Phyrexian Scriptures

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.
II — Destroy all nonartifact creatures.
III — Exile all opponents' graveyards.

Rune of Mortality

Enchant permanent
When Rune of Mortality enters the battlefield, draw a card.
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it has deathtouch.
As long as enchanted permanent is an Equipment, it has "Equipped creature has deathtouch."

Parallax Dementia

Enchant creature
Fading 1 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with one fade counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
Enchanted creature gets +3/+2.
When Parallax Dementia leaves the battlefield, destroy enchanted creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Omen of the Dead

Flash
When Omen of the Dead enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice Omen of the Dead: Scry 2.

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

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.

Claws of Gix

{1}, Sacrifice a permanent: You gain 1 life.

Despondency

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-0.
When Despondency is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Despondency to its owner's hand.

Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Nightmare Shepherd

Flying
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types.

Oubliette

When Oubliette enters the battlefield, target creature phases out until Oubliette leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)

Fate Unraveler

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Fate Unraveler deals 1 damage to that player.

Extinguish All Hope

Invoke Despair

Target opponent sacrifices a creature. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.

Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market.
At the beginning of your precombat main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on Black Market.

Gixian Puppeteer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
When Gixian Puppeteer dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Palace Siege

As Palace Siege enters the battlefield, choose Khans or Dragons.
• Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Dragons — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Supernatural Stamina

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Underworld Connections

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "{T}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Treacherous Blessing

When Treacherous Blessing enters the battlefield, draw three cards.
Whenever you cast a spell, you lose 1 life.
When Treacherous Blessing becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

Glistening Oil

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has infect.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature.
When Glistening Oil is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Glistening Oil to its owner's hand.

Undying Evil

Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (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.)

Grim Guardian

Constellation — Whenever Grim Guardian or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life.

Bastion of Remembrance

When Bastion of Remembrance enters the battlefield, 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.

Demonic Pact

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• Demonic Pact deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life.
• Target opponent discards two cards.
• Draw two cards.
• You lose the game.

Strangling Grasp

Enchant creature or planeswalker an opponent controls
At the beginning of your upkeep, enchanted permanent's controller sacrifices a nonland permanent, then that player loses 1 life.

Vengeful Strangler

Vengeful Strangler can't block.
When Vengeful Strangler dies, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control attached to target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.

Vengeful Strangler // Strangling Grasp

Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Sleeper's Guile

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When Sleeper's Guile is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Sleeper's Guile to its owner's hand.

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.

Chime of Night

Enchant creature
When Chime of Night is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, destroy target nonblack creature.

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.

Strionic Resonator

{2}, {T}: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Lithoform Blight

Enchant land
When Lithoform Blight enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Enchanted land loses all land types and abilities and has "{T}: Add {C}" and "{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color."

Fallen Ideal

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has flying and "Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn."
When Fallen Ideal is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Fallen Ideal to its owner's hand.

Imp's Mischief

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

Lampad of Death's Vigil

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Doomwake Giant

Constellation — Whenever Doomwake Giant or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Agent of Erebos

Constellation — Whenever Agent of Erebos or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, exile target player's graveyard.

Tainted Aether

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, its controller sacrifices a creature or land.

Blightcaster

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may have target creature get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Feign Death

Braids's Frightful Return

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 — You may sacrifice a creature. If you do, each opponent discards a card.
II — Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
III — Target opponent may sacrifice a nonland, nontoken permanent. If they don't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card.

Lethal Vapors

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, destroy it.
{0}: Destroy Lethal Vapors. You skip your next turn. Any player may activate this ability.

Twisted Embrace

Enchant artifact or creature you control
When Twisted Embrace enters the battlefield, destroy target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it gets +1/+1.

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent or discards a card.

Nurgle's Rot

Enchant creature an opponent controls
When enchanted creature dies, return Nurgle's Rot to its owner's hand and you create a 1/3 black Demon creature token named Plaguebearer of Nurgle.

Infectious Curse

Enchant player
Spells you cast that target enchanted player cost {1} less to cast.
At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Accursed Witch

Spells your opponents cast that target Accursed Witch cost {1} less to cast.
When Accursed Witch dies, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control attached to target opponent.

Accursed Witch // Infectious Curse

Shrouded Lore

Target opponent chooses a card in your graveyard. You may pay {B}. If you do, repeat this process except that opponent can't choose a card already chosen for Shrouded Lore. Then put the last chosen card into your hand.

Demonic Lore

When Demonic Lore enters the battlefield, draw three cards.
At the beginning of your end step, you lose 2 life for each card in your hand.

Arvinox, the Mind Flail

Arvinox, the Mind Flail isn't a creature unless you control three or more permanents you don't own.
At the beginning of your end step, exile the bottom card of each opponent's library face down. For as long as those cards remain exiled, you may look at them, you may cast permanent spells from among them, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Swamp

Cunning Rhetoric

Whenever an opponent attacks you and/or one or more planeswalkers you control, exile the top card of that player's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Kaya's Ghostform

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control
When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Blessing of Leeches

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

Dockside Chef

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

Marchesa's Decree

When Marchesa's Decree enters the battlefield, you become the monarch.
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Tymaret, Chosen from Death

Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
{1}{B}: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.

Necromancy

You may cast Necromancy as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When Necromancy enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach Necromancy to it. When Necromancy leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Crystal Chimes

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Crystal Chimes: Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Parasitic Impetus

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Thought Vessel

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 that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Aphemia, the Cacophony

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may exile an enchantment card from your graveyard. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Endless Whispers

Each creature has "When this creature dies, choose target opponent. That player puts this card from its owner's graveyard onto the battlefield under their control at the beginning of the next end step."