Crescendo of War

At the beginning of each upkeep, put a strife counter on Crescendo of War.
Attacking creatures get +1/+0 for each strife counter on Crescendo of War.
Blocking creatures you control get +1/+0 for each strife counter on Crescendo of War.

Ursine Fylgja

Ursine Fylgja enters with four healing counters on it.
Remove a healing counter from Ursine Fylgja: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Ursine Fylgja this turn.
{2}{W}: Put a healing counter on Ursine Fylgja.

Lilting Refrain

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Lilting Refrain.
Sacrifice Lilting Refrain: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is the number of verse counters on Lilting Refrain.

Feral Thallid

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Feral Thallid.
Remove three spore counters from Feral Thallid: Regenerate Feral Thallid.

Fylgja

Enchant creature
Fylgja enters with four healing counters on it.
Remove a healing counter from Fylgja: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature this turn.
{2}{W}: Put a healing counter on Fylgja.

Lead-Belly Chimera

Trample
Sacrifice Lead-Belly Chimera: Put a +2/+2 counter on target Chimera creature. It gains trample. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Palantír of Orthanc

At the beginning of your end step, put an influence counter on Palantír of Orthanc and scry 2. Then target opponent may have you draw a card. If that player doesn't, you mill X cards, where X is the number of influence counters on Palantír of Orthanc, and that player loses life equal to the total mana value of those cards.

Mercadian Lift

{1}, {T}: Put a winch counter on Mercadian Lift.
{T}, Remove X winch counters from Mercadian Lift: You may put a creature card with mana value X from your hand onto the battlefield.

Iceberg

Iceberg enters with X ice counters on it.
{3}: Put an ice counter on Iceberg.
Remove an ice counter from Iceberg: Add {C}.

Ertai's Meddling

X can't be 0.
Target spell's controller exiles it with X delay counters on it.
At the beginning of each of that player's upkeeps, if that card is exiled, remove a delay counter from it. If the card has no delay counters on it, the player puts it onto the stack as a copy of the original spell.

Rimefeather Owl

Flying
Rimefeather Owl's power and toughness are each equal to the number of snow permanents on the battlefield.
{1}{S}: Put an ice counter on target permanent.
Permanents with ice counters on them are snow.

Shield Broker

When Shield Broker enters, put a shield counter on target noncommander creature you don't control. You gain control of that creature for as long as it has a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)

Resourceful Defense

Whenever a permanent you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on target permanent you control.
{4}{W}: Move any number of counters from target permanent you control to another target permanent you control.

Nissa, Who Shakes the World

Whenever you tap a Forest for mana, add an additional {G}.
+1: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target noncreature land you control. Untap it. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with vigilance and haste that's still a land.
−8: You get an emblem with "Lands you control have indestructible." Search your library for any number of Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Staff of the Storyteller

When Staff of the Storyteller enters, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
Whenever you create one or more creature tokens, put a story counter on Staff of the Storyteller.
{W}, {T}, Remove a story counter from Staff of the Storyteller: Draw a card.

Silkguard

Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures you control.
Auras, Equipment, and modified creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Elspeth, Undaunted Hero

+2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.
−2: Search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Sunlit Hoplite and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
−8: Until end of turn, creatures you control gain flying and get +X/+X, where X is your devotion to white.

Remnant of the Rising Star

Flying
Whenever another creature you control enters, you may pay {X}. When you do, put X +1/+1 counters on that creature.
As long as you control five or more modified creatures, Remnant of the Rising Star gets +5/+5 and has trample. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Jugan Defends the Temple

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Create a 1/1 green Human Monk creature token with "{T}: Add {G}."
II — Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Jugan Defends the Temple // Remnant of the Rising Star

Ajani, the Greathearted

Creatures you control have vigilance.
+1: You gain 3 life.
−2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and a loyalty counter on each other planeswalker you control.

Courage in Crisis

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Dovin, Architect of Law

+1: You gain 2 life and draw a card.
−1: Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
−9: Tap all permanents target opponent controls. That player skips their next untap step.

Smokestack

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on Smokestack.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice for each soot counter on Smokestack.

