Quintorius touched the old poncho he'd found. A rush of magic condensed into an Echo, and wise Abuelo stepped forth.

Abuelo's Awakening

Return target artifact or non-Aura enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield with X additional +1/+1 counters on it. It's a 1/1 Spirit creature with flying in addition to its other types.

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

Abuelo, Ancestral Echo

An Equipment that's also a creature can't be attached to anything. You can activate its equip ability, but it won't become attached.

An artifact creature card or enchantment creature card returned this way will have base power and toughness 1/1.

If a double-faced card is exiled this way, it will return with its front face up, no matter which face was up when it left the battlefield.

If a token is exiled this way, it ceases to exist and won't return to the battlefield.

If another effect causes one of the returned permanents to become a creature and sets its base power and toughness as it does so, that creature will have that power and toughness; it won't be 1/1. Notably, crewing a Vehicle does not set its power and toughness, so a Vehicle will remain a 1/1 if you crew it.

The exiled card will return to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step even if Abuelo, Ancestral Echo is no longer on the battlefield at that time.

Flying, ward {2}
{1}{W}{U}: 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.

Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead

If a card that isn't a transforming double-faced card is a copy of Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal, it won't return to the battlefield when it dies.

The last ability of Temple of the Dead will resolve even if you have two or more cards in hand at that time.

Flying, lifelink
Whenever Aclazotz attacks, each opponent discards a card. For each opponent who can't, you draw a card.
Whenever an opponent discards a land card, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.
When Aclazotz dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control.

Chimil gave the Oltec peace in death. Aclazotz ripped it away.

(Transforms from Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal.)
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}{B}, {T}: Transform Temple of the Dead. Activate only if a player has one or fewer cards in hand and only as a sorcery.

"These lost children of Aclazotz are misguided, but perhaps there can be reconciliation of our ideals without war."

Akal Pakal, First Among Equals

If there is only one card in your library, you put it into your hand.

The ability will trigger no matter what happened to the artifact after it entered. It may have left the battlefield, come under another player's control, or stopped being an artifact.

At the beginning of each player's end step, if an artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Amalia Benavides Aguirre

Amalia Benavides Aguirre's power is checked only once, as the triggered ability resolves. If it is no longer on the battlefield at that point, use its power as it last existed on the battlefield.

Amalia Benavides Aguirre's power must be exactly 20 during the resolution of its last ability after it finishes exploring in order to destroy all other creatures. If it's more or less than 20, nothing is destroyed.

If a resolving spell or ability instructs a specific creature to explore but that creature has left the battlefield, the creature still explores. If you reveal a nonland card this way, you won't put a +1/+1 counter on anything, but you may put the revealed card into your graveyard. Effects that trigger "whenever a creature explores" trigger as appropriate.

If an ability instructs a creature to explore, its controller reveals the top card of their library. If it's a land card, they'll put it into their hand. Otherwise, they'll put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, then choose to either leave that card on top of their library or put it into their graveyard.

If multiple creatures with lifelink you control deal combat damage at the same time, the damage dealt by each of those creatures is a separate life-gaining event and Amalia Benavides Aguirre's ability will trigger that many times.

If no card is revealed, most likely because that player's library is empty, the exploring creature receives a +1/+1 counter.

In some unusual cases, noncreature permanents may explore. For example, if the creature card returned by Defossilize is somehow not a creature once it's on the battlefield, it can still explore. You'll take all the same actions, and you may end up putting a +1/+1 counter on the permanent. (Note that some effects target a creature, and those effects would still require a legal target to have it explore.)

Once an ability that causes a creature to explore begins to resolve, no player may take any other actions until it's done. Notably, opponents can't try to remove the exploring creature after you reveal a nonland card but before it receives a counter.

Some spells or abilities might cause a creature to explore multiple times in a row. If you reveal a nonland card when a creature explores and leave it on top of your library, then the creature explores again immediately afterwards, you'll reveal the same card again.

