Theater of Horrors

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library.
During your turn, if an opponent lost life this turn, you may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with Theater of Horrors.
{3}{R}: Theater of Horrors deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Kaervek the Merciless

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, Kaervek the Merciless deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.

My Tendrils Run Deep

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.)
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control six or more lands, draw two cards, then abandon this scheme.

Shivan Gorge

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{R}, {T}: Shivan Gorge deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Hearthborn Battler

Haste
Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, Hearthborn Battler deals 2 damage to target opponent.

When Will You Learn?

When you set this scheme in motion, each opponent exiles the top card of their library. You may cast any number of spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Terrain Generator

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Spinerock Knoll

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Spinerock Knoll enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
{R}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if an opponent was dealt 7 or more damage this turn.

Exotic Orchard

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

Shadowblood Ridge

Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When Sepulchral Primordial enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

My Wealth Will Bury You

When you set this scheme in motion, create a number of Treasure tokens equal to the number of artifacts and enchantments your opponents control. If they control fewer than four artifacts and enchantments, create four Treasure tokens instead. (Treasure tokens are artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad, the Grim deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Only Blood Ends Your Nightmares

When you set this scheme in motion, each opponent sacrifices a creature. Then each opponent who didn't sacrifice a creature discards two cards.

Mine Is the Only Truth

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.)
Whenever a player casts a spell, you draw a card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you drew a card last turn, abandon this scheme.

My Followers Ascend

When you set this scheme in motion, put five +1/+1 counters on a creature you control and it gains flying and vigilance until end of turn. If you control no creatures, instead create a 4/4 colorless Scarecrow artifact creature token with vigilance.

My Crushing Masterstroke

When you set this scheme in motion, gain control of all nonland permanents your opponents control until end of turn. Untap those permanents. They gain haste until end of turn. Each of them attacks its owner this turn if able.

Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink.
Equip {2}

Introductions Are in Order

When you set this scheme in motion, choose one —
• Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

I Am Untouchable

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.)
You and permanents you control have hexproof.
When combat damage is dealt to you, create a 4/4 colorless Scarecrow artifact creature token with vigilance, then abandon this scheme.

Florian, Voldaren Scion

First strike
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the total amount of life your opponents lost this turn. Exile one of those cards and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

The Lord of Pain

Menace
Your opponents can't gain life.
Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn, choose another target player. The Lord of Pain deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to the chosen player.

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Meathook Massacre II

When Meathook Massacre II enters, each player sacrifices X creatures.
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.

Fate Unraveler

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Fate Unraveler deals 1 damage to that player.

My Laughter Echoes

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.)
Whenever you set a non-ongoing scheme in motion, you may abandon this scheme. If you do, set that scheme in motion again.

Falkenrath Noble

Flying
Whenever Falkenrath Noble or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Fear My Authority

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.)
Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, abandon this scheme unless you discard a card or pay 3 life.

No One Will Hear Your Cries

When you set this scheme in motion, each opponent chooses a creature they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Tectonic Giant

Whenever Tectonic Giant attacks or becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, choose one —
• Tectonic Giant deals 3 damage to each opponent.
• Exile the top two cards of your library. Choose one of them. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.

Rankle and Torbran

Flying, first strike, haste
Whenever Rankle and Torbran deals combat damage to a player or battle, choose any number —
• Each player creates a Treasure token.
• Each player sacrifices a creature.
• If a source would deal damage to a player or battle this turn, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.

Fellwar Stone

Chandra's Ignition

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.

Temple of Malice

Temple of Malice enters tapped.
When Temple of Malice enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Descent into Avernus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two descent counters on Descent into Avernus. Then each player creates X Treasure tokens and Descent into Avernus deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of descent counters on Descent into Avernus.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Torture Pit

If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.
(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.)

Spiked Corridor

When you unlock this door, create three 1/1 red Devil creature tokens with "When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target."
(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.)

Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit

Vial Smasher the Fierce

Whenever you cast your first spell each turn, choose an opponent at random. Vial Smasher the Fierce deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to that player or a planeswalker that player controls.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Rakdos Charm

Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Return the Favor

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {1} — Copy target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
+ {1} — Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Reality Is Mine to Control

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.)
Whenever you cast a spell, you may abandon this scheme. If you do, copy that spell, and you may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Plots That Span Centuries

When you set this scheme in motion, the next time you would set a scheme in motion, set three schemes in motion instead.

Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Rankle, Master of Pranks

Flying, haste
Whenever Rankle, Master of Pranks deals combat damage to a player, choose any number —
• Each player discards a card.
• Each player loses 1 life and draws a card.
• Each player sacrifices a creature.

Rakdos, Lord of Riots

You can't cast this spell unless an opponent lost life this turn.
Flying, trample
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Stormfist Crusader

Menace
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card and loses 1 life.

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.

You Cannot Hide from Me

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, up to one target creature gets +2/+2 and gains vigilance until end of turn. It can't be blocked this turn.
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if that player has less than half their starting life total, abandon this scheme.