Nine Lives

Hexproof
If a source would deal damage to you, prevent that damage and put an incarnation counter on Nine Lives.
When there are nine or more incarnation counters on Nine Lives, exile it.
When Nine Lives leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

Planewide Celebration

Choose four. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Create a 2/2 Citizen creature token that's all colors.
• Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Proliferate.
• You gain 4 life.

Replicating Ring

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a night counter on Replicating Ring. Then if it has eight or more night counters on it, remove all of them and create eight colorless snow artifact tokens named Replicated Ring with "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Surrakar Spellblade

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put a charge counter on Surrakar Spellblade.
Whenever Surrakar Spellblade deals combat damage to a player, you may draw X cards, where X is the number of charge counters on it.

Angelheart Vial

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may put that many charge counters on Angelheart Vial.
{2}, {T}, Remove four charge counters from Angelheart Vial: You gain 2 life and draw a card.

Mindbender Spores

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Whenever Mindbender Spores blocks a creature, put four fungus counters on that creature. The creature gains "This creature doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a fungus counter on it" and "At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fungus counter from this creature."

Space Beleren

Space sculptor (Space Beleren divides the battlefield into alpha, beta, and gamma sectors. If a creature isn't assigned to a sector, its controller assigns it to one. Opponents assign first.)
+1: Creatures in each sector can be blocked this turn only by creatures in the same sector.
−1: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature in the sector of your choice.
−5: Destroy all creatures in the sector of your choice.

Vedalken Infuser

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on target artifact.

Aven Mimeomancer

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a feather counter on target creature. If you do, that creature has base power and toughness 3/1 and has flying for as long as it has a feather counter on it.

ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot

Flying
ED-E My Love — Whenever you attack, if the number of attacking creatures is greater than the number of quest counters on ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot, put a quest counter on it.
{2}, Sacrifice ED-E: Draw a card, then draw an additional card for each quest counter on ED-E.

Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus

Reach
At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.
{G/P}{G/P}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus. ({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)

Bounty Board

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}, {T}: Put a bounty counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
Whenever a creature with a bounty counter on it dies, each of its controller's opponents draws a card and gains 2 life.

Grand Master of Flowers

As long as Grand Master of Flowers has seven or more loyalty counters on him, he's a 7/7 Dragon God creature with flying and indestructible.
+1: Target creature without first strike, double strike, or vigilance can't attack or block until your next turn.
+1: Search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Monk of the Open Hand, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Experimental Augury

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Dragon-Kami's Egg

Whenever Dragon-Kami's Egg or a Dragon you control dies, you may cast a creature spell from among cards you own in exile with hatching counters on them without paying its mana cost.

The Dragon-Kami Reborn

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I, II — You gain 2 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Exile one of them face down with a hatching counter on it, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

The Dragon-Kami Reborn // Dragon-Kami's Egg

Luxa River Shrine

{1}, {T}: You gain 1 life. Put a brick counter on Luxa River Shrine.
{T}: You gain 2 life. Activate only if there are three or more brick counters on Luxa River Shrine.

Sudden Spinnerets

Target creature gets +1/+3 until end of turn. Put a reach counter on it. Untap it.

Thallid Shell-Dweller

Defender
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Thallid Shell-Dweller.
Remove three spore counters from Thallid Shell-Dweller: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Magnetic Web

If a creature with a magnet counter on it attacks, all creatures with magnet counters on them attack if able.
Whenever a creature with a magnet counter on it attacks, all creatures with magnet counters on them block that creature this turn if able.
{1}, {T}: Put a magnet counter on target creature.

War Dance

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on War Dance.
Sacrifice War Dance: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of verse counters on War Dance.

Talon of Pain

Whenever a source you control other than Talon of Pain deals damage to an opponent, put a charge counter on Talon of Pain.
{X}, {T}, Remove X charge counters from Talon of Pain: It deals X damage to any target.

Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants

+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.
−2: Return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, create three 1/1 white Cat creature tokens with lifelink."

Defiant Greatmaw

When Defiant Greatmaw enters, put two -1/-1 counters on target creature you control.
Whenever you put one or more -1/-1 counters on Defiant Greatmaw, remove a -1/-1 counter from another target creature you control.

Vivien, Monsters' Advocate

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast creature spells from the top of your library.
+1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Put your choice of a vigilance counter, a reach counter, or a trample counter on it.
−2: When you next cast a creature spell this turn, search your library for a creature card with lesser mana value, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Gemstone Array

{2}: Put a charge counter on Gemstone Array.
Remove a charge counter from Gemstone Array: Add one mana of any color.

