Athreos, Shroud-Veiled

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature.
At the beginning of your end step, put a coin counter on another target creature.
Whenever a creature with a coin counter on it dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Meathook Massacre II

When Meathook Massacre II enters, each player sacrifices X creatures of their choice.
Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, they may pay 3 life. If they don't, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.

Knight of Doves

Whenever an enchantment you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.

One Ring to Rule Them All

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — The Ring tempts you, then each player mills cards equal to your Ring-bearer's power.
II — Destroy all nonlegendary creatures.
III — Each opponent loses 1 life for each creature card in that player's graveyard.

Mindwrack Harpy

Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, each player mills three cards.

There and Back Again

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Up to one target creature can't block for as long as you control this Saga. The Ring tempts you.
II — Search your library for a Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
III — Create Smaug, a legendary 6/6 red Dragon creature token with flying, haste, and "When Smaug dies, create fourteen Treasure tokens."

Cemetery Tampering

Hideaway 5 (When this enchantment enters, look at the top five cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill three cards. Then if there are twenty or more cards in your graveyard, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Battlemage's Bracers

Equipped creature has haste.
Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay {1}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Equip {2}

Firja's Retribution

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Create a 4/4 white Angel Warrior creature token with flying and vigilance.
II — Until end of turn, Angels you control gain "{T}: Destroy target creature with power less than this creature's power."
III — Angels you control gain double strike until end of turn.

Doom Foretold

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a nonland, nontoken permanent of their choice. If that player can't, they discard a card, they lose 2 life, you draw a card, you gain 2 life, you create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance, then you sacrifice this enchantment.

Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Silent Sentinel

Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, you may return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Phyrexian Scriptures

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.
II — Destroy all nonartifact creatures.
III — Exile all opponents' graveyards.

Alseid of Life's Bounty

Lifelink
{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature or enchantment you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Enchanter's Bane

At the beginning of your end step, target enchantment deals damage equal to its mana value to its controller unless that player sacrifices it.

Access Maze

Once during each of your turns, you may cast a spell from your hand by paying life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

Cramped Vents

When you unlock this door, this Room deals 6 damage to target creature an opponent controls. You gain life equal to the excess damage dealt this way.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

Cramped Vents // Access Maze

Doomwake Giant

Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Faith & Grief

Return up to two target artifact and/or enchantment cards from your graveyard to your hand. (Then exile this card. You may play the land later from exile.)

Ishgard, the Holy See

Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief

The War in Heaven

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
II — Mill three cards.
III — Choose up to three target creature cards with total mana value 8 or less in your graveyard. Return each of them to the battlefield with a necrodermis counter on it. They're artifacts in addition to their other types.

Field of the Dead

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Tarnished Citadel

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. This land deals 3 damage to you.

Demon of Fate's Design

Flying, trample
Once during each of your turns, you may cast an enchantment spell by paying life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice another enchantment: This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed enchantment's mana value.

Mesa Enchantress

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card.

Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Treacherous Blessing

When this enchantment enters, draw three cards.
Whenever you cast a spell, you lose 1 life.
When this enchantment becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

Elspeth Conquers Death

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Exile target permanent an opponent controls with mana value 3 or greater.
II — Noncreature spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast until your next turn.
III — Return target creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter or a loyalty counter on it.

Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

The Birth of Meletis

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
II — Create a 0/4 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender.
III — You gain 2 life.

Ghen, Arcanum Weaver

{R}{W}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice an enchantment: Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Grim Guardian

Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life.

The Witch's Vanity

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Destroy target creature an opponent controls with mana value 2 or less.
II — Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
III — Create a Wicked Role token attached to target creature you control.

Battlefield Forge

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Bitter Reunion

When this enchantment enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw two cards.
{1}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Starfield Mystic

Enchantment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever an enchantment you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher

Flying
Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Carmen and you gain 1 life.
Whenever Carmen attacks, return up to one target permanent card with mana value less than or equal to Carmen's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

The Eldest Reborn

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.
II — Each opponent discards a card.
III — Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Sun Titan

Vigilance
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Tecutlan, the Searing Rift

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

Brass's Tunnel-Grinder

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.)

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

Teval's Judgment

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token.
• Create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token.

Mythos of Snapdax

Each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest. If {B}{R} was spent to cast this spell, you choose the permanents for each player instead.

Archon of Sun's Grace

Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Pegasus creatures you control have lifelink.
Constellation — Whenever an enchantment you control enters, create a 2/2 white Pegasus creature token with flying.

