The Elder Dragon War

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — The Elder Dragon War deals 2 damage to each creature and each opponent.
II — Discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards.
III — Create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Izzet Signet

Undercity Sewers

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Undercity Sewers enters tapped.
When Undercity Sewers enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

No Escape

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
Scry 1.

Thundering Falls

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
Thundering Falls enters tapped.
When Thundering Falls enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Fraying Omnipotence

Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice. Round up each time.

Luxury Suite

Luxury Suite enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Dreadhorde Invasion

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter 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.)
Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Spires of Orazca

(Transforms from Thaumatic Compass.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Untap target attacking creature an opponent controls and remove it from combat.

Thaumatic Compass

{3}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control seven or more lands, transform Thaumatic Compass.

Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
As Steam Vents enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

God-Eternal Bontu

Menace
When God-Eternal Bontu enters, sacrifice any number of other permanents, then draw that many cards.
When God-Eternal Bontu dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Island

Zombie

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Tormenting Voice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards.

Sulfur Falls

Sulfur Falls enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Gem of Becoming

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Gem of Becoming: Search your library for an Island card, a Swamp card, and a Mountain card. Reveal those cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Rakdos Carnarium

Rakdos Carnarium enters tapped.
When Rakdos Carnarium enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{R}.

Bolas's Citadel

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.

Talisman of Creativity

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}. Talisman of Creativity deals 1 damage to you.

The Locust God

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, create a 1/1 blue and red Insect creature token with flying and haste.
{2}{U}{R}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
When The Locust God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Command Tower

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

Ral, Izzet Viceroy

+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
−3: Ral, Izzet Viceroy deals damage to target creature equal to the total number of instant and sorcery cards you own in exile and in your graveyard.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this emblem deals 4 damage to any target and you draw two cards."

Dark Intimations

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, then discards a card. You return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand, then draw a card.
When you cast a Bolas planeswalker spell, exile Dark Intimations from your graveyard. That planeswalker enters with an additional loyalty counter on it.

The Immortal Sun

Players can't activate planeswalkers' loyalty abilities.
At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card.
Spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Creatures you control get +1/+1.

Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

+2: Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost.
+1: Each opponent exiles two cards from their hand.
−4: Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh deals 7 damage to target opponent, creature an opponent controls, or planeswalker an opponent controls.
−12: Exile each nonland permanent your opponents control.

Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Dimir Signet

The Elderspell

Destroy any number of target planeswalkers. Choose a planeswalker you control. Put two loyalty counters on it for each planeswalker destroyed this way.

Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver

+3: Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.
−3: Destroy target creature. Draw a card.
−11: Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver deals 7 damage to each opponent. You draw seven cards.

Dragon

Etherium Cell

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Nicol Bolas

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Nicol Bolas unless you pay {U}{B}{R}.
Whenever Nicol Bolas deals damage to an opponent, that player discards their hand.

Splendid Agony

Distribute two -1/-1 counters among one or two target creatures.

Hour of Eternity

Exile X target creature cards from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.

Supreme Will

Choose one —
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Leyline of the Void

If Leyline of the Void is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Rakdos Signet

Xander's Lounge

({T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.)
Xander's Lounge enters tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Leyline of Combustion

If Leyline of Combustion is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Whenever you and/or at least one permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, Leyline of Combustion deals 2 damage to that player.

Open into Wonder

X target creatures can't be blocked this turn. Until end of turn, those creatures gain "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

Mastermind's Acquisition

Choose one —
• Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• Put a card you own from outside the game into your hand.

Gate to the Afterlife

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you gain 1 life. Then you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Gate to the Afterlife: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named God-Pharaoh's Gift and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only if there are six or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Cascading Cataracts

Indestructible
{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}: Add five mana in any combination of colors.

Magmaquake

Magmaquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each planeswalker.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Mountain

Dunes of the Dead

{T}: Add {C}.
When Dunes of the Dead is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Morphic Pool

Morphic Pool enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

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.)

