Combat Research

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}. (Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)

Kaito Shizuki

At the beginning of your end step, if Kaito Shizuki entered the battlefield this turn, he phases out.
+1: Draw a card. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.
−2: Create a 1/1 blue Ninja creature token with "This creature can't be blocked."
−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, search your library for a blue or black creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle."

Blade of the Oni

Menace
Equipped creature has base power and toughness 5/5, has menace, and is a black Demon in addition to its other colors and types.
Reconfigure {2}{B}{B} ({2}{B}{B}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

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.

Go-Shintai of Hidden Cruelty

Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}. When you do, destroy target creature with toughness X or less, where X is the number of Shrines you control.

Ghost-Lit Warder

{3}{U}, {T}: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Ghost-Lit Warder: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}.

Konda's Banner

Konda's Banner can be attached only to a legendary creature.
Creatures that share a color with equipped creature get +1/+1.
Creatures that share a creature type with equipped creature get +1/+1.
Equip {2}

Scroll of Origins

{2}, {T}: Draw a card if you have seven or more cards in hand.

Ornate Kanzashi

{2}, {T}: Target opponent exiles the top card of their library. You may play that card this turn.

Kiku's Shadow

Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Kaldra Compleat

Living weapon
Indestructible
Equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has first strike, trample, indestructible, haste, and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, exile that creature."
Equip {7}

Honden of Infinite Rage

At the beginning of your upkeep, Honden of Infinite Rage deals damage to any target equal to the number of Shrines you control.

Eerie Procession

Search your library for an Arcane card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Tribute to Urborg

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.)
Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, that creature gets an additional -1/-1 until end of turn for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

Umezawa's Jitte

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte.
Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one —
• Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
• Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• You gain 2 life.
Equip {2}

Flames of the Blood Hand

Flames of the Blood Hand deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. The damage can't be prevented. If that player or that planeswalker's controller would gain life this turn, that player gains no life instead.

Sakashima the Impostor

You may have Sakashima the Impostor enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except its name is Sakashima the Impostor, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has "{2}{U}{U}: Return this creature to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step."

The Cruelty of Gix

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.
II — Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.
III — Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Akki Coalflinger

First strike
{R}, {T}: Attacking creatures gain first strike until end of turn.

Azami, Lady of Scrolls

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Draw a card.

Dockside Chef

{1}{B}, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Draw a card.

Forebear's Blade

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has vigilance and trample.
Whenever equipped creature dies, attach Forebear's Blade to target creature you control.
Equip {3}

Blackblade Reforged

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control.
Equip legendary creature {3}
Equip {7}

Kami's Flare

Kami's Flare deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker. Kami's Flare also deals 2 damage to that permanent's controller if you control a modified creature. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Warlord's Fury

Creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Dokuchi Silencer

Ninjutsu {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Dokuchi Silencer deals combat damage to a player, you may discard a creature card. When you do, destroy target creature or planeswalker that player controls.

Replication Specialist

Flying
Whenever a nontoken artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay {1}{U}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that artifact.

Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei

{R}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.
{3}{R}{R}: Create a 5/5 red Dragon Spirit creature token with flying. Activate only if you control an attacking modified creature. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Blood Clock

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player returns a permanent they control to its owner's hand unless they pay 2 life.

Kokusho, the Evening Star

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

Return to Action

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Acquisition Octopus

Whenever Acquisition Octopus or equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Reconfigure {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Hammer of Nazahn

Whenever Hammer of Nazahn or another Equipment enters the battlefield under your control, you may attach that Equipment to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has indestructible.
Equip {4}

Go-Shintai of Lost Wisdom

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}. When you do, target player mills X cards, where X is the number of Shrines you control. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Bronzeplate Boar

Trample
Equipped creature gets +3/+2 and has trample.
Reconfigure {5} ({5}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Fight with Fire

Kicker {5}{R} (You may pay an additional {5}{R} as you cast this spell.)
Fight with Fire deals 5 damage to target creature. If this spell was kicked, it deals 10 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets instead. (Those targets can include players and planeswalkers.)

The Reaver Cleaver

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, create that many Treasure tokens."
Equip {3}

Infiltration Lens

Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked by a creature, you may draw two cards.
Equip {1}

Honor-Worn Shaku

{T}: Add {C}.
Tap an untapped legendary permanent you control: Untap Honor-Worn Shaku.

Butcher's Cleaver

Equipped creature gets +3/+0.
As long as equipped creature is a Human, it has lifelink.
Equip {3}

Blinding Powder

Equipped creature has "Unattach Blinding Powder: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn."
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Goka the Unjust

{T}: Goka the Unjust deals 4 damage to target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

Initiate of Blood

{T}: Initiate of Blood deals 1 damage to target creature that was dealt damage this turn. When that creature dies this turn, flip Initiate of Blood.

Initiate of Blood // Goka the Unjust

Explosive Entry

Destroy up to one target artifact. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature.

Ryusei, the Falling Star

Flying
When Ryusei, the Falling Star dies, it deals 5 damage to each creature without flying.

Exile into Darkness

Target player sacrifices a creature with mana value 3 or less.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have more cards in hand than each opponent, you may return Exile into Darkness from your graveyard to your hand.

Tenza, Godo's Maul

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. As long as it's legendary, it gets an additional +2/+2. As long as it's red, it has trample.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Karn's Temporal Sundering

(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)
Target player takes an extra turn after this one. Return up to one target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Exile Karn's Temporal Sundering.

