Miscast

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Lookout's Dispersal

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a Pirate.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}.

Izzet Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.
• Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature.
• Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Oppressive Rays

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block unless its controller pays {3}.
Activated abilities of enchanted creature cost {3} more to activate.

Concerted Defense

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1} plus an additional {1} for each creature in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Amulet of Safekeeping

Whenever you become the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays {1}.
Creature tokens get -1/-0.

War Cadence

{X}{R}: This turn, creatures can't block unless their controller pays {X} for each blocking creature they control.

Jwari Ruins

Jwari Ruins enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Jwari Disruption

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins

Decisive Denial

Choose one —
• Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Forbidding Spirit

When Forbidding Spirit enters the battlefield, until your next turn, creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {2} for each of those creatures.

Flay

Target player discards a card at random. Then that player discards another card at random unless they pay {1}.

Spell Syphon

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each blue permanent you control.

Syncopate

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Quench

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.

The Argent Etchings

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Incubate 2 five times, then transform all Incubator tokens you control.
II — Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain double strike until end of turn.
III — Destroy all other permanents except for artifacts, lands, and Phyrexians. Exile The Argent Etchings, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Elesh Norn

Vigilance
Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you or a permanent you control, that source's controller loses 2 life unless they pay {1}.
{2}{W}, Sacrifice three other creatures: Exile Elesh Norn, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings

Flip the Switch

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Ghost-Lit Warder

{3}{U}, {T}: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Ghost-Lit Warder: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}.

Whirlwind Denial

For each spell and ability your opponents control, counter it unless its controller pays {4}.

Anticognition

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell unless its controller pays {2}. If an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, instead counter that spell, then scry 2.

Diffusion Sliver

Whenever a Sliver creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays {2}.

Jaraku the Interloper

Remove a ki counter from Jaraku the Interloper: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Callow Jushi

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on Callow Jushi.
At the beginning of the end step, if there are two or more ki counters on Callow Jushi, you may flip it.

Callow Jushi // Jaraku the Interloper

Lim-Dûl's Hex

At the beginning of your upkeep, for each player, Lim-Dûl's Hex deals 1 damage to that player unless they pay {B} or {3}.

Rishadan Cutpurse

When Rishadan Cutpurse enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a permanent unless they pay {1}.

Force Spike

Martyr of Frost

{2}, Reveal X blue cards from your hand, Sacrifice Martyr of Frost: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.

Mana Tithe

Rhystic Scrying

Draw three cards. Then if any player pays {2}, discard three cards.

Cowed by Wisdom

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your hand.

Revolutionary Rebuff

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

Stench of Evil

Destroy all Plains. For each land destroyed this way, Stench of Evil deals 1 damage to that land's controller unless they pay {2}.

Frost Titan

Whenever Frost Titan becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays {2}.
Whenever Frost Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Spiketail Hatchling

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Sacrifice Spiketail Hatchling: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Disruptive Pitmage

{T}: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Morph {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.)

Sage's Dousing

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. If you control a Wizard, draw a card.

Norn's Annex

({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)
Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {W/P} for each of those creatures.

Rishadan Brigand

Flying
When Rishadan Brigand enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a permanent unless they pay {3}.
Rishadan Brigand can block only creatures with flying.

Mystical Dispute

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a blue spell.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Wizard Replica

Flying
{U}, Sacrifice Wizard Replica: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Lofty Denial

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. If you control a creature with flying, counter that spell unless its controller pays {4} instead.

Patron Wizard

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Benevolent Geist

Flying
Noncreature spells you control can't be countered.
If Benevolent Geist would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Malevolent Hermit

{U}, Sacrifice Malevolent Hermit: Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {3}.
Disturb {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)

Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist

Rakshasa's Disdain

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard.

Spell Pierce

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

Soratami Savant

Flying
{3}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Mindstatic

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {6}.

Disrupt

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Draw a card.

Spiketail Drake

Flying
Sacrifice Spiketail Drake: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Stymied Hopes

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Power Sink

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.

Stubborn Denial

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

Abstruse Interference

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. You create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}." ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Frontline Medic

Battalion — Whenever Frontline Medic and at least two other creatures attack, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Sacrifice Frontline Medic: Counter target spell with {X} in its mana cost unless its controller pays {3}.

Mundungu

{T}: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} and 1 life.

Judge's Familiar

Flying
Sacrifice Judge's Familiar: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Overrule

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. You gain X life.

Nakaya Shade

{B}: Nakaya Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn unless any player pays {2}.

Whipgrass Entangler

{1}{W}: Until end of turn, target creature gains "This creature can't attack or block unless its controller pays {1} for each Cleric on the battlefield."

Reject

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell unless its controller pays {3}. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Propaganda

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

Archangel of Tithes

Flying
As long as Archangel of Tithes is untapped, creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.
As long as Archangel of Tithes is attacking, creatures can't block unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

Metallic Rebuke

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Brainwash

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack unless its controller pays {3}.

Valkmira, Protector's Shield

If a source an opponent controls would deal damage to you or a permanent you control, prevent 1 of that damage.
Whenever you or another permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays {1}.

Reidane, God of the Worthy

Flying, vigilance
Snow lands your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.
Noncreature spells your opponents cast with mana value 4 or greater cost {2} more to cast.

Reidane, God of the Worthy // Valkmira, Protector's Shield

Force Void

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

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}.

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Rhystic Syphon

Unless target player pays {3}, that player loses 5 life and you gain 5 life.

Evasive Action

Domain — Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each basic land type among lands you control.

Rhystic Tutor

Unless any player pays {2}, search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Crush Dissent

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.
Amass Zombies 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters 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.)

Silumgar Spell-Eater

Megamorph {4}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When Silumgar Spell-Eater is turned face up, counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Rites of Refusal

Discard any number of cards. Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3} for each card discarded this way.

Isolation Cell

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, that player loses 2 life unless they pay {2}.

Thassa's Intervention

Choose one —
• Look at the top X cards of your library. Put up to two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays twice {X}.

Clash of Wills

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.

Soul Barrier

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, Soul Barrier deals 2 damage to that player unless they pay {2}.

Excise

Exile target attacking creature unless its controller pays {X}.

Fade Away

For each creature, its controller sacrifices a permanent unless they pay {1}.

Archon of Absolution

Flying
Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything white.)
Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

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.)

Temur Charm

Choose one —
• Target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn. It fights target creature you don't control.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Creatures with power 3 or less can't block this turn.

Slow Motion

Enchant creature
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player sacrifices that creature unless they pay {2}.
When Slow Motion is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Slow Motion to its owner's hand.

Ixidor's Will

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2} for each Wizard on the battlefield.

Frightful Delusion

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. That player discards a card.

Rethink

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is its mana value.

Death Charmer

Whenever Death Charmer deals combat damage to a creature, that creature's controller loses 2 life unless they pay {2}.

Flaccify

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}{½}.

Mirrorshell Crab

Ward {3} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {3}.)
Channel — {2}{U}, Discard Mirrorshell Crab: Counter target spell or ability unless its controller pays {3}.

Rhystic Cave

{T}: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color unless any player pays {1}. Activate only as an instant.

Rhystic Shield

Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn. They get an additional +0/+2 until end of turn unless any player pays {2}.

Nils, Discipline Enforcer

At the beginning of your end step, for each player, put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature that player controls.
Each creature with one or more counters on it can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless its controller pays {X}, where X is the number of counters on that creature.

Broken Ambitions

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Clash with an opponent. If you win, that spell's controller mills four cards. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.)

Mindswipe

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Mindswipe deals X damage to that spell's controller.