Best 1:1 upgrades

Ingenious Prodigy

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this creature has one or more +1/+1 counters on it, you may remove a +1/+1 counter from it. If you do, draw a card.

Fathom Mage

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Whenever a +1/+1 counter is put on this creature, you may draw a card.

Budget upgrades

Haliya, Ascendant Cadet

Whenever Haliya enters or attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Whenever one or more creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Incubation Druid

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce. If this creature has a +1/+1 counter on it, add three mana of that type instead.
{3}{G}{G}: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Summoner's Sending

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature card from a graveyard. If you do, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. Put a +1/+1 counter on it if the exiled card's mana value is 4 or greater.

Chocobo Knights

Whenever you attack, creatures you control with counters on them gain double strike until end of turn.

Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Destroy Evil

Choose one —
• Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater.
• Destroy target enchantment.

Pull from Tomorrow

Luminous Broodmoth

Flying
Whenever a creature you control without flying dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a flying counter on it.

O'aka, Traveling Merchant

{T}, Remove a counter from a nonland permanent you control: Draw a card.

Broodguard Elite

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, put its counters on target creature you control.
Warp {X}{G} (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)

Blitzball Stadium

When this artifact enters, support X. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures.)
Go for the Goal! — {3}, {T}: Until end of turn, target creature gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card for each kind of counter on it" and it can't be blocked this turn.

Wakka, Devoted Guardian

Reach, trample
Whenever Wakka deals combat damage to a player, destroy up to one target artifact that player controls and put a +1/+1 counter on Wakka.
Blitzball Captain — At the beginning of your end step, if a counter was put on Wakka this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.

Reluctant Role Model

Survival — At the beginning of your second main phase, if this creature is tapped, put a flying, lifelink, or +1/+1 counter on it.
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, if it had counters on it, put those counters on up to one target creature.

Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Idyllic Beachfront

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
This land enters tapped.

Meltstrider Eulogist

Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, draw a card.

Grateful Apparition

Flying
Whenever this creature 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.)

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

Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.
{T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Sazh Katzroy

When Sazh Katzroy enters, you may search your library for a Bird or basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Whenever Sazh Katzroy attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on that creature.

Collective Effort

Escalate—Tap an untapped creature you control. (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature target player controls.

Sungrass Prairie

Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn.
• Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto a second target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Bred for the Hunt

Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Gyre Sage

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
{T}: Add {G} for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Kimahri, Valiant Guardian

Vigilance
Ronso Rage — At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Kimahri and tap target creature an opponent controls. Then you may have Kimahri become a copy of that creature, except its name is Kimahri, Valiant Guardian and it has vigilance and this ability.

Walking Ballista

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Argent Dais

This artifact enters with two oil counters on it.
Whenever two or more creatures attack, put an oil counter on this artifact.
{2}, {T}, Remove two oil counters from this artifact: Exile another target nonland permanent. Its controller draws two cards.

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Luminarch Aspirant

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Duskshell Crawler

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

The Earth Crystal

Green spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.
{4}{G}{G}, {T}: Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures you control.

Together Forever

When this enchantment enters, support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)
{1}: Choose target creature with a counter on it. When that creature dies this turn, return that card to its owner's hand.

Rikku, Resourceful Guardian

Whenever you put one or more counters on a creature, until end of turn, that creature can't be blocked by creatures your opponents control.
Steal — {1}, {T}: Move a counter from target creature an opponent controls onto target creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Port Town

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal

Indestructible
Blessing of Light — At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control. Until your next turn, it gains indestructible. If that creature is legendary, draw a card.

Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn

Whenever you cast a legendary spell, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Hero's Sundering — {7}, {T}: Exile target nonland permanent. Transform Venat. Activate only as a sorcery.

Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal

Altered Ego

This spell can't be countered.
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it.

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte

Lifelink
Whenever another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature if its power is less than Shelinda's power. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on Shelinda.

Fortified Village

As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

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.)

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Torgal, A Fine Hound

Whenever you cast your first Human creature spell each turn, that creature enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it for each Dog and/or Wolf you control.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Aerith Gainsborough

Lifelink
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Aerith Gainsborough.
When Aerith Gainsborough dies, put X +1/+1 counters on each legendary creature you control, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Aerith Gainsborough.

