The Phasing of Zhalfir

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, II — Another target nonland permanent phases out. It can't phase in for as long as you control this Saga.
III — Destroy all creatures. For each creature destroyed this way, its controller creates a 2/2 black Phyrexian creature token.

Brain Maggot

When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card until this creature leaves the battlefield.

Spirit Away

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying.

Diabolic Vision

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on top of your library in any order.

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Fracture

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.

Loyal Drake

Flying
Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, draw a card.

Eldritch Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of cards in their graveyard.

Scoured Barrens

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Nihiloor

When Nihiloor enters, for each opponent, tap up to one untapped creature you control. When you do, gain control of target creature that player controls with power less than or equal to the tapped creature's power for as long as you control Nihiloor.
Whenever you attack with a creature an opponent owns, you gain 2 life and that player loses 2 life.

Marble Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Underground River

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Diluvian Primordial

Flying
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Evil Twin

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has "{U}{B}, {T}: Destroy target creature with the same name as this creature."

Plague Spitter

At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Swamp

Mortify

Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Ghostly Pilferer

Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card.
Discard a card: This creature can't be blocked this turn.

Unburial Rites

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback {3}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Tranquil Cove

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Ornithopter of Paradise

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Dimir Keyrune

{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{U}{B}: This artifact becomes a 2/2 blue and black Horror artifact creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

The Ever-Changing 'Dane

{1}, Sacrifice another creature: The Ever-Changing 'Dane becomes a copy of the sacrificed creature, except it has this ability.

Desertion

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion

Ninjutsu {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Nashi deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of each player's library. Until end of turn, you may play one of those cards. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

Orzhov Signet

Momentary Blink

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Flashback {3}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Raffine's Tower

({T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Island

Phyrexian Rager

When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Cephalid Facetaker

This creature can't be blocked.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have this creature become a copy of another target creature until end of turn, except it's 1/4 and has "This creature can't be blocked."

Dark Ritual

Body Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature card in a graveyard.

Control Magic

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.

Minimus Containment

Enchant nonland permanent
Enchanted permanent is a Treasure artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color," and it loses all other abilities. (If it was a creature, it's no longer a creature.)

Kotose, the Silent Spider

When Kotose enters, exile target card other than a basic land card from an opponent's graveyard. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles. For as long as you control Kotose, you may play one of the exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Drown in the Loch

Choose one —
• Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
• Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Plains

Flickerwisp

Flying
When this creature enters, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Ethereal Usher

{U}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Lay Claim

Enchant permanent
You control enchanted permanent.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Hostage Taker

When this creature enters, exile another target creature or artifact until this creature leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Mirage Mirror

{2}: This artifact becomes a copy of target artifact, creature, enchantment, or land until end of turn.

Star Compass

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

Plagiarize

Until end of turn, if target player would draw a card, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Arcane Sanctum

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

Run Away Together

Choose two target creatures controlled by different players. Return those creatures to their owners' hands.

Extract Brain

Target opponent chooses X cards from their hand. Look at those cards. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost.

Sky Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

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.

Hover Barrier

Obscura Storefront

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Necromantic Selection

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

Mesmeric Fiend

When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's 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.

Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Arvinox, the Mind Flail

Arvinox 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.

Icewind Stalwart

Protection Fighting Style — When this creature enters, exile up to one target non-Warrior creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Mind Flayer

Dominate Monster — When this creature enters, gain control of target creature for as long as you control this creature.

Memory Plunder

You may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

Mnemonic Betrayal

Exile all opponents' graveyards. You may cast spells from among those cards this turn, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them. At the beginning of the next end step, if any of those cards remain exiled, return them to their owners' graveyards.
Exile Mnemonic Betrayal.

Utter End

True Polymorph

Target artifact or creature becomes a copy of another target artifact or creature.

Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Deathtouch
When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Vow of Torment

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has menace, and can't attack you or planeswalkers you control. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

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.)