Cemetery Desecrator

Menace
When Cemetery Desecrator enters or dies, exile another card from a graveyard. When you do, choose one —
• Remove X counters from target permanent, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.
• Target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Targets

Temporal Distortion

Whenever a creature or land becomes tapped, put an hourglass counter on it.
Each permanent with an hourglass counter on it doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, remove all hourglass counters from permanents that player controls.

Shapers of Nature

{3}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
{2}{U}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.

Power Conduit

{T}, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Choose one —
• Put a charge counter on target artifact.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Quicksilver Fountain

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player puts a flood counter on target non-Island land they control of their choice. That land is an Island for as long as it has a flood counter on it.
At the beginning of each end step, if all lands on the battlefield are Islands, remove all flood counters from them.

Vizier of Remedies

If one or more -1/-1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many -1/-1 counters minus one are put on it instead.

Thrull Parasite

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
{T}, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.

Suncleanser

When Suncleanser enters, choose one —
• Remove all counters from target creature. It can't have counters put on it for as long as Suncleanser remains on the battlefield.
• Target opponent loses all counters. That player can't get counters for as long as Suncleanser remains on the battlefield.

Marchesa, Resolute Monarch

Menace, deathtouch
Whenever Marchesa, Resolute Monarch attacks, remove all counters from up to one target permanent.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you haven't been dealt combat damage since your last turn, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Invasion of Fiora

(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When Invasion of Fiora enters, choose one or both —
• Destroy all legendary creatures.
• Destroy all nonlegendary creatures.

Invasion of Fiora // Marchesa, Resolute Monarch

Quarry Hauler

When Quarry Hauler enters, for each kind of counter on target permanent, put another counter of that kind on it or remove one from it.

Temple of Cyclical Time

(Transforms from Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch.)
{T}: Add {U}. Remove a time counter from Temple of Cyclical Time.
{2}{U}, {T}: Transform Temple of Cyclical Time. Activate only if it has no time counters on it and only as a sorcery.

Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch

Flying
Whenever you cast an instant spell from your hand, it gains rebound. (Exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast it from exile without paying its mana cost.)
When Ojer Pakpatiq dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control with three time counters on it.

Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time

Kaya the Inexorable

+1: Put a ghostform counter on up to one target nontoken creature. It gains "When this creature dies or is put into exile, return it to its owner's hand and create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying."
−3: Exile target nonland permanent.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may cast a legendary spell from your hand, from your graveyard, or from among cards you own in exile without paying its mana cost."

Rex, Cyber-Hound

Whenever Rex, Cyber-Hound deals combat damage to a player, they mill two cards and you get {E}{E} (two energy counters).
Pay {E}{E}: Choose target creature card in a graveyard. Exile it with a brain counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery.
Rex has all activated abilities of all cards in exile with brain counters on them.

Vampire Hexmage

First strike
Sacrifice Vampire Hexmage: Remove all counters from target permanent.

Tasha, the Witch Queen

Whenever you cast a spell you don't own, create a 3/3 black Demon creature token.
+1: Draw a card. For each opponent, exile up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard and put a page counter on it.
−3: You may cast a spell from among cards in exile with page counters on them without paying its mana cost.
Tasha, the Witch Queen can be your commander.

Dark Depths

Dark Depths enters with ten ice counters on it.
{3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths.
When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Clockspinning

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Choose a counter on target permanent or suspended card. Remove that counter from that permanent or card or put another of those counters on it.

Freyalise's Winds

Whenever a permanent becomes tapped, put a wind counter on it.
If a permanent with a wind counter on it would untap during its controller's untap step, remove all wind counters from it instead.

Sage of Fables

Each other Wizard creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
{2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.

Mirage Mirror

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

Fraying Line

When Fraying Line enters, put a rope counter on target creature you control.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may pay {2}. If they do, they put a rope counter on a creature they control. Otherwise, exile Fraying Line and each creature without a rope counter on it, then remove all rope counters from all creatures.

Celestial Convergence

Celestial Convergence enters with seven omen counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an omen counter from Celestial Convergence. If there are no omen counters on Celestial Convergence, the player with the highest life total wins the game. If two or more players are tied for highest life total, the game is a draw.

Hexavus

Flying
Hexavus enters with six +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Hexavus: Put a flying counter on another target creature.
{1}, Remove a counter from another creature you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on Hexavus.

Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Dramatist's Puppet

When Dramatist's Puppet enters, for each kind of counter on target permanent, put another counter of that kind on it or remove one from it.

