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Commander

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Nine-Fingers Keene

Menace Ward—Pay 9 life. Whenever Nine-Fingers Keene deals combat damage to a player, look at the top nine cards of your library. You may put a Gate card from among them onto the battlefield. Then if you control nine or more Gates, put the rest into your hand. Otherwise, put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Nine-Fingers Keene (clb) 289

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Abundance

If you would draw a card, you may instead choose land or nonland and reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and put all other cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Enchantment
Abundance (cmm) 884
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (mkc) 223
Broken Bond

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Broken Bond (j22) 636
Case of the Locked Hothouse

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. To solve — You control seven or more lands. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — You may look at the top card of your library any time, and you may play lands and cast creature and enchantment spells from the top of your library.

Enchantment
Case of the Locked Hothouse (mkm) 155
Circuitous Route

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Circuitous Route (znc) 62
Coiling Oracle

When this creature enters, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Creature
Coiling Oracle (rvr) 172
Courser of Kruphix

Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play lands from the top of your library. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Courser of Kruphix (cmm) 888
Court of Bounty

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you're the monarch, instead you may put a creature or land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Enchantment
Court of Bounty (cmr) 220
Crop Rotation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Crop Rotation (dmr) 154
District Guide

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
District Guide (grn) 128
Druid Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life. {2}{G}: Level 2 You may play an additional land on each of your turns. {4}{G}: Level 3 When this Class becomes level 3, target land you control becomes a creature with haste and "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." It's still a land.

Enchantment
Druid Class (afr) 180
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (lcc) 241
Explore the Underdark

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. You take the initiative.

Sorcery
Explore the Underdark (clb) 232
Gatecreeper Vine

Defender When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Gatecreeper Vine (ddm) 48
Ghirapur Orrery

Each player may play an additional land on each of their turns. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand, that player draws three cards.

Artifact
Ghirapur Orrery (kld) 216
Greenside Watcher

{T}: Untap target Gate.

Creature
Greenside Watcher (gtc) 122
Gretchen Titchwillow

{2}{G}{U}: Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Gretchen Titchwillow (afr) 223
Growth Spiral

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

Instant
Growth Spiral (lcc) 270
Joint Exploration

Kicker {G} (You may pay an additional {G} as you cast this spell.) Scry 2, then draw a card. If this spell was kicked, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Joint Exploration (dmu) 56
Llanowar Scout

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Llanowar Scout (dom) 170
Navigation Orb

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Navigation Orb (clb) 329
Nylea's Intervention

Choose one — • Search your library for up to X land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. • Nylea's Intervention deals twice X damage to each creature with flying.

Sorcery
Nylea's Intervention (thb) 188
Open the Gates

Search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Open the Gates (rvr) 151
Open the Way

X can't be greater than the number of players in the game. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X land cards. Put those land cards onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Open the Way (mat) 23
Pir's Whim

For each player, choose friend or foe. Each friend searches their library for a land card, puts it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles. Each foe sacrifices an artifact or enchantment of their choice.

Sorcery
Pir's Whim (plst) BBD-73
Rites of Flourishing

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. Each player may play an additional land on each of their turns.

Enchantment
Rites of Flourishing (znc) 80
Sakura-Tribe Scout

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Scout (plst) SOK-144
Skyshroud Ranger

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Skyshroud Ranger (10e) 297
Spelunking

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.

Enchantment
Spelunking (lci) 213
Sylvan Scrying

Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Sylvan Scrying (plst) BFZ-192
Tempt with Discovery

Tempting offer — Search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Each opponent may search their library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. For each opponent who searches a library this way, search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched a library this way shuffles.

Sorcery
Tempt with Discovery (plst) C16-170
Thaumatic Compass

Artifact
Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (plst) XLN-249Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (plst) XLN-249
Tiller Engine

Whenever a land you control enters tapped, choose one — • Untap that land. • Tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Creature Artifact
Tiller Engine (dmc) 20
Titania's Command

Choose two — • Exile target player's graveyard. You gain 1 life for each card exiled this way. • Search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. • Create two 2/2 green Bear creature tokens. • Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Sorcery
Titania's Command (bro) 194
Ulvenwald Hydra

Reach Ulvenwald Hydra's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control. When this creature enters, you may search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Ulvenwald Hydra (jmp) 439
Urban Evolution

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

Sorcery
Urban Evolution (ncc) 355
Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy

{1}, {T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. {4}, {T}: Draw a card. If you control eight or more lands, draw two cards instead.