Force Bubble

If damage would be dealt to you, put that many depletion counters on Force Bubble instead.
When there are four or more depletion counters on Force Bubble, sacrifice it.
At the beginning of each end step, remove all depletion counters from Force Bubble.

Instrument of the Bards

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a harmony counter on Instrument of the Bards.
{3}{G}, {T}: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of harmony counters on Instrument of the Bards, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If that card is legendary, create a Treasure token. Then shuffle.

Living Armor

{T}, Sacrifice Living Armor: Put X +0/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's mana value.

Contested Game Ball

Whenever you're dealt combat damage, the attacking player gains control of Contested Game Ball and untaps it.
{2}, {T}: Draw a card and put a point counter on Contested Game Ball. Then if it has five or more point counters on it, sacrifice it and create a Treasure token.

Out Cold

This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.)
Tap up to two target creatures and put a stun counter on each of them. Investigate. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Jace, Arcane Strategist

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
+1: Draw a card.
−7: Creatures you control can't be blocked this turn.

Surge Node

Surge Node enters with six charge counters on it.
{1}, {T}, Remove a charge counter from Surge Node: Put a charge counter on target artifact.

Barrenton Medic

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
Put a -1/-1 counter on Barrenton Medic: Untap Barrenton Medic.

Tidal Influence

Cast this spell only if no permanents named Tidal Influence are on the battlefield.
Tidal Influence enters with a tide counter on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a tide counter on Tidal Influence.
As long as there is exactly one tide counter on Tidal Influence, all blue creatures get -2/-0.
As long as there are exactly three tide counters on Tidal Influence, all blue creatures get +2/+0.
Whenever there are four or more tide counters on Tidal Influence, remove all tide counters from it.

Quicksilver Fountain

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player puts a flood counter on target non-Island land they control of their choice. That land is an Island for as long as it has a flood counter on it.
At the beginning of each end step, if all lands on the battlefield are Islands, remove all flood counters from them.

Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}: Put an hour counter on Midnight Clock.
At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on Midnight Clock.
When the twelfth hour counter is put on Midnight Clock, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile Midnight Clock.

Venerated Teacher

When Venerated Teacher enters, put two level counters on each creature you control with level up.

Ajani Goldmane

+1: You gain 2 life.
−1: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn.
−6: Create a white Avatar creature token. It has "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to your life total."

Ghost Vacuum

{T}: Exile target card from a graveyard.
{6}, {T}, Sacrifice Ghost Vacuum: Put each creature card exiled with Ghost Vacuum onto the battlefield under your control with a flying counter on it. Each of them is a 1/1 Spirit in addition to its other types. Activate only as a sorcery.

Cipherbound Spirit

Flying
Cipherbound Spirit can block only creatures with flying.
{3}{U}: Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Soulcipher Board

Soulcipher Board enters with three omen counters on it.
{1}{U}, {T}: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard.
Whenever a creature card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, remove an omen counter from Soulcipher Board. Then if it has no omen counters on it, transform it.

Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit

Liege of the Tangle

Trample
Whenever Liege of the Tangle deals combat damage to a player, you may choose any number of target lands you control and put an awakening counter on each of them. Each of those lands is an 8/8 green Elemental creature for as long as it has an awakening counter on it. They're still lands.

Contentious Plan

Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Draw a card.

The Ozolith

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 Luck Would Have It

Hexproof
Whenever you roll a die, put a number of luck counters on As Luck Would Have It equal to the result. Then if there are 100 or more luck counters on As Luck Would Have It, you win the game. (Count both rolls if you reroll a die.)

Quest for Ancient Secrets

Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may put a quest counter on Quest for Ancient Secrets.
Remove five quest counters from Quest for Ancient Secrets and sacrifice it: Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Spell Satchel

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, put a book counter on Spell Satchel.
{T}, Remove a book counter from Spell Satchel: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Remove three book counters from Spell Satchel: Draw a card.

Sand Silos

Sand Silos enters tapped.
You may choose not to untap Sand Silos during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Sand Silos is tapped, put a storage counter on it.
{T}, Remove any number of storage counters from Sand Silos: Add {U} for each storage counter removed this way.

