Nine-Lives Familiar

This creature enters with eight revival counters on it if you cast it.
When this creature dies, if it had a revival counter on it, return it to the battlefield with one fewer revival counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Netherborn Altar

{T}, Put a soul counter on this artifact: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone. Then you lose 3 life for each soul counter on this artifact.

Isilu, Carrier of Twilight

Flying, lifelink
Each other nontoken creature you control has persist. (When it dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {W}. If you do, transform Isilu.

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn

Flying, lifelink
Creature spells you cast have convoke. (Your creatures can help cast those spells. Each creature you tap while casting a creature spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {B}. If you do, transform Eirdu.