The instruction for Amalia Benavides Aguirre to explore and the effect that occurs if Amalia Benavides Aguirre's power is exactly 20 are all part of the same ability. Players do not get to chance to respond to the ability after knowing the result of the explore.

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.)

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

Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon

Although the Gnome tokens enter the battlefield as attacking creatures, they were never declared as attacking creatures. Abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks won't trigger when they enter the battlefield attacking.

Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon doesn't have to be one of the non-Gnome creatures you attack with in order for its ability to trigger, but it can be.

If Anim Pakal is no longer on the battlefield when the triggered ability resolves, you'll still create Gnomes. Use the number of +1/+1 counters that were on it when it was last on the battlefield.

You choose which player, planeswalker, or battle the Gnome tokens are attacking. Each Gnome token can enter attacking a different player, planeswalker, or battle, and they don't need to be the same ones that the non-Gnome creatures are attacking.

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.

Many temples have strong foundations. Few are also wise.

Bedrock Tortoise

Bedrock Tortoise's ability doesn't actually change any creature's power. It changes only the amount of combat damage the creature assigns. All other rules and effects that check power or toughness use the real values, even if they cause damage "equal to a creature's power" to be dealt.

During your turn, creatures you control have hexproof.
Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Its very presence rips old wounds open to bleed anew.

Bloodletter of Aclazotz

Bloodletter of Aclazotz's last ability doesn't change the amount of damage dealt to opponents. For example, if a 1/1 creature with lifelink deals combat damage to an opponent on your turn, they would lose 2 life, but you'd still gain only 1 life.

Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Bonehoard Dracosaur

If you exile a land card and a nonland card, you'll create a Dinosaur token, then a Treasure token.

If you exile two land cards, you'll create only one Dinosaur token. Similarly, if you exile two nonland cards, you'll create only one Treasure token.

You pay all costs and follow all normal timing rules for cards played this way. For example, if one of the exiled cards is a land card, you may play it only during your main phase while the stack is empty.

Flying, first strike
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play them this turn. If you exiled a land card this way, create a 3/1 red Dinosaur creature token. If you exiled a nonland card this way, create a Treasure token.

Braided Net // Braided Quipu

After drawing cards for Braided Quipu's ability, if you have two or fewer cards in your library, you'll put Braided Quipu on the bottom of your library.

Braided Net's activated ability can target another nonland permanent that's already tapped.

Craft abilities are activated abilities with costs that have a mana component as well as an additional "materials" component.

Craft abilities are written "Craft with [materials] [mana]", which means "[Mana], Exile this permanent, Exile [materials] from among permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard: Return this card to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery."

If a card that isn't a transforming double-faced card becomes a copy of a card with craft, it'll stay in exile if you activate the craft ability. It won't return to the battlefield.

If the materials required include multiple objects, you may exile some of them from among permanents you control and the rest from among cards in your graveyard. You don't have to choose all permanents or all cards from your graveyard.

No activated abilities of the target nonland permanent can be activated for as long as it remains tapped, even if those activated abilities' costs involve untapping that permanent.

Once Braided Quipu is back in your library, Braided Net will be the face that's up again.

The back faces of some cards with craft refer to cards "used to craft" it. This refers to the cards exiled as part of the cost of the craft ability of the front face. Those cards are considered to be "used to craft" that permanent as long as they remain exiled and the permanent remains on the battlefield, even if the permanent's controller changes or some of its characteristics change (because of a copy effect, for example.)

You may exile tokens you control as part of the materials required. However, because they aren't cards and won't stay in exile, any abilities that refer to what you "used to craft" the back faces won't refer to anything.

Braided Net enters with three net counters on it.
{T}, Remove a net counter from Braided Net: Tap another target nonland permanent. Its activated abilities can't be activated for as long as it remains tapped.
Craft with artifact {1}{U}

The Oltec repurpose objects out of reverence rather than scarcity, believing them strengthened by the memory of each past function.

{3}{U}, {T}: Draw a card for each artifact you control, then put Braided Quipu into its owner's library third from the top.

Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift

"Discover N" means "Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value N or less. That card is the "discovered" card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost if the resulting spell's mana value is less than or equal to N. If you don't cast it, put that card into your hand. Put the remaining exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order."

