily, every bloody conquest seeding the ground with the corpses of all who resisted. One moonless night, the corpses rose to take back what was theirs.

Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
Legendary Creature — Skeleton Rogue

Whenever an opponent discards a card, exile it from their graveyard with a stash counter on it.

During your turn, you may play cards you don't own with stash counters on them from exile, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells.

, : Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

1/3
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord
Legendary Creature — Zombie Warlock

Ward—Pay 2 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 2 life.)

: You may cast target Zombie creature card from your graveyard this turn.

While her foes took stock of their casualties, she ordered hers to renew the assault.

2/2
Electroduplicate
Sorcery

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except it has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this token."

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"What's a more fitting shape for a storm than a dragon?"

—Niv-Mizzet

Etali, Primal Storm
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur

Whenever Etali attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

He is the roaring hurricane, the earthquake's sundering fury, the embodiment of wild, untamable power.

6/6
Kellan, Planar Trailblazer
Legendary Creature — Human Faerie Scout

: If Kellan is a Scout, it becomes a Human Faerie Detective and gains "Whenever Kellan deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn."

: If Kellan is a Detective, it becomes a 3/2 Human Faerie Rogue and gains double strike.

2/1
Rite of the Dragoncaller
Enchantment

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.

They were summoned to usher in an age their summoner would never live to see.

Searslicer Goblin
Creature — Goblin Warrior

Raid — At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.

Among the akki, promotions are regularly earned through important criteria like "having the biggest weapon."

2/1
Twinflame Tyrant
Creature — Dragon

Flying

If a source you control would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals double that damage instead.

The two heads occasionally disagree on trivial matters like who to eat first.

3/5
Genesis Wave
Sorcery

Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.

Ghalta, Primal Hunger
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur

This spell costs less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

She is the predator's appetite, the hunter's ferocity, the primordial progenitor of claws and fangs.

12/12
Loot, Exuberant Explorer
Legendary Creature — Beast Noble

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

, : Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control from among them and put it onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.

1/4
Mossborn Hydra
Creature — Elemental Hydra

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.

0/0
Preposterous Proportions
Sorcery

Creatures you control get +10/+10 and gain vigilance until end of turn.

"I think you mean giant lemures, a type of malevolent spirit that . . . OH GODS, WHAT IS THAT?!"

—Uriah the Smug, last words

Quilled Greatwurm
Creature — Wurm

Trample

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage during your turn, put that many +1/+1 counters on it. (It must survive to get the counters.)

You may cast this card from your graveyard by removing six counters from among creatures you control in addition to paying its other costs.

7/7
Spinner of Souls
Creature — Spider Spirit

Reach

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

4/3
Sylvan Scavenging
Enchantment

At the beginning of your end step, choose one —

• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

• Create a 3/3 green Raccoon creature token if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior

First strike

Whenever Alesha attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Raid — At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, return target creature card with mana value less than or equal to Alesha's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

2/2
Anthem of Champions
Enchantment

Creatures you control get +1/+1.

"Our home may have no walls, but it is far from undefended."

Ashroot Animist
Creature — Lizard Druid

Trample

Whenever this creature attacks, another target creature you control gains trample and gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power.

"The land is my steed, and I am its champion!"

4/4
Elenda, Saint of Dusk
Legendary Creature — Vampire Knight

Lifelink, hexproof from instants

As long as your life total is greater than your starting life total, Elenda gets +1/+1 and has menace. Elenda gets an additional +5/+5 as long as your life total is at least 10 greater than your starting life total.

4/4
Koma, World-Eater
Legendary Creature — Serpent

This spell can't be countered.

Trample, ward

Whenever Koma deals combat damage to a player, create four 3/3 blue Serpent creature tokens named Koma's Coil.

Some called him a monster. Others called him a god. All who beheld him knew his power.

8/12
Kykar, Zephyr Awakener
Legendary Creature — Bird Wizard

Flying

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, choose one —

• Exile another target creature you control. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

• Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

3/4
Lathril, Blade of the Elves
Legendary Creature — Elf Noble

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Whenever Lathril deals combat damage to a player, create that many 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens.

, Tap ten untapped Elves you control: Each opponent loses 10 life and you gain 10 life.

2/3
Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
Legendary Creature — Dragon Wizard

Flying

You have no maximum hand size.

Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to an opponent, you draw that many cards.

Those who interrupt the great scientist often find themselves testing the safety limits of his arcane inventions.

5/5
Zimone, Paradox Sculptor
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures you control.

, : Double the number of each kind of counter on up to two target creatures and/or artifacts you control.

"'Impossible' is a construct born from the assumed limits of our intellectual capabilities."

1/4
Banner of Kinship
Artifact

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. This artifact enters with a fellowship counter on it for each creature you control of the chosen type.

Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each fellowship counter on this artifact.

Leyline Axe
Artifact — Equipment

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has double strike and trample.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Sharp enough to carve a swath through history.

Scrawling Crawler
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Construct

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card.

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

"We will sow perfection into the soft flesh of the Multiverse."

—Argent Etchings, plate 38, passage 8

3/2
Soulstone Sanctuary
Land

: Add .

: This land becomes a 3/3 creature with vigilance and all creature types. It's still a land.

Explorers mistakenly focused on the hands, not what they could be grasping towards.

Ajani, Caller of the Pride
Legendary Planeswalker — Ajani

[+1]: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature.

[−3]: Target creature gains flying and double strike until end of turn.

[−8]: Create X 2/2 white Cat creature tokens, where X is your life total.

Loyalty: 4
Kaito, Cunning Infiltrator
Legendary Planeswalker — Kaito

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put a loyalty counter on Kaito.

[+1]: Up to one target creature you control can't be blocked this turn. Draw a card, then discard a card.

[−2]: Create a 2/1 blue Ninja creature token.

[−9]: You get an emblem with "Whenever a player casts a spell, you create a 2/1 blue Ninja creature token."

Loyalty: 3
Liliana, Dreadhorde General
Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.

[+1]: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

[−4]: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.

[−9]: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Loyalty: 6
Chandra, Flameshaper
Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra

[+2]: Add . Exile the top three cards of your library. Choose one. You may play that card this turn.

[+1]: Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except it has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this token."

[−4]: Chandra deals 8 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers.

Loyalty: 6