Balmor, Battlemage Captain

Flying
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain trample until end of turn.

Brainstorm

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

Pieces of the Puzzle

Reveal the top five cards of your library. Put up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

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.

Strategic Planning

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Young Pyromancer

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

Treasure Cruise

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

Coastal Breach

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.)
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Vindictive Flamestoker

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on Vindictive Flamestoker.
{6}{R}, Sacrifice Vindictive Flamestoker: Discard your hand, then draw four cards. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each oil counter on Vindictive Flamestoker.

Grixis Charm

Choose one —
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.
• Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

Galvanic Iteration

When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Flashback {1}{U}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Curious Homunculus

{T}: Add {C}. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are three or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, transform Curious Homunculus.

Voracious Reader

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader

Consider

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

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.

Rakdos Charm

Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Artist's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
{2}{R}: Level 2
Noncreature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{2}{R}: Level 3
If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.

Third Path Iconoclast

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature token.

Cunning Nightbonder

Flash
Spells with flash you cast cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.

Crackling Drake

Flying
Crackling Drake's power is equal to the total number of instant and sorcery cards you own in exile and in your graveyard.
When Crackling Drake enters, draw a card.

Blood Funnel

Noncreature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, counter that spell unless you sacrifice a creature.

Ertai Resurrected

Flash
When Ertai Resurrected enters, choose up to one —
• Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. Its controller draws a card.
• Destroy another target creature or planeswalker. Its controller draws a card.

Stormcatch Mentor

Haste
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Archmage of Runes

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Counterlash

Counter target spell. You may cast a spell that shares a card type with it from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Goblin Electromancer

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Disallow

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

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Murmuring Mystic

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

High Fae Trickster

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Jace's Sanctum

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.

Siren Stormtamer

Flying
{U}, Sacrifice Siren Stormtamer: Counter target spell or ability that targets you or a creature you control.

Banefire

Banefire deals X damage to any target.
If X is 5 or more, this spell can't be countered and the damage can't be prevented.

Mountain

Island

Mizzix of the Izmagnus

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value greater than the number of experience counters you have, you get an experience counter.
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each experience counter you have.

Ruby Medallion

Red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Contaminated Aquifer

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Contaminated Aquifer enters tapped.

Maestros Charm

Choose one —
• Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
• Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.
• Maestros Charm deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Crosis's Charm

Choose one —
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
• Destroy target artifact.

Hurkyl's Final Meditation

During turns other than yours, this spell costs {3} more to cast.
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

Desertion

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

Reinterpret

Counter target spell. You may cast a spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Spell Swindle

Counter target spell. Create X Treasure tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Insidious Will

Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• You may choose new targets for target spell.
• Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Overwhelming Intellect

Counter target creature spell. Draw cards equal to that spell's mana value.

Dark Ritual

Appetite for Brains

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it with mana value 4 or greater and exile that card.

Command Tower

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

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.

Smallpox

Each player loses 1 life, discards a card, sacrifices a creature of their choice, then sacrifices a land of their choice.

Swamp

Transgress the Mind

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Target player reveals their hand. You choose a card from it with mana value 3 or greater and exile that card.

Shadows of the Past

Whenever a creature dies, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{4}{B}: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Activate only if there are four or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Final Reward

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Mindstab

Target player discards three cards.
Suspend 4—{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {B} and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Crumbling Necropolis

Crumbling Necropolis enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Crosis's Catacombs

When Crosis's Catacombs enters, sacrifice it unless you return a non-Lair land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

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.

Sulfur Falls

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

Graven Cairns

{T}: Add {C}.
{B/R}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Sunken Hollow

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

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}.

Cascade Bluffs

{T}: Add {C}.
{U/R}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Izzet Guildgate

Izzet Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
Smoldering Marsh enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Izzet Guildmage

({U/R} can be paid with either {U} or {R}.)
{2}{U}: Copy target instant spell you control with mana value 2 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.
{2}{R}: Copy target sorcery spell you control with mana value 2 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Molten Tributary

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
Molten Tributary enters tapped.

Izzet Boilerworks

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

Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

Eminence — Whenever another nontoken Wizard you control enters, if Inalla, Archmage Ritualist is in the command zone or on the battlefield, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that Wizard. The token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Tap five untapped Wizards you control: Target player loses 7 life.

Geothermal Bog

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
Geothermal Bog enters tapped.

Dualcaster Mage

Flash
When Dualcaster Mage enters, copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Sorcerer Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
When Sorcerer Class enters, draw two cards, then discard two cards.
{U}{R}: Level 2
Creatures you control have "{T}: Add {U} or {R}. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell or to gain a Class level."
{3}{U}{R}: Level 3
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, that spell deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of instant and sorcery spells you've cast this turn.

Dreadhorde Arcanist

Trample
Whenever Dreadhorde Arcanist attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value less than or equal to Dreadhorde Arcanist's power from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Urabrask

First strike
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Urabrask deals 1 damage to target opponent. Add {R}.
{R}: Exile Urabrask, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you've cast three or more instant and/or sorcery spells this turn.

The Great Work

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — The Great Work deals 3 damage to target opponent and each creature they control.
II — Create three Treasure tokens.
III — Until end of turn, you may cast instant and sorcery spells from any graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead. Exile The Great Work, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Urabrask // The Great Work

Bloodline Necromancer

Lifelink
When Bloodline Necromancer enters, you may return target Vampire or Wizard creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Ruthless Technomancer

When Ruthless Technomancer enters, you may sacrifice another creature you control. If you do, create a number of Treasure tokens equal to that creature's power.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice X artifacts: Return target creature card with power X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. X can't be 0.

Ashnod's Altar

Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

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