A permanent card is an artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card. Tokens are not cards, and while tokens are put into the graveyard before ceasing to exist, that action doesn't count as a player having descended.

A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.

Abilities that begin with "At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn" will trigger only once during your end step, no matter how many times you descended this turn. However, if you haven't descended this turn as your end step begins, the ability won't trigger at all. It's not possible to put a permanent card into your graveyard during the end step in time to have the ability trigger.

If a permanent spell cast using mana produced by Tecutlan, the Searing Rift has {X} in its mana cost, use the value chosen for X when calculating that spell's mana value.

If the discovered card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

If you can't cast the discovered card (perhaps because there are no legal targets for the spell), you'll put it into your hand.

If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost", you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast it.

If you discover an adventurer card, split card, or modal double-faced card, you might be able to cast that card with either set of characteristics depending on the effect's discover value. For example, if you discover 4 and reveal Galvanic Giant (an adventurer card from Wilds of Eldraine with a mana value of 4), you could cast Galvanic Giant, but not Storm Reading (its Adventure, which has a mana value of 7). If you discover 7 and reveal Galvanic Giant, you could cast either Galvanic Giant or Storm Reading.

In either case, it doesn't matter if those cards are still in that player's graveyard.

Multiple cards have abilities that begin with "At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn." These cards don't need to have been under your control at the time you descended. For example, if a permanent card is put into your graveyard during your first main phase and you cast Stalactite Stalker your second main phase, its ability will trigger at the beginning of your end step.

Some cards refer to a player who has "descended this turn." This means that a permanent card has been put into that player's graveyard from anywhere this turn.

Some cards refer to the number of times a player descended this turn. Those cards care about the number of permanent cards put into that player's graveyard from anywhere this turn.

Some spells and abilities that cause you to discover may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and you won't discover.

Tecutlan, the Searing Rift's triggered ability will resolve before the spell that caused it to trigger.

The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If discover allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half (as long as its mana value is less than or equal to the effect's discover value) but not both halves.

When you discover, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether you cast the exiled card or put it into your hand.

You choose how many cards to discard as the first ability of Brass's Tunnel-Grinder resolves. You may choose to discard no cards and just draw a card.

You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.

When Brass's Tunnel-Grinder enters, discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards plus one.
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a bore counter on Brass's Tunnel-Grinder. Then if there are three or more bore counters on it, remove those counters and transform it. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)

(Transforms from Brass's Tunnel-Grinder.)
{T}: Add {R}.
Whenever you cast a permanent spell using mana produced by Tecutlan, the Searing Rift, discover X, where X is that spell's mana value.

Breeches, Eager Pillager

If you can't legally choose a mode because all three have been chosen that turn, that instance of the ability is removed from the stack with no effect.

If you somehow control two or more Breeches, Eager Pillager, track which modes have been chosen each turn for each one's ability separately.

You pay all costs and follow all normal timing rules for cards played this way. For example, if the exiled card is a land card, you may play it only during your main phase while the stack is empty.

First strike
Whenever a Pirate you control attacks, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Create a Treasure token.
• Target creature can't block this turn.
• Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn.

Bringer of the Last Gift

Bringer of the Last Gift's last ability triggers if you cast it from any zone. It doesn't trigger if you put Bringer of the Last Gift onto the battlefield without casting it.

Flying
When Bringer of the Last Gift enters, if you cast it, each player sacrifices all other creatures they control. Then each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard that weren't put there this way to the battlefield.

Cavern of Souls

The spell can't be countered if the mana produced by Cavern of Souls is spent to cover any cost of the spell, even an additional cost such as a kicker cost. This is true even if you use the mana to pay an additional cost while casting a spell "without paying its mana cost."

You must choose an existing creature type, such as Human or Warrior. Card types such as artifact can't be chosen.

As Cavern of Souls enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Chimil, the Inner Sun

A spell or ability that counters spells can still target spells that can't be countered. When that spell or ability resolves, the uncounterable spell won't be countered, but any additional effects of the countering spell or ability will still happen.