Ammit Eternal

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a -1/-1 counter on Ammit Eternal.
Whenever Ammit Eternal deals combat damage to a player, remove all -1/-1 counters from it.

Awoken Horror

When this creature transforms into Awoken Horror, return all non-Horror creatures to their owners' hands.

Thing in the Ice

Defender
Thing in the Ice enters with four ice counters on it.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, remove an ice counter from Thing in the Ice. Then if it has no ice counters on it, transform it.

Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror

Woeleecher

{W}, {T}: Remove a -1/-1 counter from target creature. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Thief of Blood

Flying
As Thief of Blood enters, remove all counters from all permanents. Thief of Blood enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each counter removed this way.

Soul Diviner

{T}, Remove a counter from an artifact, creature, land, or planeswalker you control: Draw a card.

Hierophant Bio-Titan

Frenzied Metabolism — As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each counter removed this way.
Vigilance, reach, ward {2}
Titanic — Hierophant Bio-Titan can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

The Master, Formed Anew

Body Thief — When you cast this spell, you may exile a creature you control and put a takeover counter on it.
You may have The Master, Formed Anew enter as a copy of a creature card in exile with a takeover counter on it.

Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Thespian's Stage becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Heartmender

At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a -1/-1 counter from each creature you control.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle enters tapped with five slumber counters on it.
As long as Arixmethes has a slumber counter on it, it's a land. (It's not a creature.)
Whenever you cast a spell, you may remove a slumber counter from Arixmethes.
{T}: Add {G}{U}.

Opposition Agent

Flash
You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries.
While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Biting Tether

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature.

Bloodletter Quill

{2}, {T}, Put a blood counter on Bloodletter Quill: Draw a card, then you lose 1 life for each blood counter on Bloodletter Quill.
{U}{B}: Remove a blood counter from Bloodletter Quill.

Medicine Runner

When Medicine Runner enters, you may remove a counter from target permanent.

Delaying Shield

If damage would be dealt to you, put that many delay counters on Delaying Shield instead.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove all delay counters from Delaying Shield. For each delay counter removed this way, you lose 1 life unless you pay {1}{W}.

Woolly Razorback

Woolly Razorback enters with three ice counters on it.
As long as Woolly Razorback has an ice counter on it, prevent all combat damage it would deal and it has defender.
Whenever Woolly Razorback blocks, remove an ice counter from it.

Noxious Hatchling

Noxious Hatchling enters with four -1/-1 counters on it.
Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever you cast a black spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from Noxious Hatchling.
Whenever you cast a green spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from Noxious Hatchling.

Ferropede

Ferropede can't be blocked.
Whenever Ferropede deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a counter from target permanent.

Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

Flying, vigilance, deathtouch, lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Atraxa, Grand Unifier

Flying, vigilance, deathtouch, lifelink
When Atraxa, Grand Unifier enters, reveal the top ten cards of your library. For each card type, you may put a card of that type from among the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.)

Price of Betrayal

Remove up to five counters from target artifact, creature, planeswalker, or opponent.

Sanctuary Warden

Flying
Sanctuary Warden enters with two shield counters on it.
Whenever Sanctuary Warden enters or attacks, you may remove a counter from a creature or planeswalker you control. If you do, draw a card and create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token.

Glissa Sunslayer

First strike, deathtouch
Whenever Glissa Sunslayer deals combat damage to a player, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Remove up to three counters from target permanent.

Render Inert

Remove up to five counters from target permanent.
Draw a card.

Chisei, Heart of Oceans

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Chisei, Heart of Oceans unless you remove a counter from a permanent you control.

Goldberry, River-Daughter

{T}: Move a counter of each kind not on Goldberry, River-Daughter from another target permanent you control onto Goldberry.
{U}, {T}: Move one or more counters from Goldberry onto another target permanent you control. If you do, draw a card.

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Flying
If you would proliferate, proliferate twice instead.
{1}{U/P}{U/P}, Remove three counters from among other artifacts, creatures, and planeswalkers you control: Put an indestructible counter on Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Fate Transfer

Move all counters from target creature onto another target creature.

Unstable Mutation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Voracious Hatchling

Lifelink
Voracious Hatchling enters with four -1/-1 counters on it.
Whenever you cast a white spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from Voracious Hatchling.
Whenever you cast a black spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from Voracious Hatchling.

Bounty of the Luxa

At the beginning of your first main phase, remove all flood counters from Bounty of the Luxa. If no counters were removed this way, put a flood counter on Bounty of the Luxa and draw a card. Otherwise, add {C}{G}{U}.

