Simic Ascendancy

{1}{G}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a creature you control, put that many growth counters on Simic Ascendancy.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Simic Ascendancy has twenty or more growth counters on it, you win the game.

Spell Satchel

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, put a book counter on Spell Satchel.
{T}, Remove a book counter from Spell Satchel: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Remove three book counters from Spell Satchel: Draw a card.

Coral Reef

Coral Reef enters with four polyp counters on it.
Sacrifice an Island: Put two polyp counters on Coral Reef.
{U}, Tap an untapped blue creature you control, Remove a polyp counter from Coral Reef: Put a +0/+1 counter on target creature.

Delif's Cube

{2}, {T}: This turn, when target creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, it assigns no combat damage this turn and you put a cube counter on Delif's Cube.
{2}, Remove a cube counter from Delif's Cube: Regenerate target creature.

Serra's Liturgy

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Serra's Liturgy.
{W}, Sacrifice Serra's Liturgy: Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments, where X is the number of verse counters on Serra's Liturgy.

Living Artifact

Enchant artifact
Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on Living Artifact.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from Living Artifact. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Liege of the Tangle

Trample
Whenever Liege of the Tangle deals combat damage to a player, you may choose any number of target lands you control and put an awakening counter on each of them. Each of those lands is an 8/8 green Elemental creature for as long as it has an awakening counter on it. They're still lands.

Oracle's Vault

{2}, {T}: Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card. Put a brick counter on Oracle's Vault.
{T}: Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if there are three or more brick counters on Oracle's Vault.

Clockwork Steed

Clockwork Steed enters with four +1/+0 counters on it.
Clockwork Steed can't be blocked by artifact creatures.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Steed attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
{X}, {T}: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Steed. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Steed to be greater than four. Activate only during your upkeep.

Perrie, the Pulverizer

When Perrie enters, put a shield counter on target creature. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Whenever Perrie attacks, target creature you control gains trample and gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of different kinds of counters among permanents you control.

Sun Droplet

Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many charge counters on Sun Droplet.
At the beginning of each upkeep, you may remove a charge counter from Sun Droplet. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Cephalid Vandal

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a shred counter on Cephalid Vandal. Then mill a card for each shred counter on Cephalid Vandal.

Wall of Roots

Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on Wall of Roots: Add {G}. Activate only once each turn.

Homarid

Homarid enters with a tide counter on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a tide counter on Homarid.
As long as there is exactly one tide counter on Homarid, it gets -1/-1.
As long as there are exactly three tide counters on Homarid, it gets +1/+1.
Whenever there are four or more tide counters on Homarid, remove all tide counters from it.

Agent's Toolkit

Agent's Toolkit enters with a +1/+1 counter, a flying counter, a deathtouch counter, and a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Whenever a creature you control enters, you may move a counter from Agent's Toolkit onto that creature.
{2}, Sacrifice Agent's Toolkit: Draw a card.

Heliod's Punishment

Enchant creature
Heliod's Punishment enters with four task counters on it.
Enchanted creature can't attack or block. It loses all abilities and has "{T}: Remove a task counter from Heliod's Punishment. Then if it has no task counters on it, destroy Heliod's Punishment."

Trade Caravan

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a currency counter on Trade Caravan.
Remove two currency counters from Trade Caravan: Untap target basic land. Activate only during an opponent's upkeep.

Soul Echo

Soul Echo enters with X echo counters on it.
You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Soul Echo if there are no echo counters on it. Otherwise, target opponent may choose that for each 1 damage that would be dealt to you until your next upkeep, you remove an echo counter from Soul Echo instead.

Kazandu Tuskcaller

Level up {1}{G} ({1}{G}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)
LEVEL 2-5
1/1
{T}: Create a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
LEVEL 6+
1/1
{T}: Create two 3/3 green Elephant creature tokens.

Magistrate's Scepter

{4}, {T}: Put a charge counter on Magistrate's Scepter.
{T}, Remove three charge counters from Magistrate's Scepter: Take an extra turn after this one.

Wedding Festivity

Wedding Announcement

At the beginning of your end step, put an invitation counter on Wedding Announcement. If you attacked with two or more creatures this turn, draw a card. Otherwise, create a 1/1 white Human creature token. Then if Wedding Announcement has three or more invitation counters on it, transform it.

Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity

Replicating Ring

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a night counter on Replicating Ring. Then if it has eight or more night counters on it, remove all of them and create eight colorless snow artifact tokens named Replicated Ring with "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Magosi, the Waterveil

Magosi, the Waterveil enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: Put an eon counter on Magosi, the Waterveil. Skip your next turn.
{T}, Remove an eon counter from Magosi, the Waterveil and return it to its owner's hand: Take an extra turn after this one.