Chimil, the Inner Sun's first ability applies only while it's on the battlefield. While it's a spell, it can be countered.

Spells you control can't be countered.
At the beginning of your end step, discover 5. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 5 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.)

Corpses of the Lost

You decide to pay 1 life as the last ability is resolving. If you decide to pay 1 life and Corpses of the Lost is still on the battlefield, it will immediately return to its owner's hand. No player may take any actions in between you deciding to pay life and it returning this way.

Skeletons you control get +1/+0 and have haste.
When Corpses of the Lost enters, create a 2/2 black Skeleton Pirate creature token.
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, you may pay 1 life. If you do, return Corpses of the Lost to its owner's hand. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)

Cosmium Confluence

If a Confluence is copied, the effect that creates the copy will usually allow you to choose new targets, but you can't choose new modes.

If a mode requires a target, you can select that mode only if there's a legal target available. Ignore the targeting requirements for modes you don't choose. Each time you select that mode, you can choose a different target, or you can choose the same target.

If all targets for the chosen modes become illegal before a Confluence resolves, the spell will be countered and none of its effects will happen. If at least one target is still legal, the spell will resolve but will have no effect on any illegal targets.

If the same mode is chosen more than once, you choose their relative order as you cast the spell. For example, if you choose the last mode of Cosmium Confluence more than once, you choose the relative order to destroy the target enchantments.

No matter which combination of modes you choose, you always follow the instructions in the order they are written.

No player can cast spells or activate abilities in between the modes of a resolving spell. Any abilities that trigger won't be put onto the stack until a spell is done resolving.

Notably, the second mode doesn't require any targets. You choose the Cave you control that will be affected as Cosmium Confluence is resolving. You may choose a Cave you just put onto the battlefield with the first mode, if applicable.

You choose the modes as you cast the spell. Once modes are chosen, they can't be changed.

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.

Deepfathom Echo

Deepfathom Echo copies exactly what is printed on the chosen creature (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or any Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.

If Deepfathom Echo becomes a copy of a creature that is copying something else, it becomes a copy of whatever that creature is a copy of.

If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.

If the copied creature is a token, Deepfathom Echo copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created that token. Deepfathom Echo doesn't become a token (although it might already be one).

Non-copy effects that have already applied to Deepfathom Echo will continue to apply to it. For example, +1/+1 counters on it will still affect it.

Once Deepfathom Echo becomes a copy of another creature, it no longer has its triggered ability until end of turn.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, Deepfathom Echo 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.)

"These glyphs are more than trail markings! They tell a story as they go. But does it end in celebration or tragedy?"

Deeproot Pilgrimage

If more than one nontoken Merfolk you control becomes tapped at the same time (for example, to pay the cost of Adaptive Gemguard's activated ability), Deeproot Pilgrimage's ability will trigger only once.

Whenever one or more nontoken Merfolk you control become tapped, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token with hexproof.

Dire Flail // Dire Blunderbuss

If the equipped creature isn't on the battlefield as the reflexive triggered ability granted by Dire Blunderbuss resolves but it had lifelink when it left the battlefield, you will gain life.

Use the equipped creature's power as the reflexive triggered ability granted by Dire Blunderbuss resolves to determine how much damage is dealt. If the equipped creature is no longer on the battlefield at that time, use its power as it last existed on the battlefield.

You don't choose a target for the triggered ability granted by Dire Blunderbuss at the time it triggers. Rather, a second "reflexive" ability triggers when you sacrifice another artifact this way. You choose targets for that ability as it goes on the stack. Each player may respond to this triggered ability as normal.

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Equip {1}
Craft with artifact {3}{R}{R} ({3}{R}{R}, 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.)

"Thought you were out of my skull-bashin' range, didn't you?"

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice an artifact other than Dire Blunderbuss. When you do, this creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature."
Equip {1}

The still, silent waters reflect what was, not what is.