Soul Manipulation

Choose one or both —
• Counter target creature spell.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Cinder Barrens

Cinder Barrens enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God has all loyalty abilities of all other planeswalkers on the battlefield.
+1: You draw a card. Each opponent exiles a card from their hand or a permanent they control.
−3: Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
−8: Each opponent who doesn't control a legendary creature or planeswalker loses the game.

Hour of Devastation

All creatures lose indestructible until end of turn. Hour of Devastation deals 5 damage to each creature and each non-Bolas planeswalker.

Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

+3: Destroy target noncreature permanent.
−2: Gain control of target creature.
−9: Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker deals 7 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards seven cards, then sacrifices seven permanents of their choice.

Tezzeret's Gambit

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Draw two cards, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Neheb, the Eternal

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.)
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, add {R} for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Patient Rebuilding

At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent mills three cards, then you draw a card for each land card put into their graveyard this way.

Copy

(This token can be used to represent a token that's a copy of a permanent.)

Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
As Watery Grave enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Malfegor

Flying
When Malfegor enters, discard your hand. Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice for each card discarded this way.

Spark Harvest

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}{B}.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

God-Pharaoh's Gift

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may exile a creature card from your graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. It gains haste until end of turn.

Cruel Ultimatum

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life.

Commence the Endgame

This spell can't be countered.
Draw two cards, then amass Zombies X, where X is the number of cards in your hand. (Put X +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.)

The Scarab God

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control.
{2}{U}{B}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Ral, Izzet Viceroy Emblem

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this emblem deals 4 damage to any target and you draw two cards.

Swamp

Enter the God-Eternals

Enter the God-Eternals deals 4 damage to target creature and you gain life equal to the damage dealt this way. Target player mills four cards. Amass Zombies 4. (Put four +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.)

Throne of the God-Pharaoh

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the number of tapped creatures you control.

Temple of Deceit

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 {U} or {B}.

Evolving Wilds

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

Crypt of the Eternals

When Crypt of the Eternals enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

+2: Draw two cards.
−3: Nicol Bolas, the Arisen deals 10 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
−4: Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
−12: Exile all but the bottom card of target player's library.

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

Flying
When Nicol Bolas, the Ravager enters, each opponent discards a card.
{4}{U}{B}{R}: Exile Nicol Bolas, the Ravager, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

Slave of Bolas

Gain control of target creature. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Arcane Signet

Liliana's Contract

When Liliana's Contract enters, you draw four cards and you lose 4 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more Demons with different names, you win the game.

Demonlord Belzenlok

Flying, trample
When Demonlord Belzenlok enters, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card, then put that card into your hand. If the card's mana value is 4 or greater, repeat this process. Demonlord Belzenlok deals 1 damage to you for each card put into your hand this way.

Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Talisman of Indulgence deals 1 damage to you.

Tezzeret the Schemer Emblem

At the beginning of combat on your turn, target artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5.

Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Visage of Bolas

When Visage of Bolas enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
{T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Apex of Power

Exile the top seven cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among them.
If this spell was cast from your hand, add ten mana of any one color.

Disciple of Bolas

When Disciple of Bolas enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

God-Eternal Kefnet

Flying
You may reveal the first card you draw each turn as you draw it. Whenever you reveal an instant or sorcery card this way, copy that card and you may cast the copy. That copy costs {2} less to cast.
When God-Eternal Kefnet dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Raucous Theater

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
Raucous Theater enters tapped.
When Raucous Theater enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Kothophed, Soul Hoarder

Flying
Whenever a permanent owned by another player is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Finale of Eternity

Destroy up to three target creatures with toughness X or less. If X is 10 or more, return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Izzet Boilerworks

Izzet Boilerworks enters tapped.
When Izzet Boilerworks enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}{R}.

Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Elemental

The Eldest Reborn

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.
II — Each opponent discards a card.
III — Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Have

Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Hour of Glory

Exile target creature. If that creature was a God, its controller reveals their hand and exiles all cards from it with the same name as that creature.

Maestros Theater

When Maestros Theater enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Tezzeret the Schemer

+1: Create a colorless artifact token named Etherium Cell with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color."
−2: Target creature gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of artifacts you control.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, target artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5."

Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Bontu the Glorified

Menace, indestructible
Bontu the Glorified can't attack or block unless a creature died under your control this turn.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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