Birthday Escape

Call of the Ring

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Crippling Fear

Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Canoptek Wraith

Wraith Form — Canoptek Wraith can't be blocked.
Transdimensional Scout — When Canoptek Wraith deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {3} and sacrifice it. If you do, choose a land you control. Then search your library for up to two basic land cards which have the same name as the chosen land, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Spells can't be countered.
Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost.

Soothing of Sméagol

Return target nontoken creature to its owner's hand. The Ring tempts you.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Go for the Throat

Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.

Gollum, Patient Plotter

When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield, the Ring tempts you.
{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Return Gollum from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.

Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Irenicus's Vile Duplication

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except the token has flying and it isn't legendary.

Universal Automaton

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)

Glorious Gale

Counter target creature spell. If it was a legendary spell, the Ring tempts you.

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Village Rites

Lord of the Nazgûl

Flying
Wraiths you control have protection from Ring-bearers.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 3/3 black Wraith creature token with menace. Then if you control nine or more Wraiths, Wraiths you control have base power and toughness 9/9 until end of turn.

Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may cast up to one target card of the other type from your graveyard. If a spell cast from your graveyard this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Wavebreak Hippocamp

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.

Distant Melody

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Serum Visions

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.

Ringsight

The Ring tempts you. Search your library for a card that shares a color with a legendary creature you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Changeling Outcast

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Changeling Outcast can't block and can't be blocked.

Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Helm of the Host

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste.
Equip {5}

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Distortion Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Cackling Counterpart

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Shadow Rift

Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Draw a card.

Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.

Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Counterspell

Maskwood Nexus

Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)

Levitation

Aphotic Wisps

Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Draw a card.

Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Gríma, Saruman's Footman

Gríma, Saruman's Footman can't be blocked.
Whenever Gríma deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Dark Ritual

Slip Through Space

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Draw a card.

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Draw three cards.

Peek

Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.

Tainted Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Borne Upon a Wind

You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Draw a card.

Nazgûl

Deathtouch
When Nazgûl enters, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever the Ring tempts you, put a +1/+1 counter on each Wraith you control.
A deck can have up to nine cards named Nazgûl.

Lash of the Balrog

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {4}.
Destroy target creature.

Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Glamdring

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +1/+0 for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand with mana value less than or equal to that damage without paying its mana cost.
Equip {3}

Shadow of the Enemy

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You may cast spells from among those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them.

Cremate

Exile target card from a graveyard.
Draw a card.

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Mindsplice Apparatus

Flash
At the beginning of your upkeep, put an oil counter on Mindsplice Apparatus.
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each oil counter on Mindsplice Apparatus.

Witch-king of Angmar

Flying
Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice that dealt combat damage to you this turn. The Ring tempts you.
Discard a card: Witch-king of Angmar gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Storm of Saruman

Ward {3}
Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, copy it, except the copy isn't legendary. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Sam's Desperate Rescue

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. The Ring tempts you.