Echoing Deeps

Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied land card will trigger when Echoing Deeps enters the battlefield. Any "as [this land] enters the battlefield" or "[this land] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the chosen land card will also work.

Echoing Deeps copies exactly what was printed on the original land card, with the noted exception.

If you choose to have Echoing Deeps not copy anything, it enters the battlefield untapped.

You may have Echoing Deeps enter tapped as a copy of any land card in a graveyard, except it's a Cave in addition to its other types.
{T}: Add {C}.

Fabrication Foundry

{T}: Add {W}. Spend this mana only to cast an artifact spell or activate an ability of an artifact source.
{2}{W}, {T}, Exile one or more other artifacts you control with total mana value X: Return target artifact card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Get Lost

Map tokens are a kind of predefined token. Each one is a colorless artifact with the artifact subtype Map and the ability "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery."

Destroy target creature, enchantment, or planeswalker. Its controller creates two Map tokens. (They're artifacts with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

A thundering roar calls forth a primeval army.

Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant

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

Gishath, Sun's Avatar

If you have fewer cards in your library than the amount of damage Gishath deals, you reveal the cards you have. Because you're not drawing cards, you don't lose the game.

Vigilance, trample, haste
Whenever Gishath, Sun's Avatar 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.

Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

If you control a creature that will be removed from the battlefield "at the beginning of the next end step," you can resolve the ability of Growing Rites of Itlimoc before that creature leaves the battlefield.

If you gain control of a creature "until end of turn," or if a noncreature permanent you control becomes a creature "until end of turn," it'll be a creature under your control through the entire end step.

The last ability of Growing Rites of Itlimoc doesn't trigger if you don't control four or more creatures as your end step begins. If you don't control four or more creatures as it resolves, it does nothing.

For more information on double-faced cards, see the Ixalan mechanics article (http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/ixalan-mechanics).

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.

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.

(Transforms from Growing Rites of Itlimoc.)
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Hit the Mother Lode

You won't create any Treasure tokens until you finish discovering. For example, if the card you discover has "As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact," you can't sacrifice one of the Treasures from Hit the Mother Lode to pay that additional cost.

Discover 10. If the discovered card's mana value is less than 10, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to the difference. (To discover 10, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 10 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.)

Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People

Roar of the Fifth People's second chapter ability doesn't have a duration. It will continue to apply as long as Roar of the Fifth People remains on the battlefield.

When Huatli, Poet of Unity enters, search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{3}{R/W}{R/W}: Exile Huatli, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

(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 — Roar of the Fifth People gains "Creatures you control have '{T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.'"
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.

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

Hulking Raptor

Ward {2}
At the beginning of your first main phase, add {G}{G}.

Inti, Seneschal of the Sun

You don't choose a target for Inti, Seneschal of the Sun's first ability at the time it triggers. Rather, a second "reflexive" ability triggers when you discard a card this way. You choose targets for that ability as it goes on the stack. Each player may respond to this triggered ability as normal.

You pay all costs and follow all normal timing rules for cards played due to the last ability. For example, if the exiled card is a land card, you may play it only during your main phase while the stack is empty.

Whenever you attack, you may discard a card. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature. It gains trample until end of turn.
Whenever you discard one or more cards, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card until your next end step.

Intrepid Paleontologist

Finality counters aren't keyword counters, and a finality counter doesn't give any abilities to the permanent it's on. If that permanent loses its abilities and then would go to a graveyard, it will still be exiled instead.

Finality counters don't stop permanents from going to zones other than the graveyard from the battlefield. For example, if a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into its owner's hand from the battlefield, it does so normally.

Finality counters work on any permanent, not only creatures. If a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.

Intrepid Paleontologist must be under your control in order to start casting a Dinosaur creature spell using its last ability, but it doesn't need to stay under your control throughout that process or be under your control as the spell resolves. If, for example, you sacrifice Intrepid Paleontologist to pay an additional cost of the spell or it's destroyed in response, the spell will still resolve normally.

Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.

You must still pay all costs and follow any timing restrictions and permissions for Dinosaur creature spells you cast from exile this way. Normally, you'll be able to cast them only during your main phase while the stack is empty.