Merseine

Enchant creature
Merseine enters with three net counters on it.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step if Merseine has a net counter on it.
Pay enchanted creature's mana cost: Remove a net counter from Merseine. Only the controller of the enchanted creature may activate this ability.

Osai Vultures

Flying
At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a carrion counter on Osai Vultures.
Remove two carrion counters from Osai Vultures: Osai Vultures gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Instrument of the Bards

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a harmony counter on Instrument of the Bards.
{3}{G}, {T}: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of harmony counters on Instrument of the Bards, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If that card is legendary, create a Treasure token. Then shuffle.

Powder Keg

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fuse counter on Powder Keg.
{T}, Sacrifice Powder Keg: Destroy each artifact and creature with mana value equal to the number of fuse counters on Powder Keg.

Vivien, Monsters' Advocate

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast creature spells from the top of your library.
+1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Put your choice of a vigilance counter, a reach counter, or a trample counter on it.
−2: When you next cast a creature spell this turn, search your library for a creature card with lesser mana value, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Palliation Accord

Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped, put a palliation counter on Palliation Accord.
Remove a palliation counter from Palliation Accord: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Woolly Razorback

Woolly Razorback enters with three ice counters on it.
As long as Woolly Razorback has an ice counter on it, prevent all combat damage it would deal and it has defender.
Whenever Woolly Razorback blocks, remove an ice counter from it.

Chromatic Armor

Enchant creature
As Chromatic Armor enters, choose a color.
Chromatic Armor enters with a sleight counter on it.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature by sources of the last chosen color.
{X}: Put a sleight counter on Chromatic Armor and choose a color. X is the number of sleight counters on Chromatic Armor.

Pious Kitsune

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a devotion counter on Pious Kitsune. Then if a creature named Eight-and-a-Half-Tails is on the battlefield, you gain 1 life for each devotion counter on Pious Kitsune.
{T}, Remove a devotion counter from Pious Kitsune: You gain 1 life.

Icatian Moneychanger

Icatian Moneychanger enters with three credit counters on it.
When Icatian Moneychanger enters, it deals 3 damage to you.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a credit counter on Icatian Moneychanger.
Sacrifice Icatian Moneychanger: You gain 1 life for each credit counter on Icatian Moneychanger. Activate only during your upkeep.

Invoke the Ancients

Create two 4/5 green Spirit creature tokens. For each of them, put your choice of a vigilance counter, a reach counter, or a trample counter on it.

Spontaneous Flight

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Put a flying counter on it.

Slippery Bogbonder

Flash
Hexproof
When Slippery Bogbonder enters, put a hexproof counter on target creature. Then move any number of counters from among creatures you control onto that creature.

Investigator's Journal

Investigator's Journal enters with a number of suspect counters on it equal to the greatest number of creatures a player controls.
{2}, {T}, Remove a suspect counter from Investigator's Journal: Draw a card.
{2}, Sacrifice Investigator's Journal: Draw a card.

Hornbash Mentor

When Hornbash Mentor enters, put a trample counter on target non-Human creature you control.
{2}{G}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with trample.

Essence Bottle

{3}, {T}: Put an elixir counter on Essence Bottle.
{T}, Remove all elixir counters from Essence Bottle: You gain 2 life for each elixir counter removed this way.

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

{2}{G}, {T}, Put a verse counter on Yisan, the Wanderer Bard: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of verse counters on Yisan, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Wingspan Mentor

When Wingspan Mentor enters, put a flying counter on target non-Human creature you control.
{2}{U}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with flying.

Helix Pinnacle

Shroud (This enchantment can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
{X}: Put X tower counters on Helix Pinnacle.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are 100 or more tower counters on Helix Pinnacle, you win the game.

Lilting Refrain

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Lilting Refrain.
Sacrifice Lilting Refrain: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is the number of verse counters on Lilting Refrain.

Coretapper

{T}: Put a charge counter on target artifact.
Sacrifice Coretapper: Put two charge counters on target artifact.

Gilder Bairn

{2}{G/U}, {Q}: Double the number of each kind of counter on target permanent. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Flycatcher Giraffid

Flycatcher Giraffid enters with your choice of a vigilance counter or a reach counter on it.