Ajani Fells the Godsire

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Exile target creature an opponent controls with power 3 or greater.
II — Create a 2/1 white Cat Warrior creature token, then put a vigilance counter on a creature you control.
III — Target creature you control gains double strike until end of turn.

Armored Scrapgorger

Armored Scrapgorger gets +3/+0 as long as it has three or more oil counters on it.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever Armored Scrapgorger becomes tapped, exile target card from a graveyard and put an oil counter on Armored Scrapgorger.

Icatian Moneychanger

Icatian Moneychanger enters with three credit counters on it.
When Icatian Moneychanger enters, it deals 3 damage to you.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a credit counter on Icatian Moneychanger.
Sacrifice Icatian Moneychanger: You gain 1 life for each credit counter on Icatian Moneychanger. Activate only during your upkeep.

Call a Surprise Witness

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a flying counter on it. It's a Spirit in addition to its other types.

Sphinx-Bone Wand

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put a charge counter on Sphinx-Bone Wand. If you do, Sphinx-Bone Wand deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to any target.

Guardians of Oboro

Defender
Modified creatures you control can attack as though they didn't have defender. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Powder Keg

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fuse counter on Powder Keg.
{T}, Sacrifice Powder Keg: Destroy each artifact and creature with mana value equal to the number of fuse counters on Powder Keg.

Hibernation's End

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever you pay Hibernation's End's cumulative upkeep, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of age counters on Hibernation's End, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Adaptive Sporesinger

Vigilance
When Adaptive Sporesinger enters, choose one —
• Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains vigilance until end of turn.
• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Grateful Apparition

Flying
Whenever Grateful Apparition deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Oracle's Vault

{2}, {T}: Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card. Put a brick counter on Oracle's Vault.
{T}: Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if there are three or more brick counters on Oracle's Vault.

Danny Pink

Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
Creatures you control have "Whenever one or more counters are put on this creature for the first time each turn, draw a card."

Trade Caravan

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a currency counter on Trade Caravan.
Remove two currency counters from Trade Caravan: Untap target basic land. Activate only during an opponent's upkeep.

Ripples of Potential

Proliferate, then choose any number of permanents you control that had a counter put on them this way. Those permanents phase out. (To proliferate, choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Treat phased-out permanents and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Veldt

Veldt doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a depletion counter on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a depletion counter from Veldt.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}. Put a depletion counter on Veldt.

Fully Grown

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Put a trample counter on it.

Towashi Guide-Bot

When Towashi Guide-Bot enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
{4}, {T}: Draw a card. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each modified creature you control. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Serra's Hymn

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Serra's Hymn.
Sacrifice Serra's Hymn: Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of targets, divided as you choose, where X is the number of verse counters on Serra's Hymn.

Wicker Warcrawler

Whenever Wicker Warcrawler attacks or blocks, put a -1/-1 counter on it at end of combat.

Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer

{W}{U}, {T}: Put a bribery counter on target creature you don't control. Its controller draws a card.
Creatures with bribery counters on them can't attack or block.

Crocodile of the Crossing

Haste
When Crocodile of the Crossing enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature you control.

Infinite Hourglass

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on Infinite Hourglass.
All creatures get +1/+0 for each time counter on Infinite Hourglass.
{3}: Remove a time counter from Infinite Hourglass. Any player may activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.

Time Bomb

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on Time Bomb.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Time Bomb: Time Bomb deals damage equal to the number of time counters on it to each creature and each player.

Filigree Vector

When Filigree Vector enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each of any number of target creatures and a charge counter on each of any number of target artifacts.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice another artifact: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Chromatic Armor

Enchant creature
As Chromatic Armor enters, choose a color.
Chromatic Armor enters with a sleight counter on it.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature by sources of the last chosen color.
{X}: Put a sleight counter on Chromatic Armor and choose a color. X is the number of sleight counters on Chromatic Armor.

Darksteel Reactor

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Darksteel Reactor.
When Darksteel Reactor has twenty or more charge counters on it, you win the game.

Malignant Growth

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a growth counter on Malignant Growth.
At the beginning of each opponent's draw step, that player draws an additional card for each growth counter on Malignant Growth, then Malignant Growth deals damage to the player equal to the number of cards they drew this way.