Quillspike

{B/G}, Remove a -1/-1 counter from a creature you control: Quillspike gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Divine Intervention

Divine Intervention enters with two intervention counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an intervention counter from Divine Intervention.
When you remove the last intervention counter from Divine Intervention, the game is a draw.

Leech Bonder

Leech Bonder enters with two -1/-1 counters on it.
{U}, {Q}: Move a counter from target creature onto a second target creature. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Tayam, Luminous Enigma

Each other creature you control enters with an additional vigilance counter on it.
{3}, Remove three counters from among creatures you control: Mill three cards, then return a permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sturdy Hatchling

Sturdy Hatchling enters with four -1/-1 counters on it.
{G/U}: Sturdy Hatchling gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Whenever you cast a green spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from Sturdy Hatchling.
Whenever you cast a blue spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from Sturdy Hatchling.

Etched Slith

Menace
Whenever Etched Slith deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it. When you do, you may remove a counter from another target permanent or opponent.

Hex Parasite

{X}{B/P}: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, Hex Parasite gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Portent Tracker

{T}: Untap target land.
{T}: Choose target battle. If an opponent protects it, remove a defense counter from it. Otherwise, put a defense counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery.

Fain, the Broker

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
{T}, Remove a counter from a creature you control: Create a Treasure token.
{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.
{3}{B}: Untap Fain, the Broker.

Thornmantle Striker

When Thornmantle Striker enters, choose one —
• Remove X counters from target permanent, where X is the number of Elves you control.
• Target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves you control.

Force Bubble

If damage would be dealt to you, put that many depletion counters on Force Bubble instead.
When there are four or more depletion counters on Force Bubble, sacrifice it.
At the beginning of each end step, remove all depletion counters from Force Bubble.

Mutated Cultist

Devoid (This card has no color.)
When you cast this spell, remove all counters from up to one target permanent or opponent. The next spell you cast this turn costs {1} less to cast for each counter removed this way.
Deathtouch

Etched Host Doombringer

When Etched Host Doombringer enters, choose one —
• Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
• Choose target battle. If an opponent protects it, remove three defense counters from it. Otherwise, put three defense counters on it.

Scholar of New Horizons

Scholar of New Horizons enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
{T}, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Search your library for a Plains card and reveal it. If an opponent controls more lands than you, you may put that card onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, put it into your hand. Then shuffle.

Galloping Lizrog

Trample
When Galloping Lizrog enters, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control. If you do, put twice that many +1/+1 counters on Galloping Lizrog.

Mari, the Killing Quill

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it with a hit counter on it.
Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues you control have deathtouch and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a hit counter from a card that player owns in exile. If you do, draw a card and create two Treasure tokens."

Sleep-Cursed Faerie

Flying, ward {2}
Sleep-Cursed Faerie enters tapped with three stun counters on it. (If it would become untapped, remove a stun counter from it instead.)
{1}{U}: Untap Sleep-Cursed Faerie.

Lithoform Engine

{2}, {T}: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.
{3}, {T}: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.
{4}, {T}: Copy target permanent spell you control. (The copy becomes a token.)

Heartless Act

Choose one —
• Destroy target creature with no counters on it.
• Remove up to three counters from target creature.

All Hallow's Eve

Exile All Hallow's Eve with two scream counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if All Hallow's Eve is exiled with a scream counter on it, remove a scream counter from it. If there are no more scream counters on it, put it into your graveyard and each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Take

Remove all +1/+1 counters from target creature you control. Draw that many cards.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Give

Put three +1/+1 counters on target creature.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Give // Take

Aether Snap

Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.

Jhoira's Timebug

{T}: Choose target permanent you control or suspended card you own. If that permanent or card has a time counter on it, you may remove a time counter from it or put another time counter on it.

Ravenloft Adventurer

When Ravenloft Adventurer enters, you take the initiative.
If a creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and put a hit counter on it.
Whenever Ravenloft Adventurer attacks, if you've completed a dungeon, defending player loses 1 life for each card they own in exile with a hit counter on it.

Spinal Parasite

Sunburst (This enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)
Remove two +1/+1 counters from Spinal Parasite: Remove a counter from target permanent.

Xavier Sal, Infested Captain

{T}, Remove a counter from another permanent you control: Populate. Activate only as a sorcery. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Proliferate. Activate only as a sorcery. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Hapatra's Mark

Target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn. Remove all -1/-1 counters from it. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Hopeful Initiate

Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
{2}{W}, Remove two +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.