Rosa, Resolute White Mage

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Promise of Loyalty

Each player puts a vow counter on a creature they control and sacrifices the rest. Each of those creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control for as long as it has a vow counter on it.

Brushland

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

Auron, Venerated Guardian

Vigilance
Shooting Star — Whenever Auron attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. When you do, exile target creature defending player controls with power less than Auron's power until Auron leaves the battlefield.

Hinterland Harbor

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Flooded Grove

{T}: Add {C}.
{G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Terrasymbiosis

Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on a creature you control, you may draw that many cards. Do this only once each turn.

Tromell, Seymour's Butler

Each other nontoken creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
{1}, {T}: Proliferate X times, where X is the number of nontoken creatures you control that entered this turn. (To proliferate, choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Endless Detour

The owner of target spell, nonland permanent, or card in a graveyard puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Sphere Grid

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.
Unlock Ability — Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have reach and trample.

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 onto a second target permanent you control.

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Tireless Tracker

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Pollywog Prodigy

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell with mana value less than this creature's power, draw a card.

Summon: Ixion

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Aerospark — Exile target creature an opponent controls until this Saga leaves the battlefield.
II, III — Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures you control. You gain 2 life.
First strike

Overflowing Basin

Bane of Progress

When this creature enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each permanent destroyed this way.

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Flying
If you would proliferate, proliferate twice instead.
{1}{U/P}{U/P}, Remove three counters from among other artifacts, creatures, and planeswalkers you control: Put an indestructible counter on Tekuthal. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Rinoa Heartilly

When Rinoa Heartilly enters, create Angelo, a legendary 1/1 green and white Dog creature token.
Angelo Cannon — Whenever Rinoa Heartilly attacks, another target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature you control.

Tidus, Yuna's Guardian

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may move a counter from target creature you control onto a second target creature you control.
Cheer — Whenever one or more creatures you control with counters on them deal combat damage to a player, you may draw a card and proliferate. Do this only once each turn.

Inexorable Tide

Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Evolving Wilds

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

Exotic Orchard

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

Forge of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Choose target commander that entered this turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and a loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.

Forest

Yuna, Grand Summoner

Grand Summon — {T}: Add one mana of any color. When you next cast a creature spell this turn, that creature enters with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever another permanent you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it had one or more counters on it, you may put that number of +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Temple of Enlightenment

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Summon: Yojimbo

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I — Exile target artifact, enchantment, or tapped creature an opponent controls.
II, III — Until your next turn, creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each of those creatures.
IV — Create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of opponents who control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Vigilance

Lulu, Stern Guardian

Whenever an opponent attacks you, choose target creature attacking you. Put a stun counter on that creature.
{3}{U}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Temple of Mystery

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Vineglimmer Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Lumen-Class Frigate

Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 12+.)
2+ | Other creatures you control get +1/+1.
12+ | Flying, lifelink

Ouroboroid

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put X +1/+1 counters on each creature you control, where X is this creature's power.

Dreamtide Whale

Vanishing 2 (This creature enters with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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."

Haven of the Harvest

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Strength of the Harvest

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each creature and/or enchantment you control.

Strength of the Harvest // Haven of the Harvest

Protection Magic

Put a shield counter on each of up to three target creatures. (If a creature with a shield counter would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)

Fight Rigging

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 combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then if you control a creature with power 7 or greater, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Lord Jyscal Guado

Flying
At the beginning of each end step, if you put a counter on a creature this turn, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Tangled Islet

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
This land enters tapped.

Arcane Signet

Skycloud Expanse

Branching Evolution

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.

Island

Scholar of New Horizons

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
{T}, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Search your library for a Plains card and reveal it. If an opponent controls more lands than you, you may put that card onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, 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.

Sol Ring

Maester Seymour

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to Maester Seymour's power on another target creature you control.
{3}{G}{G}: Monstrosity X, where X is the number of counters among creatures you control. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put X +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

Generous Pup

Vigilance
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Temple of Plenty

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.