Creature
Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy (stx) 250

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Draw

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Ancient Excavation

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand, then discard a card for each card drawn this way. Basic landcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Instant
Ancient Excavation (cm2) 150
Monastery Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card, then discard a card. • Dragons — Spells your opponents cast that target you or a permanent you control cost {2} more to cast.

Enchantment
Monastery Siege (c17) 88

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Recursion

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Nissa of Shadowed Boughs

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a loyalty counter on Nissa. +1: Untap target land you control. You may have it become a 3/3 Elemental creature with haste and menace until end of turn. It's still a land. −5: You may put a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control onto the battlefield from your hand or graveyard with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Planeswalker
Nissa of Shadowed Boughs (znr) 231
Splendid Reclamation

Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Splendid Reclamation (vow) 221

Recursion

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Land

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Baldur's Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.

Land
Baldur's Gate (clb) 345
Basilisk Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Basilisk Gate (clb) 346
Black Dragon Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than black. {T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Black Dragon Gate (clb) 347
Dimir Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dimir Guildgate (clu) 234
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mh3) 308
Gateway Plaza

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Gateway Plaza (plst) GRN-247
Golgari Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Golgari Guildgate (clu) 235
Gond Gate

Gates you control enter untapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a Gate you control could produce.

Land
Gond Gate (clb) 353
Heap Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}, Tap an untapped Gate you control: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Land
Heap Gate (clb) 354
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mh3) 305
Manor Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than green. {T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Manor Gate (clb) 356
Maze's End

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Return this land to its owner's hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game.

Land
Maze's End (plst) DGM-152
Plaza of Harmony

When this land enters, if you control two or more Gates, you gain 3 life. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any type that a Gate you control could produce.

Land
Plaza of Harmony (rna) 254
Sea Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than blue. {T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Sea Gate (clb) 359
Simic Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Simic Guildgate (clu) 248
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mh3) 306
Thran Portal

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. As this land enters, choose a basic land type. This land is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Mana abilities of this land cost an additional 1 life to activate.

Land
Thran Portal (dmu) 259

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Uses gates

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Gate Colossus

Affinity for Gates (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Gate you control.) This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less. Whenever a Gate you control enters, you may put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Creature Artifact
Gate Colossus (rvr) 257
Gatebreaker Ram

This creature gets +1/+1 for each Gate you control. As long as you control two or more Gates, this creature has vigilance and trample.

Creature
Gatebreaker Ram (rna) 126
Gatekeeper Gargoyle

Flying This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Gate you control.

Creature Artifact
Gatekeeper Gargoyle (grn) 235
Gateway Shade

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Tap an untapped Gate you control: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature
Gateway Shade (gtc) 65
Gateway Sneak

Whenever a Gate you control enters, this creature can't be blocked this turn. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Gateway Sneak (rna) 40
Glaive of the Guildpact

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each Gate you control and has vigilance and menace. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Glaive of the Guildpact (grn) 236
Guild Summit

When this enchantment enters, you may tap any number of untapped Gates you control. Draw a card for each Gate tapped this way. Whenever a Gate you control enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Guild Summit (grn) 41
Saruli Gatekeepers

When this creature enters, if you control two or more Gates, you gain 7 life.

Creature
Saruli Gatekeepers (dgm) 48
Way of the Thief

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2. Enchanted creature can't be blocked as long as you control a Gate.

Enchantment
Way of the Thief (gtc) 56

Uses gates

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Blackblade Reforged

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

Artifact
Blackblade Reforged (dmc) 178
Rampaging Baloths

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

Creature
Rampaging Baloths (j22) 715
Retreat to Coralhelm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • You may tap or untap target creature. • Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Enchantment
Retreat to Coralhelm (plst) BFZ-82
Retreat to Hagra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. • Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Retreat to Hagra (c18) 116
Retreat to Kazandu

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • You gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Retreat to Kazandu (cmr) 435
Seer's Sundial

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Seer's Sundial (cmr) 470
Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Tatyova, Benthic Druid (lcc) 290
Zendikar's Roil

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 2/2 green Elemental creature token.

Enchantment
Zendikar's Roil (j22) 747
Zuran Orb

Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life.

Artifact
Zuran Orb (mh2) 300

Landfall

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Dissipation Field

Whenever a permanent deals damage to you, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Dissipation Field (clb) 718
Energy Field

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you by sources you don't control. When a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment
Energy Field (plst) USG-73

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