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Brash Taunter

Indestructible
Whenever Brash Taunter is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent.
{2}{R}, {T}: Brash Taunter fights another target creature.

I Call for Slaughter

When you set this scheme in motion, create three 1/1 red Devil creature tokens with "When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target." They gain haste until end of turn. If a source you control would deal damage this turn, it deals that much damage plus 1 instead.

You Are Unworthy of Mercy

When you set this scheme in motion, each opponent sacrifices a nonland permanent. If you control six or more lands, each opponent sacrifices three nonland permanents instead.

A Reckoning Approaches

When you set this scheme in motion, look at the top six cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Barbflare Gremlin

First strike, haste
Whenever a player taps a land for mana, if Barbflare Gremlin is tapped, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced. Then that land deals 1 damage to that player.

Séance Board

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a soul counter on Séance Board.
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of soul counters on Séance Board. Spend this mana only to cast instant, sorcery, Demon, and Spirit spells.

Volcanic Fissure

As Volcanic Fissure enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.

Sundering Eruption

Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure

Light Up the Stage

Spectacle {R} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Combustible Gearhulk

First strike
When Combustible Gearhulk enters, target opponent may have you draw three cards. If the player doesn't, you mill three cards, then Combustible Gearhulk deals damage to that player equal to the total mana value of those cards.

Your Plans Mean Nothing

When you set this scheme in motion, any number of target players each discard their hands. Each opponent draws cards equal to the number of cards that player discarded minus one. Then if you discarded a card this way, draw seven cards.

Harsh Mentor

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of an artifact, creature, or land on the battlefield, if it isn't a mana ability, Harsh Mentor deals 2 damage to that player.

Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
Smoldering Marsh enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}.
Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature.

My Will Is Irresistible

When you set this scheme in motion, choose up to three nonland permanents you don't control. Target opponent chooses one of those permanents. You gain control of the rest.

Deadly Tempest

Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.

Every Last Vestige Shall Rot

When you set this scheme in motion, you may pay {X}. If you do, put each nonland permanent target player controls with mana value X or less on the bottom of its owner's library.

A Premonition of Your Demise

When you set this scheme in motion, reveal the top two cards of your library and put them into your hand. When you reveal one or more nonland cards this way, this scheme deals damage equal to their total mana value to any target.

Time Bends to My Will

When you set this scheme in motion, take an extra turn after this one. Skip the untap step of that turn.

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Talisman of Indulgence deals 1 damage to you.

Accursed Marauder

When Accursed Marauder enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature.

Your Fate Is Thrice Sealed

When you set this scheme in motion, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield and the rest into your hand.

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.
II — Each opponent discards a card.
III — Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

You Will Know True Suffering

When you set this scheme in motion, it deals damage equal to your commander's mana value to each noncommander creature your opponents control.

Chandra, Torch of Defiance

+1: Exile the top card of your library. You may cast that card. If you don't, Chandra, Torch of Defiance deals 2 damage to each opponent.
+1: Add {R}{R}.
−3: Chandra, Torch of Defiance deals 4 damage to target creature.
−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, this emblem deals 5 damage to any target."

Behold the Power of Destruction

When you set this scheme in motion, destroy all nonland permanents target opponent controls.

Star Athlete

Menace
Whenever Star Athlete attacks, choose up to one target nonland permanent. Its controller may sacrifice it. If they don't, Star Athlete deals 5 damage to that player.
Blitz {3}{R} (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Flying
Ward—Pay 2 life.
Whenever an opponent loses life for the first time during each of their turns, put a +1/+1 counter on Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls and draw a card.

Polluted Bonds

Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.
{1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip {2}

Choose Your Champion

When you set this scheme in motion, target opponent chooses a player. Until your next turn, only you and the chosen player can cast spells and attack with creatures.

Dusk Mangler

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature, discard a card, or pay 4 life.
When Dusk Mangler enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature, discards a card, and loses 4 life.

Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Bloodchief Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if Bloodchief Ascension has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Nightshade Harvester

Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 1 life. Put a +1/+1 counter on Nightshade Harvester.

Mask of Griselbrand

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards.
Equip {3}

Blackcleave Cliffs

Blackcleave Cliffs enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Power Without Equal

When you set this scheme in motion, draw three cards. You have no maximum hand size until your next turn. If you control six or more lands, you may cast up to three spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.

Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Fear of Burning Alive

When Fear of Burning Alive enters, it deals 4 damage to each opponent.
Delirium — Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to an opponent, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, Fear of Burning Alive deals that amount of damage to target creature that player controls.

I Will Savor Your Agony

When you set this scheme in motion, choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Destroy target creature.
• Target player draws a card.
• Target player gains 5 life.

Only I Know What Awaits

When you set this scheme in motion, for each card type among permanents your opponents control, you may put a permanent card of that type from your hand onto the battlefield.

Lightning Greaves

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

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Your Own Face Mocks You

When you set this scheme in motion, choose up to two target creatures your opponents control. For each one, create a token that's a copy of it. If you created fewer than two tokens this way, create a number of 4/4 colorless Scarecrow artifact creature tokens with vigilance equal to the difference.