Gadwick's First Duel

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Create a Cursed Role token attached to up to one target creature. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature is 1/1.)
II — Scry 2.
III — When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 3 or less this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Access Denied

Counter target spell. Create X 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.

Unified Will

Counter target spell if you control more creatures than that spell's controller.

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

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.

Tome Scour

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Witness Protection

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)

Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Flash
At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards.
Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

Aethersnatch

Gain control of target spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell becomes a permanent, it enters the battlefield under your control.)

Island

Essence Scatter

Remove Soul

Storm Reading

Draw four cards, then discard two cards. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Galvanic Giant

Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, tap target creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it.

Galvanic Giant // Storm Reading

Mind Control

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.

Ice Cage

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
When enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy Ice Cage.

Wall of Frost

Defender
Whenever Wall of Frost blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

The Flood of Mars

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Water Always Wins — Whenever The Flood of Mars attacks, put a flood counter on another target creature or land. If it's a creature, it becomes a copy of The Flood of Mars. If it's a land, it becomes an Island in addition to its other types.

Sleep

Tap all creatures target player controls. Those creatures don't untap during that player's next untap step.

Harbor Serpent

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Harbor Serpent can't attack unless there are five or more Islands on the battlefield.

Croaking Curse

Tap target creature. Create a Cursed Role token attached to it. (Enchanted creature is 1/1.)

Vantress Transmuter

Vantress Transmuter // Croaking Curse

Planar Portal

{6}, {T}: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Winter Eladrin

Gust of Wind — When Winter Eladrin enters the battlefield, return up to one other target creature to its owner's hand.

Psionic Pulse

Counter target noncreature spell. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Sapphire Dragon

Flying
Whenever Sapphire Dragon attacks or blocks, scry 2.

Sapphire Dragon // Psionic Pulse

Soaring Drake

Puppeteer

{U}, {T}: You may tap or untap target creature.

Artistic Refusal

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Choose one or both —
• Counter target spell.
• Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Summoner's Bane

Counter target creature spell. Create a 2/2 blue Illusion creature token.

Phantom Warrior

Plant Tadpoles

Tap X target creatures. They don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Illithid Harvester

Ceremorphosis — When Illithid Harvester enters the battlefield, turn any number of target tapped nontoken creatures face down. They're 2/2 Horror creatures.

Illithid Harvester // Plant Tadpoles

Dreamborn Muse

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards in their hand.

Doubling Cube

{3}, {T}: Double the amount of each type of unspent mana you have.

The Great Synthesis

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size for as long as you control The Great Synthesis.
II — Return all non-Phyrexian creatures to their owners' hands.
III — You may cast any number of spells from your hand without paying their mana costs. Exile The Great Synthesis, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Jin-Gitaxias

Ward {2}
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, draw a card.
{3}{U}: Exile Jin-Gitaxias, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you have seven or more cards in hand.

Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis

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.)

Lay Bare

Counter target spell. Look at its controller's hand.

Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.)
Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Vizzerdrix

Deprive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
Counter target spell.

Dream Fracture

Counter target spell. Its controller draws a card.
Draw a card.

Daze

You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Annul

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

Brine Elemental

Morph {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When Brine Elemental is turned face up, each opponent skips their next untap step.

Frazzle

Hada Spy Patrol

Level up {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)
LEVEL 1-2
2/2
Hada Spy Patrol can't be blocked.
LEVEL 3+
3/3
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Hada Spy Patrol can't be blocked.

Entry Denied

Return target creature you don't control with mana value 3 or less to its owner's hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Beluna's Gatekeeper

Beluna's Gatekeeper // Entry Denied

Zephyr Scribe

{U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, untap Zephyr Scribe.

Bribery

Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Guard Gomazoa

Defender, flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Guard Gomazoa.

Cryptic Serpent

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

Condescend

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Planar Atlas

Planar Atlas enters the battlefield tapped.
When Planar Atlas enters the battlefield, you may look at the top four cards of your library. If you do, reveal up to one land card from among them, then put that card on top of your library and the rest on the bottom in a random order.
{T}: Add {C}.

Aether Adept

When Aether Adept enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand.

Whiplash Trap

If an opponent had two or more creatures enter the battlefield under their control this turn, you may pay {U} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.

Belltower Sphinx

Flying
Whenever a source deals damage to Belltower Sphinx, that source's controller mills that many cards.

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Spell Pierce

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

Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Stormtide Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.
Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.

Dispersal Shield

Counter target spell if its mana value is less than or equal to the highest mana value among permanents you control.

Man-o'-War

When Man-o'-War enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand.

Academy Elite

Academy Elite enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in all graveyards.
{2}{U}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Academy Elite: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Frostfist Strider

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)
When Frostfist Strider enters the battlefield, tap target creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Gauntlet of Power

As Gauntlet of Power enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Creatures of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a basic land is tapped for mana of the chosen color, its controller adds an additional one mana of that color.

Mana Chains

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Cumulative upkeep {1}." (At the beginning of its controller's upkeep, that player puts an age counter on it, then sacrifices it unless they pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)