Kappa Tech-Wrecker

Ninjutsu {1}{G}
Kappa Tech-Wrecker enters with a deathtouch counter on it.
Whenever Kappa Tech-Wrecker deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a deathtouch counter from it. When you do, exile target artifact or enchantment that player controls.

Crystalline Giant

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose a kind of counter at random that Crystalline Giant doesn't have on it from among flying, first strike, deathtouch, hexproof, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, vigilance, and +1/+1. Put a counter of that kind on Crystalline Giant.

Fungus Elemental

{G}, Sacrifice a Forest: Put a +2/+2 counter on Fungus Elemental. Activate only if Fungus Elemental entered this turn.

Treasure Cove

(Transforms from Treasure Map.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a Treasure: Draw a card.

Treasure Map

{1}, {T}: Scry 1. Put a landmark counter on Treasure Map. Then if there are three or more landmark counters on it, remove those counters, transform Treasure Map, and create three Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Treasure Map // Treasure Cove

Icatian Javelineers

Icatian Javelineers enters with a javelin counter on it.
{T}, Remove a javelin counter from Icatian Javelineers: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Ominous Seas

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on Ominous Seas.
Remove eight foreshadow counters from Ominous Seas: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.

Jabari's Influence

Cast this spell only after combat.
Gain control of target nonartifact, nonblack creature that attacked you this turn and put a -1/-0 counter on it.

The Magic Mirror

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror, then draw a card for each knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror.

Component Pouch

{T}, Remove a component counter from Component Pouch: Add two mana of different colors.
{T}: Roll a d20.
1—9 | Put a component counter on Component Pouch.
10—20 | Put two component counters on Component Pouch.

Vitality Hunter

Lifelink
{X}{W}{W}: Monstrosity X. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put X +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
When Vitality Hunter becomes monstrous, put a lifelink counter on each of up to X target creatures.

Myth Realized

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a lore counter on Myth Realized.
{2}{W}: Put a lore counter on Myth Realized.
{W}: Until end of turn, Myth Realized becomes a Monk Avatar creature in addition to its other types and gains "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lore counters on it."

Briber's Purse

Briber's Purse enters with X gem counters on it.
{1}, {T}, Remove a gem counter from Briber's Purse: Target creature can't attack or block this turn.

Legacy's Allure

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a treasure counter on Legacy's Allure.
Sacrifice Legacy's Allure: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of treasure counters on Legacy's Allure. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Ludevic's Abomination

Ludevic's Test Subject

Defender
{1}{U}: Put a hatchling counter on Ludevic's Test Subject. Then if there are five or more hatchling counters on it, remove all of them and transform it.

Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination

Ursine Fylgja

Ursine Fylgja enters with four healing counters on it.
Remove a healing counter from Ursine Fylgja: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Ursine Fylgja this turn.
{2}{W}: Put a healing counter on Ursine Fylgja.

Grimoire of the Dead

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead.
{T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Sporogenesis

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fungus counter on target nontoken creature.
Whenever a creature with a fungus counter on it dies, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each fungus counter on that creature.
When Sporogenesis leaves the battlefield, remove all fungus counters from all creatures.

Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}: Put an hour counter on Midnight Clock.
At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on Midnight Clock.
When the twelfth hour counter is put on Midnight Clock, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile Midnight Clock.

Trap Digger

{2}{W}, {T}: Put a trap counter on target land you control.
Sacrifice a land with a trap counter on it: Trap Digger deals 3 damage to target attacking creature without flying.

Denry Klin, Editor in Chief

Denry Klin, Editor in Chief enters with your choice of a +1/+1, first strike, or vigilance counter on it.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if Denry has counters on it, put the same number of each kind of counter on that creature.

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.

Tornado

Cumulative upkeep {G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
{2}{G}, Pay 3 life for each velocity counter on Tornado: Destroy target permanent and put a velocity counter on Tornado. Activate only once each turn.

Energy Vortex

As Energy Vortex enters, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove all vortex counters from Energy Vortex.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, Energy Vortex deals 3 damage to that player unless they pay {1} for each vortex counter on Energy Vortex.
{X}: Put X vortex counters on Energy Vortex. Activate only during your upkeep.

Avenging Huntbonder

Double strike
Whenever Avenging Huntbonder attacks, put a double strike counter on another target attacking creature.

Oblivion Stone

{4}, {T}: Put a fate counter on target permanent.
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice Oblivion Stone: Destroy each nonland permanent without a fate counter on it, then remove all fate counters from all permanents.

Paradox Zone

Paradox Zone enters with a growth counter on it.
At the beginning of your end step, double the number of growth counters on Paradox Zone. Then create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of growth counters on Paradox Zone.

