Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

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Chevill, Bane of Monsters
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue

Deathtouch

At the beginning of your upkeep, if your opponents control no permanents with bounty counters on them, put a bounty counter on target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.

Whenever a permanent an opponent controls with a bounty counter on it dies, you gain 3 life and draw a card.

1/3
Death's Oasis
Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, mill two cards. Then return a creature card with lesser mana value than the creature that died from your graveyard to your hand.

, Sacrifice this enchantment: You gain life equal to the greatest mana value among creatures you control.

Dire Tactics
Instant

Exile target creature. If you don't control a Human, you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

"I will preserve human life at all costs. I will stand alone against behemoths before I let them touch my city. I will hold the wall."

—Oath of the Coppercoats

Eerie Ultimatum
Sorcery

Return any number of permanent cards with different names from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The ground under our feet is a record of every slight against the world, to be avenged at a time of its choosing."

—Gavi, nest warden

Emergent Ultimatum
Sorcery

Search your library for up to three monocolored cards with different names and exile them. An opponent chooses one of those cards. Shuffle that card into your library. You may cast the other cards without paying their mana costs. Exile Emergent Ultimatum.

Frondland Felidar
Creature — Cat Beast

Vigilance

Creatures you control with vigilance have ", : Tap target creature."

"Fear not the behemoth heard from miles away. Fear the stalking felidar, which reveals itself only for the kill."

—Rielle, the Everwise

3/5
General Kudro of Drannith
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

Other Humans you control get +1/+1.

Whenever General Kudro or another Human you control enters, exile target card from an opponent's graveyard.

, Sacrifice two Humans: Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.

3/3
General's Enforcer
Creature — Human Soldier

Legendary Humans you control have indestructible.

: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.

More stubborn than Drannith's walls.

2/3
Genesis Ultimatum
Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put any number of permanent cards from among them onto the battlefield and the rest into your hand. Exile Genesis Ultimatum.

No human eyes have ever witnessed the birth of an apex monster.

Illuna, Apex of Wishes
Legendary Creature — Beast Elemental Dinosaur

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Flying, trample

Whenever this creature mutates, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland permanent card. Put that card onto the battlefield or into your hand.

6/6
Inspired Ultimatum
Sorcery

Target player gains 5 life, Inspired Ultimatum deals 5 damage to any target, then you draw five cards.

"Inner peace is wonderful, and worth striving for. Outer peace is much less important."

—Taelya, Lavabrink pyromage

Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
Legendary Creature — Human Druid

Whenever you tap a nonland permanent for mana, add one mana of any type that permanent produced.

: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a non-Human creature card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

2/2
Labyrinth Raptor
Creature — Nightmare Dinosaur

Menace

Whenever a creature you control with menace becomes blocked, defending player sacrifices a creature of their choice that's blocking it.

: Creatures you control with menace get +1/+0 until end of turn.

2/2
Lore Drakkis
Creature — Lizard Beast

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Whenever this creature mutates, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

2/3
Narset of the Ancient Way
Legendary Planeswalker — Narset

[+1]: You gain 2 life. Add , , or . Spend this mana only to cast a noncreature spell.

[−2]: Draw a card, then you may discard a card. When you discard a nonland card this way, Narset deals damage equal to that card's mana value to target creature or planeswalker.

[−6]: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this emblem deals 2 damage to any target."

Loyalty: 4
Necropanther
Creature — Cat Nightmare

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Whenever this creature mutates, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

3/3
Nethroi, Apex of Death
Legendary Creature — Cat Nightmare Beast

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Deathtouch, lifelink

Whenever this creature mutates, return any number of target creature cards with total power 10 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

5/5
Offspring's Revenge
Enchantment

At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile target red, white, or black creature card from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's 1/1. It gains haste until your next turn.

All they found in the hunter's camp were tiny paw prints and a lot of blood.

Parcelbeast
Creature — Elemental Beast

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

, : Look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, put it into your hand.

2/4
Primal Empathy
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you control a creature with the greatest power among creatures on the battlefield. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control.

"From this day forward, we confront this world together, lifting each other up."

Quartzwood Crasher
Creature — Dinosaur Beast

Trample

Whenever one or more creatures you control with trample deal combat damage to a player, create an X/X green Dinosaur Beast creature token with trample, where X is the amount of damage those creatures dealt to that player.

6/6
Regal Leosaur
Creature — Dinosaur Cat

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Whenever this creature mutates, other creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn.

2/2
Rielle, the Everwise
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Rielle gets +1/+0 for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

Whenever you discard one or more cards for the first time each turn, draw that many cards.

"Being all-knowing is a matter of remembering which things it is crucial to forget."

0/3
Ruinous Ultimatum
Sorcery

Destroy all nonland permanents your opponents control.

"Strike those abominations down. Let their names rot with their remains."

—General Kudro

Savai Thundermane
Creature — Elemental Cat

Whenever you cycle a card, you may pay . When you do, this creature deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

A crackling roar is the last sound many hunters hear.

3/2
Skull Prophet
Creature — Human Druid

: Add or .

: Mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

"I study bone because that's where truth dwells. One monster knucklebone is wiser than all that damp meat in your head."

3/1
Skycat Sovereign
Creature — Elemental Cat

Flying

This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control with flying.

: Create a 1/1 white Cat Bird creature token with flying.

The bounty on its head is as old as Skysail, but no one has ever tried to collect.

1/1
Slitherwisp
Creature — Elemental Nightmare

Flash

Whenever you cast another spell that has flash, you draw a card and each opponent loses 1 life.

Fear is its habitat, sanity its prey.

3/2
Snapdax, Apex of the Hunt
Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Cat Nightmare

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Double strike

Whenever this creature mutates, it deals 4 damage to target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls and you gain 4 life.

