The Lost Caverns of Ixalan

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Cosmium Confluence
Sorcery

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.

• Search your library for a Cave card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

• Put three +1/+1 counters on a Cave you control. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.

• Destroy target enchantment.

Disturbed Slumber
Instant

Until end of turn, target land you control becomes a 4/4 Dinosaur creature with reach and haste. It's still a land. It must be blocked this turn if able.

"I'm telling you, the wall just blinked!"

Earthshaker Dreadmaw
Creature — Dinosaur

Trample

When this creature enters, draw a card for each other Dinosaur you control.

"I suggest we leave this cavern for someone else to conquer."

—Amalia, master cartographer

6/6
Explorer's Cache
Artifact

This artifact enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this artifact.

: Move a +1/+1 counter from this artifact onto target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur

Trample

When Ghalta enters, put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

A thundering roar calls forth a primeval army.

12/12
Glimpse the Core
Sorcery

Choose one —

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

• Return target Cave card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

"Wow. It's a good thing we brought a poet."

—Wayta

Glowcap Lantern
Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has "You may look at the top card of your library any time" and "Whenever this creature attacks, 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 that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Equip

Growing Rites of Itlimoc
Legendary Enchantment

When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.

Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
Legendary Land

(Transforms from Growing Rites of Itlimoc.)

: Add .

: Add for each creature you control.

Though the Sun Empire and the River Heralds once came together to plant the sacred forest, its roots have been tended by the mycoids ever since.

Huatli, Poet of Unity
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Bard

When Huatli enters, search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

: Exile Huatli, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

2/3
Roar of the Fifth People
Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)

I — Create two 3/3 green Dinosaur creature tokens.

II — This Saga gains "Creatures you control have ': Add , , or .'"

III — Search your library for a Dinosaur card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

IV — Dinosaurs you control gain double strike and trample until end of turn.

Huatli's Final Strike
Instant

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature an opponent controls.

"Inti's name will grace our poems and histories for generations. Yours will collect dust, forgotten, in this cave."

—Huatli, to Vito

Hulking Raptor
Creature — Dinosaur

Ward

At the beginning of your first main phase, add .

"I watched him rip a Phyrexian dreadnought in half once. A few vampires will barely slow him down."

—Huatli

5/3
In the Presence of Ages
Instant

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card and/or a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

"Finally, those glowing purple bone-monsters are gone and we can get back to the real excitement: archaeology!"

—Quintorius Kand

Intrepid Paleontologist
Creature — Human Druid

: Add one mana of any color.

: Exile target card from a graveyard.

You may cast Dinosaur creature spells from among cards you own exiled with this creature. If you cast a spell this way, that creature enters with a finality counter on it. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

2/2
Ixalli's Lorekeeper
Creature — Human Druid

: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Dinosaur spell or activate an ability of a Dinosaur source.

"Did we follow the dinosaurs out of the caverns, or did they follow us? These glyphs could change our entire understanding of our history."

1/1
Jade Seedstones
Artifact

When this artifact enters, distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures you control.

Craft with creature (, Exile this artifact, Exile a creature you control or a creature card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)

Jadeheart Attendant
Artifact Creature — Golem

When this creature enters, you gain life equal to the mana value of the exiled card used to craft it.

When the merfolk fled underground, they brought the life force of the jungle with them.

7/7
Jadelight Spelunker
Creature — Merfolk Scout

When this creature enters, it explores X times. (To have it explore, 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 that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

The River Heralds found clues to a grand heritage below Ixalan's surface.

1/1
Kaslem's Stonetree
Artifact

When this artifact enters, look at the top six cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.

Craft with Cave (, Exile this artifact, Exile a Cave you control or a Cave card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)

Kaslem's Strider
Artifact Creature — Golem

The Oltec long ago abandoned the caverns to the mycoids, but the Deep Gods still keep watch over the spore-strewn darkness.

5/5
Malamet Battle Glyph
Sorcery

Choose target creature you control and target creature you don't control. If the creature you control entered this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then those creatures fight each other.

"Let's not give the surface-dwellers time to learn what tactics work best here."

—Daram, Malamet marshal

Malamet Brawler
Creature — Cat Warrior

Whenever this creature attacks, target attacking creature gains trample until end of turn.

"I bear the marking of the Deep King, and in his name I will rend you to nothing but spores on the wind!"

2/2
Malamet Scythe
Artifact — Equipment

Flash

When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control.