Ondu Spiritdancer

Whenever an enchantment you control enters, you may create a token that's a copy of it. Do this only once each turn.

Oriq Loremage

{T}: Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. If it's an instant or sorcery card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Zoraline, Cosmos Caller

Flying, vigilance
Whenever a Bat you control attacks, you gain 1 life.
Whenever Zoraline enters or attacks, you may pay {W}{B} and 2 life. When you do, return target nonland permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it.

Luxury Suite

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Forging the Tyrite Sword

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Create a Treasure token.
III — Search your library for a card named Halvar, God of Battle or an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Swamp

Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Fires of Invention

You can cast spells only during your turn and you can cast no more than two spells each turn.
You may cast spells with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control without paying their mana costs.

Leyline of Sanctity

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Historian's Boon

Whenever this enchantment or another nontoken enchantment you control enters, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
Whenever the final chapter ability of a Saga you control triggers, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance.

Trouble in Pairs

If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.
Whenever an opponent attacks you with two or more creatures, draws their second card each turn, or casts their second spell each turn, you draw a card.

Nomad Outpost

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Searstep Pathway

Blightstep Pathway

Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway

Hostile Negotiations

Exile the top three cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top three cards of your library in another face-down pile. Look at the cards in each pile, then turn a pile of your choice face up. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. You lose 3 life.

Plains

Sporogenic Infection

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, target player sacrifices a creature of their choice other than enchanted creature.
When enchanted creature is dealt damage, destroy it.

Summon: Knights of Round

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after V.)
I, II, III, IV — Create three 2/2 white Knight creature tokens.
V — Ultimate End — Other creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn. Put an indestructible counter on each of them.
Indestructible

Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Psemilla, Meletian Poet

Whenever you cast your first enchantment spell each turn, create a 2/2 white Nymph enchantment creature token.
At the beginning of each combat, if you control five or more enchantments, Psemilla gets +4/+4 and gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Illusionist's Bracers

Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Equip {3}

Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

The Princess Takes Flight

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Exile up to one target creature.
II — Target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.
III — Return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Artist's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
{2}{R}: Level 2
Noncreature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{2}{R}: Level 3
If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.

Vault 21: House Gambit

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Discard a card, then draw a card.
III — Reveal up to five nonland cards from your hand. For each of those cards that has the same mana value as another card revealed this way, create a Treasure token.

The Night of the Doctor

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after II.)
I — Destroy all creatures.
II — Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put your choice of a first strike, vigilance, or lifelink counter on it.

Ascent of the Worthy

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Choose a creature you control. Until your next turn, all damage that would be dealt to creatures you control is dealt to that creature instead.
III — Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a flying counter on it. That creature is an Angel Warrior in addition to its other types.

Adagia, Windswept Bastion

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
STATION 12+
{3}{W}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or enchantment you control, except it's legendary. Activate only as a sorcery.

Snow-Covered Mountain

Showdown of the Skalds

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Exile the top four cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.
II, III — Whenever you cast a spell this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Martyr's Bond

Whenever this enchantment or another nonland permanent you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it.

Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Thousand-Year Elixir

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste.
{1}, {T}: Untap target creature.

Vault of Champions

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Pain for All

Enchant creature you control
When this Aura enters, enchanted creature deals damage equal to its power to any other target.
Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to each opponent.

Arid Mesa

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Scavenger's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
Whenever one or more creatures you control die, create a Food token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
{1}{B}: Level 2
Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, target player mills two cards.
{2}{B}: Level 3
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice three other nonland permanents. If you do, return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it.

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Oath of Eorl

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Create two 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens.
II — Create two 2/2 red Human Knight creature tokens with trample and haste.
III — Put an indestructible counter on up to one target Human. You become the monarch.

Captive Audience

This enchantment enters under the control of an opponent of your choice.
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• Your life total becomes 4.
• Discard your hand.
• Each opponent creates five 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Daxos the Returned

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you get an experience counter.
{1}{W}{B}: Create a white and black Spirit enchantment creature token. It has "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of experience counters you have."

Elspeth's Nightmare

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Destroy target creature an opponent controls with power 2 or less.
II — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
III — Exile target opponent's graveyard.

Seal of Cleansing

Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Hex Parasite

{X}{B/P}: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Moon-Blessed Cleric

Divine Intervention — When this creature enters, you may search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Reflection of Kiki-Jiki

{1}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of another target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Create a 2/2 red Goblin Shaman creature token with "Whenever this token attacks, create a Treasure token."
II — You may discard up to two cards. If you do, draw that many cards.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki

The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

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