Gríma, Saruman's Footman

Gríma, Saruman's Footman can't be blocked.
Whenever Gríma deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Nazgûl

Deathtouch
When Nazgûl enters, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever the Ring tempts you, put a +1/+1 counter on each Wraith you control.
A deck can have up to nine cards named Nazgûl.

Lord of the Nazgûl

Flying
Wraiths you control have protection from Ring-bearers.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 3/3 black Wraith creature token with menace. Then if you control nine or more Wraiths, Wraiths you control have base power and toughness 9/9 until end of turn.

Horses of the Bruinen

Return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands. Scry 1. The Ring tempts you.

Birthday Escape

Deceive the Messenger

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Hithlain Knots

Tap target creature. Scry 1.
Draw a card.

Glorious Gale

Counter target creature spell. If it was a legendary spell, the Ring tempts you.

Soothing of Sméagol

Return target nontoken creature to its owner's hand. The Ring tempts you.

Saruman's Trickery

Counter target spell.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Claim the Precious

Destroy target creature. The Ring tempts you.

Orcish Medicine

Target creature gains your choice of lifelink or indestructible until end of turn.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Mordor Muster

You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

The Black Breath

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

The Torment of Gollum

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Amass Orcs 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Call of the Ring

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Ringsight

The Ring tempts you. Search your library for a card that shares a color with a legendary creature you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Ringwraiths

When Ringwraiths enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn. If that creature is legendary, its controller loses 3 life.
When the Ring tempts you, return Ringwraiths from your graveyard to your hand.

Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin

Flying
Whenever Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin attacks, defending player sacrifices a creature with the least power among creatures they control.

Witch-king of Angmar

Flying
Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, each opponent sacrifices a creature that dealt combat damage to you this turn. The Ring tempts you.
Discard a card: Witch-king of Angmar gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards.
Draw a card.

Sol Ring

Spell Pierce

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

Serum Visions

Impulse

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.

Distant Melody

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Glamdring

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +1/+0 for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand with mana value less than or equal to that damage without paying its mana cost.
Equip {3}

Storm of Saruman

Ward {3}
Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, copy it, except the copy isn't legendary. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Arcane Signet

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

Dimir Signet

Talisman of Dominance

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

Reliquary Tower

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

Dimir Aqueduct

Dimir Aqueduct enters tapped.
When Dimir Aqueduct enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}{B}.

Command Tower

Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Sunken Hollow enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Tainted Isle

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Darkwater Catacombs

Temple of Deceit

Temple of Deceit enters tapped.
When Temple of Deceit enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Choked Estuary

As Choked Estuary enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, Choked Estuary enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Swamp

Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Gandalf, Friend of the Shire

Flash
You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
Whenever the Ring tempts you, if you chose a creature other than Gandalf, Friend of the Shire as your Ring-bearer, draw a card.

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Crush of Tentacles

Surge {3}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If this spell's surge cost was paid, create an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.

Crux of Fate

Choose one —
• Destroy all Dragon creatures.
• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Countersquall

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Sauron's Ransom

Choose an opponent. They look at the top four cards of your library and separate them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. The Ring tempts you.

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Nasty End

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, draw three cards instead.

Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Bitter Downfall

This spell costs {3} less to cast if it targets a creature that was dealt damage this turn.
Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Night's Whisper

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Displacer Kitten

Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

The One Ring

Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
{T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Peek

Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.

Cremate

Exile target card from a graveyard.
Draw a card.

Dark Ritual

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Thought Vessel

Counterspell

Shelob's Ambush

Target creature gets +1/+2 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Feed the Infection

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
Corrupted — Each opponent who has three or more poison counters loses 3 life.

Treason of Isengard

Put up to one target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Amass Orcs 2. (To amass Orcs 2, put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Gollum's Bite

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
{3}{B}, Exile Gollum's Bite from your graveyard: The Ring tempts you. Activate only as a sorcery.

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.

Lash of the Balrog

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {4}.
Destroy target creature.

Irenicus's Vile Duplication

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except the token has flying and it isn't legendary.

Treasure Cruise

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

Sleight of Hand

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

Forbidden Alchemy

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Flashback {6}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Underground River

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Drowned Catacomb

Drowned Catacomb enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

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.)

Thran Dynamo

Palantír of Orthanc

At the beginning of your end step, put an influence counter on Palantír of Orthanc and scry 2. Then target opponent may have you draw a card. If that player doesn't, you mill X cards, where X is the number of influence counters on Palantír of Orthanc, and that player loses life equal to the total mana value of those cards.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Worn Powerstone

Worn Powerstone enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Basalt Monolith

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{3}: Untap Basalt Monolith.

Sauron, the Necromancer

Menace
Whenever Sauron, the Necromancer attacks, exile target creature card from your graveyard. Create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 3/3 black Wraith with menace. At the beginning of the next end step, exile that token unless Sauron is your Ring-bearer.

Sift

Boon of the Wish-Giver

Draw four cards.
Cycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Gilded Lotus

Hurkyl, Master Wizard

At the beginning of your end step, if you've cast a noncreature spell this turn, reveal the top five cards of your library. For each card type among noncreature spells you've cast this turn, 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.

Primal Amulet

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on Primal Amulet. Then if there are four or more charge counters on it, you may remove those counters and transform it.

Primal Wellspring

(Transforms from Primal Amulet.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color. When that mana is spent to cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.

Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring

Swan Song

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

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.

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 // The Great Synthesis

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

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}.

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