If you would put one or more counters on a creature or planeswalker you control or on yourself, put that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Deathtouch Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

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

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

As long as you have one or fewer cards in hand, Djeru and Hazoret has vigilance and haste. Whenever Djeru and Hazoret attacks, look at the top six cards of your library. You may exile a legendary creature card from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Until end of turn, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Whenever Etali attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Whenever Gollum attacks, look at the top two cards of your library, put them back in any order, then choose land or nonland. An opponent guesses whether the top card of your library is the chosen kind. Reveal that card. If they guessed right, remove Gollum from combat. Otherwise, you draw a card and Gollum can't be blocked this turn.

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Deathtouch, haste When Queen Marchesa enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent is the monarch, create a 1/1 black Assassin creature token with deathtouch and haste.

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

Menace Other legendary creatures you control have menace. Whenever you play a legendary land or cast a legendary spell, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Each other player loses X life.

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

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {R}{W}.

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

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

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

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

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast legendary spells.

Minas Tirith enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains. {T}: Add {W}. {2}{W}{W}, {T}: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a historic card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

({T}: Add {R}.)

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

({T}: Add {W}.)

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell. {T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary permanents you control. {3}, {T}, Exile this land: Target legendary creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

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

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

{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.)

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

({T}: Add {B}.)

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

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

Lifelink {4}: Exchange your life total with Evra's power.

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Vigilance Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell. Sacrifice Boromir: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each counter on it. Equipped permanent isn't a planeswalker and is a creature in addition to its other types. (Loyalty abilities can still be activated.) Equip planeswalker {1} Equip {3}

Indestructible Battalion — Whenever Tajic and at least two other creatures attack, Tajic gets +5/+5 until end of turn.

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

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{W}.

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Double strike Whenever another legendary creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Gimli. Whenever Gimli deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token.

First strike, haste Whenever Kellogg attacks, create a Treasure token. Sacrifice five Treasures: Gain control of target creature for as long as you control Kellogg. Activate only as a sorcery.

Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{B}.

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Flying, lifelink Healing Tears — At the beginning of your end step, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Flying, lifelink Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step. If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.

(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.) Return all legendary permanent cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

During your turn, creatures and planeswalkers you control have lifelink. +2: Sorin deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. −X: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a Vampire in addition to its other types.

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Karlov. {W}{B}, Remove six +1/+1 counters from Karlov: Exile target creature.

Vigilance When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black and red is less than seven, Mogis isn't a creature. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Mogis deals 2 damage to that player unless they sacrifice a creature of their choice.

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Destroy all nonland permanents your opponents control.

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

(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.) Exile all nonland permanents that aren't legendary.

The "legend rule" doesn't apply to tokens you control. Whenever another nontoken legendary permanent you control enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of it. That token gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Whenever Krenko attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it, then create a number of 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens equal to Krenko's power.

Search your library for a snow permanent card, a legendary card, or a Saga card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 1 life for each {S} spent to cast this spell. ({S} is mana from a snow source.)

Deathtouch Boast — {1}{B}: Target player searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)