41 cards where the illustration contains “ladder”

Aggressive Mining (Magic 2015 #127)
Alchemist's Refuge (Avacyn Restored #225)
Animate Library (Unstable #26)
Bank Job (Alchemy: New Capenna #18)
Bloodfell Caves (Eternal Masters #236)
Bookwurm (Strixhaven: School of Mages #123)
Buried Ruin (Magic 2012 #224)
Burning of Xinye (Portal Three Kingdoms #104)
Canopy Vista (Tales of Middle-earth Commander #298)
Cramped Bunker (Unstable #129)
Earthbrawn (Morningtide #119)
Garbage Elemental (Unstable #82f)
Goblin Burrows (Onslaught #318)
Hapless Researcher (Judgment #42)
Jace, Cunning Castaway (Ixalan #60)
Jodah's Codex (Dominaria United #233)
Keen Sense (Planar Chaos #152)
Longbow Archer (Visions #12)
Loran, Disciple of History (The Brothers' War #13)
Lucid Dreams (Modern Horizons 2 #50)
Master of Death (Modern Horizons 2 #465)
Mine Excavation (Shadowmoor #13)
Mountain (Onslaught #345)
Over the Top (The Brothers' War #340)
Oxidda Daredevil (Scars of Mirrodin #100)
Pirated Copy (Jumpstart 2022 #16)
Push Your Luck (Unfinity #224b)
Quick Study (Wilds of Eldraine #65)
Renegade Troops (Portal Three Kingdoms #120)
Save Life (Unhinged #19)
Scattered Thoughts (Innistrad: Crimson Vow #74)
Scattered Thoughts (Innistrad: Double Feature #341)
Sequestered Stash (Kaladesh #248)
Staff of the Letter Magus (Unstable #159)
The Doctor's Childhood Barn (Doctor Who #579)
The Millennium Calendar (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #257)
Three Dreams (Ravnica: City of Guilds #32)
Urza's Mine (Antiquities #83d)
Vraska, Relic Seeker (Ixalan #232)
Wicker Witch (Shadows over Innistrad #268)
Wrecking Ogre (Gatecrash #112)

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