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

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

Malamet Veteran
Creature — Cat Warrior

Trample

Descend 4 — Whenever this creature attacks, if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

The mightiest Malamet warriors train as titan-killers, elite champions capable of facing down the caverns' most fearsome beasts.

5/4
Mineshaft Spider
Creature — Spider

Reach

When this creature enters, you may mill two cards. (You may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Anything that falls into the pit—relics, rubble, even corpses—ends up snared in its magic-infused web.

3/4
Nurturing Bristleback
Creature — Dinosaur

When this creature enters, create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token.

Forestcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

5/5
Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth
Legendary Creature — God

Trample

Whenever Ojer Kaslem deals combat damage to a player, reveal that many cards from the top of your library. You may put a creature card and/or a land card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.

When Ojer Kaslem dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control.

6/5
Temple of Cultivation
Land

(Transforms from Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth.)

: Add .

, : Transform this land. Activate only if you control ten or more permanents and only as a sorcery.

Chimil gave the Oltec sacred lands. Ojer Kaslem brought them to life.

Over the Edge
Sorcery

Choose one —

• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

• Target creature you control explores, then it explores again. (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 that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard. Then repeat this process.)

Pathfinding Axejaw
Creature — Dinosaur

When this creature 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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

When you don't know what dangers you'll face, bring the biggest danger with you.

4/3
Poison Dart Frog
Creature — Frog

Reach

: Add one mana of any color.

: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.

"Bright as any dinosaur—and just as with other great hunters, its colors are a warning."

—Huatli

1/1
Pugnacious Hammerskull
Creature — Dinosaur

Whenever this creature attacks while you don't control another Dinosaur, put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

"I don't know whether it hates the mycoids or just loves breaking things. I say we leave it be."

—Samin, Oltec scout

6/6
River Herald Guide
Creature — Merfolk Scout

Vigilance

When this creature 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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

3/1
Seeker of Sunlight
Creature — Merfolk Scout

: This creature explores. Activate only as a sorcery. (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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

"We weren't fleeing a broken world. We were running toward paradise!"

1/1
Sentinel of the Nameless City
Creature — Merfolk Warrior Scout

Vigilance

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

"Halt, traveler. Whatever you seek, you will not find it here."

3/4
The Skullspore Nexus
Legendary Artifact

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

Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, create a green Fungus Dinosaur creature token with base power and toughness each equal to the total power of those creatures.

, : Double target creature's power until end of turn.

Spelunking
Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you put a Cave onto the battlefield this way, you gain 4 life.

Lands you control enter untapped.

Staggering Size
Instant

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn.

"Ah well... the temple was due for a new roof anyhow."

—Kusi, Oltec gardener

Tendril of the Mycotyrant
Creature — Fungus Wizard

: Put seven +1/+1 counters on target noncreature land you control. It becomes a 0/0 Fungus creature with haste. It's still a land.

Every mycoid carries within itself the makings of an entire colony.

2/2
Thrashing Brontodon
Creature — Dinosaur

, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I suppose we'll just hope those ancient monoliths lost to our people for centuries weren't particularly important."

—Toxayac, Sun Empire historian

3/4
Twists and Turns
Enchantment

If a creature you control would explore, instead you scry 1, then that creature explores.

When this enchantment enters, target creature you control explores.

When a land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands, transform this enchantment.

Mycoid Maze
Land — Cave

(Transforms from Twists and Turns.)

: Add .

, : Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put that card into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Walk with the Ancestors
Sorcery

Return up to one target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Discover 4. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 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.)

Abuelo, Ancestral Echo
Legendary Creature — Spirit

Flying, ward

: Exile another target creature or artifact you control. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"Come, friends. Let us see if this world remembers us."

2/2
Akawalli, the Seething Tower
Legendary Creature — Fungus

Descend 4 — As long as there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, Akawalli gets +2/+2 and has trample.

Descend 8 — As long as there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, Akawalli gets an additional +2/+2 and can't be blocked by more than one creature.

3/3
Amalia Benavides Aguirre
Legendary Creature — Vampire Scout

Ward—Pay 3 life.

Whenever you gain life, Amalia Benavides Aguirre explores. Then destroy all other creatures if its power is exactly 20. (To have this creature explore, 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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

2/2
The Ancient One
Legendary Creature — Spirit God

Descend 8 — The Ancient One can't attack or block unless there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard.

: Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way, target player mills cards equal to its mana value.