Calciform Pools

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on Calciform Pools.
{1}, Remove X storage counters from Calciform Pools: Add X mana in any combination of {W} and/or {U}.

Hoofprints of the Stag

Whenever you draw a card, you may put a hoofprint counter on Hoofprints of the Stag.
{2}{W}, Remove four hoofprint counters from Hoofprints of the Stag: Create a 4/4 white Elemental creature token with flying. Activate only during your turn.

Intrepid Adversary

Lifelink
When Intrepid Adversary enters, you may pay {1}{W} any number of times. When you pay this cost one or more times, put that many valor counters on Intrepid Adversary.
Creatures you control get +1/+1 for each valor counter on Intrepid Adversary.

Forsaken Thresher

At the beginning of your first main phase, add one mana of any color.

Foreboding Statue

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Put an omen counter on Foreboding Statue.
At the beginning of your end step, if there are three or more omen counters on Foreboding Statue, untap it, then transform it.

Foreboding Statue // Forsaken Thresher

Strixhaven Stadium

{T}: Add {C}. Put a point counter on Strixhaven Stadium.
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, remove a point counter from Strixhaven Stadium.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, put a point counter on Strixhaven Stadium. Then if it has ten or more point counters on it, remove them all and that player loses the game.

Blastoderm

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Fading 3 (This creature enters with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Crescendo of War

At the beginning of each upkeep, put a strife counter on Crescendo of War.
Attacking creatures get +1/+0 for each strife counter on Crescendo of War.
Blocking creatures you control get +1/+0 for each strife counter on Crescendo of War.

Helica Glider

Helica Glider enters with your choice of a flying counter or a first strike counter on it.

Infinite Hourglass

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on Infinite Hourglass.
All creatures get +1/+0 for each time counter on Infinite Hourglass.
{3}: Remove a time counter from Infinite Hourglass. Any player may activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.

Sensei Golden-Tail

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{1}{W}, {T}: Put a training counter on target creature. That creature gains bushido 1 and becomes a Samurai in addition to its other creature types. Activate only as a sorcery.

Myojin of Towering Might

Myojin of Towering Might enters with an indestructible counter on it if you cast it from your hand.
Remove an indestructible counter from Myojin of Towering Might: Distribute eight +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control. They gain trample until end of turn.

Elspeth Resplendent

+1: Choose up to one target creature. Put a +1/+1 counter and a counter from among flying, first strike, lifelink, or vigilance on it.
−3: Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a permanent card with mana value 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield with a shield counter on it. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
−7: Create five 3/3 white Angel creature tokens with flying.

Serrated Arrows

Serrated Arrows enters with three arrowhead counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no arrowhead counters on Serrated Arrows, sacrifice it.
{T}, Remove an arrowhead counter from Serrated Arrows: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Arbiter of the Ideal

Flying
Inspired — Whenever Arbiter of the Ideal becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact, creature, or land card, you may put it onto the battlefield with a manifestation counter on it. That permanent is an enchantment in addition to its other types.

Aven Mimeomancer

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a feather counter on target creature. If you do, that creature has base power and toughness 3/1 and has flying for as long as it has a feather counter on it.

Quarantine Field

Quarantine Field enters with X isolation counters on it.
When Quarantine Field enters, for each isolation counter on it, exile up to one target nonland permanent an opponent controls until Quarantine Field leaves the battlefield.

Sinner's Judgment

Enchant player
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a judgment counter on Sinner's Judgment. Then if there are three or more judgment counters on it, enchanted player loses the game.
If Sinner's Judgment would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Faithbound Judge

Defender, flying, vigilance
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Faithbound Judge has two or fewer judgment counters on it, put a judgment counter on it.
As long as Faithbound Judge has three or more judgment counters on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Disturb {5}{W}{W}

Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment

Khalni Heart Expedition

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a quest counter on Khalni Heart Expedition.
Remove three quest counters from Khalni Heart Expedition and sacrifice it: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Archery Training

Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put an arrow counter on Archery Training.
Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals X damage to target attacking or blocking creature, where X is the number of arrow counters on Archery Training."

Bounty of the Luxa

At the beginning of your first main phase, remove all flood counters from Bounty of the Luxa. If no counters were removed this way, put a flood counter on Bounty of the Luxa and draw a card. Otherwise, add {C}{G}{U}.

Gutter Grime

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, put a slime counter on Gutter Grime, then create a green Ooze creature token with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of slime counters on Gutter Grime."