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{2}: Exile target card from a graveyard.
You may cast Dinosaur creature spells from among cards you own exiled with Intrepid Paleontologist. 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.)

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

Jadelight Spelunker

If Jadelight Spelunker enters the battlefield without being cast, or if it was cast with X equal to 0, the enters-the-battlefield ability will still trigger, but Jadelight Spelunker won't explore at all.

When Jadelight Spelunker 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.)

Kellan, Daring Traveler // Journey On

An adventurer card is a permanent card in every zone except the stack, as well as while on the stack if not cast as an Adventure. Ignore its alternative characteristics in those cases. For example, while it's in your graveyard, Kellan, Daring Traveler is a white creature card whose mana value is 2. While there, it can't be the target of a spell or ability that targets only instant or sorcery cards.

Casting a card as an Adventure isn't casting it for an alternative cost. Effects that allow you to cast a spell for an alternative cost or without paying its mana cost may allow you to apply those to the Adventure.

If a spell is cast as an Adventure, its controller exiles it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard as it resolves. For as long as it remains exiled, that player may cast it as a permanent spell. If an Adventure spell leaves the stack in any way other than resolving (most likely by being countered or by failing to resolve because its targets have all become illegal), that card won't be exiled and the spell's controller won't be able to cast it as a permanent later.

If an adventurer card ends up in exile for any other reason than by exiling itself while resolving, it won't give you permission to cast it as a permanent spell.

If an effect copies an Adventure spell, that copy is exiled as it resolves. It ceases to exist as a state-based action; it's not possible to cast the copy as a permanent.

If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose the alternative Adventure name. Consider only the alternative characteristics to determine whether that is an appropriate name to choose.

If an effect refers to a card, spell, or permanent that has an Adventure, it won't find an instant or sorcery spell on the stack that's been cast as an Adventure.

If an object becomes a copy of an object that has an Adventure, the copy also has an Adventure. If it changes zones, it will either cease to exist (if it's a token) or cease to be a copy (if it's a nontoken permanent), and so you won't be able to cast it as an Adventure.

If you cast an adventurer card as an Adventure, use only its alternative characteristics to determine whether it's legal to cast that spell. For example, if you control Johann, Apprentice Sorcerer ("Once each turn, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from the top of your library") and Kellan, Daring Traveler is on top of your library, you can cast Journey On, but not Kellan, Daring Traveler.

If you don't put the card you reveal due to Kellan's triggered ability into your hand and you choose not to put it into your graveyard, it stays on top of your library.

Whenever Kellan, Daring Traveler 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.

Card (174)	Type	^{$0.00 (0.00)} Price
Abuelo's Awakening	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Abuelo's Awakening	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Abuelo, Ancestral Echo	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Abuelo, Ancestral Echo	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Akal Pakal, First Among Equals	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Akal Pakal, First Among Equals	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Amalia Benavides Aguirre	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Amalia Benavides Aguirre	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bedrock Tortoise	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bedrock Tortoise	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bloodletter of Aclazotz	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bloodletter of Aclazotz	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bonehoard Dracosaur	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bonehoard Dracosaur	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Braided Net // Braided Quipu	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Braided Net // Braided Quipu	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Breeches, Eager Pillager	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Breeches, Eager Pillager	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bringer of the Last Gift	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bringer of the Last Gift	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cavern of Souls	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cavern of Souls	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Chimil, the Inner Sun	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Chimil, the Inner Sun	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Corpses of the Lost	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Corpses of the Lost	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cosmium Confluence	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cosmium Confluence	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Deepfathom Echo	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Deepfathom Echo	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Deeproot Pilgrimage	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Deeproot Pilgrimage	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Dire Flail // Dire Blunderbuss	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Dire Flail // Dire Blunderbuss	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Echoing Deeps	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Echoing Deeps	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fabrication Foundry	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fabrication Foundry	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Get Lost	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Get Lost	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Gishath, Sun's Avatar	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Gishath, Sun's Avatar	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)

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