8/8
Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

Whenever you attack with one or more non-Gnome creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on Anim Pakal, then create X 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens that are tapped and attacking, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Anim Pakal.

"If we are to protect this world, we can no longer hide within it!"

1/2
Bartolomé del Presidio
Legendary Creature — Vampire Knight

Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bartolomé del Presidio.

"Bless this sinner, who sacrificed his blood so that I may live."

2/1
The Belligerent
Legendary Artifact — Vehicle

Whenever The Belligerent attacks, create a Treasure token. Until end of turn, you may look at the top card of your library any time, and you may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.

Crew 3

5/5
Caparocti Sunborn
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

Whenever Caparocti Sunborn attacks, you may tap two untapped artifacts and/or creatures you control. If you do, discover 3. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 3 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.)

4/4
Captain Storm, Cosmium Raider
Legendary Creature — Human Pirate

Whenever an artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target Pirate you control.

"To the mother lode, and death take the wary!"

2/2
Deepfathom Echo
Creature — Merfolk Spirit

At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature explores. Then you may have it become a copy of another creature you control until end of turn. (To have this creature explore, 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 this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

4/4
Gishath, Sun's Avatar
Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Avatar

Vigilance, trample, haste

Whenever Gishath deals combat damage to a player, reveal that many cards from the top of your library. Put any number of Dinosaur creature cards from among them onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

7/6
Itzquinth, Firstborn of Gishath
Legendary Creature — Dinosaur

Haste

When Itzquinth enters, you may pay . When you do, target Dinosaur you control deals damage equal to its power to another target creature.

"Dinosaurs have no concept of royalty, but they recognize the scent of the mightiest among them."

—Atla Palani, nest tender

2/3
Kellan, Daring Traveler
Legendary Creature — Human Faerie Scout

Whenever Kellan attacks, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card with mana value 3 or less, put it into your hand. Otherwise, you may put it into your graveyard.

2/3
Journey On
Sorcery — Adventure

Create X Map tokens, where X is one plus the number of opponents who control an artifact. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
Legendary Creature — Cat Warrior

Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn.

Whenever one or more creatures you control each with power greater than its base power deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

"Invaders in the West Chasm? Give me an hour and they'll be fungus food."

3/3
Master's Guide-Mural
Artifact

When this artifact enters, create a 4/4 white and blue Golem artifact creature token.

Craft with artifact (, Exile this artifact, Exile another artifact you control or an artifact card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)

Master's Manufactory
Artifact

: Create a 4/4 white and blue Golem artifact creature token. Activate only if this artifact or another artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

"The Fomori are a foul and distant memory, but their war machines taught us much about large-scale armorcraft."

—Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon

Molten Collapse
Sorcery

Choose one. If you descended this turn, you may choose both instead. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)

• Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

• Destroy target noncreature, nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

The Mycotyrant
Legendary Creature — Elder Fungus

Trample

The Mycotyrant's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control that are Fungi and/or Saprolings.

At the beginning of your end step, create X 1/1 black Fungus creature tokens with "This token can't block," where X is the number of times you descended this turn. (You descend each time a permanent card is put into your graveyard from anywhere.)

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Nicanzil, Current Conductor
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Scout

Whenever a creature you control explores a land card, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Whenever a creature you control explores a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on Nicanzil.

"This water can guide you anywhere, if you know how to ask."

2/3
Palani's Hatcher
Creature — Dinosaur

Other Dinosaurs you control have haste.

When this creature enters, create two 0/1 green Dinosaur Egg creature tokens.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control one or more Eggs, sacrifice an Egg, then create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token.

5/3
Quintorius Kand
Legendary Planeswalker — Quintorius

Whenever you cast a spell from exile, Quintorius Kand deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.

[+1]: Create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.

[−3]: Discover 4.

[−6]: Exile any number of target cards from your graveyard. Add for each card exiled this way. You may play those cards this turn.

Loyalty: 4
Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer

, : Create a token that's a copy of another target creature or artifact you control, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

What began as a single gift for Huatli became a battalion of automatons unlike anything ever seen on Ixalan.

2/2
Sovereign Okinec Ahau
Legendary Creature — Cat Noble

Ward

Whenever Sovereign Okinec Ahau attacks, for each creature you control with power greater than that creature's base power, put a number of +1/+1 counters on that creature equal to the difference.

As surface empires send their explorers down, his hungry eyes look upward.

3/4