The True Scriptures

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — For each opponent, destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls.
II — Each opponent discards three cards, then mills three cards.
III — Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Sheoldred

Menace
When Sheoldred enters, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature or planeswalker of their choice.
{4}{B}: Exile Sheoldred, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.

Sheoldred // The True Scriptures

Ulamog, the Defiler

When you cast this spell, target opponent exiles the top half of their library, rounded up.
Ward—Sacrifice two permanents.
Ulamog enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the greatest mana value among cards in exile.
Ulamog has annihilator X, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

Fire Nation Salvagers

Menace
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or Vehicle you control.
Whenever one or more creatures you control with counters on them deal combat damage to a player, put target creature or Vehicle card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Zul Ashur, Lich Lord

Ward—Pay 2 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 2 life.)
{T}: You may cast target Zombie creature card from your graveyard this turn.

Avatar of Woe

If there are ten or more creature cards total in all graveyards, this spell costs {6} less to cast.
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
{T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Fire Lord Sozin

Menace, firebending 3 (Whenever this creature attacks, add {R}{R}{R}. This mana lasts until end of combat.)
Whenever Fire Lord Sozin deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {X}. When you do, put any number of target creature cards with total mana value X or less from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

The Rise of Sozin

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Destroy all creatures.
II — Choose a card name. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for up to four cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

The Rise of Sozin // Fire Lord Sozin

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)

The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Defender
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Cult Conscript

This creature enters tapped.
{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only if a non-Skeleton creature died under your control this turn.

Magus of the Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Bitterbloom Bearer

Flash
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 blue and black Faerie creature token with flying.

Bloodghast

This creature can't block.
This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

The Darkness Crystal

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life.
{4}{B}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

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 this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Nine-Fingers Keene

Menace
Ward—Pay 9 life.
Whenever Nine-Fingers Keene deals combat damage to a player, look at the top nine cards of your library. You may put a Gate card from among them onto the battlefield. Then if you control nine or more Gates, put the rest into your hand. Otherwise, put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Unseal the Necropolis

Each player mills three cards. Then you return up to two creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, a player puts the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Dai Li Indoctrination

Choose one —
• Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland permanent card from it. That player discards that card.
• Earthbend 2. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

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

Sheoldred's Edict

Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Ichor Wellspring

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Fire Nation Sentinels

Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
{B/P}{B/P}, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Dreadhorde Invasion

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Bloodletter of Aclazotz

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

Maha, Its Feathers Night

Flying, trample
Ward—Discard a card.
Creatures your opponents control have base toughness 1.

Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Priest of Forgotten Gods

{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add {B}{B} and draw a card.

Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Chainer, Dementia Master

All Nightmares get +1/+1.
{B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
When Chainer leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Unstoppable Slasher

Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up.
When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.

Necrotic Ooze

As long as this creature is on the battlefield, it has all activated abilities of all creature cards in all graveyards.

Bloodsoaked Champion

This creature can't block.
Raid — {1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only if you attacked this turn.

Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Vraan, Executioner Thane

Whenever one or more other creatures you control die, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Gornog, the Red Reaper

Haste
Cowards can't block Warriors.
Whenever one or more Warriors you control attack a player, target creature that player controls becomes a Coward.
Attacking Warriors you control get +X/+0, where X is the number of Cowards your opponents control.

Corrupt Court Official

When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card.

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Junji, the Midnight Sky

Flying, menace
When Junji dies, choose one —
• Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life.
• Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.

Marionette Apprentice

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.)
Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying
When Kokusho dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Rankle, Master of Pranks

Flying, haste
Whenever Rankle 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 of their choice.

Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.
{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Bastion of Remembrance

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Day of Black Sun

Each creature with mana value X or less loses all abilities until end of turn. Destroy those creatures.

Orcish Bowmasters

Flash
When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Royal Assassin

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Bender's Waterskin

Untap this artifact during each other player's untap step.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Enduring Tenacity

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Warren Soultrader

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Witch-king of Angmar

Flying
Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice that dealt combat damage to you this turn. The Ring tempts you.
Discard a card: Witch-king of Angmar gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Alpharael, Stonechosen

Ward—Discard a card at random.
Void — Whenever Alpharael attacks, if a nonland permanent left the battlefield this turn or a spell was warped this turn, defending player loses half their life, rounded up.

Morbid Opportunist

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

Mai, Scornful Striker

First strike
Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, they lose 2 life.

Magus of the Mirror

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

Marvin, Murderous Mimic

Marvin has all activated abilities of creatures you control that don't have the same name as this creature.

Secret Tunnel

This land can't be blocked.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Two target creatures you control that share a creature type can't be blocked this turn.

Consuming Sepulcher

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Tithing Blade

When this artifact enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Craft with creature {4}{B} ({4}{B}, Exile this artifact, Exile a creature you control or a creature card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)

Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher

Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Koh, the Face Stealer

When Koh enters, exile up to one other target creature.
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may exile it.
Pay 1 life: Choose a creature card exiled with Koh.
Koh has all activated and triggered abilities of the last chosen card.

Reassembling Skeleton

{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Tergrid's Lantern

{T}: Target player loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card.
{3}{B}: Untap Tergrid's Lantern.

Tergrid, God of Fright

Menace
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent or discards a permanent card, you may put that card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern

Gisa, the Hellraiser

Ward—{2}, Pay 2 life.
Skeletons and Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have menace.
Whenever you commit a crime, create two tapped 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

White Lotus Tile

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the greatest number of creatures you control that have a creature type in common.

Sheoldred's Restoration

Kicker {2}{W} (You may pay an additional {2}{W} as you cast this spell.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was kicked, you gain life equal to that card's mana value. Otherwise, you lose that much life.
Exile Sheoldred's Restoration.

Vein Ripper

Flying
Ward—Sacrifice a creature.
Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Opposition Agent

Flash
You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries.
While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Persistent Specimen

{2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Adrix and Nev, Twincasters

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.

Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Ghoulcaller Gisa

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Koma, World-Eater

This spell can't be countered.
Trample, ward {4}
Whenever Koma deals combat damage to a player, create four 3/3 blue Serpent creature tokens named Koma's Coil.

Valgavoth, Terror Eater

Flying, lifelink
Ward—Sacrifice three nonland permanents.
If a card you didn't control would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
During your turn, you may play cards exiled with Valgavoth. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

Twilight Prophet

Flying
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Evin, Waterdeep Opportunist

Menace
Ward—Sacrifice a creature.
Evin gets +2/+0 for each Treasure you control.
Whenever one or more players sacrifice one or more creatures, you create a tapped Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Swamp

Butcher of Malakir

Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Gisa, Glorious Resurrector

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Azula, Ruthless Firebender

Firebending 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, add {R}. This mana lasts until end of combat.)
Whenever Azula attacks, you may discard a card. Then you get an experience counter for each player who discarded a card this turn.
{2}{B}: Until end of turn, Azula gets +1/+1 for each experience counter you have and gains menace.

Timothar, Baron of Bats

Ward—Discard a card.
Whenever another nontoken Vampire you control dies, you may pay {1} and exile it. If you do, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying. It gains "When this token deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice it and return the exiled card to the battlefield tapped."

Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

+2: Each player discards a card.
−X: Return target nonlegendary creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature dies, return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step."

Liliana, Heretical Healer

Lifelink
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile Liliana, Heretical Healer, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

Vat of Rebirth

Whenever another artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on this artifact.
{2}{B}, {T}, Remove four oil counters from this artifact: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.