3/5
Song of Creation
Enchantment

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

Whenever you cast a spell, draw two cards.

At the beginning of your end step, discard your hand.

She wept, not from perfect understanding, but from serene gratitude.

Sprite Dragon
Creature — Faerie Dragon

Flying, haste

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Size of a pixie, rage of a hellkite.

1/1
Titans' Nest
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Exile a card from your graveyard: Add . Spend this mana only to cast a spell that's one or more colors without in its mana cost.

Trumpeting Gnarr
Creature — Beast

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Whenever this creature mutates, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

3/3
Vadrok, Apex of Thunder
Legendary Creature — Elemental Dinosaur Cat

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Flying, first strike

Whenever this creature mutates, you may cast target noncreature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost.

3/3
Whirlwind of Thought
Enchantment

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, draw a card.

As Narset struggled to meditate, tiny dragonlings spiraled around her, conjuring thoughts of ancient clans.

Winota, Joiner of Forces
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior

Whenever a non-Human creature you control attacks, look at the top six cards of your library. You may put a Human creature card from among them onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. It gains indestructible until end of turn. Put the rest of the cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.

4/4
Zenith Flare
Instant

Zenith Flare deals X damage to any target and you gain X life, where X is the number of cards with a cycling ability in your graveyard.

"I defy this world to try our defenses now. Send pterons and skycats. Send Vadrok!"

—Janae, Coppercoat architect

Alert Heedbonder
Creature — Human Scout

Vigilance

At the beginning of your end step, you gain 1 life for each creature you control with vigilance.

Considering the zealous armies, vile poachers, and titanic monsters, it's always wise to keep one eye on the horizon.

2/4
Cunning Nightbonder
Creature — Human Rogue

Flash

Spells with flash you cast cost less to cast and can't be countered.

"We are each other's shadow, fleeting yet always present."

2/2
Fiend Artisan
Creature — Nightmare

This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.

, , Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

1/1
Gyruda, Doom of Depths
Legendary Creature — Demon Kraken

Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with even mana values. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.)

When Gyruda enters, each player mills four cards. Put a creature card with an even mana value from among the milled cards onto the battlefield under your control.

6/6
Jegantha, the Wellspring
Legendary Creature — Elemental Elk

Companion — No card in your starting deck has more than one of the same mana symbol in its mana cost. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.)

: Add . This mana can't be spent to pay generic mana costs.

5/5
Jubilant Skybonder
Creature — Human Wizard

Flying

Creatures you control with flying have "Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost more to cast."

She was born unable to walk. Through the eludha, she was able to fly.

2/2
Kaheera, the Orphanguard
Legendary Creature — Cat Beast

Companion — Each creature card in your starting deck is a Cat, Elemental, Nightmare, Dinosaur, or Beast card. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.)

Vigilance

Each other creature you control that's a Cat, Elemental, Nightmare, Dinosaur, or Beast gets +1/+1 and has vigilance.

3/2
Keruga, the Macrosage
Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Hippo

Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with mana value 3 or greater and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.)

When Keruga enters, draw a card for each other permanent you control with mana value 3 or greater.

5/4
Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Legendary Creature — Cat Nightmare

Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has mana value 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.)

Lifelink

Once during each of your turns, you may cast a permanent spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard.

3/2
Lutri, the Spellchaser
Legendary Creature — Elemental Otter

Companion — Each nonland card in your starting deck has a different name. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.)

Flash

When Lutri enters, if you cast it, copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

3/2
Obosh, the Preypiercer
Legendary Creature — Hellion Horror

Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with odd mana values and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.)

If a source you control with an odd mana value would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.

3/5
Proud Wildbonder
Creature — Human Warrior

Trample

Creatures you control with trample have "You may have this creature assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked."

"You're little now, yes, but one day your footsteps will make mountains tremble."

—Gustin, wildbonder

4/3
Sonorous Howlbonder
Creature — Human Warrior

Menace

Each creature you control with menace can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

The call of the wild is rarely a solo.

2/2
Umori, the Collector
Legendary Creature — Ooze

Companion — Each nonland card in your starting deck shares a card type. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.)

As Umori enters, choose a card type.

Spells you cast of the chosen type cost less to cast.

4/5
Yorion, Sky Nomad
Legendary Creature — Bird Serpent

Companion — Your starting deck contains at least twenty cards more than the minimum deck size. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.)

Flying

When Yorion enters, exile any number of other nonland permanents you own and control. Return those cards to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.

4/5
Zirda, the Dawnwaker
Legendary Creature — Elemental Fox

Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has an activated ability. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.)

Abilities you activate that aren't mana abilities cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

, : Target creature can't block this turn.

3/3
Crystalline Giant
Artifact Creature — Giant

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose a kind of counter at random that this creature doesn't have on it from among flying, first strike, deathtouch, hexproof, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, vigilance, and +1/+1. Put a counter of that kind on this creature.

3/3
Indatha Crystal
Artifact

: Add , , or .

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Crystals nestle in the roots of Indatha's helica trees as if being nurtured by their embrace.

Ketria Crystal
Artifact

: Add , , or .

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The dark of night never truly falls on Ketria, where abundant crystals bathe the land in their glow.

The Ozolith
Legendary Artifact

Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.

As it twists, so does all life around it.

Raugrin Crystal
Artifact

: Add , , or .

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The vegetation in Raugrin is dull, but that only makes the towering crystal structures gleam brighter.

Savai Crystal
Artifact

: Add , , or .

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The same crystals that root deep enough to pierce Savai's catacombs also soar high enough to change its weather.

Sleeper Dart
Artifact

When this artifact enters, draw a card.

, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"Sleep now, you big brute."

—Kelsien, the Plague