Blight Sickle

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has wither. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Equip {2}

Kami of the Waning Moon

Flying
Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Tetsuo, Imperial Champion

Whenever Tetsuo, Imperial Champion attacks, if it's equipped, choose one —
• Tetsuo deals damage equal to the highest mana value among Equipment attached to it to any target.
• You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand with mana value less than or equal to the highest mana value among Equipment attached to Tetsuo without paying its mana cost.

Counsel of the Soratami

Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh

The first activated ability of an artifact you activate each turn costs {2} less to activate.
+1: Draw two cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.
−2: Target artifact becomes an artifact creature. If it isn't a Vehicle, it has base power and toughness 4/4.
−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever an artifact you control becomes tapped, draw a card."

Ribbons of the Reikai

Kami of Twisted Reflection

Sacrifice Kami of Twisted Reflection: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Psychic Puppetry

You may tap or untap target permanent.
Splice onto Arcane {U} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Kira, Great Glass-Spinner

Flying
Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability."

Living Breakthrough

Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, your opponents can't cast spells with the same mana value as that spell until your next turn.

Inventive Iteration

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Return up to one target creature or planeswalker to its owner's hand.
II — Return an artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. If you can't, draw a card.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Inventive Iteration // Living Breakthrough

Withengar Unbound

Flying, intimidate, trample (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a player loses the game, put thirteen +1/+1 counters on Withengar Unbound.

Elbrus, the Binding Blade

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.
When equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, unattach Elbrus, the Binding Blade, then transform it.
Equip {1}

Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound

Run Amok

Target attacking creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn.

Night Dealings

Whenever a source you control deals damage to another player, put that many theft counters on Night Dealings.
{2}{B}{B}, Remove X theft counters from Night Dealings: Search your library for a nonland card with mana value X, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Reinforced Ronin

Haste
At the beginning of your end step, return Reinforced Ronin to its owner's hand.
Channel — {1}{R}, Discard Reinforced Ronin: Draw a card.

Heed the Mists

Mill a card, then draw cards equal to the milled card's mana value.

Hideous Laughter

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Splice onto Arcane {3}{B}{B} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Ghost-Lit Raider

{2}{R}, {T}: Ghost-Lit Raider deals 2 damage to target creature.
Channel — {3}{R}, Discard Ghost-Lit Raider: It deals 4 damage to target creature.

Devouring Rage

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of Spirits.
Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn. For each Spirit sacrificed this way, that creature gets an additional +3/+0 until end of turn.

Thief of Hope

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Soulshift 2 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Karn, Living Legacy

+1: Create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")
−1: Pay any amount of mana. Look at that many cards from the top of your library, then put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
−7: You get an emblem with "Tap an untapped artifact you control: This emblem deals 1 damage to any target."

Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho

Equipped creature gets +3/+1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control if it's a Samurai card.
When Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile equipped creature.
Equip {2}

The Unspeakable

Flying, trample
Whenever The Unspeakable deals combat damage to a player, you may return target Arcane card from your graveyard to your hand.

Ecologist's Terrarium

When Ecologist's Terrarium enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Ecologist's Terrarium: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Thundering Raiju

Haste
Whenever Thundering Raiju attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then Thundering Raiju deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of modified creatures you control other than Thundering Raiju. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Fires of Victory

Kicker {2}{U} (You may pay an additional {2}{U} as you cast this spell.)
If this spell was kicked, draw a card. Fires of Victory deals damage to target creature or planeswalker equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Invoke the Winds

Gain control of target artifact or creature. Untap it.

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}.
{B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Patron of the Akki

Goblin offering (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant by sacrificing a Goblin and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed Goblin. Mana cost includes color.)
Whenever Patron of the Akki attacks, creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

Enormous Energy Blade

Equipped creature gets +4/+0.
Whenever Enormous Energy Blade becomes attached to a creature, tap that creature.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Fumiko the Lowblood

Fumiko the Lowblood has bushido X, where X is the number of attacking creatures. (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +X/+X until end of turn.)
Creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able.

Vessel of the All-Consuming

Trample
Whenever Vessel of the All-Consuming deals damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Whenever Vessel of the All-Consuming deals damage to a player, if it has dealt 10 or more damage to that player this turn, they lose the game.

Hidetsugu Consumes All

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.
II — Exile all graveyards.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Hidetsugu Consumes All // Vessel of the All-Consuming

Soramaro, First to Dream

Flying
Soramaro, First to Dream's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
{4}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Draw a card.

Desperate Ritual

Add {R}{R}{R}.
Splice onto Arcane {1}{R} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Godo, Bandit Warlord

When Godo, Bandit Warlord enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Equipment card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Whenever Godo attacks for the first time each turn, untap it and all Samurai you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

Tyrite Sanctum

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Target legendary creature becomes a God in addition to its other types. Put a +1/+1 counter on it.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Tyrite Sanctum: Put an indestructible counter on target God.

Choice of Damnations

Target opponent chooses a number. You may have that player lose that much life. If you don't, that player sacrifices all but that many permanents.

Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep

{T}: Add {R}.
{R}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Reflection of Kiki-Jiki

{1}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of another target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Create a 2/2 red Goblin Shaman creature token with "Whenever this creature attacks, create a Treasure token."
II — You may discard up to two cards. If you do, draw that many cards.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki

Lizard Blades

Double strike
Equipped creature has double strike.
Reconfigure {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Kami of the Crescent Moon

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Uyo, Silent Prophet

Flying
{2}, Return two lands you control to their owner's hand: Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Tempered in Solitude

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.

Blessing of Leeches

Flash
Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.
{0}: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life.

Towashi Guide-Bot

When Towashi Guide-Bot enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
{4}, {T}: Draw a card. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each modified creature you control. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)