Combat Research

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}. (Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Disruption Protocol

As an additional cost to cast this spell, tap an untapped artifact you control or pay {1}.
Counter target spell.

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

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.

Force Spike

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Defabricate

Choose one —
• Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. If a spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
• Counter target activated or triggered ability.

Counterspell

Censor

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Scent of Brine

Reveal any number of blue cards in your hand. Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card revealed this way.

Turn Aside

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

Cloudfin Raptor

Flying
Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Temporal Trespass

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Trespass.

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.

Inkmoth Nexus

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Inkmoth Nexus becomes a 1/1 Phyrexian Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying and infect until end of turn. It's still a land. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Steel Sabotage

Choose one —
• Counter target artifact spell.
• Return target artifact to its owner's hand.

Blighted Agent

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Blighted Agent can't be blocked.

Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Boseiju, Who Shelters All enters tapped.
{T}, Pay 2 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered.

Pact of Negation

Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Declaration of Naught

As Declaration of Naught enters, choose a card name.
{U}: Counter target spell with the chosen name.

Contentious Plan

Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Draw a card.

Stifle

Counter target activated or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

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.)

Cerulean Drake

Flying
Protection from red (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything red.)
Sacrifice Cerulean Drake: Counter target spell that targets you.

Grip of Amnesia

Counter target spell unless its controller exiles all cards from their graveyard.
Draw a card.

Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Draw three cards.

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Miscast

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

Abjure

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a blue permanent.
Counter target spell.

Deprive

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

Murktide Regent

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Flying
Murktide Regent enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each instant and sorcery card exiled with it.
Whenever an instant or sorcery card leaves your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Murktide Regent.

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.

Counterbalance

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, counter that spell if it has the same mana value as the revealed card.

Vexing Bauble

Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Vexing Bauble: Draw a card.

Annul

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

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.

Octavia, Living Thesis

This spell costs {8} less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Ward {8}
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.

Quest for Ancient Secrets

Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may put a quest counter on Quest for Ancient Secrets.
Remove five quest counters from Quest for Ancient Secrets and sacrifice it: Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Private Research

Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a page counter on Private Research.
When enchanted creature dies, draw a card for each page counter on Private Research.